“Even so. Does the Rosary help some to walk?”
“I believe it does.”
“Tell me more about it.”
“The Crusaders were the first to call Mary ‘The Rose.’ To almost all mankind that flower has ever been the emblem of pure, unselfish love, and when the soldiers of the Cross grew to understand the character of her that gave the world its Saviour, they could think of no title more fitting for that queenly woman.”
“I’ve an Egyptian rosary, knight. See, I wear it on this golden chain, next my heart, for its safety——”
“To ward off witchcraft?”
“Bah! ’Tis a toy in usefulness. I keep it, thinking it may work incantation with the money-lender, and so save me sometime from starvation.” Then the Jew laughed aloud at his own wit. It seemed very ridiculous to him to liken his talisman to the real rosary or its saint.
“Wouldst thou let me examine it, Jew?”
The latter handed to the knight a chain and image.
“Egyptian?”