Finally the student choir rendered a closing selection, while the women and children left the place in groups, and only the men remained behind.
Aaron now ascended the stone pulpit and spoke.

"Brothers and friends," he began, "we have done our duty to the dead; now let us discharge our obligations to the living.

Enough of funeral dirges for the present! Let us now to arms!" Three hundred men echoed his words.

"To arms!" they cried, "to arms!" They were ready and eager to go in quest of the foemen at whose hands their fellow-townsman had met his death.

"Come, let us go home and arm ourselves!" said they, one to another.
"We will meet in the marketplace!" called out Aaron from the stone pulpit, when suddenly he felt a strong hand on his belt behind, and he was lifted down bodily from his place.