Her clinging arms released their hold of her father's neck, and with a trembling sigh she dropped back on to the pillow.

And in this hour of stillness she would have slept; but even while Israel was lifting up his heart in thankfulness to God, that He was making the way of her great journey easy out of the land of silence into the land of speech, a storm broke over the town.

Through many hot days preceding it had been gathering in the air, which had the echoing hollowness of a vault.

It was loud and long and terrible.

First from the direction of Marteel, over the four miles which divide Tetuan from the coast, came the warning which the sea sends before trouble comes to the land--a deep moan as of waters falling from the sky.