WHAT PASSED IN THE TOWER Nearly four months had gone by.

Perhaps, during the whole history of the world there never has been and never will be more cruel suffering than was endured by the inhabitants of Jerusalem during that period, or rather by the survivors of the nation of the Jews who were crowded together within its walls.

Forgetting their internecine quarrels in the face of overwhelming danger, too late the factions united and fought against the common foe with a ferocity that has been seldom equalled.
They left nothing undone which desperate men could do.

Again and again they sallied forth against the Romans, slaughtering thousands of them.
They captured their battering-rams and catapults.

They undermined the great wooden towers which Titus erected against their walls, and burnt them.