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Though she turned cold and flashed white when he came upon her one day

in the darkness of their shelter, she felt nevertheless the relief of

approaching a solution to her perplexity

"They tell me," he said with the deliberate speech of the old, "that

Titus is oncecitizens to depart fro at this hope, "why do you stay here in this

peril?"

"Why should I leave it? Even with the singers ept by the waters

of Babylon, I prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy Except for the time

e of the Way arned to depart, I have been in Jerusaleone as far as Cæsarea on my way to

Antioch to join the brethren there, ho no man farewell, and caently

Would he reerous?

"Nay, but a journey full of works and reward And I discovered at the

end of it that I had lived in error forty years; that Christ never

ceases to prove Himself"

Already the forbidden tenets of the Nazarene faith had entered into

his words But feeling sohtness

covered her whole life, there was no reason why she should not hear

what these people believed and have done with it

"Art thou a Christian?" she asked timidly