At length he heard a feeble knock at the door of his room.

It was Ruth, his wife, and he opened to her and she entered.
"Send me away from you!" she cried.

"Send me away!" "Not for the place of the Kaid," he answered stoutly; "no, nor the throne of the Sultan!" At that she fell on his neck and kissed him, and they mingled their tears together.

But he comforted her at length, and said, "Look up, my dearest! look up! I am a proud man among men, but it is even as the Lord may deal with me.

And which of us shall murmur against God ?" At that word Ruth lifted her head from his bosom and her eyes were full of a sudden thought.
"Then let us ask of the Lord," she whispered hotly, "and surely He will hear our prayer." "It is the voice of the Lord Himself!" cried Israel; "and this day it shall be done!" At the time of evening prayers Israel and Ruth went up hand in hand together to the synagogue, in a narrow lane off the Sok el Foki.