CHAPTER XXVI.
SHALAH.
I came out of the wood a new being.

My wounded arm and my torn and inflamed limbs were forgotten.

I held my head high, and walked like a free man.

It was not that I had slain my enemy and been delivered from deadly peril, nor had I any clearer light on my next step.

But I had suddenly got the conviction that God was on my side, and that I need not fear what man could do unto me.