Then he recovered himself.
"But--this woman--where is she ?" The actress lifted her shapely shoulders.
"Where is the Maccabee ?" she asked in return.
He made no answer.
"Did you get that treasure here--since yesterday ?" he asked at last querulously.
"No, by Pluto! I got it in the hills near to Emmaus.

You would have had it in another day." She laughed impudently, in spite of the murderous blackening in his face.
"Then, since you are such a shrewd thief, why did you come here at all, since you had the gold ?" he demanded, astonished in spite of his rage.
She waved a pair of jeweled hands.
"They said that the Maccabee was strong and ambitious and forceful, that he would be king over Judea.

Knowing you, I believed he would still come to Jerusalem in spite of you.

How did you do it?
In his sleep?
Now, I," she continued with an assumption of concern, "failed in that detail.

She was guarded by a monster.