Israel concluded that it was his duty to succour them.

From a just view of his responsibilities he had gone on to a morbid one.

If in the Judgment the blood of the people of Absalam cried to God against him, he himself, and not Ben Aboo, would be cast out into hell.
Israel juggled with his heart no further, but straightway began to take a view of his condition.

Then he saw, to his dismay, that little as he had thought he possessed, even less remained to him out of the wreck of his riches.

Only one thing he had still, but that was a thing so dear to his heart that he had never looked to part with it.