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to enter the doomed city, held Laodice to his breast while she stroked

his rough cheeks and s that he did not hear and which

she did not realize in the rush of her helplessness and dismay

At the corner of Moriah and the Old Wall, the tu sallow s tar heaved

over the fortification upon the engines and their ers, the stones

from the catapults soared into view and fell upon the sun-colored

marbles that paved the Court of the Gentiles Clouded by the vapor,

targets for the i in

personal encounters appeared black and inhureat stones screa pitch hissed and

roared, and the thunder of the conflict shook the Temple to its very

foundations

Without, the Ro ladders, ularly Regularly, the ladders were

set up again after struggle, ain, with an inevitability which furnished a gri toere set in position against

the base of Moriah and resuines of the Roly until covered with burning oil from the battlements above

and consumed Others were hauled into place; fresh detach-ladders or mounted to the towers, and