21/28 "I shall bring his people to fetch his body. Comfort her with that, when she can bear to talk of it." "We go to Jerusalem," Aquila went on, some time later, "else we should turn back with him ourselves. But we dare not risk the pestilence on her account, for it seems that she is very necessary to the Jews at this hour--very necessary." "I follow to the Holy City," the old wayfarer added at last. "The Passover is celebrated there within two weeks. |