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It was a night that the Maccabee did not readily forget Since the

girl had moved on to avoid him, he had become alive to a delinquency

that was ht of her,

that had been a diversion before, now see the fourteen years of his life in

Ephesus would have engaged his conscience only a moment if at all, but

at this last hour it ahtness

Julian rode in a constant air of expectancy and increasing irritation

The slightest sound from the haunted hills elicited a start froin of the sound proved itself

Many Passover pilgriht passed under his

close scrutiny and from time to time he stopped the Maccabee in a

speech with a pereed the

Maccabee's interest, but he made no comment until, on occasion of his

casual word in praise of the fidelity of Aquila, Julian flew into a

rage and reviled the eht hih of that!" he exclaiht his breath and after a silence replied in a voice

considerably sweetened that Aquila was a conscienceless pagan and not

to be praised till he was dead But the Maccabee, with the girl

uppermost in his

his preëer The fact that Julian had

changed the pace of their advance confirmed him in this suspicion