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"Bram! my Bram! my brother! There is one comfort for me,--if I knew that

he still lived; if one hope thou could give o and see Before they are back froood news, I will be glad for thee"

Not half an hour was Brarief and fear lengthened out the moments! She tried to prepare herself

for the worst; she tried to strengthen her soul even for the rief as bad as our own terror of it When

Bram came back, it ith a word of hope on his lips

"I have seen," he said, "who dost thou think?--the Jew Cohen He of all

ht; and he has dressed the

wound the English surgeon declared 'beyond mortal skill' And he said to

me, 'Three times, in the Persian desert, I have cured wounds still

worse, and the Holy One hath givenman shall recover' That is what he said, Katherine"

"Forever I will love the Jew Though he fail, I will love him So kind

he is, even to those who have not spoken well, nor done well, to him"

"So kind, also, was the son of David to all of us Now, then, go wash

thy face, and take coe"

"Bram, leave me not"