And he felt the parting too, felt it deeply; however, I am his confidential secretary, and it would never do for me to tell tales out of school.

He clasped the little dog to his heart as he bid her farewell, and he promised her to send some keepsake in return which should show her how precious her love had been--and it will be no trifle, that any one may swear who knows my master.

You, Gamaliel, I daresay he has been to you about it by this time." The man thus addressed--the same to whom Hiram was to offer Paula's emerald--was a rich Alexandrian of a happy turn of mind; as soon as the incursion of the Saracens had made Alexandria an unsafe residence, so that the majority of his fellow Israelites had fled from the great port, he had found his way to Memphis, where he could count on the protection of his patron, the Mukaukas George.
He shook his grizzled curls at this question, but he presently whispered in the secretary's ear.

"We have the very thing he wants.

You bring me the cow and you shall have a calf--and a calf with twelve legs too.