son of one of the party
had received almost instant sight by the application of clay to his
eyes at the hands of this wonder worker.

With this information Jael hurried forward toward the Plain, sore of
foot, yet glad of heart, for he had no doubt the wonder worker was
Jesus. As he journeyed the twilight gave way to the dark, and
innumerable stars came forth. But it was not a light in the heavens
the eye of the fisherman watched for, rather a red glow near the earth
line. When he finally saw this it was as strength to his tired feet.
Soon the outlines of a tent became visible and the bodies of two men
lying by the fire. The approach of Jael was announced by the barking
of a dog which kept him at a distance until repeated shouting brought a
sleepy man to the tent door.

"Doth there rest here a Galilean, by name Jesus?" the fisherman called.

Before the tent dweller had answered, one of the men by the fire
called, "Jael! Jael--come hither!"

Forgetting the blisters on his feet, the stiff muscles of his legs and
the savage barking of the dog, Jael ran to the man by the fire
shouting, "Yea, Lord! I come! I come!"

With his head lying against his hand which was in turn supported by an
elbow resting on the ground, Jesus lay in his undergarment, his
traveling coat thrown over a tent stake near by. "Sit thee down and
rest, Jael," he said. "The friend at my side is a Hindoo of great
wisdom and knowledge of the stars. When I traveled in far lands he was
to me as a brother. Well be it thy steps have led thee to cross his
path while he travels with this caravan if thou wouldst gather
knowledge of Sara."

"Sara!" Jael exclaimed. "By what mystery is the desire of my heart
known to thee ere my lips have spoken?"

"Mystery?" Jesus repeated. "There is no mystery. There is only
understanding."

"Thy words have a sound but their meaning I know not, if thou art not a
miracle worker."

"All mind is one mind. He who knoweth himself knoweth also his
brother. If I loved the maiden Sara as thou lovest her, would not the
desire of my heart give me an understanding of the desire of thy heart?"

"If thou dost know a man's love for a maiden, then wilt thou of thy man
pity and thy god-power, give aid to Jael?"

"Hast thou aught of the maiden's which lay upon her naked body?" Jesus
said.

From his coat Jael took a small bit of cloth suspended like an ornament
on a neck cord and holding it toward Jesus said, "Her littl