But Israel Kafka was too young to let the conversation drop.
Boy-like he expected confidence for confidence, and was surprised at his companion's taciturnity.
"What did she say to me when I was asleep ?" he asked, after a short pause.
"Did you ever hear the story of Simon Abeles ?" the Wanderer inquired by way of answer.
Kafka frowned and looked round sharply.
"Simon Abeles?
He was a renegade Hebrew boy.

His father killed him.
He is buried in the Teyn Kirche.

What of him?
What has he to do with Unorna, or with me?
I am myself a Jew.

The time has gone by when we Jews hid our heads.

I am proud of what I am, and I will never be a Christian.
What can Simon Abeles have to do with me ?" "Little enough, now that you are awake." "And when I was asleep, what then?
She made me see him, perhaps ?" "She made you live his life.