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"Where," she asked coldly, "is he ith you at Emmaus?"

The pretender started a little, but the increase of alarm on his face

showed that he realized next that here was a peril in this woone back to Ephesus"

She did not knohat pain this announceer's desertion would waken in her heart Her eyes fell; her

brows lifted a little; the corners of her lance at her, saw to his own safety

that she had believed hi off my bounty But even that

did not invite him when he neared the peril of this city So he turned

back I--I do not blah

"Blame him?" she said quickly "You--you do not blame him?"

"No! Any place, any condition is more desirable than residence in

Jerusalem at this hour"

"If one seeks but to be comfortable But here is a place for work and

for achieve can be done here," he observed,

shrugging his shoulders

She gazed at him with immense contempt

"That from a son of Judas Maccabaeus!" she exclaied "It is neither rational nor practical to attempt

the impossible Jerusalem is doomed I would but add myself to the

sacrifice did I interfere between destruction and its sure prey"

After a silence in which she confronted hi

on her face, she said with infinite pity and disappointreatness away!"

"Where, O ines, e and the prize?"

"What was that dohich was stolen froht it for this purpose Another than myself

delivered it to you; the end is achieved; what use will you make of

it?"