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
says: "To none will we sell, refuse, or delay 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 came 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
land. Yet when I walked by them they cried out that I was one
Ahasuerus, a Jew, condemned, as they believe, to live for ever, and
they fled from me every-ways. Thus the Lord saved me for my work, and
at Pevensey I bought me a little boat and moored it on the mud beneath
the Marsh-gate of the Castle. That also God showed me.'

He was as calm as though he were speaking of some stranger, and his
voice filled the little bare wood with rolling music.

'I cast'--his hand went to his breast, and again the strange jewel
gleamed--'I cast the drugs which I had prepared into the common well