Going above, he renewed in various quarters his offers of intimacy with the fresh men there assembled; but was successively repulsed as before.

At length, just as day was breaking, an irascible fellow whose stubborn opposition our adventurer had long in vain sought to conciliate--this man suddenly perceiving, by the gray morning light, that Israel had somehow an alien sort of general look, very savagely pressed him for explicit information as to who he might be.

The answers increased his suspicion.

Others began to surround the two.

Presently, quite a circle was formed.