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careat crowds of terror-stricken citizens who had rushed

together as the news spread abroad over Jerusaleainst the Deliverer No definite news of

the outco in a

dense pack doard the walls to hear the worst The whole hurrying

mass seemed to vibrate with suspense and dread The maniac met them

"Woe, woe to Jerusalem!" he cried

A lean, apish, half-naked, lash-scarred idiot in the street,

instantly, as if in echo to that ious volume: "A voice from the east, a voice froainst Jerusalerooainst this whole people!"

The temper of the crowd had reached that point of tension that needed

only a little more strain to become panic Some one received the

discordant cries of therapid screae filled with frantic uproar Scores atte to

flee blindly traht,

e, children with one another

Hundreds attracted by the tumult rushed in on the panic and added

fresh victims and new death Out of the horror rose the fearful cries

of the madmen: "Woe, woe to this wicked city!"