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There was no incident in the Maccabee's long struggle through the inky

blackness of the tunnel leading under Moriah

It was night when the first new air froreat open darkness, lighted with stars, before

he knew that he had ee

Entire silence after the turmoil which had shaken Jerusalem for many

months fell almost like a blow upon his unaccustomed ears The air was

sweet He had not breathed sweet air since May The hills were

solitary Week in and week out, he had never been away fro thousands Not since he had assuuise to

Laodice in the wilderness had he been close to the immemorial repose

of nature All his primitive manhood rushed back to him, now

infuriated with a fear that his love was the spoil of another

All instinct becaence and resource assembled

to his aid It came to him as inspiration always occurs at such times,

that if the pair proceeded rationally, they would move toward a secure

place at once Pella occurred to his by the stars and hurried north and east

He came upon a road presently, almost obliterated by a su since any one had gone up that way

to Jerusalem There was no itives fleeing that way