1. [The Blind Singer]
  2. [Good Tidings out of the Desert]
  3. [At the Palace of the High Priest]
  4. [In Place of Judas]
  5. [In the Abode of Kings]
  6. [The Lord of the South-Land]
  7. [The Pharisee from Tarsus]
  8. [A Believer in the Nazarene]
  9. [In the Desert Encampment]
  10. [The White Dromedary]
  11. [At the Gate Beautiful]
  12. [In the Council Chamber]
  13. [At the Feet of the Apostles]
  14. [A Cup of Cold Water]
  15. [In Pursuit of the Fugitives]
  16. [A Roll of Parchment]
  17. [In the Prison House]
  18. ["Whose we Are and Whom we Serve"]
  19. [In the Shadow of the Wall]
  20. [Without the Jaffa Gate]
  21. ["Not a Sparrow Falleth"]
  22. [By the Thorny Ways of His Sin]
  23. [In the Synagogue of the Nazarenes]
  24. [The Warning]
  25. [The Wrath of Man]
  26. [Until the Day Break]
  27. [In the Valley of the Shadow]
  28. [The Lifted Veil]
  29. [The Watchful Love]
  30. [A Flask of Crystal]
  31. [A Scarlet Thread]
  32. [Ben Hesed in Jerusalem]
  33. [The Mercy of Israel]
  34. [At the Third Hour]
  35. [On the Road to Damascus]
  36. [The Amulet]

CHAPTER I.

THE BLIND SINGER.

"Bounteous Nile! Father of all living! Garlanded with lotus blooms, rosy as Horus!"

As these words rang out over the rocky hillside in a clear sweet voice, two men who were climbing the steep declivity paused a moment and looked at each other.

"That is the voice," said one of them in a tone of deep satisfaction. "A voice of gold truly, if only breathed forth into royal ears."

"There are two of them," said his companion, wiping his hot face. "The other is a boy, a water-carrier.'

"Good! He also will bring a fair price. Valuable property both, and going to waste like water spilled in the desert. Why buy slaves for gold, when they grow wild in the desert?" And the speaker laughed under his breath.

"Thou art a favorite of the gods," said the other with a venomous gleam in his narrow black eyes. "In thy heaven-bestowed wisdom forget not that it was I who came upon the two nesting in a corner of yonder old tomb like a pair of swallows."

"Thou shalt have the boy."