in.

"My husband--who was killed by Simon's robbers, three months
ago--was for many years employed in working in the underground
passages of the city, and in repairing the conduits which carry the
water from the springs. As I often carried down his food to him,
when he was at work, I know every winding and turn of the
underground ways.

"As you know, the ground beneath the city is honeycombed by
passages whence stone was, in the old time, obtained for buildings.
There are many houses which have entrance, by pits, into these
places. This is one of them, and my husband took it for that
convenience. From here, I can find my way down to the great conduit
which was built, by King Hezekiah, to bring the water from the
upper springs of the river Gihon down into the city. Some of these
waters supply the pool known as the Dragon Pool, but the main body
runs down the conduit in the line of the Tyropoeon Valley; and
those from the Temple could, in old times, go down and draw water,
thence, should the pools and cistern fail. But that entrance has
long been blocked up for, when the Temple was destroyed and the
people carried away captives, the ruins covered the entrance, and
none knew of it.

"My husband when at work once found a passage which ran, for some
distance, by the side of some massive masonry of old time. One of
the great stones was loose; and he prised it out, to see what might
lie behind it. When he did so he heard the sound of running water
and, passing through the hole, found himself in a great conduit.
This he afterwards followed up; and found that it terminated, at
the upper end of the Valley of Hinnom, in a round chamber, at the
bottom of which springs bubbled up. There was an entrance to this
chamber from without, through a passage. The outer exit of this was
well-nigh filled up with earth, and many bushes grew there; so that
none passing by would have an idea of its existence.

"When the troubles here became great, he took me and showed me the
conduit; and led me to the exit, saying that the time might come
when I might need to fly from Jerusalem. The exit lies far beyond
the camps that the Romans have planted on either side of the Valley
of Hinnom; and by going out at night, I and my child can make our
way, unseen, to the hills. Since you have saved our lives, I tell
you of this secret; which is known, I think, to none but myself
for, after showing me the place, my husband closed up the entrance
to the p