“‘And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.’”
“Why, Hospitaler, thou hast a memory like an elephant or an emperor and a tongue like a sacrist!”
“Well, the time for swords being past I have taken to books; their leaves are wings. The world will be conquered yet by the words of the Swordless King.”
“And thou wouldst liken Tabitha to Andromeda?”
“Wasn’t she a real beauty, as her name is interpreted? Beautiful old soul! She robed the poor! Peter bringing her to the truth of the new life smote the dragon at Joppa, as a very Perseus.”
“A woman! a woman, again leading the army of salvation!”
“After that Peter slept on the house top of Simon the Tanner, and God gave him the vision of Jew and Gentile, bond and free, rich and poor; all, as one family coming into the benign rays of the Sun whose wings are full of healing.”
“And will that day come, Sir Hospitaler? I’m feeling almost a frenzy of desire for it!”
“Surely as the morning to Acre; but we must hie homeward; good-night; I’ll see you at the quay to-morrow.”
From Acre, Miriamne and her father, next day, set sail. The companions on the journey from Acre by Joppa arrived at Jerusalem, there to separate soon, for Miriamne, with every ingenious device, urged her father forward. Bozrah was constantly uppermost in her mind.