CHAPTER V.
THE PAUPER ALIEN.
Moses Ansell married mainly because all men are mortal.

He knew he would die and he wanted an heir.

Not to inherit anything, but to say _Kaddish_ for him.

_Kaddish_ is the most beautiful and wonderful mourning prayer ever written.

Rigidly excluding all references to death and grief, it exhausts itself in supreme glorification of the Eternal and in supplication for peace upon the House of Israel.