"Do you think we are going to let you go alone?" Chares roared. "No, by Zeus; I am going, too! I have something I wish to say to Thais."
He proceeded to arm himself, adjusting with care a breastplate inlaid with gold.
"Wait!" cried Nathan. "I have a better plan. When does this sacrifice take place?"
"It was to be on the second day," Joel replied. "That will be to-morrow."
"Then we have another night before us," Nathan said. "Do you think my people in Tyre will surrender their first-born to Moloch? Not while Jehovah reigns will they do that, nor will Jehovah permit the sacrifice. It would be folly to think of entering the city now. We should be discovered, and all would be ruined. We can enter at nightfall, if need be, and my people will join us to save their own. Let us consult Alexander. It may be that he will order the attack and that Jehovah will give Tyre into his hands to-day. At any rate, if it is a question of dying, we can die to-morrow as well as now."
Leonidas nodded. "You are right," he said.
"Are you satisfied, Clearchus?" Chares asked.
"Let it be as you will," the Athenian responded.