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The Scapegoat

CHAPTER XI
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ISRAEL'S HOME-COMING ISRAEL'S return home was an experience at all points the reverse of his going abroad.

He had seven dollars in the pocket of his waistband on setting away from Fez, out of the three hundred and more with which he had started from Tetuan.

His men had gone on before him and told their story.

So the people whom he came upon by the way either ignored him or jeered at him, and not one that on his coming had run to do him honour now stepped aside that he might pass.
Two days after leaving Fez he came again to Wazzan.

Women were going home from market by the side of their camels, and charcoal-burners were riding back to the country on the empty burdas of their mules.


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