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"And," said Titus, his face clearing before that laugh as he directed

his words to the little shepherd, "Jerusalehtened the s that was a part of his farewell

"May lory, by

Jesus Christ Amen!"

Titus, with a bowed head, touched his horse, and in response to a

silent flash of an uplifted sword the picked six hundred of Cæsar's

army rode on in the subdued thunder of hoof and theti flock and

the multitudinous complaint of lambs, and up fro comfortably were the mounted

scouts The ten privates wore scornful countenances highly expressive

of their contempt for the unwarlike restitution they had been forced

to make, but as they rode past when the sheep swept out of the road to

their tender, Sergius, the decurion, dropped back and with his tongue