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"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 will go with my uncle Abishai," said Zarah. "To rejoice and give thanks," cried Hadassah. But Zarah's sinking heart could not respond to any accents of joy. She bowed her head on he clasped hands, and faintly murmured, "To pray for you, for myself, and " No human ear could catch the word which pale lips inaudibly framed. "Go to our young Greek guest, Anna," Hadassah.
Her dignity and self-control added greatly to Michael Ireton's admiration for her. He, too, had been struck by her resemblance to Hadassah, so her beauty appealed to him very strongly. Hadassah and her husband allowed her to go home to England without protest.
Thus the daughter of Abner, cut off from all means of gaining reliable information, was thrown back on her own conjectures. A vague doubt which had lately arisen in Zarah's mind, but which had always heretofore been repelled as treason to a parent's memory, was given form and substance by the faint exclamation which grief had wrung from Hadassah, "Must I know that misery twice."
Hadassah trembled for her darling, and would willingly have consented to bear any torture, to have been able to exchange places with one so little fitted, as she thought, to endure. Sorely tried was the faith of the Hebrew lady; how little could she imagine that the prayers of many years were being answered by means of the very misfortune which was rending the cords of her heart.
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Once the entrance had been opened up and this had been done by the native who had discovered the site they met with little difficulty. These questions, Hadassah said, her husband had refrained from answering. He considered that the treasure, in its second hiding-place, belonged to Michael, that it must remain there until he found it.
"Linked with the primeval blessing," said Hadassah. "And now when I turn from natural objects to the history of our race, sacrifice and suffering are still ever before me.
"Ere I go to rest," said the stern Jew, "I will let Hadassah know that my arm has achieved that safety for her and our brave companions which her wild folly would have sacrificed. I marvel that Judas, son of Mattathias, a bold man, and deemed a wise one, should have let himself be swayed from his purpose by the idle words of a woman.
Zarah was afraid to analyze her own feelings: she only knew that her heart was very heavy. Nearly two hours thus passed. The sun had now approached the horizon, and the heat was less oppressive. Zarah heard the slow step of Hadassah ascending the stair, and rose to meet her, but with a sensation of fear.
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