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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Hence to the Tyropean Bridge at the end of this street; thence down beside the bridge into Gihon. Cross to the wall supporting Moriah and builded against it thou wilt find a new house, of the fashion of the Greeks. If thou canst pass her sentries, thou wilt find her within." The Maccabee thanked his informant and turned through the Passover hosts to follow the directions.
The apparition lifted a palsied hand on which the skin was yet fair and young and pointed after the Maccabee, losing himself in the groaning mass in the city. "If I believe, I must tell him!" he said. "Whatever thou hast done against that man must be amended," the Christian declared.
I shall wait till your extraordinary servant returns." At this decided speech Laodice showed a little panic. "No, no! I am not afraid. He " But the Maccabee ignored the implied dismissal. "I owe him both a reproof and thanks for leaving you here alone for any wayfarer to approach and for me to discover.
Here, the Maccabee and his Gibborim stood shoulder to shoulder with the Idumeans and fanatics of Simon and John, and here the half-mad defenders awakened at last to the fact that only divine interference could save the city against Rome. In the south and the east conflagrations roared and crackled, where burning oil had been scattered over some remaining structures near the walls.
Then the Maccabee unburdened his soul and told of the girl to this child, who was a Christian and a humble shepherd in the starved hills of Judea. "I met her," the boy said after a long silence. "And by what I learned of her spirit that night, she will not be happy to know that you have stepped aside for her sake." "You met her, also; and you loved her, too?" The boy assented gravely.
There was silence in which the man's fingers bent, as if he felt her throat between them. Then he recovered himself. "But this woman where is she?" The actress lifted her shapely shoulders. "Where is the Maccabee?" she asked in return. He made no answer. "Did you get that treasure here since yesterday?" he asked at last querulously. "No, by Pluto! I got it in the hills near to Emmaus.
"Too fair a hope to think that he has deserted me," the Maccabee observed. "I shall await him a decent time. He will return." He tramped about the chamber waiting for something that was not Julian, intending to do something but unable to define that thing.
The Maccabee, meanwhile, deliberately remarked her charms and recounted their antithesis in making up a picture of the woman he expected to meet as his wife. "She will, according to his expectations, be meager and thin, not plump! Thoughtful women and women with a purpose are never plump! And she will be black and pale, all eyes, with a nose which is not the noble nose of our race.
He mounted the slight ridge that overlooked the depression in time to see Julian of Ephesus appear over the opposite side. Within, with her mantle laid off, her veil thrown back, the girl knelt over a bed of coals, baking one of the Maccabee's Milesian ducks. Julian had made a sound; the Maccabee had come silently.
Her lashes were so long, and he knew that her lips were as cool as the heart of a melon; but that husband of hers knew better than he! And he, grandson of the just Maccabee, allied by marriage to the noble line of Costobarus through his daughter, Laodice, the bride with the greatest dowry in Judea, had staked his soul on the toss of a coin and had lost it!
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