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See, see, O my master! thou flushed with strength, thou trained to arms, thou burdened with riches; behold the opportunity the Lord hath sent thee! Shall not his purpose be thine? Could a man be born to a more perfect glory?" Simonides put his whole force in the appeal. "But the kingdom, the kingdom!" Ben-Hur answered, eagerly. "Balthasar says it is to be of souls."
The people arose, and leaped upon the benches, and shouted and screamed. Those who looked that way caught glimpses of Messala, now under the trampling of the fours, now under the abandoned cars. He was still; they thought him dead; but far the greater number followed Ben-Hur in his career.
"Has Ilderim heard nothing more of the three men?" asked Ben-Hur. "What became of them?" "Ah, yes, that was the cause of his coming to Simonides the day of which I was speaking. Only the night before that day the Egyptian reappeared to him." "Where?" "Here at the door of the tent to which we are coming." "How knew he the man?" "As you knew the horses to-day by face and manner." "By nothing else?"
A horseman accompanies each one of them except Ben-Hur, who, for some reason possibly distrust has chosen to go alone; so, too, they are all helmeted but him.
"All the Parthians took from him in the great battle in which they slew him I have retaken this writing, with other things, and vengeance, and all the brood of that Mira who in his time was mother of so many stars. "Peace be to you and all yours. "This voice out of the desert is the voice of "Ilderim, Shiek." Ben-Hur next unrolled a scrap of papyrus yellow as a withered mulberry leaf.
"Did you ever see Messala?" the Egyptian asked Esther. The Jewess shuddered as she answered no. If not her father's enemy, the Roman was Ben-Hur's. "He is beautiful as Apollo." As Iras spoke, her large eyes brightened and she shook her jeweled fan. Esther looked at her with the thought, "Is he, then, so much handsomer than Ben-Hur?"
If love and Ben-Hur were enemies, the latter was never more at mercy. The Egyptian sat where he could not but see her; she, whom he had already engrossed in memory as his ideal of the Shulamite. With her eyes giving light to his, the stars might come out, and he not see them; and so they did. The night might fall with unrelieved darkness everywhere else; her look would make illumination for him.
"'I recall further," he read, "'that thou didst make disposition of the family of Hur'" there the reader again paused and drew a long breath "'both of us at the time supposing the plan hit upon to be the most effective possible for the purposes in view, which were silence and delivery over to inevitable but natural death." Here Ben-Hur broke down utterly.
By the beard of Irmin!" the latter cried, in astonishment, rising to a sitting posture. Then he laughed. "Ha, ha, ha! I could not have done it better myself." He viewed Ben-Hur coolly from head to foot, and, rising, faced him with undisguised admiration. "It was my trick the trick I have practised for ten years in the schools of Rome. You are not a Jew. Who are you?"
Messala of Rome, in wager with Sanballat, also of Rome, says he will beat Ben-Hur, the Jew. Amount of wager, twenty talents. Odds to Sanballat, six to one. "Witnesses: SANBALLAT." There was no noise, no motion. Each person seemed held in the pose the reading found him. Messala stared at the memorandum, while the eyes which had him in view opened wide, and stared at him.
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