In and out of the sunny caverns, appearing outlined against the darkness, vanishing in a sudden blaze of light, were shadows of the citizens of Vulatch.
They seemed to me, without exception, to be Jews.

From most of the Galician towns and villages the Jews had been expelled--here they only, apparently, had been left.

Of women I saw scarcely any--old men, with long dirty black or grizzled beards, yellow skins, peaked black caps, and filthy black gowns clutched about their thin bodies.

They watched us, silently, ominously, maliciously.

They crept from door to door, stole up the stone steps and vanished, appeared, as it seemed, right beneath our horses' feet and disappeared.