To think that they should all be dead and gone! Alack! what strange times these be! It seems sometimes as though it were all a dream!" "I would it were!" said Joseph, sobered by the thought of their near approach to the habitation of death.

"Ben, wouldst thou rather turn back and see no more?
We have at least seen the outside of a pest house.

Shall that suffice us ?" "Nay, if we have come so far, let us go further," answered Benjamin.

"We have seen naught but the tiled roof and the green garden.

Come this way.