Do you shriek for vengeance?
Has it not been yours through yonder monster who murdered the poor defenceless one?
Do you want your victim's jewels?
Well, well; they belong to you, and I will give you mine to boot, if you will leave the wife of Hur to care for this dying girl!" With these words he bent over Kasana, took off the clasps and rings she still wore, and gave them to the greedy hands outstretched to seize them.

Lastly he stripped the broad gold circlet from his arm, and holding it aloft exclaimed: "Here is the promised payment.

If you will depart quietly and leave this woman to Miriam, I will give you the gold, and you can divide it among you.

If you thirst for more blood, come on; but I will keep the armlet." These words did not fail to produce their effect.

The furious women looked at the heavy broad gold armlet, then at the handsome youth, and the men of Judah and Ephraim who had gathered around him, and finally glanced enquiringly into one another's faces.