All that believed had all things common.”
—Acts.
“I’m anxious for the coming of the people to-day; Beulah said, a week ago, at her wedding, that she’d have the old Druse camel-driver at this service; though he ran away from her marriage feast.”
“I’ve heard that she and her grandmother had a convert to our faith, nearly ripe,” replied Cornelius to his wife.
At this instant one of the “Bethany Sisters” timidly approached the speakers, evidently anxious to deliver some communication.
“’Tis ‘Brightness’ by name and by nature,” remarked Miriamne.
“Well, sister Ziha, what is it?” questioned the chaplain.
“Pardon me; but there is waiting without, a grave and taciturn man who says he would speak with the ‘Prophetess.’ He means our Miriamne.”