Nevertheless, we were together in the darkness, and I smote him.' Miriam clapped her hands.
'Then putting on his clothes, and taking his letters and credentials, as was but reasonable, I passed myself off for the messenger of the emperor, and so rode the rest of that journey at the expense of the heathen; and I hereby return you the balance saved.' 'Never mind the balance.

Keep it, thou worthy son of Jacob.

What next ?' 'When I came to Tarentum, I sailed in the galley which I had chartered from certain sea-robbers.

Valiant men they were, nevertheless, and kept true faith with me.

For when we had come halfway, rowing with all our might, behold another galley coming in our wake and about to pass us by, which I knew for an Alexandrian, as did the captain also, who assured me that she had come from hence to Brundusium with letters from Orestes.' 'Well ?' 'It seemed to me both base to be passed, and more base to waste all the expense wherewith you and our elders had charged themselves; so I took counsel with the man of blood, offering him over and above our bargain, two hundred gold pieces of my own, which please to pay to my account with Rabbi Ezekiel, who lives by the watergate in Pelusium.