"And now, why all these questions?"
"One more on my part first: what became of the Jew, and what was he like?"
"That is two questions," the general replied; "however, I will answer them. Titus let him go free, when he was recovered from his wounds. He was a young man, of some twenty years old."
"And do you know his name?"
"I know his name was John, for so he told Titus; but as every other Jew one comes across is John, that does not tell much."
"I can tell you his other name," Tibellus said. "It was John of Gamala."
An exclamation of astonishment broke from the officers.
"So that was John of Gamala, himself!" the general said. "None of us ever dreamt of it; and yet it might well have been for, now I think of it, the young fellow I saw lying wounded in the tent next to that of Titus answered, exactly, to the description we have heard of him; and the fact that he overcame Titus, in itself, shows that he had unusual strength and bravery.
"But how do you know about this?"
"Simply because John of Gamala is, at present, working as a slave in my garden."