"And to which tribe of Israel do we belong?"
The schoolmaster looked at him steadily, thought for a moment, and began telling him about the Cymri, the Scythians, the Huns, and the Slavs.
The old man seemed to bend more than ever on one side, and watched the schoolmaster with scared eyes.
"You are telling lies!" he hissed out, when the schoolmaster had finished.
"Why do you think I am lying?" asked the astonished schoolmaster.
"Those people you have spoken of, none of them are in the Bible!" He rose and went out, deeply insulted, and cursing angrily.
"You are going mad, Tiapa!" cried the schoolmaster after him.
Then the old man turned round, and stretching out his hand shook with a threatening action his dirty, crooked forefinger.
"Adam came from the Lord. The Jews came from Adam. And all people come from the Jews—we amongst them."
"Well?"