[The Scapegoat by Hall Caine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scapegoat CHAPTER XXI 20/34
What you don't see, believe we have not got it.
A thousand thousand welcomes home!" It was grim and painful irony. Israel's comrades began to lose sense of their own suffering in observing the depth of his, and they laid their heads together to discover the cause of his madness.
The most part of them concluded that he was repining for the loss of his former state.
And when one day another prisoner came from Tetuan with further tales of the Basha's tyranny, and of the people's shame at thought of how they had dealt by Israel, the prisoners led the man back to where Israel was standing in the accustomed act of dispensing bounty, that he might tell his story into the rightful ears. "They're always crying for you," said the Tetawani; "'Israel ben Oliel! Israel ben Oliel!' that's what you hear in the mosques and the streets everywhere.' Shame on us for casting him out, shame on us! He was our father!' Jews and Muslimeen, they're all saying so." It was useless.
The glad tidings could not find their way.
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