I buried by the roadside her father, who died of pestilence on their journey hither.

I bear witness that she is the daughter of Costobarus and thy wedded wife." A great light sprang into the face of the Greek.

Philadelphus, nervous, albeit the news he heard filled him with pleasure, stood and waited.
The Christian stepped back and Momus, bowing, approached and handed the leather roll into the none too steady hands of the Ephesian.

He opened it and drew forth parchments.
Aloud he read a minute description of Laodice from the rabbi of the synagogue in Ascalon; under the great seals of the Roman state, he found and read the oath of the prefect, that such a maiden as the rabbi had described had been married before him to Philadelphus Maccabaeus fourteen years before.

Then followed the depositions of forty Jews and Gentiles who were nurses, tradesmen and other people like to have daily contact with the young woman in her house, setting entirely at naught any claim that Laodice was other than the wife who had been supplanted by an adventuress.