This letter was unsigned.
"I should know that writing," said Dion. "It is none other than that of Menelaos."
"The same, no doubt," said Ephraim, studying it carefully. "I could tell you more of that Priest than has yet been published. But bring not this reprobate into the city. Maccabæus is cleansing the place, and would not abide such foulness. My counsel is that you deal with him here."
"Leave him to us," shouted the crowd.
In spite of Dion's remonstrance they tied the living man to the body of his dead confederate, and carried them both down to the Valley of Hinnom.
What things were there done may not be written.