d her place at Court, she besought
Elias to tell the King where the treasure lay, that the King might take it
by force, and--they would trust in his gratitude. Why not? This Elias
refused to do, for he looked on the gold as his own. They quarrelled, and
they wept at the evening meal, and late in the night came one Langton--a
priest, almost learned--to borrow more money for the Barons. Elias and Adah
went to their chamber.'

Kadmiel laughed scornfully in his beard. The shots across the valley
stopped as the shooting-party changed their ground for the last beat.

'So it was I, not Elias,' he went on, quietly, 'that made terms with
Langton touching the fortieth of the New Laws.'

'What terms?' said Puck, quickly. 'The Fortieth of the Great Charter say:
"To none will we sell, refuse, or deny right or justice."'

'True, but the Barons had written first: _To no free man._ It cost me two
hundred broad pieces of gold to change those narrow words. Langton, the
priest, understood. "Jew though thou art," said he, "the change is just,
and if ever Christian and Jew come to be equal in England thy people may
thank thee." Then he went out stealthily, as men do who deal with Israel
by night. I think he spent my gift upon his altar. Why not? I have spoken
with Langton. He was such a man as I might have been if--if we Jews had
been a people. But yet, in many things, a child.

'I heard Elias and Adah abovestairs quarrel, and, knowing the woman was
the stronger, I saw that Elias would tell the King of the gold and that
the King would continue in his stubbornness. Therefore I saw that the gold
must be put away from the reach of any man. Of a sudden, the Word of the
Lord came to me saying, "The Morning is come, O thou that dwellest in the
land."'

Kadmiel halted, all black against the pale green sky beyond the wood--a
huge robed figure, like the Moses in the picture-Bible.

'I rose. I went out, and as I shut the door on that House of Foolishness,
the woman looked from the window and whispered, "I have prevailed on my
husband to tell the King!" I answered, "There is no need. The Lord is with
me."

'In that hour the Lord gave me full understanding of all that I must do;
and His Hand covered me in my ways. First I went to London, to a physician
of our people, who sold me certain drugs that I needed. You shall see why.
Thence I went swiftly to Pevensey. Men fought all around me, for there
were neither rulers nor judges in the abominable