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"There is no rest for me till I find my Zarah; and what care I for shelter when she has but that of a prison!" cried Hadassah. The two women then proceeded on their quest to a quarter of Jerusalem inhabited only by the poorest of the people.
Pollux paused, turning over in his mind who would be the noble most likely to fulfil these conditions; and thinking aloud, he uttered the words, "such a one as Lycidas the Athenian." How the heart of Zarah bounded at the name! The temptation was fearfully strong.
The river La Mar Zarah is about three quarters of a mile wide at Timbuctoo, and appeared in this place to have but little current, flowing to the south-west. About two miles from the town to the southward, it runs between two high mountains, apparently as high as the mountains which Adams saw in Barbary; here the river is about half a mile wide.
It was probably the intention to finish, as they marched back to the south, the devilish work begun on the Saline, but before they reached that valley on the return, the victims left there originally had fled to Fort Harker, as already explained, and Captain Benteen was now nearing the little settlement with a troop of cavalry, which he had hurriedly marched from Fort Zarah.
"I am truly glad you have had so much forbearance for me," answered Christian. "I have it, in truth and in sincerity," replied Zarah "Not for your benefits to me such as they were, they were every one interested, and conferred from the most selfish considerations. I have overpaid them a thousand times by the devotion to your will, which I have displayed at the greatest personal risk.
And much Zarah wept for her father though in remembering him a deep spring of joy mingled with her sorrow. A thousand times did Zarah repeat to herself his words of blessing a thousand times fervently thank God that she and her parent had met. The words of Lysimachus had lightened her heart of what would otherwise have painfully pressed upon it.
This primitive cantonment which grew rapidly in strategical importance, was two years later made quite formidable defensively, and named Fort Zarah, in memory of the youngest son of Major General Curtis, who was killed by guerillas somewhere south of Fort Scott, Kansas, while escorting General James G. Blunt, of frontier fame during the Civil War.
No duty was neglected, no work left undone; nay, Zarah spun more busily than ever, for the support of the stranger was a drain on the scanty resources of Hadassah, and to work for him and pray for him was the sole indulgence which Zarah could allow herself without self-reproach.
Very slowly and very heavily, as time usually passes with those who mourn. And deeply did Zarah mourn for Hadassah her more than mother, her counsellor, her guide the being round whom maiden's affections so closely had twined that she had felt that she could hardly sustain existence deprived of Hadassah.
Under the shadow of the colonnade now reached, Pollux awaited his daughter; the first point of danger was happily passed. Pollux now pointed to a broad, covered passage to the right, lighted by lamps, of which some had already burnt out, and others were flickering. Zarah saw at the further end forms of men dimly visible.
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