e other three had been base
enough to carry their atrocious designs into execution." Solomon then
ordered twelve Fellow Crafts to be drawn from the bands of the
workmen, clothed in white aprons, in token of their Innocence, and
sent three East, three West, three North, and three South, in search
of the ruffians, and, if found, to bring them forward. Here the
members all shuffle about the floor awhile, and fall in with a reputed
traveler, and inquire of him if he had seen any traveling men that
way; he tells them that he had seen three that morning near the coast
of Joppa, who from their dress and appearance were Jews, and were
workmen from the Temple, inquiring for a passage to Ethiopia, but were
unable to obtain one, in consequence of an embargo which had recently
been laid on all the shipping, and had turned back into the country.
The Master now calls them to order again, and asks the Senior Warden,
"What success?" He answers by relating what had taken place. Solomon
observes, "I had this embargo laid to prevent the ruffians from making
their escape;" and adds, "you will go and search again, and search
till you find them, if possible; and if they are not found, the twelve
who confessed shall be considered as the reputed murderers, and suffer
accordingly." The members all start again, and shuffle about awhile,
until one of them, as if by accident, finds the body of Hiram Abiff,
alias the candidate and hails his traveling companions, who join him,
and while they are humming out something over the candidate, the three
reputed ruffians, who are seated in a private corner near the
candidate, are heard to exclaim in the following manner--first,
JUBELA, "O that my throat had been cut across, my tongue torn out, and
my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low-water mark, where
the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, ere I had been
accessory to the death of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram
Abiff."

The second, JUBELO, "O that my left breast had been torn open, and my
heart and vitals taken from thence, and thrown over my left shoulder,
carried into the valley of Jehosaphat, and there to become a prey to
the wild beasts of the field, and vultures of the air, ere I had
conspired the death of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram
Abiff."

The third, JUBELUM, "O that my body had been severed in two in the
midst, and divided to the North and South, my bowels burnt to ashes in
the centre, and the as