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I know all this because Aquila declared she attached herself to him in sheer poverty in Ephesus and swore to follow him to the ends of the earth." The Maccabee smiled. "Nevertheless, he told me that he was afraid of her, but that she was a woman and in need and he could not reject her." Julian's eyes grew insinuating. "How much then your behavior this morning would have shocked him!" he murmured.
On the night of the fall of the Roman tower, the Maccabee's forces had been withdrawn for rest to their retreat and at midnight were formed again for return to the fortifications. By the strange inscrutable spread of rumor, sweeping with the air, the tidings of the miracle and the rise of Seraiah poured in upon the restive hundreds that the Maccabee was attempting to form in his fortress.
"He has judged her without seeing her, when, by your own words, he expects her to bring him fortune and position. What is he bringing her?" The Maccabee looked at her thoughtfully before he answered. "Nothing! Not even his heart!" he vowed. Laodice caught her breath in an agony of indignation and distress. "He does not in any way deserve " she stopped precipitately.
The Maccabee rode on, unconscious of Julian's critical gaze. The smile on his lips flickered now brightly, now very faint. The incident in the hills had not made him entirely happy, but it had awakened in him something which was latent in him, something which he had never felt before, but which held a sweet familiarity that the blood of his fathers in him had recognized.
"I cursed thee for sparing me to such an existence as was mine! Behold, father, thou didst bless me, instead. I am ready to die." "Wait," the Christian said peacefully. A moment later, the Maccabee dashed into the andronitis of Amaryllis. After him sprang a terrified servant crying: "The Roman! The Roman is upon us!"
Above them were bold summits with groves of cedars, and in one of these the Maccabee made out a thin curl of smoke dimly illuminated by a moon-drowned fire. Up there in the covert of the trees the girl in the silver tissue was resting from her perilous and outlawed journey. "We will eat here," the Maccabee said abruptly to Julian. "Eat!" Julian exclaimed. "What?"
The Maccabee hurried to the top of the declivity to gain whatever aid that point of vantage might offer and from that height saw below him to the west a single nook shaped of rock and hummock and a tree out of which rose a blue thread of smoke. He dropped down the farther slope at a pace little short of a run.
Throughout these latter days the Maccabee had become strained and unnatural in his manner. There was a vehemence in all he did which seemed to be a final resolution against despair. His decisions were arbitrary; his methods extreme.
"You might have added, my brother," said the Abbot, listening with melancholy acquiescence to the detail of his own merits, "that I caused to be built that curious screen, which secureth the cloisters from the north-east wind. But all these things avail nothing As we read in holy Maccabee, Capta est civitas per voluntatem Dei.
"She has returned to her husband. In love with thee, she has done that only which she could do and escape sin. She has gone to shelter with him whom she does not love!" The Maccabee seized his head in his hands. "It is like her like her!" he groaned. In the Christian's heart he knew how narrowly Laodice had made her lover's mark for her.
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