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You shall come every morning and evening thus, and and" the voice trembled, the strong will almost broke down "and you shall tell us of him, Amrah; but to him you shall say nothing of us. Hear you?" "Oh, it will be so hard to hear him speak of you, and see him going about looking for you to see all his love, and not tell him so much as that you are alive!" "Can you tell him we are well, Amrah?"
Placing the water by the basket, she stepped back, and stood off a little way. "Thank you, Amrah," said the mistress, taking the articles into possession. "This is very good of you." "Is there nothing more I can do?" asked Amrah. The mother's hand was upon the jar, and she was fevered with thirst; yet she paused, and rising, said firmly, "Yes, I know that Judah has come home.
"Amrah tells me something has happened to you," she said, caressing his cheek. "When my Judah was a child, I allowed small things to trouble him, but he is now a man. He must not forget" her voice became very soft "that one day he is to be my hero."
Bethany, Amrah said, was the town the man was coming from; now from that to Jerusalem there were three roads, or rather paths one over the first summit of Olivet, a second at its base, a third between the second summit and the Mount of Offence.
She ran to Judah, and, dropping down, clasped his knees, the coarse black hair powdered with dust veiling her eyes. "O Amrah, good Amrah," he said to her, "God help you; I cannot." She could not speak. He bent down, and whispered, "Live, Amrah, for Tirzah and my mother. They will come back, and "
"Supper is over, and it is night. Is not my son hungry?" she asked. "No," he replied. "Are you sick?" "I am sleepy." "Your mother has asked for you." "Where is she?" "In the summer-house on the roof." He stirred himself, and sat up. "Very well. Bring me something to eat." "What do you want?" "What you please, Amrah. I am not sick, but indifferent.
The people under whose eyes all this had passed made way for the servant, and even helped her fill the jar, so piteous was the grief her countenance showed. "Who are they?" a woman asked. Amrah meekly answered, "They used to be good to me." Raising the jar upon her shoulder, she hurried back. In forgetfulness, she would have gone to them, but the cry "Unclean, unclean! Beware!" arrested her.
"There is a wonderful man," Amrah continued, "who has power to cure you. He speaks a word, and the sick are made well, and even the dead come to life. I have come to take you to him." "Poor Amrah!" said Tirzah, compassionately. "No," cried Amrah, detecting the doubt underlying the expression "no, as the Lord lives, even the Lord of Israel, my God as well as yours, I speak the truth.
There they set up their government and established their society; there they founded a city and dwelt by themselves, avoided as the accursed of God. The second morning after the incidents of the preceding chapter, Amrah drew near the well En-rogel, and seated herself upon a stone. One familiar with Jerusalem, looking at her, would have said she was the favorite servant of some well-to-do family.
"Either they said, 'Lord, have mercy upon us, or 'Master, have mercy." "Only that?" "No more that I heard." "Yet it was enough," the mother added, to herself. "Yes," said Amrah, "Judah said he saw them go away well." Meantime the people in the east came up slowly.
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