_Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!_ When Caleb reached Tyre, by the last light of the setting sun he saw a white-sailed galley beating her way out to sea.

Entering the city, he inquired who went in the galley and was told Gallus, a Roman captain, in charge of a number of sick and wounded men, many of the treasures of the Temple, and a beautiful girl, who was said to be the grand-daughter of Benoni of that town.
Then knowing that he was too late, Caleb groaned in bitterness of spirit.

Presently, however, he took thought.

Now, Caleb was wise in his generation, for at the beginning of this long war he had sold all his land and houses for gold and jewels, which, to a very great value, he had left hidden in Tyre in the house of a man he trusted, an old servant of his father's.

To this store he had added from time to time out of the proceeds of plunder, of trading, and of the ransom of a rich Roman knight who was his captive, so that now his wealth was great.