What do you wish me to do ?" "I wish you to send a messenger to Marcus bearing a token from me to him." "A messenger! What messenger?
Who can find him?
I can despatch a soldier, but your Marcus is with the Essenes, who for their own sakes will keep him fast enough as a hostage, if they have cured him.

Also the Essenes live, according to your story, in some hyaena-burrow, opening out of an underground quarry in Jerusalem, that is, if they have not been discovered and killed long ago.

How, then, will any soldier find their hiding-place ?" "I do not think that such a man would find it," answered Miriam, "but I have friends in this city, and if I could come at them I might discover one who would meet with better fortune.

You know that I am a Christian who was brought up among the Essenes, both of them persecuted people that have their secrets.

If I find a Christian or an Essene he would take my message and--unless he was killed--deliver it." Now Gallus thought for a while, then he said, "If I were to go out in Tyre asking for Christians or Essenes, none would appear.