Stephen

have accomplished the death of the blasphemer, there yet remains the rabble of his followers. Wi

tone of dull indifference, his eyes fixed vacantly on

e!" And the speaker started to his feet, and began to pace up and down the terrace of the roof garden. "The Sanhedrim seems satisfied that nothing will come of it," he went on angrily. "'Let be,' say they, 'the thing will die even as the man.' Pah! they are blind. Look you! here are the facts. The man's body disappears on the third day after the crucifixion, the Roman guards tell a drunken tale of e

ne?" interrupted Caia

seled that they hold their peace; it may be that they also are apostate, but I dare not take the steps that I would in the matter because of the people. Of one thing I am certai

livid color of death. "Say no more,

e contempt. "I will call a servant," he said at lengt

f stout heart and good courage? Issachar--Johanan--Alexander? they all be like wax which the sun hath melted. Stay! there is the young Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee of the Pharisees,

d his head. "Begone!" he said with an irritable gesture to

g over the doorway near at hand, parted, and t

ken eyes angrily upon her. "Dost thou not know that I ca

nto a cup. Her slender hand trembled so violently as she did this that a portion of the co

y! there it is again!" he muttered, huskily. "Blood, blood--the blood of the Na

he said, breathlessly, "nothing, my lord! See! it is gone. Come,

must I drink it; God is just!" Then he lay back among his pillows once mo

ing as if in prayer. From her dark eyes there seemed to stream forth a visible ra

yes unclosed. "Has it been told thee what hath

en told me," she whispered brokenly,

clear tone, "even as was the Nazarene. God is just. Blood f

Anna, looking fearfully

matter hath been spoken between us; it were like an open grave else. The madness hath passed from my brai

couldst thou know that the Nazarene was the Anointed One? Yet, even he said, 'Father,

essiah of Israel! I am ready to confess that he was an innocent man; and I am blood-guilty in that I brought about his death. God hath punished me by slaying my son, even as he punished David for his sin. After this once we will

cried. "He was sinned against most foully, but he himself sin

the thing?" said Caiaphas, raising himself

as our son--Titus, he was called. As he hung upon the cross in agony, the

aphas, in a low, terrible voice

she tried to speak, but t

k, wo

our child. The man hath been punished for

s voice was as the voice of a stranger in the ears of Anna. "

I beseech thee--do not harm him,

treaty sounded the inexorable t

shall be visited upon the children, even unto