But the palsied man covered his face with his hands and groaned.

The old Christian took him by the arm and led him down from the wall and back to the cavern under the ruins.
"In thy good time, O Lord," he said to himself, beginning with that incident a ministry that should not end.
It was dark when the Maccabee came down into the ravine in which the Greek's house was builded.

In the shadow the house cast before it he saw some one pass the sentry lines.

The soldiers looked after that figure.

Presently, emerging into the lesser darkness of the open streets, it proved to be a woman.