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But under an ever-thickening veil of horrid airs, the struggle went

on

The Roman Ides of July arrived

Titus had erected banks upon which his engines were raised to batter

the walls of the Temple

From Titus' camp, the Romans on sick leave, the co-men, and old Moan, a soft increasing

dun-colored vapor rise between the Temple and Antonia It issued from

the cloister at the northhich joined the Rorow into a pale but intensely lu ether In

a moment the whole north-west section was e away the connection between the Te the sacred edifice four-square

As soon as it became confirmed, in the minds of the watchers in the

Ro the, he leaped upon

the nearest sentry who, not expecting the attack, went doith a

clatter of armor and a shout of astonish across the intervening space between the cas could carry hi an arrow, but before

he could send it singing, the old minotaur was mixed with a second

soldier in such confusion that the first sentry hesitated to shoot