"If not, then the devil has broken loose, and challenged our Goliath to fight. The Lord have mercy on the man he runs against this time! Look at him! The very stones shake under his feet."
Judas turned into a by-street. He stopped before a small building. He did not wait to have his heavy rap on the door answered from within, but entered, and went straight to a side chamber.
"Captain Dion!" he thundered out.
He was confronted by both Agathocles and Dion. The presence of the Greek General seemed to remind him of his forgotten courtesy.
"Your pardon, sirs! But I would talk to this man alone."
Agathocles withdrew, but not without a wondering glance at their unceremonious visitor and a look of inquiry at Dion, who, however, was as amazed as his companion.
When they were alone, and the door closed, Judas said:
"Dion, I once took your oath of allegiance at the gate."
"True. And the oath has not been broken," replied the young man, with some resentment in his tone excited by the apparent suspicion in Judas' abrupt manner.
In loud voice Judas exclaimed: "As Dion the Greek you have kept your oath; but that is no longer binding; for you are not Dion, but Gershom ben Shattuck. As a Jew you have sworn no allegiance."