The former scheme was Ziska's own; the second was that in which Ziska's mother put her chief trust.

"If once he can be made to think that the girl is deceiving him, he will quarrel with her utterly," Madame Zamenoy had said.
On Saturday there is but little business done in Prague, because Saturday is the Sabbath of the Jews.

The shops are of course open in the main streets of the town, but banks and counting-houses are closed, because the Jews will not do business on that day--so great is the preponderance of the wealth of Prague in the hands of that people! It suited Ziska, therefore, to make his visit on a Saturday, both because he had but little himself to do on that day, and because he would be almost sure to find Trendellsohn at home.

As he made his way across the bottom of the Kalowrat-strasse and through the centre of the city to the narrow ways of the Jews' quarter, his heart somewhat misgave him as to the result of his visit.

He knew very well that a Christian was safe among the Jews from any personal ill-usage; but he knew also that such a one as he would be known personally to many of them as a Christian rival, and probably as a Christian enemy in the same city, and he thought that they would look at him askance.