The overseer scourged them lustily, so that many of them fell down exhausted and even dying.

Jesus looked on and denounced such barbarity, until he, too, received a blow.

Then he went out to the Pyramids where the Pharaohs slept, and listened if they were not weeping.

He went into the Temple of Osiris and looked at the monster idols, fat, soulless, ugly, between the rounded pillars.

He searched the palace untiringly for the hall in which the writings were kept, and at last he came upon it.