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There thousands were congregated A great bonfire had been kindled and

above the multitude, on a colossal architrave fallen at one end froure, redly

illuminated by the fire, tiny as coh place, but Titan in its control over the wild mob below it

It was a woman, a Jewess, dressed in faithful iarb of the prophetesses,black hair,

stripped of veil or cloak, and splendidly defiant of the restrictions

laid upon wo after the days of Deborah

Over the heads of the panting listened for whiteness, and bewitched by the spell of their leams of fire that transfixed

any upon whom they fell; from her supple body shaken at tiht the grosser

infection of physical excitement; they swayed with her as blown by the

wind; they ceased to breathe in her periods; they groaned as the

intensity of her fervor pressed upon them for response that they could

not shape in words; they wept, they shouted, they prophesied, and over

the

impiety--the worship of Seraiah!

Philadelphus looked at this frantic ith a creeping chill He

knew the sorceress Salome of Ephesus, who could send the sated