He believes you dead." "There was a prophet once who cured a leper," the mother said thoughtfully to Tirzah; "but he had his power from God." Then addressing Amrah, she asked, "How does my son know this man so possessed ?" "He was travelling with him, and heard the lepers call, and saw them go away well.

First there was one man; then there were ten; and they were all made whole." The elder listener was silent again.

The skeleton hand shook.

We may believe she was struggling to give the story the sanction of faith, which is always an absolutist in demand, and that it was with her as with the men of the day, eye-witnesses of what was done by the Christ, as well as the myriads who have succeeded them.

She did not question the performance, for her own son was the witness testifying through the servant; but she strove to comprehend the power by which work so astonishing could be done by a man.