The
cobblestones are rattling under the firm footsteps--Haggart is going
away.

"Haggart!"

He goes, without turning around.

"Haggart!"

He has gone away.

Loud shouting is heard--the sailors are greeting Haggart. They drink
and go off into the darkness. On the shore, the torches which were
cast aside are burning low, illumining the body, and a woman is rushing
about. She runs swiftly from one spot to another, bending down over the
steep rocks. Insane Dan comes crawling out.

"Is that you, Dan? Do you hear, they are singing, Dan? Haggart has gone
away."

"I was waiting for them to go. Here is another one. I am gathering the
pipes of my organ. Here is another one."

"Be accursed, Dan!"

"Oho? And you, too, Mariet, be accursed!"

Mariet clasps the child in her arms and lifts him high. Then she calls
wildly:

"Haggart, turn around! Turn around, Haggart! Noni is calling you. He
wants to curse you, Haggart. Turn around! Look, Noni, look--that is your
father. Remember him, Noni. And when you grow up, go out on every sea
and find him, Noni. And when you find him--hang your father high on a
mast, my little one."

The thundering salute drowns her cry. Haggart has boarded his ship. The
night grows darker and the dashing of the waves fainter--the ocean is
moving away with the tide. The great desert of the sky is mute and the
night grows darker and the dashing of the waves ever fainter.

JUDAS ISCARIOT AND OTHERS

CHAPTER I

Jesus Christ had often been warned that Judas Iscariot was a man of very
evil repute, and that He ought to beware of him. Some of the disciples,
who had been in Judaea, knew him well, while others had heard much about
him from various sources, and there was none who had a good word for
him. If good people in speaking of him blamed him, as covetous, cunning,
and inclined to hypocrisy and lying, the bad, when asked concerning him,
inveighed against him in the severest terms.

"He is always making mischief among us," they would say, and spit in
contempt. "He always has some thought which he keeps to himself. He
creeps into a house quietly, like a scorpion, but goes out again with an
ostentatious noise. There are friends among thieves, and comrades among
robbers, and even liars have wives, to whom they speak the truth; but
Judas laughs at thieves and honest folk alike, although he is himself
a clever thief. Moreover, he is in appearance the ugliest person in
Judaea. No! he i