through the night in the City of David. Af

rne away to the puticuli and no opportunity given for that painful scene outside. Doubtless I should have convinced the young man and borrowed his gold of him, by

o on to En-Gadi, as he said he would. It would hardly be seemly to approach him about his gold, in his unhap

d to Brahm or Bel, the son of the slow Nile, of the Orontes and of the yellow Tiber. It was not the resort of the lowest classes, but of those that were at variance with the spirit of the city, or the times and their philosophies. Light streamed from open doorways, the wail of lyres and the jingle of castanets resounded within and without.

shaft of light from a booth, stopped short, drew himself up and swung his short sword at prese

or stature and bearing. Not even the plunge into blackness again broke the precision and confidence of

neral, but in deference to Israelitish prejudice against images, the eagle was removed from his helmet, the bosses of Titan heads from breastplate and harness. This was Vitellius, Proconsul of

under the sudden light of the lamp and slid into the obscurity of an o

ess. But it is comforting to know that thou hast no more hope of getting the

he said further to him

uld not find me in Jerusalem! O Alexandria! I m

houses were comparatively new, less historic, less pretentious than those in the old city. Here were inns in plenty, relaxed ord

hear the sounds of struggle and outcry. He stopped to catch the direction of the conflict that he might avoid it. It came out of a street so narrow, in a district so

carlet located it as out of his path and would have continued but for the insistent screams of a woman in the struggle

en uniformly dressed, and several spectators attracted by the commotion. Assured that this was arrest and not violence, the curiosity of the man in scarlet drew him that way. At a nearer view, he saw that the aggressors were Shoterim or Temple lictors

ut the bodies of a young man and a young woman. It was the efforts of the S

f the disturbance. The ferrets of the High Priest, Jonatha

ered to himself. "Or let me be

nter of the crowd, with the irresistible force of a hurled stone. Spectators fell to the right and left bef

on his face. There were dark stains on his garments and dust on his black hair. Every dro

ws. The startled Tarsian turned and the young Essene with bent head gazed grimly down at him. An interes

or the Law in Stephen's case. Look to it that thou fail not in the Law, for I shall profit by thy precept! And eve

dible; it was more than a thr

who could leave the bier of a murdered friend to visi

claimed to himself. "A noble

sive fury kindled in Saul's eyes. Instead he looked at Marsyas with unu

as a wound with thorns," he said

ized out of obscuri

. Lictors, take him. We shall hold him for

nly, he had not expected to be accused of

struck with terrific force. The Levite's body shot backward and dropped heavily on the earth. The rest of the lict

indorsement of admiration. If the Shoterim took the young man in ward, he would be executed and the treasure come into the hands of the state for disposition. In view of the fact that Herrenius Capito had traced t

ut the next instant he also was sent reeling by a blow delivered by Marsyas in his blind resolution not to be taken with

ised brain to think. Half of his life for a ruse! f

bankrupt took to his heels and ran toward the city

since he had carried off the laurel in Rome. He knew the city as a hare knows its runways. He cut through private passages, circled wa

of the Sadducees, the white luster of many burning torches lighted an area on a distant slope at its head. The running man sped on,

enge of the sentr

the guard. And by our common quarrels in Rome do thou haste, for

ost to post until the centurion of

t the countersign,

s and Herrenius Capito,

guest have retired,

bankrupt laughed. "Take me into the light, and slap me with thy swor

ious Aulus, let down the chains with a rattle and a small

lighted a quadrangle of tessellated pavement, terminating distantly in banks of marble s

the bankrupt. The other responded with a skill and grace that could not have bee

bankrupt said, which was true

u shalt see him. Were he dead an

h that even the Royal Colonnade of the Temple could not shame. A huge cresset with a jeweled hood, depending from a groining so high that its light was

s guest," the centurion said, passi

on its granite hinges into the ves

. Yet, though its jeweled lamps were dark and cold, its fountains still, its hangings and its carpets gone, its bloody g

wo Romans sat, a lamp and a crater of wine at thei

rderly to speak, the man

e you," he said. His voice was that o

Capito drew up his lids and his lower jaw rela

of Hades-" Vi

apito's aged falsetto broke

pa!" Vitelli

ut I have been hunting you. I need help. And as thou hopest to return three hundred thousa

Capito r

ellius demanded, fixing Ag

sene from the ha

e proconsul ex

tasy and he is my voucher before the Essenic brotherhood for a loan to repay C?sar. I left him in the hands of the Shoterim, in Bezetha. If he be not speedil

lius glowered under his

he contemplation. "I am just as happy and as like to escape C?sar's displeasur

fingered the te

himself on the edge of the table, "the

r. "Dost thou see anything more in this t

erior motives in every move of this slippery Herod, but he was

into it, firs

cuting enough blasphemers to save himself popular favor. The Sanhedrim may sit to-morrow, the prisoner com

h an expletive. Jonathan

u wish me to d

of the proconsul's charge will ta

has not

rant, good Vitellius, and send a centurion after the young man. Thou canst ma

despatched an orderly for an officer. One of the contubernalis to Vitellius, or

oung centurion approached, "and go with this man. Arrest by superior claim the Hi

saluted and Agrippa

id to the young officer, "if we be late it may take the

rium and turned directly up the slanting street toward th

n rapid with the resistance of Marsyas and the friends of the Nazarenes to retard the movement. After a quick w

p of armed lictors and a hooting escort of half a hundred vagrants. The flaring torch-light shon

but several besides the Levite Joel staggered as they walked, and Agrippa, lifting himse

is shining armor instantly displayed his authority to halt the group. His comman

id his hand on M

oner of the proc

Saul's attention. He turned back and push

the centurion. "He is w

ld of the apprehensive lictors. The four made way through

ver the Roman's party. Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way-a weak,

warrant," he

. Saul took it with a murmured courtesy, and, holding it

," he observed, "the Sanhedrim will claim him. Say

and the crowd moved on, leaving M

rium," the centuri