Cross to the wall supporting Moriah and builded against it thou wilt find a new house, of the fashion of the Greeks.

If thou canst pass her sentries, thou wilt find her within." The Maccabee thanked his informant and turned through the Passover hosts to follow the directions.
To a visitor recently familiar with the city, Jerusalem would have been strange; he would have been lost in its ruined and disordered streets.

But this man came with only the four corners of the compass to direct him and the Temple as a landmark to guide him.

Therefore though he entered upon territory which he had not traversed since childhood he went forward confidently.
It was not simple; it was not readily done; but the darkness found him at his destination.
When he was within a rod of the house, he was halted by a Jewish soldier.

He whispered to the man the word which Amaryllis had sent to him, and the soldier stepped aside and let him pass.
In another moment he was admitted to the house of Amaryllis.
A wick coated with aromatic wax burned in the brass bowl on a tripod and cast a crystal clear light down upon the exedra and the delicate lectern with its rolls of parchment and brass cylinders from which they had been withdrawn.