"The same Jew slew a Roman soldier before the Market-place here in Jerusalem; the same Jew has three trained legions from Galilee to seize the Roman governor to-night; the same Jew has alliances perfected for war upon Rome, and Ilderim the Sheik is one of his partners."
Drawing nearer him, she almost whispered,
"You have lived in Rome. Suppose these things repeated in ears we know of. Ah! you change color."
He drew back from her with somewhat of the look which may be imagined upon the face of a man who,thinking to play with a kitten, has run upon a tiger; and she proceeded: