"It is perilous for any one to know that you are constructing sedition against these ferocious powers in Jerusalem." "Ah, but you fear for me; therefore you will not betray me.

None else but those as deeply committed know of it." He had confided in her, and because of it his ambitions took stealthy hold upon her.
"But--but is there no other way to take Jerusalem, except--by predatory warfare ?" she hesitated.
"No," he laughed.

"We are fighting thieves and murderers; they do not understand the open field; we must go into the dark to find them." "Then--then if your soldiers have the good of the city and the love of their fellows in their hearts, and if you feed them and shelter them--why shall you not succeed ?" she asked, speaking slowly as the sum of his advantages occurred to her.
He dropped his hand on hers.
"It lacks one thing; if I have discouragement in my soul, it will weaken my arm, and so the arm of all my army." Intuition bade her hesitate to ask for that essential thing; his eyes named it to her and she looked away from him quickly that he might not see the sudden flush which she could not repress.
"Tell me," she said, "more of that night--" "That would be recounting the same incident many times.

But one thing unusual happened; nay, two things.

In the middle of the night, after we had brought in our second enlistment of patriots, we were feeding them and I was giving them instruction.