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"Even so But of your creature comforts My house is open to your

chief enemy It uised You knoeakness for people of charm and people of

ability My house is full of theent; he permits me to add to my collection whatever pleases me

in the way of society Therefore, you are come as a student of this

wonderful drama to be enacted in Jerusalem presently You may live

under part of your name Substitute, however, your city for your

surname Be Philadelphus of Ephesus No one then will question your

presence here

"I have bound to me by oath and by fear one hundred Idumeans ill

rise or fall with you They are of John's own are Hence they are in armor and ready at any

propitious e;

everything is prepared"

"At what cost, my Amaryllis?" he asked tenderly

She dreay from him quickly, as if his tone had touched a place of

deeper disappointment

"That I do not remember I am your minister; you need no other More

than the one would bechances for betrayal"

"And ilt thou have out of all this for thyself?" he asked

Slowly she turned her face back to hi," she said

There was a step in the corridor leading into the andronitis, and,

sot upon his feet and looked to

catch the first gli him two hundred