Israel was still necessary.

So Ben Aboo merely longed for the dawn of that day whereon he should need him no more.
But since the disaster which had befallen Israel's house everything had undergone a change.

It was now Israel himself who suggested dubious means of revenue.

There was no device of a crafty brain for turning the very air itself into money--ransoms, promissory notes, and false judgments--but Israel thought of it.

Thus he persuaded the Governor to send his small currency to the Jewish shops to be changed into silver dollars at the rate of nine ducats to the dollar, when a dollar was worth ten in currency.