'Let me die for the Ark!' said a young enthusiast of the band of Abner.
'I thought we should get into a scrape,' whispered Kisloch the Kourd to
Calidas the Indian. 'What could have ever induced us to give up robbing
in a quiet manner?'
'And turn Jews!' said the Guebre, with a sneer.
'Look at Scherirah,' said the Negro, grinning. 'If he is not kissing the
sceptre of Solomon!'
'I wish to heaven he had only hung Alroy the first time he met him,'
said Calidas.
'Sons of the Covenant!' exclaimed Alroy, 'the Lord hath delivered them
into our hands. To-morrow eve we march to Hamadan!'
A cheer followed this exclamation.
'It is written,' said Jabaster, opening a volume, '"Lo! I will defend
this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake."
'"And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians, an hundred four score and five
thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold! they were
all dead corpses."
'Now, as I was gazing upon the stars this morn, and reading the
celestial alphabet known to the true Cabalist,[55] behold! the star of
the house of David and seven other stars moved, and met together, and
formed into a circle.
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