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The grave determination in my voice served to sober hiht and work better to the holy songs of Israel It would bring renewed peace to my soul merely to uplift a paean of victory over the discomfiture of my enemies But I seek no quarrel here, and hence bide in silence until a proper moment to unseal my lips"

"'Twill be well you do Now follow close at hts"

Thus cautiously we crept toward the distant flickering of the torch, the unsteady light froan to yellow the packed earth about us, until we finally elare I had crawled forth, perhaps half th beyond the concealment of the wooden pillar, and, knife in hand, was stealthily drawing in toward thepriest, when the roving eyes of Cairnes encountered the idol, with its flashing ge de to the fellow, terrorized by the underground glooruff cry: "'T is Beelzebub!"

The sleeping priest leaped to his feet, glaring about in bewilderather rip upon hi screaht Iknife found bloodless sheath within the soft earth of the wall

"Zounds! are you a screeching worily, panting for breath "'T is likely that priest will rouse the tribe, and we shall have a run for it What caused you to make such an uproar?"

"Saints of Israel!" he said, repentantly enough, his glinting eyes still roving over the silent, leering ie, "never before did I behold such monster as that For the moment, I believed it Satan himself But, for the love of the prophets, what is this?" He began eagerly sniffing the air with his great nose like a pointer dog "'T is food I scent; that which will stay a fa you, friend, pause shortly while I satisfy in sos of the body Then shall I be better fitted to withstand the temptations of the world"

"Odds, er attack upon the supply outspread before the idol "So far you have acted like a lunkhead, and I begin to regretyou comrade in this adventure If a full stomach inspires to a man's duty, it would be policy always to bear food about with you"