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
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
everyways. 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 fille