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a redeemer"

"The Messiah?" he said, and she knew by the inflection that he had not

when he had spoken

He noted that her hair was coiled upon her head when he threw back her

veil and he turned to that at once

"You wear your hair in a fashion," he said, "that once meant that

which reatly ado," she said after a silence, "to join my husband in Jerusalem"

The Maccabee's lips parted and an expression of disappointment with an

admixture of surprise and vexation came over his face But what did it

matter? Were she as free as air, he was a married man The humor of

the situation appealed to hihed

"Welladay, this is a respite for us both, then," he said But

realizing that an adht hopelessly

reduce their hour to a fore in a falsehood

"My companion expects to meet a wife in Jerusalehter of an ancient and haughty faealed in lofty and serious intent, her coffers

lined with gold and her face as deter as Juno's

with her jealousy stirred He is not delighted, poor lad!"