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"Then what of myself, when I love where I should not love?" the

Maccabee insisted

"You may suffer and sin not," the Christian said kindly

The unhappy man dropped to his knees

"O Christ, why should I resist Thee!" he groaned "Thou hast stripped

ood!"

The Christian laid his hands on the Maccabee's head

"Dost thou believe?" he asked

"Will Christ acceptbecause I must?"

"It is not laid doe shall baptize in the thirst of a famine,"

Nathan said, "yet He who sees fit to deny water never yet hath denied

grace"

But the Christian's hand extended over the kneeling rip steadied with intense e that this interruption was necessary to the

welfare of another soul, the Christian would not have paused in his

htened himself with a superb reinvestment of

manhood

"Thou, son of the Maccabee, Philadelphus!" he exclai man

The Ephesian's arms sank

"Who art thou that knoweth ue and sin hath left of thy servant Aquila," the

phantom declared