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"This is exactly, O tribune, as I had it from Gratus. See, there is cell number V.," said Gesius. "I see," the tribune replied. "Go on now. The cell was leprous, he said." "I would like to ask you a question," remarked the keeper, modestly. The tribune assented. "Had I not a right, under the circumstances, to believe the map a true one?" "What else couldst thou?" "Well, it is not a true one."
So the Roman quit himself of them, and in the city of their fathers they were once more free. Up to the stars, twinkling merrily as of old, they looked; then they asked themselves, "What next? and where to?" About the hour Gesius, the keeper, made his appearance before the tribune in the Tower of Antonia, a footman was climbing the eastern face of Mount Olivet.
As the new-comer approached the table behind which the chief sat in an easy-chair, everybody present looked at him, and, observing a certain expression of alarm and mortification on his face, became silent that they might hear what he had to say. "O tribune!" he began, bending low, "I fear to tell what now I bring you." "Another mistake ha, Gesius?"
Such was the reply Gesius, the keeper, had from the cell which appears on his amended map as VI. The reader, when he observed the answer, knew who the unfortunates were, and, doubtless, said to himself, "At last the mother of Ben-Hur, and Tirzah, his sister!" And so it was.
They shall have nothing but food and drink, to be given them through a hole, which you will find in the wall covered by a slide. Do you hear, Gesius? I made him answer. 'It is well, he continued.
Gesius, the keeper, told his tale methodically, but finished it at last. The tribune was prompt. "Within there!" he shouted through the trap. "Here!" said the mother, rising. Directly she heard another sound in another place, as of blows on the wall blows quick, ringing, and delivered with iron tools.
"I will have the map corrected, or, better, I will have a new one made, and given thee. Come for it in the morning." So saying, he arose. "But hear me further, O tribune." "To-morrow, Gesius, to-morrow." "That which I have yet to tell will not wait." The tribune good-naturedly resumed his chair. "I will hurry," said the keeper, humbly, "only let me ask another question.
'One thing more which you shall not forget, or' he looked at me threateningly 'The door of their cell cell number V. on the same floor this one, Gesius' he put his finger on the particular cell to impress my memory 'shall never be opened for any purpose, neither to let one in nor out, not even yourself. 'But if they die? I asked. 'If they die, he said, 'the cell shall be their tomb.
In such manner as we have seen, they were solacing themselves the moment Gesius called them, at the end of twelve hours' fasting and thirst. The torches flashed redly through the dungeon, and liberty was come. "God is good," the widow cried not for what had been, O reader, but for what was. In thankfulness for present mercy, nothing so becomes us as losing sight of past ills.
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. With quickened remembrance of these unfortunates remembrance of them as they were let us go down and see them as they are. The cell VI. was in form as Gesius drew it on his map.
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