THE BIRTH OF MIRIAM The time passed slowly, but none came to disturb them.

Three hours after noon Rachel awoke, refreshed but hungry, and Nehushta had no food to give her except raw grain, from which she turned.

Clearly and in few words she told her mistress all that had passed, asking her consent to the plan.
"It seems good as another," said Rachel with a little sigh, "and I thank you for making it, Nou, and the Phoenician, if he is a true man.

Also I do not desire to meet my father--at least, for many years.

How can I, seeing the evil which he has brought upon me ?" "Do not speak of that," interrupted Nehushta hastily, and for a long while they were silent.
It was an hour before sunset, or a little less, when at length Nehushta saw two persons walk on to the patch of open ground which she watched continually--Amram and a slave who bore a bundle on his head.