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Not a sound, save the dismal tick of the clock in the room they had left. Ellery knocked on the door. "Miss Pepper," he said; "Miss Pepper, are you there?" Kyan caught his breath. No answer. "Miss Pepper," repeated the minister. "Miss Pepper!" Silence, absolute. Abishai could stand it no longer. He groaned and collapsed on his knees. "She has!" he moaned.
"The enemy came we fled over the roofs Abishai is slain Zarah in the hands of the Syrians!" Such were the tidings which fell like a sentence of death on the ear of Hadassah!
"I have a complete copy of the Psalms and Prophets, and am making from it another," said Hadassah, intuitively lowering her tone, and glancing at the door. "A noble but dangerous work!" cried Abishai. "Go and look yonder, my son, glance up the path to the right and the left, see whether any of the heathen be near," said Hadassah, pointing to the door as she spoke.
He was ashamed of himself as soon as he said it, which proved that his case was not beyond hope. The girl detained him as he was turning away. "I wasn't laughing at that," she said. "I know who called you that that name. It was Josiah Badger, and he really is one, you know. I was thinking of his testimony in meeting and how he called Ky Abishai a pepper shaker.
And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands. And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
And David said to Abishai: Slay him not; who may extend his hand into the anointed king of God and be innocent? And David said yet more: By the living God, but if God smite him or the days come that he shall die or perish in battle, God be merciful to me, as I shall not lay my hand on him that is anointed of our Lord.
But the man said to Joab, "If I were to feel the weight of a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the ruler's son, for in our hearing he commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Take care of the young man Absalom. If I had treacherously taken his life, nothing would have been hidden from the ruler of Israel, and you yourself would not have tried to save me."
But the command of Antiochus had been rather to seize than to slay; and the soldiers, by the order of Pollux, carried off as their only prisoner a senseless maiden, leaving the dead body of Abishai on the floor dyed with his blood. From her long swoon Zarah awoke with a sensation of indescribable horror. The cold drops stood on her brow, and there was a painful tightness at her heart.
Had he not been the beloved of my dead Miriam, my only daughter, never more should that man of blood cross the threshold of Hadassah." "I never wish to look on Abishai again!" cried Zarah, with as much of anger as her gentle nature was capable of feeling, flashing from under her long dark lashes.
And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three. Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
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