Entering, food was brought to them. The place was full. There was one man who, as he went out, spoke to the proprietor:
'That is the man of whom they are all talking. I know it. He frightens me.'
'He frightens you! What has he done?'
'It is not that he has done anything; it is that I dare not sit by him--I dare not. Let me go.'
'Are you sure that it is he?'
'I am very sure. Here is the money for what I have had--take it. Don't trouble about the change; only let me go.'
The speaker rushed into the street like one flying from the wrath to come.
There were those who had heard what he had said. Immediately it was whispered among them that He of whom such strange tales were told was in their very midst. Presently one said to the other:
'My daughter is dying of consumption; I wonder if he could do anything to cure her.'
A second said: