A battle then ensued.

Discipline, of course, prevailed.

The struggle, the slaughter, the skill of one side, the desperation of the other, are alike unnecessary to our story.

Let us look rather to the wretched author of it all.
He arose from the parapet, his face very pale.
"O Tirzah, Tirzah! What will become of us ?" She had not seen the occurrence below, but was listening to the shouting and watching the mad activity of the people in view on the houses.

Something terrible was going on, she knew; but what it was, or the cause, or that she or any of those dear to her were in danger, she did not know.
"What has happened?
What does it all mean ?" she asked, in sudden alarm.
"I have killed the Roman governor.