RUTH'S BURIAL The people of Tetuan were not melted towards Israel by the depth of his sorrow and the breadth of shadow that lay upon him.

By noon of the day following the night of Ruth's death, Israel knew that he was to be left alone.

It was a rule of the Mellah that on notice being given of a death in their quarter, the clerk of the synagogue should publish it at the first service thereafter, in order that a body of men, called the Hebra Kadisha of Kabranim, the Holy Society of Buriers, might straightway make arrangements for burial.

Early prayers had been held in the synagogue at eight o'clock that morning, and no one had yet come near to Israel's house.

The men of the Hebra were going about their ordinary occupations.
They knew nothing of Ruth's death by official announcement.