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"Ignoble conclusion to a tender affair; but not so devoid of

tragicality as would seem Infuriated at the desertion of this

ht offered her

charest brother, the only one who

resided in the same city with herself, that Joseph hadwhich demonstrates that

the fe

effects of tie My narrative is but a later and a

Gentile version of the Jewish novelette to which I have referred

The role of Potiphar was cast for the unsophisticated brother, who,

being unable to immure the unimpressible Joseph in the Tombs,

attempted the only means of redress that remained to him, to wit:

Personal chastisement

"And here," continued the narrator, yet more slowly, "I find myself

perplexed by the discrepancy between the statement I have had to-day

and one of this section of the story furnished nant fraternal relative flogged the

would-be betrayer within a quarter of an inch of his life The other

account reverses the position of the parties, and makes Joseph the

incorruptible also the invincible However this may have been, the