-dress, standing above the others, and looking
with fixed and eager eye at the group on the steps. Suddenly he became
nervous, moved his body as if some discomfiture had come upon him and
then turned his head slowly. The next instant he met the eyes of the
Rabbi. As if he had been struck, he moved down from his foot-stone.
"By the strength of my beard!" he exclaimed. "Didst thou see the face
of that Rabbi? Nay? Such eyes he hath as looketh a hole into the
inward parts of a man. Of a certainty will he know me again--and I
him. Come, let us lose ourselves in this vast assemblage and yet go
under the Gate of Nicantor. I would learn if this is the Rabbi who was
with the woman."

For some time Zador Ben Amon and the Temple lawyer moved with the
crowd. Now and then they caught sight of the Bethany party and Zador
made comment. "She walketh by her brother," he first said. Then, "Now
she is with the Rabbi," and again, "Now she is with both of them. Yet
I can not determine what I would from this place. Let us go to the
East Gate that openeth on to the Bethany road. There the way is narrow
and as they turn toward home the Rabbi will walk with the woman, if
this is their choice."

The last stall on the narrow street toward the East Gate was that of a
pottery molder and baker of small ovens. Outside his door, which was
now securely barred, stood several large water-jars and behind them a
low table used for mixing clay. When Zador and his companion reached
this place they stopped and withdrew into the shadows. "The moon is
rising. They will not be long coming," he said. "Whether the Rabbi is
with the brother or the woman, this is the question."

"Thou dost not know him?"

"Nay, nor care I to know a man with eyes like the Great Lights--unless
he is crossing my path with the woman."

"By the hair that lieth upon his shoulders and the staff in his hand he
looketh like the Galilean Rabbi that hath been teaching in the Temple."

"A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and
gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest."

"Nay. If thy eyes were turned more to the study of the Law and less to
thy gold, then wouldst thou know that a Galilean Rabbi hath arisen."

"Now do I know he is a friend of the brother, for the woman is fair and
her ways gentle, nor would she give to a rough and witless Galilean
what she would withhold from me."

"There is a puzzle. The Galilean is not witles