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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/31510-0.txt b/31510-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..358a6d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/31510-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4501 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Mary Magdalen + +Author: Edgar Saltus + +Release Date: March 5, 2010 [Ebook #31510] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF‐8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY MAGDALEN*** + + + + + + By Mr. Saltus + + HISTORIA AMORIS + THE POMPS OF SATAN + IMPERIAL PURPLE + THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION + VANITY SQUARE + THE PERFUME OF EROS + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + _A Chronicle_ + + + _By_ + + EDGAR SALTUS + + + +NEW YORK +BRENTANO’S +MCMXIX + + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1891, + BY EDGAR SALTUS. + + + + + + CONTENTS + + +CHAPTER I. +CHAPTER II. +CHAPTER III. +CHAPTER IV. +CHAPTER V. +CHAPTER VI. +CHAPTER VII. +CHAPTER VIII. +CHAPTER IX. +CHAPTER X. +Transcriber’s note + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + + + + + + CHAPTER I. + + + I. + + +“Three to one on Scarlet!” + +Throughout the brand-new circus were the eagerness, the gesticulations, +shouts, and murmurs of an impatient throng. On a ledge above the entrance +a man stood, a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. Beneath, on +either side, were gates. About him were series of ascending tiers, +close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored robes and parasols. The sand +of the track was very white: where the sunlight fell it had the glitter of +broken glass. In the centre was a low wall; at one end were pillars and +seven great balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, their tails in +the air. The uproar mounted in unequal vibrations, and stirred the pulse. +The air was heavy with odors, with the emanations of the crowd, the cloy +of myrrh. Through the exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the kitchens +below, and with them, from the exterior arcades, came the beat of +timbrels, the click of castanets. Overhead was a sky of troubled blue; +beyond, a lake. + +“They are off!” + +The strip of silk had fluttered and fallen, the gates flew open, there was +a rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, a yell that deafened, and four +tornadoes burst upon the track. + +They were shell-shaped, and before each six horses tore abreast. Between +the horses’ ears were swaying feathers; their manes had been dyed clear +pink, the forelocks puffed; and as they bounded, the drivers, standing +upright, had the skill to guide but not the strength to curb. About their +waists the reins were tied; at the side a knife hung; from the forehead +the hair was shaven; and everything they wore, the waistcoat, the short +skirt, the ribbons, was of one color, scarlet, yellow, emerald, or blue: +and this color, repeated on the car and on the harness, distinguished them +from those with whom they raced. + +Already the cars had circled the hippodrome four times. There were but +three more rounds, and Scarlet, which in the beginning had trailed +applause behind it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now a little to the +rear. Green was leading. Its leadership did not seem to please; it was +cursed at and abused, threatened with naked fist; yet when for the sixth +time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout that held the thunder of Atlas +leaped abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued by the blue, had been, was +now a mass of sickening agitation—twelve fallen horses kicking each other +into pulp, the drivers brained already; and down upon that barrier of +blood and death swept the scarlet car. In a second it veered and passed; +in that second a flash of steel had out the reins, and, as the car swung +round, the driver, released, was tossed to the track. What then befell him +no one cared. Stable-men were busy there; the car itself, unguided, +continued vertiginously on its course. If it had lagged before, there was +no lagging now. The hoofs that beat upon the ring plunged with it through +the din down upon Emerald, and beyond it to the goal. And as the last +dolphin vanished and the seventh ball was removed, the palm was granted, +and the spectators shouted a salutation to the giver of the games—Herod +Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. + +He was superb, this Antipas. His beard was like a lady’s fan. On his +cheeks was a touch of alkanet; his hair, powdered blue, was encircled by a +diadem set with gems. About his shoulders was a mantle that had a broad +purple border; beneath it was a tunic of yellow silk. Between the railing +of the tribune in which he sat one foot was visible, shod with badger’s +skin, dyed blood-red. He was superb, but his eyelids drooped. He had a +straight nose and a retreating forehead, a physiognomy that was at once +weak and vicious. He looked melancholy; it may be that he was bored. At +the salutation, however, he affected a smile, and motioned that the games +should continue. And as the signals, the dolphins and the seven balls, +appeared again, his thoughts, forsaking the circus, went back to Rome. + +Insecure in the hearts of his people, uncertain even of the continued +favor of the volatile monster who was lounging then in his Caprian +retreat, it was with the idea of pleasing the one, of flattering the +other, that he had instituted the games. For here in his brand-new +Tiberias, a city which he had built in a minute, whose colonnades and +porticoes he had bought ready-made in Rome, and had erected by means of +that magic which only the Romans possessed—in this capital of a parvenu +was a mongrel rabble of Greeks, Cypriotes, Egyptians, Cappadocians, +Syrians, and Jews, whose temper was uncertain, and whose rebellion to be +feared. + +_Annonâ et spectaculis_ indeed! Antipas knew the dictum well; and with an +uprising in the yonderland, and a sedition under his feet, what more could +he do than quell the first with his mercenaries, and disarm the second +with his games? Tiberius, whom he emulated, never deigned to appear at the +hippodrome; it was a way he had of showing his contempt for a nation. +Antipas might have imitated his sovereign in that, only he was not sure +that Tiberius would take the compliment as it was meant. He might view +such abstention as the airs of a trumpery tetrarch, and depose him there +and then. He was irascible, and when displeased there were dungeons at his +command which reopened with difficulty, and where existence was not +secure. Ah, that sausage of blood and mud, how he feared and envied him! +An emperor now, a god hereafter, truly the dominion of this world and a +part of the next was a matter concerning which fear and envy well might +be. + +And as Antipas’ vagabond fancy roamed in and out through the possibilities +of the Caesar’s sway, unconsciously he thought of another monster, the son +of a priest of Ascalon, who had defied the Sanhedrim, won Cleopatra, +murdered the woman he loved the most, conquered Judæa and found it too +small for his magnificence—of that Herod in fact, his own father, who gave +to Jerusalem her masterpiece of marble and gold, and meanwhile, drunk with +the dream of empire, had made himself successor of Solomon, Sultan of +Israel, King of the Jews, and who, even as he died, had vomited death and +crowns, diadems and crucifixions. + +It was through his legacy that Antipas ruled. The kingdom had been sliced +into three parts, of one of which Augustus had made a province; over +another a brother whom he hated ruled; and he had but this third part, the +smallest yet surely the most fair. Its unparalleled garden surrounded him, +and its eye, the lake, was just beyond. In the amphitheatre the hills +formed was a city of pink and blue marble, of cupolas, porticoes, volutes, +bronze doors, and copper roofs. Along the fringe of the shore were +Choraizin and Bethsaïda, purple with pomegranates, Capharnahum, beloved +for its honey, and Magdala, scented with spice. The slopes and intervales +were very green where they were not yellow, and there were terraces of +grape, glittering cliffs, and a sky of troubled blue, wadded with little +gold-edged clouds. + +Yes, it was paradise, but it was not monarchy. It was to that he aspired. +As he mused, a rancid-faced woman decked with paint and ostrich-plumes +snarled in his ear: + +“What have you heard of Iohanan?” + +And as with a gesture he signified that he had heard nothing, she snarled +again. + +Antipas turned to her reflectively, but it was of another that he +thought—the brown-eyed bride that Arabia had given him, the lithe-limbed +princess of the desert whose heart had beaten on his own, whom he had +loved with all the strength of youth and weakness, and whom he had +deserted while at Rome for his brother’s wife, his own niece, Herodias, +who snarled at his side. + +Behind her were her women, and among them was one who, as the cars swept +by, turned her head with that movement a flower has which a breeze has +stirred. Her eyes were sultry, darkened with stibium; on her cheek was the +pink of the sea-shell, and her lips made one vermilion rhyme. The face was +oval and rather small; and though it was beautiful as victory, the wonder +of her eyes, which looked the haunts of hope fulfilled, the wonder of her +mouth, which seemed to promise more than any mortal mouth could give, were +forgotten in her hair, which was not orange nor flame, but a blending of +both. And now, as the cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, her hand +rose as a bird does and fluttered with delight. + +On the adjacent tiers were Greeks, fat-calved Cypriotes, Cappadocians with +flowers painted on their skin, red Egyptians, Thracian mercenaries, +Galilean fishermen, and a group of Lydians in women’s clothes. + +On the tier just beyond was a man gazing wistfully at the woman that sat +behind Herodias. He was tall and sinewy, handsome with the comeliness of +the East. His beard was full, unmarred at the corners; his name was Judas. +Now and then he moistened his under lip, and a Thracian who sat at his +side heard him murmur “Mary” and some words of Syro-Chaldaic which the +Thracian did not understand. + +To him Mary paid no attention. She had turned from the track. An officer +had entered the tetrarch’s tribune and addressed the prince. Antipas +started; Herodias colored through her paint. The latter evidently was +pleased. + +“Iohanan!” she exclaimed. “To Machærus with him! You may believe in fate +and mathematics; I believe in the axe.” + +And questioningly Herodias looked at her husband, who avoided her look, +yet signified his assent to the command she had given. + +The din continued. From the tier beyond, Judas still gazed into the perils +of Mary’s eyes. + +“Dear God,” he muttered, in answer to an anterior thought, “it would be +the birthday of my life.” + + + + + + CHAPTER II. + + + II. + + +“O Prophet Iohanan, how fair you are!” + +Iohanan was hideous. His ankles were in stocks, a chain about his waist +was looped in a ring that hung from the wall. About his body were tattered +furs, his hair was tangled, the face drawn and yellow. Vermin were visible +on his person. His lips twitched, and his gums, discolored, were as those +of a camel that has journeyed too far. A tooth projected, green as a fresh +almond is; the chin projected too, and from it on one side a rill of +saliva dripped upon the naked breast. On the terrace he was a blur, a +nightmare in a garden. + +“Ah, how fair!” + +Tantalizing as temptation, Mary stood just beyond his reach. Her eyes were +full of compliments, her body was bent, and, the folds of her gown held +back, she swayed a little, in the attitude of one cajoling a tiger. She +was quite at home and at her ease, and yet prepared for instant flight. + +Iohanan, or John—surnamed, because of practices of his, the +Baptist—beckoned her to approach. In his eyes was the innocence that oxen +have. + +“My body is chained, but my soul is free!” + +Mary made a pirouette, and through the terrace of the citadel the rattles +on her ankles rang. + +It was appalling, this citadel; it dominated the entire land. Perched on a +peak of basalt, it overhung an abyss in which Asphalitis, the Bitter Sea, +lay, a stretch of sapphire to the sun. In the distance were the heights of +Abraham, the crests of Gilead. Before it was the infinite, behind it the +desert. At its base a hamlet crouched, and a path hewn in the rock crawled +in zigzags to its gates. Irregular walls surrounded it, in some places a +hundred cubits high, and in each of the many angles was a turret. Seen +from below it was a threat in stone, but within was a caress, one of those +rapturous palaces that only the Orientals build. It was called Machærus. +Peopled with slaves and legends, it was a haunt of ghosts and fierce +delights. + +And now as Mary tripped before the prophet the walls alone repelled. The +terrace was a garden in which were lilies and sentries. For entrance there +was a portal of red porphyry, above which was a balcony hemmed by a +balustrade of yellow Numidian stone. + +Against it Antipas leaned. He had been eyeing the desert in tremulous +surmise. The day before, he had caught the glitter of lances, therewith +spirals of distant smoke, and he had become fearful lest Aretas, that king +of Arabia Petræa whose daughter he had deserted, might be meditating +attack. But now there was nothing, at most a triangular mass speeding +westwards, of which only the edges moved, and which he knew to be a flight +of cranes. + +He took heart again and gazed in the valley below. It was the anniversary +of his birth. To celebrate it he had invited the stewards of his lands, +the notables of Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator of Judæa, +the emir of Tadmor, mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and herdsmen. + +But in the valley only a few shepherds were visible. Along the ramparts +soldiers paced. At the further end of the terrace a group of domestics was +busy with hampers and luggage. The day was solemnly still, exquisitely +clear; and between two hills came a glare of gold projected from the +Temple of Jerusalem. + +Through the silence rang the tinkle of the rattles that Mary wore. The +prophet was beckoning her. + +“And Martha?” the tetrarch heard him ask. + +The pirouette ceased awkwardly. Mary’s eyes forgot their compliments. Her +brows contracted, and, as though perplexed, she held her head a little to +one side. + +“There,” he added, “there, I know you well. It was at Bethany I saw you +first. Yes, yes, I remember perfectly; you were leaving, and Martha was in +tears. Only a little since I had speech with her. She spoke of you; she +knew you were called the Magdalen. No,” he continued, for Mary had shrunk +back, “no, I will not curse. There is another by whom you will be +blessed.” + +Mary laughed. “I am going to Rome. Tiberius will give me a palace. I shall +sleep on the down the Teutons bring. I shall drink pearls dissolved in +falernian. I shall sup on peacocks’ tongues.” + +“No, Mary, Rome you will never see. The Eternal has you in His charge. +Your shame will be washed away.” + +“Shame to you,” she interrupted. “Shame and starvation too.” She made as +though she were about to pirouette again. “Whom are you talking of?” + +“One whose shoes I am unworthy to bear.” + +For a moment he seemed to meditate; then, with the melancholy of one +renounceing some immense ambition, he murmured, half to himself, half to +the sky, “For him to increase I must diminish.” + +“As for that, you are not much to look at now. I must go. I must braid my +hair; the emir’s eyes are eager.” + +“Mary,” he hissed, and the sudden asperity of his voice coerced her as a +bit might do, “you will go to Capharnahum, you will seek him, you will say +Iohanan is descended into the tombs to announce the Son of David.” + +Through the lateral entrance to the terrace a number of guests had +entered. From the balcony above, Antipas leaned and listened. Some one +touched him; it was Herodias. + +“The procurator is coming,” she announced. “You should be at the gate.” + +“Ah!” + +He seemed indifferent. What Iohanan had said concerning the Son of David +stirred him like the point of a sword. He felt that there could be no such +person; his father had put a stop to all that. And yet, if there were! + +His indifference surprised Herodias. + +“What are you staring at?” she asked; and to assure herself she looked +over the balustrade. “That carrion? You should——” + +Her hand drawn across her throat completed the sentence. + +The tetrarch shook his head. There was no hurry. Then, too, the prophet +was useful. He reviled Jerusalem, and that flattered Galilee. But there +was another reason, which he kept to himself. Iohanan affected him as no +one had done before. + +He feared him, chained though he was, and into that fear something akin to +admiration entered. In his heart he wished he had let him alone. No, there +was no hurry. As he assured her of that the prophet looked up. + +“Jezebel!” + +The guests approached. Their number had increased. There were Greek +merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes +from Jerusalem. Herodias clapped her hands. A negro, naked to the waist, +appeared. + +“Take him below.” + +But the guests surrounded Iohanan. The Pharisees recognized him at once. +He was the terror of the hierarchs. + +As he cried out at Herodias he seemed as though he would rise and wrench +his bonds and mount to where she was. His eyes had lost their pathos; they +blazed. + +“Woe unto you!” he shouted, “and woe unto your barren bed! Though you hid +in the bowels of the earth, in the uttermost depths of a jungle, the +stench of your incest would betray you. Woe unto you, I say; the swine +will turn from you, the Eternal will rend you, and the heart of hell will +vomit you back!” + +Herodias shook with anger. She was livid. Murmurs circulated through the +increasing throng. + +The Pharisees edged nearer. On their foreheads were slips of vellum on +which passages of the Law had been inscribed. About their left arms other +slips extended spiralwise from the elbow to the end of the third finger. +They were in white; where their garments had become soiled, the spots had +been chalked. + +To them the prophet showed his teeth. “And woe unto you too, race of +vipers, bladders of wind! As the fire devours the stubble, and the flame +consumes the chaff, so your root will be rottenness and your seed go up as +dust. Fear will engulf you like a torrent. The high peaks will be broken, +the mountains will sever, and night be upon all. The valleys and hills +will be strewn with your corpses, the rocks will run with your blood, the +plain will drink it, and the vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto you +all, I say, that call good evil, and evil good!” + +The invective continued. It enveloped the world. Everything was to be +destroyed. Presently it subsided; the voice of the prophet sank lower; his +eyes sought the sky, the pupils dilated; and the dream of his nation, the +triumphant future, the sanctification of the faithful, the magnificence +that was to be, poured rapturously from his lips. + +“The whole land will glow with glory. The sky will be a rose in bloom. The +meadows will rejoice, and the earth will be filled with men and maidens +singing and kneeling to Thee, Immanuel, whom I await.” + +The vision would have expanded, perhaps, but the chain that bound him was +loosed, sinewy arms were dragging him away. As he went, he glared up again +at Herodias. His face had lost its beatitude. + +“You will be stripped of your purple, Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden +under foot. The pains of a woman in travail will be as joys unto yours. +There will be not enough stones to throw at you, and the abomination of +your lust will bellow, Accursed, even beyond the tomb.” + +The anathema fainted in the distance. The Scribes consulted between their +teeth. By the Pharisees Antipas was blamed. A merchant from Hippos did not +understand, and the Law was explained. That a man should marry his +brother’s wife was a duty, only in this instance it had not occurred to +the brother to die beforehand. Then, again, by her first husband Herodias +had a child, and in that was the abomination. + +The merchant did not wholly grasp the distinction, but he nodded as though +he had. + +“There was a child, was there?” + +A captain of the garrison answered: “A girl, Salomè.” + +He said nothing further, but the merchant could see that his mouth watered +at the thought of her. + +The crowd had become very dense. Suddenly a trumpet blared. At the gate +was Pontius Pilate. On his head was a high and dazzling helmet. His tunic +was short, open at the neck. His legs were bare. He was shod with shoes +that left the toes exposed. From his cuirass a gorgon’s head had, in +deference to local prejudice, been effaced; in its stead were scrolls and +thunderbolts. From the belt rows of straps, embroidered and fringed, fell +nearly to the knee. He held his head in the air. His features were +excellent, and his beard hung in rows of short overlapping curls. + +Behind him was his body-guard. Before him Antipas stood, welcoming the +Roman in Greek. + +In the sky now were the advancing steps of night; in crevices of the +basalt the leaves of the baaras weed had begun to flicker. It was time for +the festival to begin; and, preceding the guests, Antipas passed into a +hall beyond. + +It was oblong, curved at the ends, and so vast that the roof was vague. On +the walls were slabs of different colors, marble spotted like the skin of +serpents, and onyx flecked with violet. On two sides were galleries +supported by columns of sandstone. A third gallery formed a semicircle. +Opposite, at the further end, on a dais, was the table of the tetrarch. + +Antipas faced the assemblage. At his left was the procurator, at his right +the emir of Tadmor. Curtains were looped on either side. Above were +panels; they separated, and flowers fell. On a little stool next to the +couch on which the emir lay was a beautiful boy with curly hair. The couch +of the procurator was covered with a dim Babylonian shawl. That of the +tetrarch was of ivory incrusted with gold. All three were cushioned. + +As the guests entered they were sprinkled with perfume. Throughout the +length of the hall other tables extended, and at these they found seats +and food: Syrian radishes, melons from the oases near the Oxus, white +olives from Bethany, honey from Capharnahum, and the little onions of +Ascalon. There were candelabra everywhere, liquids cooled with snow, +cheeses big as millstones, chunks of fat in wooden bowls, and behind the +tables, slaves with copper platters. On the platters were quarters of red +beef, breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds with their plumage on. In +the semicircular gallery musicians played, three notes, constantly +repeated. + +The tetrarch’s table was spread with a cloth of byssus striped with +Laconian green. On it were jars of murrha filled with balsam, Sidonian +goblets of colored glass, jasper amphoræ, and water-melons from Egypt. +Before the procurator was a dish of oysters, lampreys, and boned barbels, +mixed well together, flavored with cinnamon and assafœtida; mashed +grasshoppers baked in saffron; and a roasted boar, the legs curled inward, +the eyes half-closed. The emir ate abundantly of heron’s eggs whipped with +wine into an amber foam. When his fingers were soiled, he wiped them in +the curls of the beautiful boy who sat near by. + +The smell of food filled the hall, mounted to the roof. The atmosphere was +that of a bath, and the wines were heady. Already discussions had arisen. +A mountaineer and a Galilean skiffsman had been dragged away, the one +senseless, the other with features indistinguishable and masked in blood. +It was a great festival, and the tetrarch was entertaining, as only he +could, his friends, his enemies, and whoever chanced that way. + +“As a child he rubbed his body with the leaves of the cnyza, which is a +preservative of chastity.” It was a little man with restless eyes and a +very long white beard detailing the virtues of Iohanan. “But,” he added, +“he must have found cold water better.” + +His neighbors laughed. One pounded the table. + +“Jeshua—” he began, but everyone was talking at once. + +“Jeshua—” he continued; yet, as no one would listen, he turned to a +passing eunuch and caught him by the arm—“Jeshua does more; he works +miracles, and not with the cnyza either.” + +The eunuch eluded him and escaped. However, he would not be balked; he +stood up and, through the din, he shouted at the little man: + +“Baba Barbulah, I tell you he is the Messiah!” + +His voice was so loud it dominated the hubbub, and suddenly the hubbub +ceased. + +From the dais Pontius Pilate listened indifferently. Antipas held his +hands behind his ears that he might hear the better. The emir paid no +attention at all. On his head was a conical turban; about it were loops of +sapphire and coils of pearl. He wore a vest with scant sleeves that +reached to the knuckles, and trousers that overhung the instep and fell in +wide wrinkles on his feet; both were of leopard-skin. Over the vest was a +sleeveless tunic, clasped at the shoulders and girt at the waist. His hair +was long, plentifully oiled; his beard was bushy, blue-black, and specked +with silver. + +Mary had approached. From the lessening waist to the slender feet her +dress opened at either side. Beneath was a chemise of transparent +Bactrianian tissue. From girdle to armpits were little clasps; on her +ankles, bands; and above the elbow, on her bare white arm, two circlets of +emeralds from the mines of Djebel Zabur. + +The emir spoke to her. She listened with a glimpse of the most beautiful +teeth in the world. He put out a hand tentatively and touched her: the +tissue of her garment crackled and emitted sparks. He raised a goblet to +her. The wine it held was yellower than the marigold. She brushed it with +her lips; he drank it off, then, refreshed, he looked her up and down. + +In one hand she held a cup of horn, narrower at the top than at the end; +in it were dice made of the knee-joints of gazelles, and these she rattled +in his beard. + +“That beautiful Sultan, will he play?” + +With an ochre-tipped finger she pointed at the turban on his head. The +eyes of the emir vacillated. He undid a string of gems and placed them on +the table’s edge. Mary unclasped a coil of emeralds and rattled the dice +again. She held the cup high up, then spilled the contents out. + +“Ashtaroth!” the emir cried. He had won. + +Mary leaned forward, fawned upon his breast, and gazed into his face. Her +breath had the fragrance of his own oasis, her lips were moist as the +pomegranate’s pulp, her teeth as keen as his own desire. + +“No, beautiful Sultan, it is I.” With the back of her hand she disturbed +the dice. “I am Ashtaroth, am I not?” + +Questioningly the emir explored the unfathomable eyes that gazed into his. + +On their surface floated an acquiescence to the tacit offer of his own. +Then he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered the jewels from the cloth of +byssus where they lay. + +“I tell you he is the Messiah!” It was the angry disputant shouting at the +little man. + +“Who is? What are you talking about?” + +Though the hubbub had ceased, throughout the hall were the mutterings of +dogs disturbed. + +“Jeshua,” the disputant answered; “Jeshua the Nazarene.” + +A Pharisee, very vexed, his bonnet tottering, gnashed back: “The Messiah +will uphold the law; this Nazarene attacks it.” + +A Scribe interrupted: “Many things are to distinguish his advent. The +light of the sun will be increased a hundredfold, the orchards will bear +fruit a thousand times more abundantly. Death will be forgotten, joy will +be universal, Elijah will return.” + +“But he has!” + +Antipas started. The Scribe trembled with rage. But the throng had caught +the name of Elijah, and knew to whom the disputant referred—a man in +tattered furs whom a few hours before they had seen dragged away by a +negro naked to the waist, and some one shouted: + +“Iohanan is Elijah.” + +Baba Barbulah stood up and turned to whence the voice had come: + +“In the footprints of the Anointed impudence shall increase, and the face +of the generation shall be as the face of a dog. It may be,” he added, +significantly—“it may be that you speak the truth.” + +The sarcasm was lost. The musicians in the gallery, who had been playing +on flute and timbrel, began now on the psalteron and the native sambuca. +Behind was a row of lute-players; but most in view was a trignon, an +immense Egyptian harp, at which with nimble fingers a fair girl plucked. + +In the shadow Herodias leaned. At a signal from her the musicians attacked +the prelude of a Syrian dance, and in the midst of the assemblage a figure +veiled from head to foot suddenly appeared. For a moment it stood very +still; then the veil fell of itself, and from the garrison a shout went +up: + +“Salomè! Salomè!” + +Her hair, after an archaic Chanaanite fashion, was arranged in the form of +a tower. Her high bosom was wound about with protecting bands. Her waist +was bare. She wore long pink drawers of silk, and for girdle she had the +blue buds of the lotus, which are symbols of virginity. She was young and +exquisitely formed. In her face you read strange records, and on her lips +were promises as rare. Her eyes were tortoise-shell, her hair was black as +guilt. + +The prelude had ceased, the movement quickened. With a gesture of +abandonment the girl threw her head back, and, her arms extended, she +fluttered like a butterfly on a rose. She ran forward. The sambuca rang +quicker, the harp quicker yet. She threw herself to one side, then to the +other, her hips swaying as she moved. The buds at her girdle fell one by +one; she was dancing on flowers, her hips still swaying, her waist +advancing and retreating to the shiver of the harp. She was elusive as +dream, subtle as love; she intoxicated and entranced; and finally, as she +threw herself on her hands, her feet, first in the air and then slowly +descending, touched the ground, while her body straightened like a reed, +there was a long growl of unsatisfied content. + +She was kneeling now before the dais. Pilate compared her to Bathylle, a +mime whom he had applauded at Rome. The tetrarch was purple; he gnawed his +under lip. For the moment he forgot everything he should have +remembered—the presence of his guests, the stains of his household, his +wife even, whose daughter this girl was—and in a gust of passion he half +rose from his couch. + +“Come to me,” he cried. “But come to me, and ask whatever you will.” + +Salomè hesitated and pouted, the point of her tongue protruding between +her lips. + +“Come to me,” he pleaded; “you shall have slaves and palaces and cities; +you shall have hills and intervales. I will give you anything; half my +kingdom if you wish.” + +There was a tinkle of feet; the girl had gone. In a moment she returned, +and balancing herself on one foot, she lisped very sweetly: “I should like +by and by to have you give me the head of Iohanan—” she looked about; in +the distance a eunuch was passing, a dish in his hand, and she added, “on +a platter.” + +Antipas jumped as though a hound under the table had bitten him on the +leg. He turned to the procurator, who regarded him indifferently, and to +the emir, who was toying with Mary’s agate-nailed hand. He had given his +word, however; the people had heard. About his ears the perspiration +started; from purple he had grown very gray. + +Salomè still stood, balancing herself on one foot, the point of her tongue +just visible, while from the gallery beyond, in whose shadows he divined +the instigating presence of Herodias, came the grave music of an Hebraic +hymn. + +“So be it,” he groaned. + +The order was given, and a tear trickled down through the paint and +furrows of his cheek. On the hall a silence had descended. The guests were +waiting, and the throb of the harp accentuated the suspense. Presently +there was the clatter of men-at-arms, and a negro, naked to the waist, +appeared, an axe in one hand, the head of the prophet in the other. + +He presented it deferentially to Antipas, who motioned it away, his face +averted. Salomè smiled. She took it, and then, while she resumed her veil, +she put it down before the emir, who eyed it with the air of one that has +seen many another object such as that. + +But in a moment the veil was adjusted, and with the trophy the girl +disappeared. + +The harp meanwhile had ceased to sob, the guests were departing; already +the procurator had gone. The emir looked about for Mary, but she also had +departed; and, with the expectation, perhaps, of finding her without, he +too got up and left the hall. + +Antipas was alone. Through the lattice at his side he could see the baaras +in the basalt emitting its firefly sparks of flame. From an adjacent +corridor came the discreet click-clack of a sandal, and in a moment the +head of the prophet was placed on the table at which he lay. The tetrarch +leaned over and gazed into the unclosed eyes. They were haggard and +dilated, and they seemed to curse. + +He put his hand to his face and tried to think—to forget rather, and not +to remember; but his ears were charged with rustlings that extended +indefinitely and lost themselves in the future; his mind peopled itself +with phantoms of the past. Perhaps he dozed a little. When he looked up +again the head was no longer there, and he told himself that Herodias had +thrown it to the swine. + + + + + + CHAPTER III. + + + III. + + +In the distance the white and yellow limestone of the mountains rose. Near +by was a laughter of flowers, a tumult of green. Just beyond, in a border +of sedge and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the sky. In the background +were the blue and white terraces of Magdala, and about a speaker were +clustered a handful of people, a group of laborers and of fishermen. + +He was dressed as a rabbi, but he looked like a seer. In his face was the +youth of the world, in his eyes the infinite. As he spoke, his words +thrilled and his presence allured. “Repent,” he was saying; “the kingdom +of heaven is at hand.” And as the resplendent prophecy continued, you +would have said that a bird in his heart had burst into song. + +A little to one side, in an attitude of amused contempt, a few of the +tetrarch’s courtiers stood; they were dressed in the Roman fashion, and +one, Pandera, a captain of the guard, wore a cuirass that glittered as he +laughed. He was young and very handsome. He had white teeth, red lips, a +fair skin, a dark beard, and, as he happened to be stationed in the +provinces, an acquired sneer. Dear old Rome, how vague it was! And as he +jested with his comrades he thought of its delights, and wished himself +either back again in the haunts he loved, or else, if he must be separated +from them, then, instead of vegetating in a tiresome tetrarchy, he felt +that it would be pleasant to be far off somewhere, where the uncouth +Britons were, a land which it took a year of adventures to reach; on the +banks of the Betis, whence the girls came that charmed the lupanars; in +Numidia, where the hunting was good; or in Thrace, where there was blood +in plenty—anywhere, in fact, save on the borders of the beautiful lake +where he happened to be. + +It was but the restlessness of youth, perhaps, that disturbed him so, for +in Galilee there were oafs as awkward as any that Britannia could show; +there was game in abundance; blood, too, was not as infrequent as it might +have been; and as for women, there at his side stood one as appetizing as +Rome, Spain even, had produced. He turned to her now, and plucked at his +dark beard and showed his white teeth; he had caught a phrase of the rabbi +in which the latter had mentioned the kingdoms of the earth, and the +phrase amused him. + +“I like that,” he said. “What does he know about the kingdoms of the +earth? Mary, I wager what you will that he has never been two leagues from +where he stands. Let’s ask and see.” + +But Mary did not seem to hear. She was engrossed in the rabbi, and Pandera +had to tug at her sleeve before she consented to return to a life in which +he seemingly had a part. + +“What do you say?” he asked. + +Mary shook her head. She had the air of one whose mind is elsewhere. Into +her face a vacancy had come; she seemed incapable of reply; and as the +guardsman scrutinized her it occurred to him that she might be on the +point of having an attack of that catalepsy to which he knew her to be +subject. But immediately she reassured him. + +“Come, let us go.” + +And, the guardsman at her side, the others in her train, she ascended the +little hill on which her castle was, and where the midday meal awaited. + +It was a charming residence. Built quadrangularwise, the court held a +fountain which was serviceable to those that wished to bathe. The roof was +a garden. The interior façade was of teak wood, carved and colored; the +frontal was of stone. Seen from the exterior it looked the fortress of +some umbrageous prince, but in the courtyard reigned the seduction of a +woman in love. From without it menaced, within it soothed. + +Her title to it was a matter of doubt. According to Pandera, who at the +mess-table at Tiberias had boasted his possession of her confidence, it +was a heritage from her father. Others declared that it had been given her +by her earliest lover, an old man who since had passed away. Yet, after +all, no one cared. She kept open house; the tetrarch held her in high +esteem; she was attached to the person of the tetrarch’s wife; only a +little before, the emir of Tadmor had made a circuitous journey to visit +her; Vitellius, the governor of the province, had stopped time and again +beneath her roof; and—and here was the point—to see her was to acquire a +new conception of beauty. Of human flowers she was the most fair. + +Yet now, during the meal that followed, Mary, the toast of the tetrarchy, +she whose wit and brilliance had been echoed even in Rome, wrapped herself +in a mantle of silence. The guardsman jested in vain. To the others she +paid as much attention as the sun does to a torch; and when at last +Pandera, annoyed, perhaps, at her disregard of a quip of his, attempted to +whisper in her ear, she left the room. + +The nausea of the hour may have affected her, for presently, as she threw +herself on her great couch, her thoughts forsook the present and went back +into the past, her childhood returned, and faces that she had loved +reappeared and smiled. Her father, for instance, Theudas, who had been +satrap of Syria, and her mother, Eucharia, a descendant of former kings. + +But of these her memories were slight—they had died when she was still +very young—and in their place came her sister, Martha, kind of heart and +quick of temper, obdurate, indulgent, and continually perplexed; Simon, +Martha’s husband, a Libyan, born in Cyrene, called by many the Leper +because of a former whiteness of his skin, a whiteness which had long +since vanished, for he was brown as a date; Eleazer, her brother, younger +than herself, a delicate boy with blue pathetic eyes; and with them came +the delight of Bethany, that lovely village on the oriental slope of the +Mount of Olives, where the rich of Jerusalem had their villas, and where +her girlhood had been passed. + +From the lattice at which she used to sit she could see the wide white +road begin its descent to the Jordan, a stretch of almond trees and +oleanders; and just beyond, in a woody hollow, a little house in which +Sephôrah lived—a woman who came from no one knew where, and to whom Martha +had forbidden her to speak. + +She could see her still, a gaunt, gray creature, with projecting +cheek-bones, a skin of brick, and a low, insinuating voice. The +fascination which she had exercised over her partook both of wonder and of +fear, for it was rumored that she was a sorceress, and as old as the +world. To Mary, who was then barely nubile, and inquisitive as only +fanciful children are, she manifested a great affection, enticing her to +her dwelling with little cakes that were sweet to the tooth and fabulous +tales that stirred the heart: the story of Stratonice and Combabus, for +instance, which Mary did not in the least understand, but which seemed to +her intensely sad. + +“And then what?” she would ask when the tale was done; and the woman would +tell her of Ninus and Semiramis, of Sennachereb, of Sardanapalus, +Belsarazzur, of Dagon, the fish-god of Philistia, by whom Goliath swore +and in whose temple Samson died, or of Sargon, who, placed by his mother +in an ark of rushes, was set adrift in the Euphrates, yet, happily +discovered by a water-carrier, afterwards became a leader of men. + +“Why, that was Moses!” the child would exclaim. + +“No, no,” the woman invariably answered, “it was Sargon.” + +But that which pleasured Mary more highly even than these tales were the +legends of Hither Asia, the wonderlands of Babylon, and particularly the +story of the creation, for always the human mind has wished to read the +book of God. + +“Where did they say the world came from?” she would ask. + +And Sephôrah, drawing a long breath, would answer: “Once all was darkness +and water. In this chaos lived strange animals, and men with two wings, +and others with four wings and two faces. Some had the thighs of goats, +some had horns, and some had horses’ feet, or were formed behind like a +horse and in front like a man; there were bulls with human faces, and men +with the heads of dogs, and other animals of human shape with fins like +fishes, and fishes like sirens, and dragons, and creeping things, and +serpents, and fierce creatures, the images of which are preserved in the +temple of Bel. + +“Over all these ruled the great mother, Um Uruk. But Bel, whom your people +call Baal, divided the darkness and clove the woman asunder. Of one part +he made the earth, and of the other the sun, the moon, the planets. He +drew off the water, apportioned it to the land, and prepared and arranged +the world. The creatures on it could not endure the light of day and +became extinct. + +“Now when Bel saw the land fruitful yet uninhabited, he cut off his head +and made one of the gods mingle the blood which flowed from it with earth +and form therewith men and animals that could endure the sun. Presently +Chaldæa was plentifully populated, but the inhabitants lived like animals, +without order or rule. Then there appeared to them from the sea a monster +of the name of Yan. Its body was that of a fish, but under its head +another head was attached, and on its fins were feet, and its voice was +that of a man. Its image is still preserved. It came at morning, passed +the day, and taught language and science, the harvesting of seeds and of +fruits, the rules for the boundaries of land, the mode of building cities +and temples, arts and writing and all that pertains to civilized life, and +for four hundred and thirty-two thousand years the world went very well. + +“Then in a dream Bel revealed to Xisuthrus that there would be a great +storm, and men would be destroyed. He bade him bury in Sepharvaim, the +city of the sun, all the ancient, mediæval, and modern records, and build +a ship and embark in it with his kindred and his nearest friends. He was +also to take food and drink into the ship, and pairs of all creatures +winged and four-footed. + +“Xisuthrus did as he was bidden, and from the ends of heaven the storm +began to blow. Bin thundered; Nebo, the Revealer, came forth; Nergal, the +Destroyer, overthrew; and Adar, the Sublime, swept in his brightness +across the earth. The storm devoured the nations, it lapped the sky, +turned the land into an ocean, and destroyed everything that lived. Even +the gods were afraid. They sought refuge in the heaven of Anu, sovereign +of the upper realms. As hounds draw in their tails, they seated themselves +on their thrones, and to them Mylitta, the great goddess, spake: ‘The +world has turned from me, and ruin I have proclaimed.’ She wept, and the +gods on their thrones wept with her. + +“On the seventh day Xisuthrus perceived that the storm had abated and that +the sea had begun to fall. He sent out a dove, it returned; next, a +swallow, which also returned, but with mud on its feet; and again, a +raven, which saw the corpses in the water and ate them, and returned no +more. Then the boat was stayed and settled upon Mount Nasir. Xisuthrus +went out and worshipped the recovered earth. When his companions went in +search of him he had disappeared, but his voice called to them saying that +for his piety he had been carried away; that he was dwelling among the +gods; and that they were to return to Sepharvaim and dig up the books and +give them to mankind. Which they did, and erected many cities and temples, +and rebuilt Babylon and Mylitta’s shrine.” + +“It is simpler in Genesis,” Mary said, the first time she heard this +marvellous tale. For to her, as to Martha and Eleazer, the khazzan, the +teacher of the synagogue, had read from the great square letters in which +the Pentateuch was written another account of the commingling of Chaos and +of Light. + +At the mention of the sacred canon, Sephôrah would smile with that +indulgence which wisdom brings, and smooth her scanty plaits, and draw the +back of her hand across her mouth. + +“Burned on tiles in the land of the magi are the records of a million +years. In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the history of life and of time +is written on the cerements of kings. Where the bells ring at the neck of +the camels of Iran is a stretch of columns on which are inscribed the +words of those that lived in Paradise. On a wall of the temple of Bel are +the chronicles of creation; in the palace of Assurbanipal, the narrative +of the flood. It is from these lands and monuments the Thorah comes; its +verses are made of their memories; it gathered whatever it found, and +overlooked the essential, immortal life.” + +And Sephôrah added in a whisper, “For we are descended from gods, and +immortal as they.” + +The khazzan had disclosed to Mary no such prospect as that. To him as to +all orthodox expounders of the Law man was essentially evanescent; he +lived his little day and disappeared forever. God alone was immortal, and +an immortal being would be God. The contrary beliefs of the Egyptians and +the Aryans were to them abominations, and the spiritualistic doctrine +inaugurated by Juda Maccabæus and accepted by the Pharisees, an impiety. +The Pentateuch had not a word on the subject. Moses had expressly declared +that secret things belong to the Lord, and only visible things to man. The +prophets had indeed foretold a terrestrial immortality, but that +immortality was the immortality of a nation; and the realization of their +prophecy the entire people awaited. Apart from that there was only Sheol, +a sombre region of the under-earth, to which the dead descended, and there +remained without consciousness, abandoned by God. + +“Immortal!” Mary, with great wondering eyes, would echo. “Immortal!” + +“Yes; but to become so,” Sephôrah replied, “you must worship at another +shrine.” + +“Where is it?” + +Sephôrah answered evasively. Mary would find it in time—when the spring +came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had a word or two to say of Baal to such +effect even that Mary questioned the khazzan. + +“However great the god of the Gentiles has been imagined,” the khazzan +announced, “he is bounded by the earth and the sky. His feet may touch the +one, his head the other, but of nature he is a part, and, to the Eternal, +nature is not even a garment, it is a substance He made, and which He can +remould at will. It is not in nature, it is in light, He is: in the +burning bush in which He revealed Himself; in the stake at which Isaac +would have died; in the lightning in which the Law was declared, the +column of fire, the flame of the sacrifices, and the gleaming throne in +which Isaiah saw Him sit—it is there that He is, and His shadow is the +sun.” + +Of this Mary repeated the substance to her friend, and Sephôrah mused. + +“No,” she said at last—“no, he is not in light, but in the desert where +nature is absent, and where the world has ceased to be. The threats of a +land that never smiled are reflected in his face. The sight of him is +death. No, Baal is the sun-god. His eyes fecundate.” + +And during the succeeding months Sephôrah entertained Mary with Assyrian +annals and Egyptian lore. She told her more of Baal, whose temple was in +Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at Ascalon. She told her of the women +who wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason of their tears. She told her +of the union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, and +of Neith, mother of the sun; of the holy incest of Isis and Osiris; and of +Luz, called by the patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the foothold of a +straight stairway which messengers ceaselessly ascended and descended, and +at whose summit the Elohim sat. + +She told her of these things, of others as well; and now and then in the +telling of them a fat little man with beady eyes would wander in, the +smell of garlic about him, and stare at Mary’s lips. His name was Pappus; +by Sephôrah he was treated with great respect, and Mary learned that he +was rich and knew that Sephôrah was poor. + +When the Passover had come and gone, Sephôrah detected that Mary had +ceased to be a child; and of the gods and goddesses with whose adventures +she was wont to entertain her, gradually she confined herself to Mylitta; +and in describing the wonderlands which she knew so well, she spoke now +only of Babylon, where the great tower was, and the gardens that hung in +the air. + +It was all very marvellous and beautiful, and Sephôrah described it in +fitting terms. There was the Temple of the Seven Spheres, where the +priests offered incense to the Houses of the Planets, to the whole host of +heaven, and to Bel, Lord of the Sky. There was the Home of the Height, a +sheer flight of solid masonry extending vertiginously, and surmounted by +turrets of copper capped with gold. In its utmost pinnacle were a +sanctuary and a dazzling couch. There the priests said that sometimes Bel +came and rested. For the truth of that statement, however, Sephôrah +declined to vouch. She had never seen him; but the hanging gardens she had +seen, long before they were demolished. She had walked in them, and she +described their loveliness, and related that they were erected to pleasure +a Persian princess whose eyes had wearied of the monotony of the +Babylonian plain. + +Once when Pappus was present—and latterly he had been often there—she +passed from the gardens to the grove where the temple of Mylitta stood. At +the steps of the shrine, she declared, were white-winged lions, and +immense bulls with human heads. Within were dovecotes and cisterns, the +emblems of fecundity, and a block of stone which she did not describe. +Without, among the terebinths and evergreens, were little cabins and an +avenue bordered by cypress trees, in which men with pointed hats and long +embroidered gowns passed slowly, for there the maidens of Babylon sat, +chapleted with cords, burning bran for perfume, awaiting the will of the +first who should toss a coin in their lap and in the name of Mylitta +invite them to perform the sacred rite. + +“That,” said Sephôrah, “is the worship Mylitta exacts.” As she spoke she +drew herself up, her height increased, an unnatural splendor filled her +eyes. “I,” she continued, “am her priestess. I sacrificed at Byblus, but +you may sacrifice here. There is a dovecote, yonder is a cistern, beyond +are the cypress and the evergreens that she loves. Mary, do you wish to be +immortal? Do you see the way?” + +Mary smiled vaguely, and with the serenity of one worshipping a divinity +she suffered the fat Jerusalemite to take her in his arms. + +And now as she lay on her great couch these things returned to her, and +subsequent episodes as well. There had been the lamentable grief of +Martha, the added pathos in her brother’s eyes. The estate of her father +had been divided, and the castle of Magdala had fallen to her share. +Meanwhile she had been at Jerusalem, and from there she had journeyed to +Antioch, where she had heard the beasts roar in the arena. She had looked +on blood, on the honey-colored moon that effaced the stars, and everywhere +she had encountered love. + +Since then her hours had been grooved in revolving circles of alternating +delights, and delights to which no shadow of regret had come. To her, +youth had been a chalice of aromatic wine. She had drained it and found no +dregs. Day had been interwoven with splendors, and night with the rays of +the sun. Where she passed she conquered; when she smiled there were slaves +ready-made. There had been hot brawls where she trod, the gleam of white +knives. Men had killed each other because of her eyes, and women had wept +themselves to death. For her a priest had gone mad, and a betrothed had +hid herself in the sea. In Hierapolis the galli had fancied her Ashtaroth; +and at Capri, where Tiberius lounged, a villa awaited her will. + +Her life had indeed been full, yet that morning its nausea had mounted to +her heart. At the words of the rabbi the horizon had expanded, the dream +of immortality returned. It had been forgot long since and abandoned, but +now, for the first time since her childhood, something there was which +admonished her that perhaps she still might stroll through lands where +dreams come true. The path was not wholly clear as yet, and as in her +troubled mind she tried to disentangle the past from the present the sun +went down behind the castle, the crouching shadows elongated and possessed +the walls. + +An echo came to her, Repent, and the prophecy continuing danced in her +ears; yet still the way was obscure. In the echo she divined merely that +the past must be put from her like a garment that is stained. The rest was +vague. Then suddenly she was back again in Machærus, and she heard the +ringing words of John. Could this be the Messiah her nation awaited? was +there a kingdom coming, and immortality too? + +Her thoughts entangled and grew confused. There was a murmur of harps in +the distance, and she wondered whence it could come. Some one was +speaking; she tried to rouse herself and listen. The room was filled with +bats that changed to butterflies. The murmur of harps continued, and +through the wall before her issued a litter in which a woman lay. + +A circle of slaves surrounded her. She was pale, and her eyes closed +languorously. “I am Indolence,” she said. “Sleep is not softer than my +couch. My lightest wish is law to kings. I live on perfumes; my days are +as shadows on glass. Mary, come with me, and I will teach you to forget.” + +She vanished, and where the litter had been stood a eunuch. “I am Envy,” +he said, and his eyes drooped sullenly. “I separate those that love; I +dismantle altars and dismember nations. I corrode and corrupt; I destroy, +and I never rebuild. My joy is malice, and my creed false-witnessing. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to hate.” + +He disappeared, and where his slime had dripped stood a being with fingers +intertwisted and a back that bent. “I am Greed,” it said. “I sap the veins +of youth; I drain the hearts of women; I bring contention where peace +should be. I make fathers destroy their sons, and daughters betray their +mother. I never forget, and I never release. I am the master. Mary, come +with me, and you shall own the world.” + +The fetor of the presence went, and in its place came one whose footsteps +thundered. “I am Anger,” he declared. “I exterminate and rejoice. I batten +on blood. In my heart is suspicion, in my hand is flame. It is I that am +war and disaster and regret. My breath consumes, and my voice affrights. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to quell.” + +He dissolved, and in the shadows stood one whose hands were ample, and +whose wide mouth laughed. “I am Gluttony,” he announced, and as he spoke +his voice was thick. “I fatten and forsake. I offer satrapies for one new +dish. I invite and alienate, I welcome and repel. It is I that bring +disease and disorders. I am the harbinger of Death. Mary, come with me, +and you shall taste of Life.” + +He also disappeared, and two heralds entered with trumpets on which they +blew, and one exclaimed, “Make way for Assurbanipal, ruler of land and of +sea.” Then, with horsemen riding royally, Sardanapalus advanced through +the fissure in the wall. On his head a high and wonderful tiara shone with +zebras that had wings and horns. His hair was long, and his beard curled +in overlapping rings. His robe dazzled, and the close sleeves were +fastened over his knuckles with bracelets of precious stones. In one hand +he held a sceptre, in the other a chart. + +“I,” he cried—“I am Assurbanipal; the progeny of Assur and of Baaltis, son +of the great king Riduti, whom the lord of crowns, in days remote +prophesying in his name, raised to the kingdom, and in the womb of his +mother created to rule. The man of war, the joy of Assur and of Istar, the +royal offspring, am I. When the gods seated me on the throne of the father +my begetter, Bin poured down his rain, Hea feasted the people. My enemies +I destroyed, and their gods glorified me before my camp. The god of their +oracles, whose image no man had seen, I took, and the goddesses whom the +kings worshipped I dishonored.” + +He paused and looked proudly about, then he continued: + +“That which is in the storehouse of heaven is kindled, and to the city of +cities my glory flies. The queens above and below proclaim my glory. I am +Glory, and I am Pride. Mary, come with me, and you shall disdain the sky.” + +But Mary gave no sign. The clattering horses vanished, and two men dressed +in women’s clothes appeared. They bowed to the ground and chanted: + +“The holy goddess, our Lady Mylitta, whose sacrificants we are.” + +Then came a form so luminous that Mary hid her face and listened merely. + +“I,” said a voice—“I am Desire. In Greece I am revered, and there I am +Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in +Persia, Anâhita; Tanit in Carthage; Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; +Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and +Aschera in the glades of Judæa. And everywhere I am worshipped, and +everywhere I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight and pain. I appease +and appal. It is I that create and undo. It is I that make heaven and +people hell. I am the mistress of the world. Without me time would cease +to be. I am the germ of stars, the essence of things. I am all that is, +will be, and has been, and my robe no mortal has raised. I breathe, and +nations are; in my parturitions are planets; my home is space. My lips are +blissfuller than any bloom of bliss; my arms the opening gates of life. +The Infinite is mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall measure it.” + +When Mary ventured to look again the vision had gone. They had all gone +now. She had made no effort to detain them. They were tempters of which +she was freed, in which she believed, and which were real to her. The wall +through which they had come and departed was vague and in the darkness +remote, but presently it dissolved again, and afar in the beckoning +distance was one breathing a soul into decrepit rites. “Come unto me, all +ye that sorrow and are heavy-laden,” she heard him say; and, as with a +great sob of joy she rose to that gracious summons, night seized her. When +she awoke, a newer dawn had come. + + + + + + CHAPTER IV. + + + IV. + + +In the gardens of the palace the tetrarch mused. The green parasols of the +palms formed an avenue, and down that avenue now and then he looked. Near +him a Syrian bear, quite tame, with a sweet face and tufted silver fur, +gambolled prodigiously. Up and down a neighboring tree two lemurs chased +with that grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting animals alone +possess. Ringed-horned antelopes, the ankles slender as the stylus, the +eyes timid and trustful, pastured just beyond; and there too a black-faced +ape, irritated perhaps by the lemurs, turned indignant somersaults, the +tender coloring of his body glistening in the sun. + +“It is odd that Pahul does not return,” the tetrarch reflected; and then, +it may be for consolation’s sake, he plunged his face in a jar of wine +that had been drained, in accordance with a recipe of Vitellius, through +cinnamon and calamus, and drank abundantly. + +Long since he had deserted Machærus. The legends that peopled its +corridors had beset him with a sense of reality which before they had +never possessed. The leaves of the baaras glittered frenetically in the +basalt, and in their spectral light a phantom with eyes that cursed came +and went. At night he had drunk, and in the clear forenoons he paced the +terrace fancying always that there, beyond in the desert, Aretas prowled +like a wolf. Machærus was unhealthy; men had gone mad there, others had +disappeared entirely. It was a haunt of echoes, of memories, of ghosts +also, perhaps too of reproach. And so, with his court, he returned to his +brand-new Tiberias, where the air was serener, and nature laughed. + +And yet in the gardens that leaned to the lake the tranquillity he had +anticipated eluded and declined to be detained. Rumors that Herodias +collected came to him with the stamp of Rome. One of his brothers was +plotting against him; another, though in exile, was plotting too. It was +the Herod blood, his wife said; and, with the intemperance of a woman +whose ambition has been deceived, she taunted him with his plebeian +descent. “Your grandfather was a sweep at Ascalon, a eunuch at that,” she +had remarked; and the tetrarch, by way of reply, had been obliged to +content himself by asking how, in that case, he could have been +grandfather at all. + +But latterly a new source of inquietude had come. At Magdala, Capharnahum, +Bethsaïda, there, within the throw of a stone, was a Nazarene going about +inciting the peasants to revolt. It was very vexatious, and he told +himself that when an annoyance fades another appears. Life, it occurred to +him, was a brier with renascent thorns. And now, as he gargled the wine +that left a pink foam on his lips, even that irritation lapsed in the +perplexing absence of Pahul. + +Pahul was a butler of his, a Greek whom he had picked up one adventurous +night in Rome, who had made himself useful, whom he had attached to his +household, whom he consulted, and on whom he relied. Early that day he had +sent him off with instructions to run the demagogue to earth, to listen, +to question if need were, and to hurry back and report. But as yet he had +not returned. The day was fading, and on the amphitheatre which the hills +made the sun seemed to balance itself, the disk blood-red. The lemurs had +tired, perhaps; their yellow eyes and circled tails had gone; the bear had +been led away; only the multicolored ape remained, gnawing now with little +plaintive moans at a bit of fruit which he held suspiciously in his +wrinkled hand. + +Presently a star appeared and quivered, then another came, and though +overhead were streaks of pink, and, where the sun had been, a violence of +red and orange, the east retained its cobalt, night still was remote—an +echo of crotals from the neighboring faubourg, the cry of elephants +impatient for their fodder, alone indicating that a day was dead. + +In the charm of the encroaching twilight the irritation of the tetrarch +waned and decreased. He lost himself in memories of the princess who had +been his bride, and he wondered were it possible that, despite the +irrevocable, he was never to see, to speak, to hold her to him again. +Truly her grievance was unmeasurable, the more so even that she had not +deigned to utter so much as a reproach. At the rumor of his treachery she +had betaken herself to the solitudes, where Aretas her father was king, +and had there remained girt in that unmurmuring silence which nobility +raises as a barrier between outrage and itself, and which the desert is +alone competent to suggest. + +“It is he!” + +The tetrarch started so abruptly that he narrowly missed the jar at his +side. On noiseless sandals Pahul had approached, and stood before him +nodding his head with an air of assured conviction. The ape had fled and a +stork stepped gingerly away. + +“It is he,” the Greek repeated—“John the Baptist.” + +Antipas plucked at his beard. “But he is dead,” he gasped; “I beheaded +him. What nonsense you talk!” + +“It is he, I tell you, only grown younger. I found him in the synagogue.” + +“Where? what synagogue?” + +Pahul made a gesture. “At Capharnahum,” he answered, and gazed in the +tetrarch’s face. He was slight of form and regular of feature. As a lad he +had crossed bare-handed from Cumæ to Rhegium, and from there drifted to +Rome, where he started a commerce in Bœtican girls which had so far +prospered that he bought two vessels to carry the freight. Unfortunately +the vessels met in a storm and sank. Then he became a hanger-on of the +circus; in idle moments a tout. It was in the latter capacity that Antipas +met him, and, pleased with his shrewdness and perfect corruption, had +attached him to his house. This had occurred in years previous, and as yet +Antipas had found no cause to regret the trust imposed. He was a useful +braggart, idle, familiar, and discreet; and he had acquired the dialect of +the country with surprising ease. + +“There were any number of people,” Pahul continued. “Some said he was the +son of Joseph, the son of——” + +“But he, what did he say? How tiresome you are!” + +“Ah!” And Pahul swung his arms. “Who is Mammon?” + +“Mammon? Mammon? How do I know? Plutus, I suppose. What about him?” + +“And who is Satan?” + +“Satan? Satan is a—He’s a Jew god. Why? But what do you mean by asking me +questions?” + +Pahul nodded absently. “I heard him say,” he continued, “that no man could +serve God and Mammon. At first I thought he meant you. It was this way. I +got into conversation with a friend of his, a man named Judas. He told me +any number of things about him, that he cured the sick——” + +“Bah! Some Greek physician.” + +“That he walks on the sea——” + +“Nonsense!” + +“That he turns water into wine, feeds the multitude, raises the dead——” + +“Raises the dead!” And the tetrarch added in the _sotto voce_ of thought, +“So did Elijah.” + +“That he had been in the desert——” + +“With Aretas?” + +“No; I questioned him on that point. He had never heard of Aretas, but he +said that in the desert this Satan had come and offered him—what do you +suppose? _The empire of the earth!_” + +Antipas shook with fright. “It must have been Aretas.” + +“But that he had refused.” + +“Then it is John.” + +“There, you see.” And Pahul dandled himself with the air of one who is +master of logic. “That’s what I said myself. I said this: ‘If he can raise +the dead, he can raise himself.’ ” + +“It _is_ John,” the tetrarch repeated. + +“I am sure of it,” the butler continued. “But he did not say so. Judas +didn’t either. On the contrary, he declared he was not. He said John was +not good enough to carry his shoes. I saw through that, though,” and Pahul +leered; “he knew whom I was, and he lied to protect his friend. I of +course pretended to believe him.” + +“Quite right,” said the tetrarch. + +“Yes, I played the fool. H’m, where was I? Oh, I asked Judas who then his +friend was, but he went over to where a woman stood; he spoke to her; she +moved away. Some of the others seemed to reprove him. I would have +followed, but at that moment his friend stood up; a khazzan offered him a +scroll, but he waved it aside; then some one asked him a question which I +did not catch; another spoke to him; a third interrupted; he seemed to be +arguing with them. I was too far away to hear well, and I got nearer; then +I heard him say, ‘I am the bread of life.’ Now, what did he mean by that?” + +Antipas had no explanation to offer. + +“Then,” Pahul continued, “he said he had come down from heaven. A man near +me exclaimed, ‘He is the Messiah;’ but others——” + +“The Messiah!” echoed the tetrarch. For a moment his thoughts stammered, +then at once he was back in the citadel. On one side was the procurator, +on the other the emir of Tadmor. In front of him was a drunken rabble, +wrangling Pharisees, and one man dominating the din with an announcement +of the Messiah’s approach. The murmur of lutes threaded through it all; +and now, as his thoughts deviated, he wondered could that announcement +have been the truth. + +“But others,” Pahul continued, “objected loudly. For a little I could not +catch a word. At last they became quieter, and I heard him repeat that he +was the bread of life, adding, ‘Your fathers ate manna and are dead, but +this bread a man may eat of and never die.’ At this there was new +contention. A woman fainted—the one to whom Judas had spoken. They carried +her out. As she passed I could see her face. It was Mary of Magdala. Judas +held her by the waist, another her feet.” + +Antipas drew a hand across his face. “It is impossible,” he muttered. + +“Not impossible at all. I saw her as plainly as I see you. The man next to +me said that the Rabbi had cast from her seven devils. Moreover, Johanna +was there—yes, yes, the wife of Khuza, your steward; it was she, I +remember now, who had her by the feet. And there were others that I +recognized, and others that the man next to me pointed out: Zabdia, a +well-to-do fisherman whom I have seen time and again, and with him his +sons James and John, and Salomè his wife. Then, too, there were Simon +Barjona and Andrew his brother. Simon had his wife with him, his children, +and his mother-in-law. The man next to me said that the Rabbi called James +and John the Sons of Thunder, and Simon a stone. There was Mathias the +tax-gatherer, Philip of Bethsaïda, Joseph Barsaba, Mary Clopas, Susannah, +Nathaniel of Cana, Thomas, Thaddeus, Aristian the custom-house officer, +Ruth the tax-gatherer’s wife, mechanics from Scythopolis, and Scribes from +Jerusalem.” + +The fingers of Antipas’ hand glittered with jewels. He played with them +nervously. The sky seemed immeasurably distant. For some little time it +had been hesitating between different shades of blue, but now it chose a +fathomless indigo; Night unloosed her draperies, and, with the prodigality +of a queen who reigns only when she falls, flung out upon them uncounted +stars. + +Pahul continued: “And many of them seemed to be at odds with each other. +They wrangled so that often I could not distinguish a word. Some of them +left the synagogue. The Rabbi himself must have been vexed, for in a lull +I heard him say to those who were nearest, ‘Will you also go away?’ Judas +came in at that moment, and he turned to him: ‘Have I not chosen twelve, +and is not one of you a devil?’ Judas came forward at once and protested. +I could see he was in earnest, and meant what he said. The man next told +me that he was devoted to the Rabbi. Then Simon Barjona, in answer to his +question, called out, ‘To whom should we go? Thou art Christ, the Son of +God.’ ” + +Antipas had ceased to listen. At the mention of the Messiah the dream of +Israel had returned, and with it the pageants of its faith unrolled. + +Behind the confines of history, in the naked desert he saw a bedouin, +austere and grandiose, preparing the tenets of a nation’s creed; in the +remoter past a shadow in which there was lightning, then the splendor of +that first dawn where the future opened like a book, and in the grammar of +the Eternal the promise of an age of gold. + +Through the echo of succeeding generations came the rumor of that initial +impulse which drew the world in its flight. The bedouin had put the desert +behind him, and stared at another. Where the sand had been was the sea. As +he passed, the land leapt into life. There were tents and passions, clans +not men, an aggregate of forces in which the unit disappeared. For +chieftain there was Might; and above, the subjects of impersonal verbs, +the Elohim from whom the thunder came, the rain, light and darkness, death +and birth, dream too, and nightmare as well. The clans migrated. Goshen +called. In its heart Chaldæa spoke. The Elohim vanished, and there was El, +the one great god, and Isra-el, the great god’s elect. From heights that +lost themselves in immensity the ineffable name, incommunicable and never +to be pronounced, was seared by forked flames on a tablet of stone. A +nation learned that El was Jehovah, that they were in his charge, that he +was omnipotent, and that the world was theirs. + +They had a law, a covenant, a future, and a god; and as they passed into +the lands of the well-beloved, leaving tombs and altars to mark their +passage, they had battle-cries that frightened and hymns that exalted the +heart. Above were the jealous eyes of Jehovah, and beyond was the +resplendent to-morrow. They ravaged the land like hailstones. They had the +whirlwind for ally; the moon was their servant; and to aid them the sun +stood still. The terror of Sinai gleamed from their breastplates; men +could not see their faces and live. They encroached and conquered. They +had a home, they made a capitol, and there on a rock-bound hill Antipas +saw David founding a line of kings, and Solomon the city of god. + +It was in their loins the Messiah was; in them the apex of a nation’s +prosperity; in them glory at its apogee. And across that tableau of might, +of splendor, and of submission for one second flitted the silhouette of +that dainty princess of Utopia, the Queen of Sheba, bringing riddles, +romance, and riches to the wise young king. + +She must have been very beautiful, Antipas with melancholy retrospection +reflected; and he fancied her more luminous than the twelve signs of the +zodiac, lounging nonchalantly in a palanquin that a white elephant with +swaying tail balanced on his painted back. And even as she returned, with +a child perhaps, to the griffons of the fabulous Yemen whence she came, +Antipas noted a speck on the horizon that grew from minim into mountain, +and obscured the entire sky. He saw the empire split in twain, and in the +twin halves that formed the perfect whole, a concussion of armies, +brothers appealing against their kin, the flight of the Ideal. + +Unsummoned before him paraded the regicides, convulsions, and anarchies +that deified Hatred until Vengeance incarnate talked Assyrian, and +Nebuchadnezzar loomed above the desert beyond. His statue filled the +perspective. With one broad hand he overturned Jerusalem; with another he +swept a nation into captivity, leaving in derision a pigmy for King of +Solitude behind, and, blowing the Jews into Babylon, there retained them +until it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates’ course. + +By the light of that legend Antipas saw an immense hall, illuminated by +the seven branches of countless candelabra, and filled with revellers +celebrating a monarch’s feast. Beyond, through retreating columns, were +cyclopean arches and towers whose summits were lost in clouds that the +lightning rent. At the royal table sat Belsarazzur, laughing mightily at +the enterprise of the Persian king; about him were the grandees of his +court, the flower of his concubines; at his side were the sacred vases +filled with wine. He raised one to his lips, and there on the frieze +before him leapt out the flaming letters of his doom, while to the +trumpetings of heralds Cyrus and his army beat down the city’s gates. + +It passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace +after exile, the joy of bondage unloosed. For a moment it lasted—a century +or two at most; and after Alexander, in chasing kings hither and thither, +had passed with his huntsmen that way, Isis and Osiris beckoned, and the +descendants of the bedouin belonged to Goshen again, and so remained until +Syria took them, lost them, reconquered them, and might have done with +them utterly had not Juda Maccabæus flaunted his banner, and the Roman +eagles pounced upon their prey. Once more the Temple was rebuilt, superber +than ever, and from the throne of David, Antipas saw the upstart that was +his father rule Judæa. + +With him the panorama and the kaleidoscope of its details abruptly ceased. +But through it all the voices of the prophets had rung more insistently +with each defeat. The covenant in the wilderness was unforgetable; in the +chained links of slavery they saw the steps of a throne, the triumph of +truth over error, peace over war, Israel pontiff and shepherd of the +nations of the world. + +The expectation of a liberator who should free the bonds of a people and +definitively re-create the land of the elect possessed them utterly; his +advent had been constantly awaited, obstinately proclaimed; the faith in +him was unshakeable. Palestine was filled with believers praying the +Eternal not to let them die before the promise was fulfilled; the +atmosphere itself was charged with expectation. + +And as the visions rushed through his mind, Antipas fell to wondering +whether that covenant was as meaningless as he had thought, or whether by +any chance this rabbi who had been arguing at Capharnahum could be the +usher of Israel’s hope. If he were, then indeed he might say good-bye to +his tetrarchy, to his dream of a kingdom as well. + +“Yes,” Pahul repeated, “the Son of God!” + +Antipas had been so far away that now he started as one does whom the +touch of a hand awakes. To recover himself he leaned over and plunged his +face in the jar. The wine brought him courage. + +He must be suppressed, he decided. + +“But,” the butler continued, “I——” + +The frontal of the palace was set with lights. The parasols of the palms +had turned from green to black, the stars seemed remoter, the sky more +dark. From beyond came the call and answer of the sentinels. + +Antipas stood up. A fringe of his tunic was detained by a rivet of the +bench on which he had sat; he stooped to loose it; something moist touched +his fingers, and as he moved to the palace the black-faced ape sprang at +his side and nibbled at the jewels on his hand. + + + + + + CHAPTER V. + + + V. + + +The house of Simon Barlevi was gray, and in shape an oblong. It had a flat +roof laid with a plaster of lime, about which was a fretwork of open +tiles. Beneath, for doorway, was a recess, surmounted by an arch and +covered with a layer of mud. On each side was a room. + +In the recess, sheltered from the sun and visited by the breeze, Simon +stood. His garments were white, and where they were not they had been +neatly chalked. On the border of his skirt and sleeves were the regulation +fringes, and on his forehead and about his left arm the phylacteries which +Pharisees affect. He was not pleasant to the eye, but he was virtuous and +a strict observer of the Law. + +In the room at his left were mats and painted stools, set in the manner +customary when guests are awaited. For on that day Simon Barlevi was to +give a little feast, to which he had bidden his friends and also a rabbi +whom he had listened to in the synagogue, and with whose ideas he did not +at all agree. Save for the mats and stools, and a lamp of red clay, the +room was bare. + +In front of the house was a bit of ground enclosed by a hedge of stones; +and now as Simon stood in the recess a guest appeared. + +“Reulah!” he exclaimed, “the Lord be with you.” + +And Reulah answering, as etiquette required, “Unto you be peace, and to +your house be peace, and unto all you have be peace,” the two friends +clasped hands raised them as though to kiss them, then each withdrawing +kissed his own hand, and struck it on his forehead. + +Singularly enough, host and guest looked much alike. Simon had the +appearance of one conscious of and strong in his own rectitude, while +Reulah seemed humbler and more effaced. Otherwise there was not a pin to +choose between them. + +To Simon’s face had come an expression of perplexity in which there was +zeal. + +“I was thinking, Reulah,” he announced, “of the rabbi who is to break +bread with us to-day. His teaching does not comfort me.” + +Reulah was unlatching his shoes. “Nor me,” he interjected. + +“On questions of purity and impurity he seems unscrupulously negligent. I +have heard that he is a glutton and a wine-bibber. I have heard that he +despises the washing of the hands.” + +“Whoso does,” Reulah threw back, “will be rooted out of the world.” + +Simon nodded; a smile of protracted amiability hovered in the corners of +his mouth. For a moment he played with his beard. + +“I think,” he added, “that he will find here food in plenty, and counsel +as well.” + +Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and Simon, in a falsetto which he +affected when he desired to impress, continued in gentle menace: + +“But I have certain questions to put to him. Whether water from an unclean +vessel defiles that which is clean. Whether the flesh of a dead body alone +defiles, or the skin and bones as well. I want to see how he will answer +that. Then I may ask his opinion on points of the ritual. Should the +incense be lighted before the high-priest appears or as he does so. Is or +is not the Sabbath broken by the killing of the Paschal lamb? Why is it +lawful to take tithe of corn and wine and oil, and not of anise, cummin, +and peppers? In swearing by the Temple, should one not first swear by the +gold on the Temple? and in swearing by the altar, should one or should one +not first swear by the sacrifices on it? These things, since he preaches, +he must know. If he does not——” + +And Simon looked at his friend as who should say: What is there wanting in +me? + +“If I may be taught another duty I will observe it,” said Reulah, sweetly. + +At this evidence of meekness Simon grunted. Two other guests were +approaching. On the edges of their tallîth were tassels made of four +threads which had been drawn through an eyelet and doubled to make eight. +Seven of these threads were of equal length, but the eighth was longer, +and, twisted into five knots, represented the five books of the Law. The +right hand on the left breast, they saluted their host, and placing in +turn a hand under his beard, they kissed it. A buzz of inquiries followed, +interrupted by the coming and embracing of newer guests, the unloosing of +sandals, the washing of feet. + +As they assembled, one drew Simon aside and whispered importantly. Simon’s +eyes dilated, astonishment lifted him, visibly, like a lash, and his hands +trembled above his head. + +“Have you heard,” he exclaimed to the others—“have you heard that the +Nazarene whom I invited here, and who pretends to be a prophet, allowed +his followers to pluck corn on the Sabbath, to thresh it even, and +defended and approved their violation of the Law? Have you heard it? Is it +true?” + +Reulah quaked as one stricken by palsy. “On the Sabbath!” he moaned. “On +the Sabbath! Why, I would not send a message on Wednesday, lest perchance +it should be delivered on the Sabbath day. Surely it cannot be.” + +But on that point the others were certain. They were all aware of the +scandal; one had been an eye-witness, another had heard the Nazarene +assert that he was “Lord of the Day.” + +“This is monstrous!” Simon cried. + +“He declared,” the eye-witness continued, “that the Sabbath was made for +man, and not man for the Sabbath.” + +“It is monstrous!” Simon repeated. “The command to do no manner of work is +absolute and emphatic. The killing of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous +as the butchering of a bullock. The preservation of life itself is +inhibited. Moses had the son of Shelomith stoned to death for gathering +sticks on it. Shammai occupied six days of the week in thinking how he +could best observe it. It is unlawful to wear a false tooth on the +Sabbath, and if a tooth ache it is unlawful to rinse the mouth with +vinegar.” + +“Yet,” objected Reulah, “it is lawful to hold the vinegar in the mouth +provided you swallow it afterward.” + +No one paid any attention to him. Simon’s indignation increased. Of the +thirty-nine Abhôth he quoted twelve; he showed that the Nazarene had +violated each one of these prohibitions against labor; he showed, too, +that by his subsequent speech and bearing he had practically scoffed at +the Toldôth, at the synagogue which had drawn it up as well. + +“If the Sadducees were not in power, Jerusalem should hear of this. As it +is——” + +Whatever resolution he may have intended to express remained unuttered. A +silence fell upon his lips; his guests drew back. At the step stood the +Nazarene, behind him his treasurer, Judas of Kerioth. For a second only +Jesus hesitated. He stooped, undid his shoes, and moved to where Simon +stood. The latter bowed constrainedly. + +“Master,” he said, “we awaited you.” + +At this his friends retreated into the little room. Reulah reached the +middle seat of the central mat first and held it, his nostrils quivering +at the envy of the others. + +Preceded by their host, Jesus and Judas found places near together, and, +the usual ablutions performed, the customary prayers recited, lay, the +upper part of the body supported by the left arm, the head raised, the +limbs outstretched. + +On the stools were dishes of stewed lentils, milk, and cakes of mashed +locusts. Reulah ate with the tips of his lips, greedily, like a goat. +Judas, too, ate with an air of hunger. The Master broke bread absently, +his thoughts on other things. These thoughts Simon interrupted. + +“Rabbi”—and to his wide mouth came the sneer of one propounding a riddle +already solved—“it is not meet, is it, to thresh on the Sabbath day? Yet +since you permit your followers to do so, how are we to distinguish +between what is lawful and what is not?” + +The Master raised his eyes. The dawn was in them, high noon as well. + +“Show yourself a tried money-changer. Choose that which is good metal, +reject that which is bad.” + +Simon blinked as at a sudden light. + +“But,” he persisted, “in seeking to observe the Law, there is not a jot or +tittle in it that can be rejected.” + +With an acquiescence that was both vague and melancholy, Jesus looked the +Pharisee in the face. + +“Seek those things that are great, and little things will be added unto +you——” + +He would have said more, perhaps, but a woman who had entered from the +recess approached circuitously, and kneeling beside him let a tear, long +as a pearl, fall upon his unsandalled feet. + +Judas’ heart bounded; he glared at her, his eyes dilating like a leopard +preparing to spring. At once he was back in the circus, gazing into the +perils and the splendors of a woman’s face, telling himself with +reiterated insistence that to hold her to him would be the birthday of his +life; and here, within reach of his hand, was she whom in the din of the +chariots he had recognized as the one woman in all the world, and who for +one moment the day before had lain unconscious in his arms. + +Reulah sat motionless, his mouth agape, a finger extended. “The paramour +of Pandera,” he stammered at last; and lowering his eyes, he looked at her +covetously from beneath the lids. + +Simon, too, sat motionless. There was rage in his expression, hate +even—that hatred which the beautiful excites in the base. Time and again +he had seen her; she was a byword with him; from the height of her +residence she looked down on his mean gray walls; her luxury had been an +insult to his abstinence; and with that zest which a small nature takes in +the humiliation of its superior, he determined, in spite of her manifest +abjection, to humiliate her still more. + +“If this man,” he confided to his neighbor, “has in him anything of that +which goes to the making of a prophet, he will divine what manner of woman +she is. If he does not, I will denounce them both.” And nourishing his +hate he waited yet a while. + +The Master seemed depressed. The great secret which in all the world he +alone possessed may have weighed with him. But he turned to Mary and +looked at her. As he looked she bent yet lower. The marvel of her hair was +unconfined; it fell about her in tangling streams of gold and flame, while +on his feet there fell from her tears such as no woman ever shed before. +In the era of primitive hospitality the daughters of kings had not +disdained to unlatch the sandals of their fathers’ guests; but now, at the +feet of Mercy, for the first time Repentance knelt. And still the tears +continued, unstanched and undetained. Grief, something keener still +perhaps, had claimed her as its own. She bent lower. Then Misery looked up +at Compassion. + +The Master stretched his hand. For a moment it rested on her head. She +quivered and clutched at her throat; and as he withdrew that hand, in +which all panaceas were, from her gown she took a little box, opened it, +and dropping the contents where the tears had fallen, with a sudden +movement she caught her hair and poured its lava on his feet. + +An aroma of beckoning oases filled the small room, passed into the recess, +mounted to the roof, pervaded and penetrated it, and escaped to the sky +above. + +And still she wept. Judas no longer saw her tears, he heard them. They +fell swiftly one after another, like the ripple of the rain. A sob broke +from her, but in it was something which foretokened peace, the sob which +comes to those who have conceived a despairing hope, and suddenly +intercept its fulfilment. Her hands trembled; the little box fell from her +and broke. The noise it made exorcised the silence. + +The Master turned to his host. “I have a word to say to you.” + +Simon stroked his beard and bowed. + +“There was once a man who had two debtors. One owed him five hundred +pence, the other fifty. Both were poor, and because of their poverty the +debt of each he forgave.” + +For an instant Jesus paused and seemed to muse; then, with that indulgence +which was to illuminate the world, “Tell me, Simon,” he inquired, “which +was the more grateful?” + +Simon assumed an air of perplexity, and glanced cunningly from one guest +to another. Presently he laughed outright. + +“Why, the one who owed the most, of course.” + +Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the expression of the others it was patent +that to them also the jest appealed. Only Judas did not seem to have +heard; he sat bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his violent eyes. + +The Master made a gesture of assent, and turned to where Mary crouched. +She was staring at him with that look which the magnetized share with +animals. + +“You see her?” + +Straightening himself, he leaned on his elbow and scrutinized his host. + +“Simon, I am your guest. When I entered here there was no kiss to greet +me, there was no oil for my head, no water for my feet. But this woman +whom you despise has not ceased to embrace them. She has washed them with +her tears, anointed them with nard, and dried them with her hair. Her +sins, it may be, are many, but, Simon, they are forgiven——” + +Simon, Reulah, the others, muttered querulously. To forgive sins was +indeed an attribute which no one, save the Eternal, could arrogate to +himself. + +“—for she has loved much.” + +And turning again to Mary, who still crouched at his side, he added: + +“Your sins are forgiven. Go now, and in peace.” + +But the fierce surprise of the Pharisees was not to be shocked into +silence. Reulah showed his teeth; they were pointed and treacherous as a +jackal’s. Simon loudly asserted disapproval and wonder too. + +“I am amazed——” he began. + +The Master checked him: + +“The beginning of truth is amazement. Wonder, then, at what you see; for +he that wonders shall reign, and he that reigns shall rest.” + +The music of his voice heightened the beauty of the speech. On Mary it +fell and rested as had the touch of his hand. + +“Messiah, my Lord!” she cried. “In your breast is the future, in your +heart the confidence of God. Let me but tell you. There are those that +live whose lives are passed; the tombs do not hold all of those that are +dead. I was dead; you brought me to life. I had no conscience; you gave me +one, for I was dead,” she insisted. “And yet,” she added, with a little +moan, so human, so sincere, that it might have stirred a Cæsar, let alone +a Christ, “not wholly dead. No, no, dear Lord, not wholly dead.” + +Again her tears gushed forth, profuser and more abundant than before; her +frail body shook with sobs, her fingers intertwined. + +“Not wholly dead,” she kept repeating. “No, no, not wholly dead.” + +Jesus touched his treasurer. + +“She is not herself. Lead her away; see her to her home.” And that the +others might hear, and profit as well, he added, in a higher key, +“Deference to a woman is always due.” + +And to those words, which were to found chivalry and banish the boor, +Judas led Mary from the room. + + + + + + CHAPTER VI. + + + VI. + + +“Are you better?” + +The road that skirted the lake had branched to the left, and there an easy +ascent led to the hill beyond. On both sides were carpets of flowers and +of green, and slender larches that held their arms and hid the sky. Above, +an eagle circled, and on the lake a sail flapped idly. + +“Yes, I am better,” Mary answered. + +From her eyes the perils had passed, but the splendors remained, +accentuated now by vistas visible only to herself. The antimony, too, with +which she darkened them had gone, and with it the alkanet she had used on +her cheeks. Her dress was olive, and, contrary to custom, her head +uncovered. + +“You are not strong, perhaps?” + +As Judas spoke, he thought of the episode in the synagogue, and wished her +again unconscious in his arms. + +“I have been so weak,” she murmured. And after a moment she added: “I am +tired; let me sit awhile.” + +The carpet of flowers and of green invited, and presently Judas dropped at +her side. About his waist a linen girdle had been wound many times; from +it a bag of lynx-skin hung. The white garments, the ample turban that he +wore, were those of ordinary life, but in his bearing was just that +evanescent charm which now and then the Oriental possesses—the subtlety +that subjugates and does not last. + +“But you must be strong; we need your strength.” + +Mary turned to him wonderingly. + +“Yes,” he repeated, “we need your strength. Johanna has joined us, as you +know. Susannah too. They do what they can; but we need others—we need +you.” + +“Do you mean——” + +Something had tapped at her heart, something which was both joy and dread, +and she hesitated, fearing that the possibility which Judas suggested was +unreal, that she had not heard his words aright. + +“Do you mean that he would let me?” + +“He would love you for it. But then he loves everyone, yet best, I think, +his enemies.” + +“They need it most,” Mary answered; but her thoughts had wandered. + +“And I,” Judas added—“I loved you long ago.” + +Then he too hesitated, as though uncertain what next to say, and glanced +at her covertly. She was looking across the lake, over the country of the +Gadarenes, beyond even that, perhaps, into some infinite veiled to him. + +“I remember,” he continued, tentatively, “it was there at Tiberias I saw +you first. You were entering the palace. I waited. The sentries ordered me +off; one threw a stone. I went to where the garden is; I thought you might +be among the flowers. The wall was so high I could not see. The guards +drove me away. I ran up the hill through the white and red terraces of the +grape. From there I could see the gardens, the elephants with their ears +painted, and the oxen with the twisted horns. The wind sung about me like +a flute; the sky was a tent of different hues. Something within me had +sprung into life. It was love, I knew. It had come before, yes, often, but +never as then. For,” he added, and the gleam of his eyes was as a fanfare +to the thought he was about to express, “love returns to the heart as the +leaf returns to the tree.” + +Mary looked at him vacantly. “What was he saying?” she wondered. From a +sea of grief she seemed to be passing onto an archipelago of dream. + +“The next day I loitered in the neighborhood of the palace. You did not +appear. Toward evening I questioned a gardener. He said your name was +Mary, but he would tell me nothing else. On the morrow was the circus. I +made sure you would be there—with the tetrarch, I thought; and, that I +might be near the tribune, before the sun had set I was at the circus +gate. There were others that came and waited, but I was first. I remember +that night as never any since. I lay outstretched, and watched the moon; +your face was in it: it was a dream, of course. Yes, the night passed +quickly, but the morning lagged. When the gate was open, I sprang like a +zemer from tier to tier until I reached the tribune. There, close by, I +sat and waited. At last you came, and with you new perfumes and poisons. +Did you feel my eyes? they must have burned into you. But no, you gave no +heed to me. They told me afterward that Scarlet won three times. I did not +know. I saw but you. Once merely an abyss in which lightning was. + +“Before the last race was done I got down and tried to be near the exit +through which I knew you must pass. The guards would not let me. The next +day I made friends with a sentry. He told me that you were Mirjam of +Magdala; that Tiberius wished you at Rome, and that you had gone with +Antipas to his citadel. In the wine-shops that night men slunk from me +afraid. A week followed of which I knew nothing, then chance disentangled +its threads. I found myself in a crowd at the base of a hill; a prophet +was preaching. I had heard prophets before; they were as torches in the +night: he was the Day. I listened and forgot you. He called me; I +followed. Until Sunday I had not thought of you again. But when you +appeared in the synagogue I started; and when you fainted, when I held you +in my arms and your eyes opened as flowers do, I looked into them and it +all returned. Mary, kiss me and kill me, but kiss me first.” + +“Yes, he is the Day.” + +Of the entire speech she had heard but that. It had entered perhaps into +thoughts of her own with which it was in unison, and she repeated the +phrase mechanically, as a child might do. But now as he ceased to speak, +perplexed, annoyed too at the inappositeness of her reply, she came back +from the infinite in which she had roamed, and for a moment both were +silent. + +At the turning of the road a man appeared. At the sight of Judas he +halted, then called him excitedly by name. + +“It is Mathias,” Judas muttered, and got to his feet. The man hurried to +them. He was broad of shoulder and of girth, the jaw lank and earnest. His +eyes were small, and the lids twitched nervously. He was out of breath, +and his garments were dust-covered. + +“Where is the Master?” he asked; and at once, without waiting a reply, he +added: “I have just seen Johanna. Her husband told her that the tetrarch +is seeking him; he thinks him John, and would do him harm. We must go from +here.” + +Judas assented. “Yes, we must all go. Mary, it may be a penance, but it is +his will.” + +Mathias gazed inquiringly at them both. + +“It is his will,” Judas repeated, authoritatively. + +Mary turned away and caught her forehead in her hands. “If this is a +penance,” she murmured, “what then are his rewards?” + + + + + + CHAPTER VII. + + + VII. + + +On the floor of a little room Mary lay, her face to the ground. In her +ears was the hideousness of a threat that had fastened on her abruptly +like a cheetah in the dark. From below came the sound of banqueting. +Beyond was the Bitter Sea, the stars dancing in its ripples; and there in +the shadow of the evergreens was the hut in which that Sephôrah lived to +whom long ago Martha had forbidden her to speak. Through the lattice came +the scent of olive-trees, and with it the irresistible breath of spring. + +In its caress the threat which had made her its own presently was lifted, +and mingling with other things fused into them. The kaleidoscope of time +and events which visits those that drown possessed her, and for a second +Mary relived a year. + +There had been the sudden flight from Magdala, the first days with the +Master, the gorges of the Jordan, the journey to the coast, the glittering +green scales of that hydra the sea. Then the loiterings on the banks of +the sacred Leontes, the journey back to Galilee, the momentary halt at +Magdala, the sail past Bethsaïda, Capharnahum, Chorazin, the fording of +the river, the trip to Cæsarea Philippi, the snow and gold of Hermon, the +visit to Gennesareth, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and the return to +Bethany. + +Her recollections intercrossed, scenes that were trivial ousted others +that were grave; the purple limpets of Sidon, the shrine of Ashtaroth, the +invective at Bethsaïda, the transfiguration on the mountain height, the +cure of lepers, and the presence that coerced. Yet through them all +certain things remained immutable, and of these, primarily her contact +with the Christ. + +To her, Jesus was not the Son of man alone, he was the light of this +world, the usher of the next. When he spoke, there came to her a sense of +frightened joy so acute that the hypostatical union which left even the +disciples perplexed was by her realized and understood. She had the faith +of a little child. And on the hills and through the intervales over which +they journeyed, in the glare of the eager sun or beneath the wattled +boughs, the emanations of the Divine filled her with transports so +contagious that they affected even Thomas, who was skeptical by birth; and +when, after the descent from Hermon, two or three of the disciples mused +together over the spectacle which they had seen, the rhyme of her lips +parted ineffably. She too had seen him aureoled with the sun, dazzling as +the snow-fields on the heights. To her it was ever in that aspect he +appeared, with a radiance so intense even that there had been moments in +which she had veiled her eyes as from a light that only eagles could +support. To her, marvels were as natural as the escape of night. At +Beth-Seân she had heard him speak to dumb beasts, and never doubted but +that they answered him. At Dan she had seen a short-eared hare rush to him +for refuge, and follow him afterwards as a dog might do. At Kinnereth he +had called to a lark that from a tree-top was pouring its heart out to the +morning, and the lark had fluttered down and nestled in his hand. At +Gadara he had tamed wild doves, and a swarm of bees had stopped and +glistened in his hair. At Cæsarea, when he began to speak, the thrushes +that had been singing ceased; and when the parables were delivered, began +anew, louder, more jubilant than before, and continued to sing until he +blessed them, when they mounted in one long ascending line straight to the +zenith above. At his approach the little gold-bellied fish of the Leontes +had leaped from the stream. In the suburbs of Sidon the jackals had fawned +at his feet. The underbrush had parted to let him pass, and where he +passed white roses came and the tenderness of anemones. At times he seemed +to her immaterial as a shadow in a dream, at others appalling as the +desert; and once when, in prayer, she entered with him into the intimacy +of the infinite, she caught the shiver of an invisible harp whose notes +seemed to fall from the night. And as she journeyed, her love expanded +with the horizon. She loved with a love no woman’s heart has transcended. +In its prodigality and ascending gammes there was place for nothing save +the Ideal. + +The little band meanwhile lived as strangers on earth. Out of her abundant +means their simple wants were supplied. She was less a burden than a +sustenance; her faith bridged many a doubtful hour; and when, as often +occurred, they disputed among themselves concerning their future rank and +precedence, Mary dreamed of a paradise more pure. + +One evening, near the rushes of Lake Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew +to the light, a Greek merchant who had refused them shelter at Seleucia +ambled that way on an ass, and would have stopped, perhaps, but one of the +band scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared in the haze of the +hills. + +Unobserved, the Master had seen and heard; presently he called them to +where he stood. + +“Do not think,” he admonished—“do not think that because you imitate the +Pharisees you are perfecting your lives. They fast, they pray, they weep, +and they mortify the flesh; but to them one thing is impossible, charity +to the failings of others. Whoso then shall come to you, be he friend or +foe, penitent or thief, receive him kindly. Aid the helpless, console the +unfortunate, forgive your enemy, and forget yourselves—that is charity. +Without it the kingdom of heaven is lost to you. There, there is neither +Greek nor Jew, male nor female; nor can it come to you until the garment +of shame is trampled under foot, until two are as one, and the body which +is without is as the soul within.” + +Thereat, with a gesture of exquisite indulgence, he turned and left them +to the stars. + +Mary had heard, and in the palingenesis disclosed she saw space wrapped in +a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied lay behind the sun. There, +instead of the thrones and diadems of the elect, was an immutable realm in +which there was neither death nor life, clear ether merely, charged with +beatitudes. And so, when the disciples disputed among themselves, Mary +dreamed of diaphanous hours and immaculate days that knew no night, and in +this wise lived until from the terrace of Jerusalem’s Temple the Master +bade her return to Bethany and wait him there. + +Obedience to that command was bitter to her. She did not murmur, however. +“Rabboni,” she cried, “let me but do your will on earth, and afterwards +save me or destroy me as your pleasure is.” + +With that she had gone to her sister’s house, and to the bewildered Martha +poured out her heart anew. There could be no question of forgiveness now, +of penitence even; her sins, such as they were, had been remitted by one +to whom pardon was an attribute. And this doubtless Martha understood, for +she took her in her arms unreproachfully and mingled her tears with hers. + +Where all is marvel the marvellous disappears. To the accounts which Mary +gave of her journeys with the little band that followed the Master, Martha +listened with an attention which nothing could distract. With her she +sailed on the lovely lake; with her she visited cities smothering in the +scent of cassia and of sugar-cane; with her she passed through glens where +panthers prowled, and bandits crueller than they. With her eyes she saw +the listening multitudes, with her ears she heard again the words of +divine forgiveness; and, the lulab and the citron in her hands, she +assisted at the Feast of the Tabernacles, and watched the vain attempt to +charm the recalcitrant Temple and captivate the inimical town. + +For in Jerusalem, in place of the reassuring confidence of peasants, was +the irritable incredulity of priests; instead of meadows, courts. Besides, +was not this prophet from Galilee, and what good had ever come from there? +Then, too, he was not an authorized teacher. He belonged to no school. The +followers of Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not recognize him. He +was merely a fractious Nazarene trained in the shop of a carpenter; one +who, by repeating that it was easier for a camel to pass through a +needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, flattered +basely the mob of mendicants that surrounded him. The rabble admired, but +the clergy stood aloof. When he was not ignored he was disdained. Save the +pleb, no one listened. + +Presently he spoke louder. Into the grave music of the Syro-Chaldaic +tongue he put the mutterings of thunder. Where he had preached, he +upbraided; in place of exquisite parables came sonorous threats. He +blessed but rarely, sometimes he cursed. That mosaic, the Law, he treated +like a cobweb; and to the arrogant clergy a rumor filtered that this +vagabond, who had not where to lay his head, declared his ability to +destroy the Temple, and to rebuild it, in three days, anew. + +A rumor such as that was incredible. Inquiries were made. The rumor was +substantiated. It was learned that he healed the sick, cured the blind; +that he was in league, perhaps, with the Pharisees. + +The Sanhedrim took counsel. They were Sadducees every one. The Pharisees +were their hereditary foes. Both were militant, directing men and things +as best they could. The Sadducees held strictly to the letter of the Law; +the Pharisees held to the Law, and to tradition as well. But the Sadducees +were in power, the Pharisees were not. The former endeavored in every way +to maintain their authority over the people; and against that authority, +against the aristocracy, the priesthood, and the accomplices of foreign +dominion, the Pharisees ceaselessly excited the mob. In their inability to +overthrow the pontificate, they undermined it. With microscopic attention +they examined and criticised every act of the clergy; and, with a view of +showing the incompetence of the priests, they affected rigid theories in +regard to ritualistic points. Every detail of the ceremonial office was +watched by them with eyes that were never pleased. They asserted that the +rolls of the Law from which the priests read the Pentateuch were made of +impure matter, and, having handled them, the priests had become impure as +well. The manner in which the incense was made and offered, the minutiæ +governing the sacrifices, the legality of hierarchal decisions—on each and +every possible subject they exerted themselves to show the unworthiness of +the officiants, insinuating even that the names of the fathers of many of +the priests were not inscribed at Zipporim in the archives of Jeshana. As +a consequence, many of those whose rights the Pharisees affected to uphold +saw in the hierarchy little more than a body of men unworthy to approach +the altar, a group of Herodians who in religion lacked every requisite for +the service of God, and who in public and in private were bankrupts in +patriotism, morality, and shame. + +The possibility, therefore, that this fractious demagogue had found favor +with the Pharisees was grave. He was becoming a force. He threatened many +a prerogative. Moreover, Jerusalem had had enough of agitators. People +were drawn by their promises into the solitudes, and there incited to +revolt. Rome did not look upon these things leniently. If they continued, +Tiberius was quite capable of putting Judæa in a yoke which it would not +be easy to carry. Clearly the Nazarene was seditious, and as such to be +abolished. The difficulty was to abolish him and yet conciliate the mob. + +It was then that the Sanhedrim took counsel. As a result, and with the +hope of entrapping him into some blasphemous utterance on which a charge +would lie, they sent meek-eyed Scribes to question him concerning the +authority that he claimed. He routed the meek-eyed Scribes. Then, fancying +that he might be seduced into some expression which could be construed as +treason, they sent young and earnest men to learn from him their duty to +Rome. The young and earnest men returned crestfallen and abashed. + +The elders, nonplussed, debated. A levite suspected that the casuistry and +marvellous cures of the Nazarene must be due to a knowledge of the +incommunicable name, Shemhammephorash, seared on stone in the thunders of +Sinai, and which to utter was to summon life or beckon death. Another had +heard that while in Galilee he was believed to be in league with +Baal-Zebub, Lord of Flies. + +To this gossip no attention was paid. Annas, merely—the old high-priest, +father-in-law of Caiaphas, who officiated in his stead—laughed to himself. +There was no such stone, there was no such god. Another idea had been +welcomed. A festival was in progress; there was gayety in the +neighborhood, drinking too; and as over a million of pilgrims were herded +together, now and then an offence occurred. The previous night, for +instance, a woman had been arrested for illicit commerce. + +Annas tapped on his chin. He had the pompous air of a chameleon, the same +long, thin lips, the large, protruding eyes. + +“Take her before the Galilean,” he said. “He claims to be a rabbi; he must +know the Law. If he acquit her, it is heresy, and for that a charge will +lie. Does he condemn her he is at our mercy, for he will have alienated +the mob.” + +A smile of perfect understanding passed like a vagrant breeze across the +faces of the elders, and the levites were ordered to lead the prisoner to +the Christ. + +They found him in the Woman’s Court. From a lateral chamber a priest, +unfit for other than menial services because of a carbuncle on his lip, +dropped the wood he was sorting for the altar and gazed curiously at the +advancing throng, in which the prisoner was. + +She must have been very fair, but now her features were distorted with +anguish, veiled with shame. The blue robe she wore was torn, and a sleeve +rent to the shoulder disclosed a bare white arm. She was a wife, a mother +too. Her name was Ahulah; her husband was a shoemaker. At the Gannath +Gate, where her home was, were two little children. She worshipped them, +and her husband she adored. Some hallucination, a tremor of the flesh, the +flush of wine, and there, circled by a leering crowd, she crouched, her +life disgraced, irrecoverable for evermore. + +The charge was made, the usual question propounded. The Master had glanced +at her but once. He seemed to be looking afar, beyond the Temple and its +terraces, beyond the horizon itself. But the accusers were impatient. He +bent forward and with a finger wrote on the ground. The letters were +illegible, perhaps, yet the symbol of obliteration was in that dust which +the morrow would disperse. Again he wrote, but the charge was repeated, +louder, more impatiently than before. + +Jesus straightened himself. With the weary indulgence of one to whom +hearts are as books, he looked about him, then to the dome above. + +“Whoever is without sin among you,” he declared, “may cast the first +stone.” + +When he looked again the crowd had slunk away. Only Ahulah remained, her +head bowed on her bare white arm. From the lateral chamber the priest +still peered, the carbuncle glistening on his lip. + +“Did none condemn you?” the Master asked. + +And as she sobbed merely, he added: “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin +no more.” + +To the elders this was very discomforting. They had failed to unmask him +as a traitor to God, to Rome even, or yet as a demagogue defying the Law. +They did not care to question again. He had worsted them three times. Nor +could they without due cause arrest him, for there were the Pharisees. +Besides, a religious trial was full of risk, and the coöperation of the +procurator not readily to be relied on. It was that coöperation they +needed most, for with it such feeling as might be aroused would fall on +Rome and not on them. As for Pilate, he could put a sword in front of what +he said. + +In their enforced inaction they got behind that wall of prejudice where +they and their kin feel most secure, and there waited, prepared at the +first opportunity to invoke the laws of their ancestors, laws so +cumbersome and complex that the Romans, accustomed to the clearest +pandects, had laughed and left them, erasing only the right to kill. + +At last chance smiled. Into Jerusalem a rumor filtered that the Nazarene +they hated so had raised the dead, that the suburbs hailed him as the +Messiah, and that he proclaimed himself the Son of God. At once the +Sanhedrim reassembled. A political deliverer they might have welcomed, but +in a Messiah they had little faith. The very fact of his Messiahship +constituted him a claimant to the Jewish throne, and as such a pretender +with whom Pilate could deal. Moreover—and here was the point—to claim +divinity was to attack the unity of God. Of impious blasphemy there was no +higher form. + +It were better, Annas suggested, that a man should die than that a nation +should perish—a truism, surely, not to be gainsaid. + +That night it was decided that Jesus and Judaism could not live together; +a price was placed upon his head, and to the blare of four hundred +trumpets excommunication was pronounced. + +Of all of these incidents save the last Mary had been necessarily aware. +In company with Johanna, the wife of Herod’s steward, Mary, wife of +Clopas, and Salomè, mother of Zebedee’s children, she had heard him +reiterate the burning words of Jeremiah, and seen him purge the Temple of +its traffickers; she had heard, too, the esoteric proclamation, “Before +Abraham was, I am;” and she had seen him lash the Sadducees with +invective. She had been present when a letter was brought from Abgar +Uchomo, King of Edessa, to Jesus, “the good Redeemer,” in which the +potentate prayed the prophet to come and heal him of a sickness which he +had, offering him a refuge from the Jews, and quaintly setting forth the +writer’s belief that Jesus was God or else His Son. She had been present, +also, when the charge was made against Ahulah, and had comforted that +unfortunate in womanly ways. “Surely,” she had said, “if the Master who +does not love you can forgive, how much more readily must your husband who +does!” Whereupon Ahulah had become her slave, tending her thereafter with +almost bestial devotion. + +These episodes, one after another, she related to Martha; to Eleazer, her +brother; to Simon, Martha’s husband; to anyone that chanced that way. For +it was then that the Master had bade her go to Bethany. For a little space +he too had forsaken Jerusalem. Now and then with some of his followers he +would venture in the neighborhood, yet only to be off again through the +scorched hollows of the Ghôr before the sun was up. + +These things it was that paraded before her as she lay on the floor of the +little room, felled by the hideousness of a threat that had sprung upon +her, abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark. To Martha and to the others on +one subject alone had she been silent, and now at the moment it dominated +all else. + +From the day on which she joined the little band to whom the future was to +give half of this world and all of the next, Judas had been ever at her +ear. As a door that opens and shuts at the will of a hand, his presence +and absence had barred the vistas or left them clear. At first he had +affected her as a scarabæus affects the rose. She knew of him, and that +was all. When he spoke, she thought of other things. And as the blind +remain unawakened by the day, he never saw that where the wanton had been +the saint had come. To him she was a book of ivory bound in gold, whose +contents he longed to possess; she was a book, but one from which whole +chapters had been torn, the preface destroyed; and when his increasing +insistence forced itself upon her, demanding, obviously, countenance or +rebuke, she walked serenely on her way, disdaining either, occupied with +higher things. It was of the Master only that she appeared to think. When +he spoke, it was to her as though God really lived on earth; her eyes +lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was instantly forgot. At that time +her life was a dream into whose charmed precincts a bat had flown. + +These things, gradually, Judas must have understood. In Mary’s eyes he may +have caught the intimation that to her now only the ideal was real; or the +idea may have visited him that in the infinite of her faith he disappeared +and ceased to be. In any event he must have taken counsel with himself, +for one day he approached her with a newer theme. + +“I have knocked on the tombs; they are dumb.” + +Mary, with that grace with which a woman gathers a flower when thinking of +him whom she loves, bent a little and turned away. + +“Have you heard of the Buddha?” he asked. “Babylon is peopled with his +disciples. One of them met Jesus in the desert, and taught him his belief. +It is that he preaches now, only the Buddha did not know of a heaven, for +there is none.” + +And he added, after a pause: “I tell you I have knocked on the tombs; +there is no answer there.” + +With that, as a panther falls asleep, his claw blood-red, Judas nodded and +left her to her thoughts. + +“In Eternity there is room for everything,” she said, when he came to her +again. + +“Eternity is an abyss which the tomb uses for a sewer,” he answered. “Its +flood is corruption. The day only exists, but in it is that freedom which +waves possess. Mary, if you would but taste it with me! Oh, to mix with +you as light with day, as stream with sea, I would suck the flame that +flickers on the walls of sepulchres.” + +She shuddered, and he saw it. + +“You have taught me to love,” he hissed; “do not teach me now to hate.” + +Mary mastered her revolt. “Judas, the day will come when you will cease to +speak as you do.” + +“You believe, then, still?” + +“Yes, surely; and so do you.” + +“The day will come,” he muttered, “when you will cease to believe.” + +“And you too,” she answered. “For then you will _know_.” + +The dialogue with its variations continued, at intervals, for months. +There were times, weeks even, when he avoided all speech with her. Then, +abruptly, when she expected it least, he would return more volcanic than +before. These attacks she accustomed herself to regard as necessary, +perhaps, to the training of patience, of charity too, and so bore with +them, until at last Jerusalem was reached. Meanwhile she held to her trust +as to a fringe of the mantle of Christ. To her the past was a grammar, its +name—To-morrow. And in the service of the Master, in the future which he +had evoked, she journeyed and dreamed. + +But in Jerusalem Judas grew acrider. He had fits of unnecessary laughter, +and spells of the deepest melancholy. He quarrelled with anyone who would +let him, and then for the irritation he had displayed he would make amends +that were wholly slavish. His companions distrusted him. He had been seen +talking amicably with the corrupt levites, the police of the Temple, and +once he had been detected in a wine-shop of low repute. The Master, +apparently, noticed nothing of this; nor did Mary, whose thoughts were on +other things. + +At Bethany one evening Judas came to her. The sun, sinking through clouds, +placed in the west the tableau of a duel to the death between a titan and +a god. There was the glitter of gigantic swords, and the red of immortal +blood. + +“Mary,” he began, and as he spoke there was a new note in his voice—“Mary, +I have watched and waited, and to those that watch how many lamps burn +out! One after another those that I tended went. There was a flicker, a +little smoke, and they had gone. I tried to relight them, but perhaps the +oil was spent; perhaps, too, I was like the blind that hold a torch. My +way has not been clear. The faith I had, and which, I do not know, but +which, it may be, would have been strengthened, evaporated when you came. +The rays of the sun I had revered became as the threads of shadows, +interconnecting life and death. In them I could see but you. In the jaw of +night, in the teeth of day, always I have seen you. Mary, love is a net +which woman throws. In casting yours—there! unintentionally, I know—you +caught my soul. It is yours now wholly until time shall cease to be. Will +you take it, Mary, or will you put it aside, a thing forever dead?” + +Mary made no answer. It may be she had not heard. In the west both titan +and god had disappeared. Above, in a field of stars, the moon hung, a +scythe of gold. The air was still, the hush of locusts accentuating the +silence and bidding it be at rest. In a house near by there were lights +shining. A woman looked out and called into the night. + +Then, as though moved by some jealousy of the impalpable, Judas leaned +forward and peered into her face. + +“It is the Master who keeps you from me, is it not?” + +“It is my belief,” she answered, simply. + +“It was he that gave it to you. Mary, do you know that there is a price +upon his head? Do you know that if I cannot slake my love, at least I can +gorge my hate? Do you know that, Mary? Do you know it? Now choose between +your belief and me; if you prefer the former, the Sanhedrim will have him +to-morrow. There, your sister is calling; go—and choose.” + +It was with the hideousness of this threat in her ears that Mary escaped +to the little room where her childhood had been passed and flung herself +on the floor. From beyond came the sound of banqueting. Martha was +entertaining the Lord, his disciples as well; and Mary knew that her aid +was needed. But the threat pinioned and held her down. To accede was +death, not of the body alone, but of the soul as well. There was no clear +pool in which she might cleanse the stain; there could be no forgiveness, +no obliteration, nothing in fact save the loss never to be recovered of +life in the diaphanous hours and immaculate days of which she had dreamed +so long. + +For a little space she tried to comfort herself. Perhaps Judas was not in +earnest; perhaps even he had lied. And if he had not, was there not time +in plenty? The desert was neighborly. She could follow the Master there, +and minister to him till the sky opened and the kingdom was prepared. And +the threat, coupled with that perspective, charmed, and for the moment had +for her that enticement which the quarrels and kisses of children equally +possess. She would warn him secretly, she decided, for surely as yet he +did not know; she would warn him, and before the sun was up he could be +beyond the Sanhedrim’s reach, and she preparing to follow. For a moment +she lost herself in anticipation; then, the threat loosening its hold, she +stood up, her face very white in the starlight, her eyes brave and alert. +Already her plan was formed; and, taking a vase that she had brought with +her from Magdala, she hurried to the room below. + +The Master; the disciples; Eleazer, her brother; Simon, her sister’s +husband, were all at meat. Martha was serving, and as Mary entered Judas +stood up. She moved to where the Master was, and on him poured the +contents of the vase. Thomas sniffed delightedly, for now the room was +full of fragrance. The Master turned to her and smiled; the homage +evidently was grateful. Mary bent nearer. Thomas and Bartholomew joined in +loud praises of the aroma of the nard, and under cover of their voices she +whispered, “Rabboni, the Sanhedrim has placed a price on——” + +The whisper was drowned and interrupted. Judas had shoved her away. “To +what end is this waste?” he asked; and as Mary looked in his face she saw +by the expression in it that her purpose had been divined and her warning +overheard. + +“It is absurd,” he continued, with affected anger. “Ointment such as that +has a value. It might better have been saved for the poor.” + +Thomas chimed in approvingly; placed in that light it was indeed an +extravagance, unnecessary too, and he looked about to his comrades for +support. Eleazer and Peter seemed inclined to view the matter differently. +A discussion would have arisen, but the Master checked it gently, as was +his wont. + +“The poor are always with you, but me you cannot always have.” + +As he spoke he turned to Judas with that indulgence which was to be a +heritage. + +Could he _know_? Judas wondered. Had he heard what Mary said? And, the +Master’s speech continuing, he glanced at her and left the room. + +The moon had mowed the stars, but the sky was visibly blue. Behind the +shoulder of Olivet he divined the silence of Jerusalem, the welcome of the +Sadducees, the joy of hate assuaged. There was but one thing now that +might deter; and as his thoughts groped through that possibility, Mary +stood at his side. + +“Judas——” + +He wheeled, and, catching her by the wrists, stared into her eyes. + +“Is it yes?” + +A shudder seized her. There was dread in it, anguish too, and both were +mortal. He had not lied, she saw, and the threat was real. + +“Is it yes?” he repeated. + +There may be moments that prolong, but there are others in which time no +longer is; and as Mary shrank in the blight of Judas’ stare, both felt +that the culmination of life was reached. + +“No!” + +The monosyllable dropped from her lips like a stone, yet even as it fell +the banner of Maccabæus unfurled and flaunted in her face; the voice of +Esther murmured, and a vision of Judith saving a nation visited her, and, +continuing, made spots on the night. + +Judas had flung her from him. She reeled; the violence roused her. Who was +she to consider herself when the security of the Master was at stake? How +should it matter though she died, if he were safe? + +“It is my soul you ask,” she cried. “Take it. If I had a thousand souls, I +would give each one for Him.” + +But she cried to the unanswering night. Where the road curved about the +shoulder of the Mount of Olives, for one second she saw a white robe +glisten. Agonized, she called again, but there was no one now to hear. + +A little later, when the followers of the Lord issued from the house, Mary +lay before the door, her eyes closed, her head in the dust. They touched +her. She had fainted. + + + + + + CHAPTER VIII. + + + VIII. + + +“They have him, they are taking him to Pilate.” + +It was Eleazer calling to his sister from the turn of the road. In a +moment he was at her side, dust-covered, his sandals torn, his pathetic +eyes dilated. He was breathless too, and, in default of words, with a +gesture that swept the Mount of Olives, he pointed to where the holy city +lay. + +To Mary the morrow succeeding her swoon was a pall. Love, it may be, is a +forgetfulness of all things else, but despair is very actual. It takes a +hold on memory, inhabits it, and makes it its own. And during the day that +followed, Mary lay preyed upon by the acutest agony that ever tortured +woman yet. Early in the night, before her senses returned, the Master had +gone without mentioning whither. His destination may have been Ephraïm, +Jericho even, or further yet, beyond the hollows of the Ghôr. Then, again, +he might have loitered in the neighborhood, on the hill perhaps, in that +open-air solitude he loved so well, and for which so often he forsook the +narrowness of roofs and towns. But yet, in view of the Passover, he might +have gone to Jerusalem, and it was that idea that tortured most. + +It was there the keen police, the levites, were, and their masters the +Sadducees, who had placed a price on his head. Did he get within the +walls, then surely he was lost. At the possibilities which that idea +evoked her thoughts sank like the roots of a tree and grappled with the +under-earth. To her despair, regret brought its burden. A moment of +self-forgetfulness, and, however horrible that forgetfulness might have +been, in it danger to him whom she revered would have been averted, and, +for the time being at least, dispersed utterly as last year’s leaves. It +had been cowardice on her part to let Judas go; she should have been +strong when strength was needed. There were glaives to be had; the head of +Holofernes could have greeted his. The legend of Judith still echoed its +reproach, and recurring, pointed a slender finger of disdain. + +To the heart that is sinking, hope throws a straw. Immaterial and +caressing as a shadow, came to her the fancy that if the Master were in +the neighborhood, at any moment he might appear. In that event it was +needful that she should be prepared to aid him at once beyond the confines +of Judæa. Were he already beyond them, presently she must learn it, and +then could warn him of the danger of return. But meanwhile, for security’s +sake, had he gone by any chance to Jerusalem, some one must be there to +warn him of the plot. She thought of her sister, and dismissed her. Martha +was too feather-headed for an errand such as that. She thought of Ahulah, +but some of those well-intentioned friends that everyone possesses had +told of the misadventure to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a woman, +had spat upon her, and now through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, +incompetent to aid. Her brother occurred to her. It was on him she could +rely. His devotion was surpassed only by her own. Thereupon she sought him +out, instructed him in his duty, and sent him forth to watch and warn. + +The green afternoon faded in the hemorrhages of the setting sun. Twilight +approached like a wolf. Night unfurled her great black fan; the moon came, +fumbling the shadows, checkering the underbrush with silver spots. Once a +caravan passed, and once from the hillside came the bark of a dog, caught +up and repeated in some farm beyond; otherwise the night was unstirred; +and as Mary stared into the immensities where lightning wearies and +subsides, a lethargy beset her, her body was imprisoned; but her soul was +free, and in a moment it mounted sheerly to a fringe of the heavens and +bathed in space. + +When it descended, another day had come, and Eleazer was calling to her +from the turn of the road. At once she was on earth and on her feet, and +as the brother gasped for breath the sister’s strength returned. There +must be no more weakness now, she knew; it was time to act. She got drink, +water for the feet; then Eleazer, refreshed, continued: + +“I ran through the ridge and up to where the two cedars are. I looked +among the cypresses beyond, in the pines where the descent begins, through +the olive groves below and the booths and tents beneath. There was no +trace of him anywhere. I crossed the brook and sat awhile at the Shushan +gate, watching those that entered. The crowd became so dense that it was +impossible to distinguish. I thought I might hear of him in the Temple. +The porch was thronged. I roamed through the Mountain of the House into +the Woman’s Court, and out of it on the Chel. But they were all so filled +with pilgrims that had he been there only accident could have brought me +to him. It was on that I counted, and I went out on Zion and Acra, where +the crowd was less. It was getting late. Beth-horon was dim. I could see +lights in Herod’s palace. Some one said that the tetrarch of Galilee was +there, the guest of the procurator. I went back by way of Antonia to +Birket Israil and the Red Heifer Bridge. I had given up; it seemed to me +useless to make further attempt. Suddenly I saw Judas in the angle of the +porch. With him was a levite. I got behind a pillar, near where they +stood, and listened. The only thing I distinctly heard was the name of +Joseph of Haramathaïm. I fancied, though I was not certain, that Judas +spoke as though he had just left his house. They must have moved away +then, for when I looked they had gone. I knew that Joseph was a friend of +the Master’s, and it struck me that he might be at his house. It is in the +sook of the Perfumers, back of Ophel. I ran there as fast as I could. It +was unlighted. I beat on the door: there was no answer. I felt that I had +been mistaken, anyway that I could do no more. I went down again into the +valley, crossed the Kedron, and would have returned here at once perhaps, +but I was tired, and so, on the slope where the olive-presses are, I lay +down and must have fallen asleep, for I remembered nothing till there came +a tramping of men. I crouched in the underbrush. They passed very close; +some had torches, some had spears. Judas was leading, and as an ape +munches a flower he was muttering the Master’s name.” + +Eleazer paused and looked at his sister. She was standing erect, her face +wan, the brow contracted, the rhymes of her lips tight-pressed. Then, with +a glance at Olivet, he continued: + +“For a little space I waited. They had ascended the slope and halted. +There was a shout, the waving of torches, then a silence. In it I heard +the Master’s voice, followed by a cry of pain. I hurried to where they +were. They had him bound when I got there. I saw a soldier raising a hand +to his ear and looking at the palm; it was red. Peter was running one way, +Thomas another. I got nearer. Some one, a levite I think, caught me by the +coat. I freed myself from it and escaped up the hill. + +“From there I looked down. They were going away. When they had gone, I +went back and found my cloak. While I was putting it on, John appeared. +‘They are taking him to Caiaphas,’ he said; ‘I shall follow. Come with me +if you wish.’ I went with him. On the way we met Peter; he joined us. We +walked single-file, John leading. Beyond I could see the lights of the +torches, the glint of steel. No one spoke. Peter whimpered a little. We +crossed the Kedron and got up into the city. The soldiers went directly to +where Annas lives; they entered in a body, and the door closed. John +rapped: it was opened. He said something to the doorkeeper, who admitted +him. The door closed again. Peter and I waited a little, not knowing where +to turn. Presently the door reopened, and John motioned us to come in. In +the court was a fire; about it were servants and khazzans. I stopped a +moment to warm my hands; Peter did the same. John had disappeared. I heard +one of the khazzans say that they had taken the Master to Annas, and the +others discuss what he would probably do. While I stood there listening, +and wondering what had become of John, I saw the Master being led across +the court to the Lishcath ha-Gazith. I left Peter, and followed. In the +hall were the elders, ranged in a semicircle about Caiaphas. They must +have been prepared beforehand, for the clerks of acquittal and of +condemnation were there, the crier too, and a group of levites and +Scribes. In a corner were some of Annas’ servants. I got among them and +stood unnoticed. + +“The Master’s hands were bound. On either side of him was a soldier. +Caiaphas was livid. He looked him from head to foot. + +“ ‘You are accused,’ he said, ‘of inciting sedition, of defying the Law, +of blasphemy, and of breaking the Sabbath day. What have you to answer?’ + +“The Master made no reply. + +“Caiaphas pointed to the levites. ‘Here,’ he continued, ‘are witnesses.’ + +“He motioned; one of them stepped forward and spoke. + +“ ‘I testify that this man has incited to sedition by denouncing the +members of this reverend council as hypocrites, wolves in sheep’s +clothing, blind leaders of the blind; and I further testify that he has +declared no one should follow them.’ + +“ ‘What have you to say to that?’ Caiaphas snarled. But the Master said +nothing. + +“The first levite moved back, and at a gesture from the high-priest +another stepped forward. + +“ ‘I testify that I have seen that man eat, in defiance of the Law, with +unwashed hands, and consort with publicans and people of low repute.’ + +“ ‘And what have you to say to that?’ Caiaphas asked again. But still the +Master said nothing. + +“The second levite moved back, and a third advanced. + +“ ‘I testify that I have heard that man blaspheme in calling God his +father, and in declaring himself to be one with Him.’ + +“ ‘Is that blasphemy or is it not?’ Caiaphas bawled. But the Master’s lips +never moved. + +“The third levite gave way to a fourth. + +“ ‘I testify that that man has broken the Sabbath in healing the sick on +that day, and further that he has seduced others to break it. On the +Sabbath I have heard him order a cripple to take up his bed and carry it +to his home. I have heard him also declare that he could destroy the +Temple and rebuild it, in three days, anew.’ + +“Caiaphas turned to the Master. ‘Do you still refuse to answer?’ he asked. +‘Do you think that silence can save you? Have you heard these witnesses?’ + +“And as the Master still made no reply, Caiaphas lifted his hand and +cried, ‘I adjure you by the Eternal to answer, Are you the Messiah, the +Son of God?’ + +“In the breathless silence Jesus raised his eyes. He looked at the +high-priest, at the levites, the Scribes. ‘You have said it,’ he murmured, +and smiled with that air he has. + +“Caiaphas grew purple. He caught his gown at the throat and ripped it from +neck to hem. The elders started. I heard them mutter, ‘_Ish maveth_.’ The +high-priest glanced toward them. ‘You have heard this ragged blasphemy?’ +he exclaimed; and, turning to where the Scribes stood, ‘What,’ he asked, +‘does the Law decree concerning the Sabbath-breaker?’ + +“One of them, the book unrolled in his hand, advanced and read: + +“ ‘Ye shall keep the Sabbath holy. Whoso does any work thereon shall be +cut off from his people.’ + +“ ‘And what of blasphemy?’ + +“The Scribe glanced at the roll and repeated from memory: ‘He that +blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death. The congregation +shall stone him, as well the stranger as he that was born in the land.’ + +“Caiaphas closed the fingers on the palm of his left hand, and, raising +it, turned again to the elders. ‘_Ish maveth_,’ they repeated, closing +their fingers as he had done. + +“I knew then that he was condemned. After all”—and Eleazer looked wearily +to the ground—“it was legal enough. Each moment I expected him to give +some sign, but, save to affirm the charge of blasphemy, during the entire +time he kept silent. Yes, it was legal enough. From where I stood I heard +the Scribes say that he would be sentenced at sunrise, and then Pilate +would have a word with him. I could do nothing. Caiaphas still fumed. I +went out in the court again. In the corridor was Judas. Peter was +wrangling with the servants. I did not wait for more. I got away and into +the valley and up again on the hill. A cock was crowing, and I saw the +dawn. O Mary, the pity of it!” + +He looked at his sister. There was no weakness now in her face, nor beauty +either. Age must have passed her in the night. + +“And I will have a word with Pilate too,” she said. + +As a somnambulist might, she drew her mantle closer, and, moving to the +wayside, ascended the hill. The silver and green of the olives closed +around her, and with them the branching dates. Above, a star left by the +morning glimmered feebly. In a myrtle a bird began to sing, and a lizard +that had come out to intercept the sun scurried as she passed. Upward and +onward still she went, and, the summit reached, for a moment she stopped +and rested. + +To the east the Dead Sea lay, a stretch of silk. At its edge was the +flutter of ospreys feasting on the barbels and breams of the Jordan, which +as they enter, die. Beyond was a glitter of white and gold, the scarp of +Moriah and its breast of stone, the Tyrian bevel of Solomon, the porphyry +of Nehemiah, the marble that Herod gave; ascending terraces, engulfing +porticoes, the splendor of Jerusalem at dawn. Between the houses nearest +was the dimness that shadows cast; those further away had a scatter of +pink; about it all was a wall surmounted by turrets; beneath was a ravine +in which was a brook, and a city of booths and tents, grazing camels and +fat-tailed sheep. + +Through the pines and cypresses Mary passed down to where the olives were. +The brook sent a message to her; the blood that had flowed from the +sacrifices was in it, and in the fresh morning it reeked a little, as such +brooks do. It was here, she thought, the Master had been taken, and for a +second she stopped again. The sun now was rising behind her; the color of +the sky shifted. Beyond Jerusalem a mountain was melting in excesses of +vermilion, and the ravine that had been gray was assuming the tenderest +green. The star had disappeared, but from each tree broke the greeting of +a bird. + +A rustle of the leaves near by startled her, and she looked about, +fearful, as women are, of some beast of prey. A white robe was there, a +white turban, and beneath it the swart face of one whom she had known. + +To her eyes came massacres. “Judas!” she exclaimed, and looked up in that +roof of her world where day puts its blue and night puts its black. +“Judas!” she repeated. Her small hands clenched, and the rhymes of her +mouth grew venomous. + +Then the woman spoke in her. “Why did you not kill me first?” + +Judas swayed like an ox hit on the forehead. The motion distracted and +irritated her. “Can’t you speak,” she cried, “or does hell hold you, +tongue and all?” + +He raised a hand as though he feared another blow. The gesture was so +human and yet so humble that Mary looked into his face. Time, which turns +the sweet-eyed girl into a withered spectre, must have touched him with +its thumb. His eyes were ringed and cavernous, his cheeks empty. + +“You have heard, then?” he said; but he evinced no curiosity. He spoke +with the apathy of one who takes everything for granted, one with whom +fate is to have its will. “I have just come from there,” he added, with a +backward gesture. “I never thought that such a thing could be. No, I swear +it, I never did.” Then, in answer perhaps to some inner twinge, perhaps +also because of the expression of Mary’s lips, he continued: “If there is +a new oath, one that has never been used before, prompt me, and I will +swear again, I never did. I thought——” + +Mary interrupted him savagely: “There are ten kinds of hypocrisy. You have +nine of them; you will develop the tenth and invent a new one besides.” + +At this Judas made a pass with his hands and stared absently at the +ground. “Mary,” he said, “life is a book which man reads when he dies. +During the last hour I have been unrolling it. In its scroll I found +existence a wine-shop where the guest fares so badly that he would go at +once were it not that he fears to call for the reckoning. The reckoning, +Mary, is death. I have called for it. I am about to pay. Let me tell you. +I have no excuse to offer, no forgiveness now to await. My heart was a +meadow: you made it stone. There were well-springs in it: you dried them, +Mary. When I first saw you, you were a dream fulfilled. Others had brought +echoes of life; you brought its song. It was then that I heard the Master +speak. I followed him, and tried to forget. It must be that I failed, for +when I saw you in Capharnahum my blood danced, and when you spoke I +trembled. It was love, Mary; and love, when it is not death, is life. It +was that I sought at your side. You would not listen. Innocence is a +garment. You seemed to have wrapped it about you. I tried to tear it away. +There was my fault, and this my punishment. Your right was inflexible as a +prison-door, and yet always behind it was the murmur of a mysterious +Perhaps. The others turned to me; I turned to you. I forgot again, but +this time it was my duty, my allegiance, and my faith. Mary, I loved the +Master more wholly even than I loved you. He was the Spirit; you were the +flesh. In him was the future; in you the tomb. I thought to conquer both. +While I mixed my darkness with his light, I pursued you as night pursues +the day. On the light I have cast a shadow, and to you I have brought a +blight. But, Mary, both will disappear. The one consolation I cling to now +is that belief. When I delivered him up, it was myself I betrayed, not +him. I am forever dead, and he forever living. While I bargained with the +priests and pretended that my aim was coin, when I led the levites and the +Temple-guard just here to where he stood, during all the hours since I +left you, I tried to escape from that cage we call Fate. Mary, there is +something about us higher than our will. The revenge I sought on you +forsook me before I reached the city’s gate. It is the intangible that has +brought me where I am. I have sworn to you I never thought this thing +could be. I swear it now again. In carrying out the threat I made, I +thought to make you fear my hate and make him greater than he was. His +enemies, I had seen, were many. Those that had believed in him grew daily +less. In Jerusalem his miracles had ceased, and I thought that, when the +levites and the Temple-guard approached, he would speak with Samuel’s +thunder, answer with Elijah’s flame. I thought the stars would shake, the +moon grow red; that he would produce the lost Urim, the vanished Ark, and +so forever silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he was right. Belief is in +the heart, not in the senses; the visible contradicts, but faith is not to +be confuted. No, Mary, the tombs are not dumb. I said so once, I know, but +they answer, and mine will speak. On it perhaps a caricature may be +daubed, and about it prejudice will uncoil. I deserve it. Yet though you +think me wholly base, remember no man is that. Since I met you my life has +been a battle-field in which I have fought with conscience. It has +conquered. I am its slave; it commands, and I obey.” + +He drew a breath as though he had more to add, and turned to where she +stood. There was no one there. From an olive-branch a red-start piped to +the morning; over the buds of a pomegranate a bee buzzed its delight; +across the leaves of a myrtle a blue spider was busy with its web, but +Mary was no longer there. He peered through the underbrush, and wandered +to the grove beyond. There was no one. He looked to the hill-top: there +was the advancing sun. He looked in the valley: there were the pilgrims’ +booths, the grazing camels and fat-tailed sheep. + +“She has gone,” he told himself. “She would not even listen.” + +He bent his head. For the first time since boyhood the tears rolled down +his face. + +“She might at least have heard me,” he thought, and brushed the tears +away. Others came and replaced them. When they had fallen, there were +more. + +“Yes, she might at least have listened. If I had no excuse to offer, at +least I had regret.” For a moment he fancied her, cruel as only woman is, +hurrying to some unknown goal. The tears he had tried to stanch ceased now +abruptly. “She is right,” he mused. “She has left me to conscience and to +death.” + +He turned again and went back to where he had stood before. As he crossed +the intervening space he unloosed the long girdle which he wore, and from +which still hung the treasury of the twelve. The bag that held it fell +where the bee was buzzing. One end of the girdle he tossed over a branch; +the red-start spread its wings and fled. He looked about. There was a +stone near by; he got it and with a little labor rolled it beneath the +branch. Then he made a noose, very carefully, that it might not come +undone, and settling it well under the chin, he tied the other end of the +girdle to it and swung himself from the stone. + + + + + + CHAPTER IX. + + + IX. + + +In the apartment of Claudia Procula, Mary and the wife of the procurator +stood face to face. + +The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem. Beneath was an open space tiled +with little oblong stones, red, yellow, and blue; the blue predominating. +On either side the colossal white wings of the palace stretched to a park, +very green in the sunlight, cut by colonnades in which fountains were, and +surrounded by a marble wall that was starred with turrets and fluttered +with doves. The Temple, which, from its cressets, radiated to the hills +beyond a glare of gold, was not as fair nor yet as vast as this. Within +its gates an army could manœuvre; in its banquet-hall a cohort could have +supped. It was Herod’s triumph, built subsequent to the Temple, to show +the world, perhaps, that to surpass a masterpiece he had only to conceive +another. + +To it now and then, for a week or more, the procurator descended from his +residence by the sea. He preferred the latter; the day was freer there, +life less cramped. But during festival times, when the fanatic Jews were +apt to be excited and need the chill of a curb, it was well for him and +his soldiery to be on hand. And so on this occasion he had come, and with +him his wife, Claudia Procula, and the tetrarch Antipas, who had joined +them on the way. + +Antipas and his retinue occupied the Ægrippeum, the north wing of the +palace, while in the Cæsareum, the wing that leaned to the south, was +Pilate, his wife and body-guard. + +And now on this clear morning the sweet-faced patrician, Claudia Procula, +with perfectly feminine curiosity was looking into the drawn features of +the Magdalen, and wondering whence her rumored charm could come. + +“I will do my best,” she said, at last, in answer to an anterior request. +And calling a servant, she wrote on a tablet a word for Pilate’s eye. + +Mary moved to the portico. The variegated tiles of the quadrangle were +nearly covered now. A flight of wide, low steps led to the main entrance +of the palace, and there a high seat of enamelled ebony had been placed. +In it Pilate sat, in his hand the staff of office. Beside him were his +assessors, members of his suite, and Calcol, a centurion. On one of the +steps Caiaphas stood, near him the elders of the college. Below was the +Christ, bound and guarded. Across the quadrangle was a line of soldiery, +behind it a mob. + +The helmets, glancing mail, short skirts, and bare legs of the Romans +contrasted refreshingly with the blossoming garments, effeminate girdles, +frontlets, and horned blue bonnets of the priesthood. And in the riot of +color and glint of steel the Christ, bound as he was, looked, in the +simplicity of his seamless robe, the descendant of a larger sphere. Above, +to the left, Antipas, aroused by the clamor, leaned from a portico. +Opposite where the sunlight fell Mary held her cloak about her. + +Caiaphas, a hand indicating Jesus, his head turned to Pilate, was +formulating a complaint. Not indeed that the prisoner had declared himself +a divinity. There were far too many gods in the menagerie of the Pantheon +for a procurator to be the least disturbed at the rumor of a new one. It +was the right to rule, that attribute of the Messiah, on which he intended +the gravamen of the charge should rest. But he began circuitously, feeling +the way, in Greek at that, with an accent which might have been improved. + +“And so,” he concluded, “in many ways he has transgressed the Law.” + +“Why don’t you judge him by it, then?” asked Pilate, grimly. + +A servant approached with a tablet. The procurator glanced at it, looked +up at the man, and motioned him away. + +“My lord governor, we have. The Sanhedrim, having found him guilty, has +sentenced him to death. But the Sanhedrim, as you know, may not execute +the sentence. The Senate has deprived us of that right. It is for you, as +its legate, to order it done.” + +Pilate sneered. “I can’t very well, until I know of what he is guilty. +What crime has he committed—written a letter on the Sabbath, or has he +been caught without his phylacteries?” + +“He has declared himself Israel’s king!” + +“Ah!” And Pilate smiled wearily. “You are always expecting one; why not +take him?” + +“Why not, my lord? Because it is treason to do so.” + +Pilate nodded with affected approval. “I admire your zeal.” And with a +glance at the prisoner, he added: “You have heard the accusation; defend +yourself. What!” he continued, after a moment, “have you nothing to say?” + +Caiaphas exulted openly. The corners of his mouth had the width and +cruelty, and his nostrils the dilation, of a wolf. + +“My lord,” he cried, “his silence is an admission.” + +“Hold your tongue! It is for me to question.” And therewith Pilate gave +the high-priest a look which was tantamount to a knee pressed on the +midriff. He glanced again at the tablet, then at the prisoner. + +“Tell me, do you really claim to be king?” + +“Is it your idea of me?” the Christ asked; and in his bearing was a +dignity which did not clash with the charge; “or have others prompted +you?” + +“But I am not a Jew,” Pilate retorted. “The matter only interests me +officially. It is your hierarchy that bring the charge. Why have they? +What have you done? Tell me,” he continued, in Latin, “do you think +yourself King?” + +“_Tu dixisti_,” Jesus answered, and smiled as he had before, very gravely. +“But my royalty is not of the earth.” And with a glance at his bonds, one +which was so significant that it annulled the charge, he added, still in +Latin, “I am Truth, and I preach it.” + +Pilate with skeptical indulgence shook his head. Truth to him was an +elenchicism, an abstraction of the Platonists, whom in Rome he had +respected for their wisdom and avoided with care. He turned to Caiaphas. +The latter had been regretting the absence of an interpreter. This +amicable conversation, which he did not understand, was not in the least +to his liking, and as Pilate turned to him he frowned in his beard. + +“I am unable to find him guilty,” the procurator announced. “He may call +himself king, but every philosopher does the same. You might yourself, for +that matter.” + +“A philosopher, this mesîth!” Caiaphas gnashed back. “Why, he seduces the +people; he incites to sedition; he is a rebel to Rome. It is for you, my +lord, to see the empire upheld. Would it be well to have another complaint +laid before the Cæsar? Ask yourself, is this Galilean worth it?” + +The thrust was as keen and as venomous as the tooth of a rat. Pilate had +been rebuked by the emperor already; he had no wish to incur further +displeasure. Sejanus, the emperor’s favorite, to whom he owed his +procuratorship, had for suspected treason been strangled in a dumb dungeon +only a little before. Under Tiberius there was quiet, a future historian +was to note; and Pilate was aware that, should a disturbance occur, the +disturbance would be quelled, but at his expense. + +An idea presented itself. “Did I understand you to say he is a Galilean?” +he asked. + +“Yes,” Caiaphas answered, expecting, perhaps, the usual jibe that was +flung at those who came from there. “Yes, he is a Nazarene.” + +“Hm. In that case I have no jurisdiction. The tetrarch is my guest; take +your prisoner to him.” + +“My lord,” the high-priest objected, “our law is such that if we enter the +palace we cannot officiate at the Passover to-night.” + +Pilate appeared to reflect. “I suppose,” he said at last, “I might ask him +whether he would care to come here. In which case,” he added, with a +gesture of elaborate courtesy, “you may remain uncontaminated where you +are. Ressala!” + +An official stepped forward; an order was given; he disappeared. Presently +a massive throne of sandalwood and gold was trundled out. Caiaphas had +seen it before, and in it—Herod. + +“The justice that comes from there,” he muttered, “is as a snake that +issues from a tomb.” + +His words were drowned in the clamors of the crowd. The sun had crossed +the zenith; in its rays the waters that gushed from the fountain-mouths of +bronze lions fell in rainbows and glistened in great basins that glistened +too. There was sunlight everywhere, a sky of untroubled blue, and from the +Temple beyond came a glare that radiated from Olivet to Bethlehem. + +Pilate was bored. The mantle which Mary wore caught his eye, and he looked +at her, wondering how she came in his wife’s apartment, and where he had +seen her before. Her face was familiar, but the setting vague. Then at +once he remembered. It was at Machærus he had seen her, gambling with the +emir, while Salomè danced. She was with Antipas, of course. He looked +again; she had gone. + +The Sanhedrim consulted nervously. The new turn of affairs was not at all +to their liking. The clamors of the mob continued. Once a fanatic pushed +against a soldier. There was a thud, a howl, and a mouth masked with +liquid red gasped to the sun and was seen no more. + +Behind the procurator came a movement. The officials massed about the +entrance parted in uneven ranks, and in the great vestibule beyond, +Antipas appeared. Pilate rose to greet him. The elders made obeisance. The +tetrarch moved forward and seated himself in his father’s throne. At his +side was Pahul, the butler, balancing himself flamingowise on one leg, his +bold eyes foraging the priests. + +Caiaphas formulated the complaint anew, very majestically this time, and, +thinking perhaps to overawe the tetrarch, his voice assumed the authority +of a guardian of the keys of heaven, a chamberlain of the sceptres of the +earth. + +Antipas ignored him utterly. He plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and +stared at the Christ. He could see now he bore no resemblance to Iohanan. +There was nothing of the hyena about him, nor of the prophet either. +Evidently he was but a harmless vagabond, skilled in simples, if report +were true; perhaps a thaumaturge. And it was he whom he had feared and +fancied might be that Son of David for whom a star was created, whom the +magi had visited, whom his father had sought to destroy, and whom now from +his father’s own throne he himself was called upon to judge! He shook his +head, and in the sunlight the indigo with which his hair was powdered made +bright blue motes. + +“I say——” + +Just beyond, where the assessors stood, Mary suddenly appeared. He stopped +abruptly; for more than a year he had not seen her. Pahul had told him she +had gone to Rome. If she had, he reflected, the journey had not improved +her appearance. Then for the moment he dismissed her, and returned to the +Christ. + +“See here: somebody the other day told me you worked miracles. I have +wanted to see one all my life. Gratify me, won’t you? Oh, something very +easy to begin with. Send one of the guards up in the air, or turn your +bonds into bracelets.” + +The Christ did not seem to hear. Pahul laughed and held to the throne for +support. Antipas shrugged his shoulders. + +“He looks harmless enough,” he said. “Why not let him go?” + +Caiaphas glowered, and his fingers twitched. “He claims to be king!” + +At this statement the tetrarch laughed too. He gave an order to Pahul, who +vanished with a grin. + +“He has jeered at the Temple your father built,” Caiaphas continued. “He +has declared he could destroy it and rebuild a better one, in three days +at that.” + +“He is king, then, but of fools.” + +“And he has called you a fox,” Caiaphas added, significantly. + +“He doesn’t claim to be one himself, does he?” + +“He is guilty of treason, and it is for you, his ruler, to sentence him.” + +“Not I. The blood of kings is sacred. Pahul, make haste!” + +The butler, reappearing, held in his hand the glittering white vestment of +a candidate. The tetrarch took it and held it in air. + +“Here, put this on him, and let his subjects admire him to their hearts’ +content.” + +“Antipas, you disgrace your purple!” + +At the exclamation, the Sanhedrim, the guards, the assessors, the +officials, Pilate himself, everyone save the prisoner, turned and looked. +On the colored pavement Mary stood, her face very pale. + +The tetrarch flushed mightily; anger mounted into his shifting eyes. For a +moment the sky was blood-red; then he recovered himself and answered +lightly: + +“It seems to me, my dear, that you take things with a high hand. It may be +that you forget yourself.” + +“I take them from where I am,” she cried. “As for forgetfulness, remember +that my grandfather was satrap of Syria, my father after him, while +yours——” + +“Yes, yes, I dare say. He is not in power now; I am.” + +“Not here, Antipas, nor in Rome. I appeal to Pilate.” + +The tetrarch rose from the throne. The elders whispered together. Pilate +visibly was perplexed. Remembering Mary as he did, he looked upon the +incident as a family quarrel, one in which it would be unseemly for him to +interfere, and which none the less disturbed the decorum of his court. + +Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but the latter brushed him aside. + +“The hetaira is right,” he exclaimed. “I am not in power here. If I were, +she should be lapidated.” + +And, preceded by the butler, Antipas passed through the parting ranks to +the vestibule beyond. + +The perplexity of the procurator increased. He did not in the least +understand. To him Mary stood in the same relation to Antipas that +Cleopatra had to Herod. There had been a feud between the tetrarch and +himself, one recently mended, and which he had no wish to renew. Yet +manifestly Antipas was aggrieved, and his own path in the matter by no +means clear. + +“Bah!” he muttered, in the consoling undertone of thought, “what are their +beastly barbarian manners to me?” + +These reflections Caiaphas interrupted. + +“We are waiting, my lord, for the sentence to be pronounced.” + +The tone he used was not, however, indicative of patience, and in +conjunction with the incident that had just occurred it irritated and +jarred. Besides, Pilate did not care to be prompted. It was for him to +speak first. He strangled an oath, and, gathering some fringe of the +majesty of Rome, he announced very measuredly: + +“You have brought this man before me as a rebel. I have examined him and +find no ground for the charge. His ruler, the tetrarch, has also examined +him, and by him too he has been acquitted. But in view of the fact that he +appears to have contravened some one or another of your laws I order him +to be scourged and to be liberated.” + +With that he turned to the prisoner. During the entire proceedings the +attitude of Jesus had not altered. He stood as a disinterested spectator +might—one whom chance had brought that way and there hemmed in—his eyes on +remote, inaccessible horizons, the tongue silent, the head a little +raised. + +“Scourging, my lord,” Caiaphas interjected, “is fit and proper, but,” he +continued, one silk-gloved hand uplifted, “our law prescribes death. Only +an enemy to Tiberius would prevent it.” + +At the veiled menace Pilate gnawed his under lip. He had no faith at all +in the loyalty of the hierarch; at any other time the affection the latter +manifested for the chains he bore would have been ludicrous and nothing +else. But at the moment he felt insecure. There were Galileans whom he had +sacrificed, Judæans whom he had slaughtered, Samaritans whom he had +oppressed, an embassy might even now be on its way to Rome; he thought +again of Sejanus, and, with cause, he hesitated. Yet of the inward +perturbation he gave no outward sign. + +“On this day,” he said at last, “it is customary that in commemoration of +your nation’s delivery out of Egypt I should release a prisoner to you. +There are three others here, among them Jesus Barabba.” + +Then, for support perhaps, he looked over at the clamoring mob. + +“I will leave the choice to the people.” + +A wind seemed to raise the elders; they scattered through the court like +leaves. “Have done with the Nazarene,” cried one. “He would lead you +astray,” insinuated another. “He has violated the Law,” exclaimed a third. + +And, filtering through the soldiery into the mob without, they exhorted +and prayed and coerced. “Ask for Barabba; denounce the blasphemer. Trust +to the Sanhedrim. We are your guides. Let him atone for his crimes. The +God of your fathers commands that you condemn. Demand Barabba; uphold your +nation. To the cross with the Nazarene!” + +“Whom do you choose?” shouted Pilate. + +And the pleb of Jerusalem shouted back as one man, “Barabba!” + +At the moment Pilate fancied himself in an amphitheatre, the arena filled +with beasts. There were the satin and stripes of the panther, the yellow +of treacherous eyes, the gnash of fangs, the guttural rumble, the +deafening yell, the scent of blood, and above, the same blue tender sky. + +“What of the prisoner?” he called. + +A roar leapt back. “Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified.” + +Pilate had fronted a rabble before, and in two minutes had turned that +rabble into so many dead flies, the legs in the air. He shook his head, +and told himself he was not there to be coerced. + +“Release Barabba,” he ordered. “And as for the prisoner, take him to the +barracks and have him scourged.” + +“Brute!” cried a voice that lifted him as a blow might from his ebony +chair. “Pilate, though you are a plebeian, why show yourself a slave?” + +And Mary, with the strength of anger, brushed through the encircling +officials and towered before him, robed in wrath. + +“Ah, permit me,” he answered; “you are singularly unjust.” + +“Prove me so, and countermand the order that you gave.” + +As she spoke she adjusted her mantle, which had become disarranged, and +looked him from head to foot, measuring him as it were, and finding him, +visibly, very small. + +Already the prisoner had been led away, and beyond, in the barracks, was +the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, rebounded, and lacerated again. + +“I will not,” he answered. “What I have ordered, I have ordered. As for +you——” + +There had come to her that look which sibyls have. “Pilate,” she +interrupted, “you are powerful here, I know, but”—and her hand shot out +like an arrow from a bow—“over there vultures are circling; in your power +is a corpse. What the vultures scent, I see.” + +So abrupt and earnest was the gesture that unconsciously Pilate found +himself looking to where she seemed to point. He lowered his eyes in +vexation. Wrangling with a woman was not to his taste. + +“There, there,” he said, much as one might to a fretful child; “don’t +throw stones.” + +“I have but one; it is Justice, and that I keep to hurl at you.” + +The procurator’s mouth twitched ominously. “My dear,” he said, “you are +too pretty to talk that way; it spoils the looks. Besides, I have no time +to listen.” + +“Tiberius has and will.” + +Pilate nodded; it was the third time he had heard the threat that day. + +“There are many rooms in his palace,” he answered, with covert +significance. + +“Yes, I know it. There are many, as you say. But there is one I will +enter. On the door stands written The Future, and behind it, Pilate, is +your death.” + +The Roman, goaded to exasperation, sprang to his feet. An expression which +Antipas had used occurred to him. “Away with the hetaira,” he cried; and +he was about, it may be, to order her to be tossed to the fierce wild +swine in the paddocks of the park when the prisoner and his guards +reappeared on the tessellated pavement, and Mary, already dragged from +him, was instantly forgot. + +A tattered sagum, which had once been scarlet, but which had faded since, +hung, detained at the shoulder by a rusty buckle, and bordered by a +laticlave, loosely about his form. In his hand a bulrush swayed; on his +head was a twisted coil of bear’s-breech, in which, among the ruffled +leaves, one bud remained; it was white, the opening edges flecked with +pink, perhaps with blood, for from the temples and about the ear a rill +ran down and mixed with the purple of the laticlave below. And in this red +parody of kingship the Christ stood, unmoved as a phantom, but in his face +and eyes there was a projecting light so luminous, so intangible, and yet +so real, that the skeptical procurator started, the staff of office +pendent in his grasp. + +“Ecce homo!” he exclaimed. Instinctively he drew back, and, wonderingly, +half to himself, half to the Christ, “Who are you?” he asked. + +“A flame below, a soul above,” Jesus answered, yet so inaudibly that the +guards beside him did not catch the words. + +To Pilate his lips had barely moved, and his wonderment increased. “Why do +you not answer?” he said. “You must know that I have the power to condemn +and to acquit.” + +With that gentleness that was the flower of his parables Jesus raised his +voice. “No,” he replied, “you can have no power against me unless it come +from above.” + +Again Pilate drew back. Unsummoned to his lips had sprung the words, +“Behold the man!” and now he exclaimed, “Behold the king!” + +But to the mob the vision he intercepted was lost. They saw the jest +merely, and with it the stains that torture leaves. The sight of blood is +heady; it inebriates more surely than wine. The mob, trained by the +elders, and used by them as a body-guard, fanatic before, were intoxicated +now. With one accord they shrieked the liturgy again. + +“Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified.” + +In that gust of hatred Pilate recovered. He turned to Caiaphas: + +“I have released one prisoner; I will release another too.” + +“My lord, be warned by one who is your elder.” + +“One whom I can remove.” + +“No doubt, my lord; but suffer him while he may to warn you not to cause a +revolution on the day of the Paschal feast. You hear that multitude. Then +be warned.” + +“But your feast is one of mercy.” + +The high-priest gazed curiously at his silk-gloved hands. You would have +said they were objects he had never seen before. Then he returned the +procurator’s stare. + +“We know of no such god.” + +“Ah!” And the procurator drew a long breath of understanding. “It is that, +I believe, he preaches.” + +“And it is for that,” Caiaphas echoed, “that he must die. Yes, Pilate, it +is for that. There is no such doctrine in the Pentateuch. We have done our +duty. We have convicted a rebel of his guilt. We have brought him to you, +and we demand his sentence. Pilate, it is not so very long ago you had +hundreds massacred without judgment, without trial either, and for +what?—for one rebellious cry. You must have a reason for the favor you +show this man. It would interest me to learn it; it would interest +Tiberius as well. Listen to that multitude. If you pay no heed to our +accusation nor yet to their demand, on you the consequences rest. We are +absolved.” + +“He is your king,” the procurator objected, meditatively. + +Caiaphas wheeled like a feather a breeze has caught. One hand outstretched +he held to the mob, with the other he pointed to the Christ. + +“Our king!” he cried. “The procurator says he is our king!” + +As the thunder peals, a roar surged back: + +“We have no other king than Cæsar.” + +“Think of Sejanus,” the high-priest suggested. The thrust was so well +timed it told. + +Pilate looked sullenly about. “Fetch me water,” he ordered. + +A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing a custom from the Jews he +loathed, he dipped his fingers in it. + +“I wash my hands of it all,” he muttered. + +Caiaphas looked at the elders and sighed with infinite relief. He had +conquered. For the first time that day he smiled. He became gracious also, +and he bowed. + +“The blood be upon us, my lord, and on our children. Will you give the +order?” + +“Calcol!” + +The centurion approached. An order was given him in an undertone, and as +he turned to the guards, Pilate drew the staff of office across his knee, +snapped it in two, tossed the pieces to the ground, and through the ranks +of his servitors passed on into the great blue vestibule beyond. + + + + + + CHAPTER X. + + + X. + + +In a sook near the Gannath Gate Mary stood. In the distance the palace of +Herod defied the sun. Beyond the gate lay the Hennom Valley, the Geia +Hennom, contracted by the people into Ge’ Hennom, or Gehenna, and +converted by them into a sewer, a place where carrion was thrown, and the +filth of a great city. In earlier days children had been immolated to +Moloch there, human victims had been burned; it was a place accursed, and +to purify the air, as a safeguard against pestilence, the offal was +consumed by bonfires that were constantly renewed and never extinguished. +At its extremity was an elevation, a hilly contour which to the popular +fancy suggested a skull. To the west it fell steeply away. It was called +Gülgolta. + +The sook in which Mary stood was affected by shoemakers. Against the +dwelling of one of them she leaned. The mantle was gone from her now, and +the olive robe had a rent, but the splendor of her hair fell unconfined, +the perils of her eyes had increased; yet in their depths where love had +been was hate. One arm lay along the resisting stone, the other hung at +her side; her face was turned to the palace, her thin nostrils quivering, +her breath coming and going with that spasmodic irregularity which the +consciousness of outrage brings. She laid it all to Judas; he must have +returned to Kerioth, she thought. The sook itself was silent, stirred +merely by some echo of the uproar in the palace beyond. + +From a grilled lattice near by an old man peered out. He had the restless +eyes of a ferret, and a white beard that was very long. He too was looking +toward the palace. Now and then he muttered inaudibly in Aramaic to +himself. In the shadow of a neighboring house a woman appeared; he shook +at the lattice as an ape does at the bars of a cage, and spat a bestial +insult at her. The woman shrank back. Instinctively Mary turned. In the +retreating figure she recognized Ahulah, and at once, without conscious +effort, she divined that the dwelling against which she leaned was that of +Baba Barbulah, the husband of the woman whom the Master had declined to +condemn. + +But other things possessed her—the outrage to the Christ, perplexity as to +how the trial would result, more remotely the indignity to herself, the +slurs of the tetrarch and of the procurator; and with them, sapping her +heart as fever might, was that thirst for reparation, unquenchable in its +intensity, which comes to those who have seen their own life wrecked and +its ideals dispersed. + +Already Ahulah was forgot. On the wings of vagabond fancy she was in Rome, +demanding vengeance of Tiberius, wresting it from him by the sheer force +of entreaty, and with it exulting in the death-throes of the procurator. +Oh, to see his nails pulled out, his outer skin removed, his tongue +severed, his eyes seared with irons, his wrists slowly twisted till they +snapped! to hear him cry for mercy! to promise it and not fulfil!—dear +God, what joy was there! + +From the alley into which Ahulah had shrunk a man issued. He was sturdy as +a bludgeon, and he had a growth of thick black hair that curled about an +honest face. In his hand was a basket. At the sight of Mary his steps +hesitated, and his eyes followed hers to where the palace lay. Then he +crossed the zigzag of the intervening space, but he had to touch her +outstretched arm before she noticed him. + +“Simon!” she exclaimed, with that start one has when suddenly awaked. + +“Yes, Simon indeed;” and through the silence of the sook his clear laugh +rang. “I frightened you, did I not?” + +Mary interrupted him. “Haven’t you heard? Has not Eleazer told you——” + +“When I left Bethany he was sleeping with both fists closed. Martha——” + +“The Master is arrested. Last night he was before the Sanhedrim; he is +before the procurator now.” + +Hurriedly Mary gave an account of what had occurred. As the recital +continued, Simon’s expression grew darker than his curling hair, he +clutched at the basket which he held, so tightly that the handle severed, +the basket fell, and fruit that imprisoned the sunlight rolled on the +ground. + +“They were for the Master,” he said. “I thought he would sup with us +to-night.” + +“He may do so yet,” she answered. “Perhaps——” + +“Never!” cried a voice from the lattice. “They are leading him to Gülgolta +now.” + +Beyond, through the palace gate, a mass undulated, the body elongated, +expanding as it moved. It was black, but at the sides was the glisten that +cobras have. About it dust circled, and from it came the rumble of thunder +heard afar. As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; the black lessened +into varying hues. To the glisten came the glint of steel; the cobra +changed into a multitude, the escort of a squad of soldiery, fronted by a +centurion and led by the banner of Imperial Rome. + +Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his faded sagum, staggered, overweighted +by the burden of a cross. Two comrades in misery were at his side, but +they moved with steadier step, bearing their crosses with the brawn of +muscular and untired arms. The soldiers marched impassibly, preceding the +executioners—four stalwart Cypriotes, distinguishable by the fatness of +their calves—while behind was the Sanhedrim, and, extending indefinitely +to the rear, the rabble of yelling Jews. + +In a cobra’s coils is death, its eyes transfix. Neither Mary nor Simon had +spoken, and now, as the soldiery was upon them, they leaned yet nearer the +wall. For a moment Mary hid her face. At her feet the Christ had fallen, +and from her came one wail, choked down at once. She stooped to aid him, +but he stood up unassisted and reached to the wall for support. + +The bars of the lattice shook; the old man peered out. + +“Don’t touch my house, you vagabond! Move on!” he cried. + +Calcol had turned to Simon, who was raising the cross. “Carry it for him,” +he commanded. + +Baba Barbulah still shook at the lattice. “Move on!” he repeated. “Seducer +of the people, remitter of sins, upholder of adultery, move on; don’t +touch my house, it will fall down on you! Move on, I say!” + +Calcol’s command Simon had anticipated. He shouldered the cross. It was +heavier to him than to the Christ, not in weight, perhaps, but in purpose. +In the narrowness of the sook the crowd was impeded, but from the rear +they pushed, surprised at the halt. + +Mary sprang at the lattice. “It is you that shall move on,” she cried; +“yes, you; and forever. The desert will call to you, ‘March;’ and the sea +will snarl, ‘Further yet.’ The gates of cities will deny you, and the +doors of hamlets be closed. The eagles may return to their eyrie, the +panthers retreat to their lair, but you will have no home, no rest, and, +till time dies, no tomb.” + +The old man gnashed back at her an insult more bestial than he used +before, and spat at her through the bars. But Mary had turned to the +Christ. He was surrounded now by some women who had filtered through the +alley above. Johanna, Mary Clopas, the wife of Zebdia, and Bernice, a +fragile girl newly enrolled. The latter was wiping from his face the +stains of blood and dust. The others were beating their breasts, crying +aloud. + +Of the disciples there was no trace, nor yet of any of those who had +greeted him as the Messiah. It may be that the admiring throngs that had +gathered about him had faded before a superior force. It may be they had +lost heart, belief perhaps as well. Invective never propitiates. Recently +he had omitted to prophesy, he argued. The exquisite parables with which +he had been wont to charm even the recalcitrant seemed to have been put +aside, and with them those wonders which rumor held him to have worked. +But now that pathos and grace which endeared, that perfection of sentiment +and expression which exalted the heart, returned to him, accentuated +perhaps by the agonies he had endured. + +“Weep for me no more,” he entreated. “But weep for yourselves and for your +children. The days are coming,” he added, with a gesture at the impatient +mob—“the days are coming in which they shall say to the mountains, Fall on +us; to the hills, Cover us. For if these things are done in the green +tree, what will be done in the dry?” + +And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted them to view disaster otherwise +than from the external and evanescent aspect, the voice of the prophet +rang once more. + +Mary as yet had not realized the full portent of the soldiery and the mob. +When it was approaching it had occurred to her that it might be another +triumphal escort, such as she had once seen surround him on his way to a +feast. As it advanced, the roar bewildered, and she had ceased to +conjecture; then the Master had fallen, and the old Jew had vomited his +slime. At the moment it was that, and that only, which had impressed her, +and she had answered with the force of that new strength which suddenly +she had found. But now at the sight of the women beating their breasts, +and the blood-stained face of the Master, an inkling came to her; she +stared open-mouthed at the cross, at Calcol, and at the executioners that +were there. + +Then immediately that horrible longing to know the worst beset her, and +she darted to where the centurion stood. + +“What is it?” she gasped. “What are you to do with him?” + +By way of answer Calcol extended his arms straight out from either side, +his head thrown back. He was a good-natured ruffian, with clear and +pleasant eyes. + +“Not crucify?” she cried. “Tell me, it is not that?” + +Calcol nodded. To him one Jew more, one Jew less, was immaterial, provided +he had his pay, and the prospect of a return to Rome was not too long +delayed. Yet none the less in some misty way he wondered why this woman, +with her splendid hair and scorching eyes, should have upbraided the +tetrarch and abused the procurator because of the friendless Galilean whom +he was leading to the cross. Woman to him, however, was, as she has been +to others wiser than he, an enigma he failed to solve. And so he nodded +merely, not unkindly, and smiled in Mary’s face. + +The horrible longing now was stilled. She knew the worst; yet as the +knowledge of it penetrated her being, it seemed to her as though it could +not be true, that she was the plaything of some hallucination, her mind +inhabited by a nightmare from which she must presently awake. The howl of +the impatient mob undeceived her. It was real; it was actual; it was life. +She stared at Calcol, her fair mouth agape. There were many things she +wanted to say; her thoughts teemed with arguments, her mind with +persuasions; but she could utter nothing; she was as one struck dumb; and +it was not until the centurion smiled that the spell dissolved and the +power of speech returned. + +“Ah, _that_ never; you shall kill me first!” she cried. And already she +saw herself circumventing the centurion, blinding the soldiery, defying +the mob, and leading the Master through byways and underground passages +out of the accursed city into the fresh glades of Gethsemane, over the +hill, down the hollows to the Jordan, and into the desert beyond. There +was one spot she knew very well; one that only a bird could find; one that +she would mention to no one, but to which she could take him and keep him +hidden there in the brakes till night came, and the fording of the river +was safe. + +“That never!” she cried. And brushing Bernice off, she caught the Master +by the cloak. “Come with me,” she murmured. “I know a way——” + +And she would have dragged him perhaps, regardless of the others, but the +centurion had her by the arm. + +“See here, my pretty friend, your place is not here.” + +With a twist he sent her spinning back to Baba Barbulah’s wall. + +“March!” he ordered. + +The soldiery, disarranged, fell in line. The two robbers picked up their +burden. The Master turned to Mary, to the others as well, with that +expression which he alone possessed, that look which both promised and +assuaged, and, it may be, would have said some word of encouragement, but +Mary was at his side again, her hand upon his cloak. + +“It shall never be,” she repeated. “They must kill me first.” + +Calcol wheeled. His short sword glistened, reversed, and her cheek was +laid open by the hilt. She staggered back. The soldiery moved on. The +women surrounded her and stanched the wound. To her the blow held the +difference between a cut and a cancer; she knew that it could never heal; +and, as the blood poured down her face, for the first time she divined the +uselessness of revolt. + +Presently a wave of the mob caught her, separating her from the other +women, and carrying her in its eddy through the gate, into the valley and +on to the hillock beyond. On one side were the glimmer of fires, the smell +of smoke, of offal too. On the infrequent trees vultures perched. To the +right was a nest of gardens and of tombs. + +In the eddies Mary lost foothold and lagged a little to the rear. When she +reached Gülgolta the soldiery had formed three sides of a square. In it +were the executioners, the prisoners, and the centurion. At the place +where a fourth side might have been a steep decline began. + +Within the square three crosses lay; before them the prisoners stood, +stripped of their clothing now, and naked. + +The Sanhedrim was grouped about that side of the square which leaned to +the south, the horned bonnet of Caiaphas towering its lacework above the +others. To the wide and cruel corners of his mouth had come the calm of a +cheetah devouring its prey. At the outer angle, to the right, the standard +of the empire swayed; and from an oak two vultures soared with a scream +into the air, their eyes fixed on the vision of bare white flesh. + +Through the ranks an elder passed. In his hand was a gourd, which he +offered to one of the thieves. + +“Drink of it, Dysmas,” he invited. “In it grains of frankincense have been +dissolved.” + +To the rear Annas nodded his approval. His lean, lank jaws parted. “Give +strong drink,” he announced, authoritatively; “give strong and heady drink +to those about to die, and wine to those that sorrow.” + +Dysmas drank abundantly of the soporific, and held the gourd to his +comrade. + +“Take it, Stegas.” + +As the second thief raised it to his lips, with a motion of arm and knee +an executioner caught Dysmas beneath the chin, behind the leg, and the +thief lay on a cross. In a second his wrists were bound, his feet as well. +There was the blow of a hammer on a nail, a spurt of blood from the open +hand; another blow, another spurt; and the cross, upraised, settled in a +cavity already prepared, a beam behind it for support. + +Stegas, his thirst slaked, fell as Dysmas had, and the elder caught the +gourd and offered it to the Christ. If he had been tempted in the desert, +as rumor alleged, the temptation could have been as nothing in comparison +to the enticements of that cup. It held relief from thought, from the +acutest pain that flesh can know, from life, from death. + +He waved it aside. The executioner started with surprise; but he had his +duty to perform, and, recovering himself, he caught the Christ, and in a +moment he too was down, his hands transfixed, the cross upraised. The +blood dripped leisurely on the sand beneath. Across his features a shadow +passed and vanished. His lips moved. + +“Father,” he murmured, “forgive them; they know not what they do.” + +Calcol gave an order. Over the heads of Dysmas and of Stegas the sanis +were affixed, wooden tablets smeared with gypsum, bearing the name of the +crucified and with it the offence. They were simple and terse; but above +the Christ appeared a legend in three tongues, in Aramaic, in Greek, and +in Latin: + + [Aramaic: Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje] + + _Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων._ + + Rex Judæorum. + +Caiaphas sprang back as from the point of a sword. + +“Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje!” he bellowed. “King of the Jews! It is a blasphemy, an +iniquity, and an outrage. Centurion, tear it down.” + +Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and pointed to the palace. “What the +procurator has written he has written,” he answered. + +In the tone, in the gesture that preceded it, and in its impertinence +Caiaphas read Pilate’s one yet supreme revenge, the expression of his +absolute contempt for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation that it ruled. + +From the rear the mob jumped at the title as at a catchword. To them the +irony of the procurator presumably was lost. + +“King of the Jews!” they shouted. “Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje, come down from your +cross!” + +It was a great festival, and as they jeered at Jesus they enjoyed +themselves hugely. + +In their vast delight the voice of Stegas was drowned. + +“I am a Roman citizen,” he kept repeating, his head swaying, and +indicating with his eyes the wounds in his hands, the torture he endured. +“Kill me,” he implored. And finding entreaty idle, he reviled the +centurion, cursed the soldiery, and would have spat at them, but to his +burning throat no spittle came. + +The tongue of Dysmas lolled from his mouth. He had not the ability to +speak, even if in speech relief could come. Flame licked at his flesh, his +joints were severing, each artery was a nerve exposed, and something was +crunching his brain. He could no longer groan; he could suffer merely, +such suffering as hell perhaps has failed to contrive, that apogee of +agony which it was left for man to devise. + +Stegas, catching the refrain the mob repeated, turned his eyes from the +soldiery to the adjacent cross. + +“If you are as they say,” he cried, “save yourself and us.” + +As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, “Behold your king!” and raising a +stalk of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he had dipped in the posca, +the thin wine the soldiers drink, he offered it to the Christ. + +The sun was nearing the horizon. Caiaphas gathered his ample folds about +him. He had seen enough. The feast, wretchedly embittered, was nearly +done. There was another at which he must officiate: the shofa presently +would sound; the skewering of the Paschal lamb it was needful for him to +superintend. It was time, he knew, to return to the Temple; and as he gave +a last indignant look at the placard, the lips of the Christ parted to one +despairing cry: + +“Elî, Elî, lemâh shebâktanî?” + +Caiaphas, nodding to the elders, smiled with satisfaction. + +At last the false pretender was forced to acknowledge the invalidity of +his claims. The Father whose son he vaunted himself to be had disowned him +when his recognition was needed, if ever it had been needed at all. And +so, with the smile of one whose labor has had its recompense, Caiaphas +patted his skirt, and the elders about him strolled back through the +Gannath Gate to the Temple that awaited him. + +The multitude meanwhile had decreased. To the crowd also the Temple had +its attractions, its duties, and its offices. Moreover, the spectacle was +at an end. With a blow of the mallet the legs of the thieves had been +broken. They had died without a shriek, a thing to be regretted. The +Galilean too, pierced by the level stroke of a spear, had succumbed +without a word. Sundown was approaching. Clearly it was best to be within +the walls where other gayeties were. The mob dispersed, leaving behind but +the dead, the circling vultures, a group of soldiers throwing dice for the +garments of the crucified, and, remotely, a group of women huddled beneath +a protecting oak. + +During the hour or two that intervened, the force which had visited Mary +evaporated in strength overtaxed. She was conscious only that she +suffocated. The words of the women that had drawn her to them were empty +as blanks in a dream; the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty bier. To but +one thing was she alive, the fact that death could be. Little by little, +as the impossible merged into the actual, the understanding came to her +that the worst that could be had been done, and she ceased to suffer. The +departing hierarchy, the dispersing mob, retreating before encroaching +night, left her unimpressed. To her the setting sun was Christ. + +The soldiers passed. She did not see them. Calcol called to her. She did +not hear. The women had gone from her; she did not notice it. She stood as +a cataleptic might, her eyes on the cross. Once only, when the Christ had +uttered his despairing cry, she too had cried in her despair. In the roar +of the mob the cry was lost as a stone tossed in the sea. Since then she +had been dumb, sightless also, existing, if at all, unconsciously, her +life-springs nourished by death. + +Though she gazed at the cross, she had ceased to distinguish it. A little +group that had reached it before the soldiery left had been unmarked by +her. On the platform of her dream a serpent had emerged. In its coils were +her immortal hopes. It was that she saw, and that alone. Those moments of +agony in which the imagination oscillates between the past and the future, +devouring the one, fumbling the other, had been endured, and resignation +failed to bring its balm. She had believed with a faith so firm that now +in its demolition there was nothing left—an abyss merely, where light was +not. + +A hand touched her, and she quivered as a leaf does at the wing of a bird. +“Mary, come with us,” some one was saying; “we are taking him to a tomb.” + +Just beyond were men and women whom she knew. Joseph of Haramathaïm, a +close follower of the Master; Nikodemon, the richest man in all Judæa; +Johanna, Mary Clopas, Salomè, Bernice, and the servants of the opulent +Jew. It was Ahulah who had touched her; and as Mary started she saw before +her a coffin which the others bore. + +“Come with us,” Ahulah repeated; and Mary crossed the intervening ridge to +where the gardens were and the tombs she had already passed. + +At the door of a sepulchre the brief procession halted. Within was a room, +a little grotto furnished with a stone slab and a lamp that flickered, +surmounted by an arch. The coffin, placed on the slab, routed a bat that +flew to the arch, and a lizard that scurried to a crevice. In the coffin +the Christ lay, his head wrapped in a napkin, the body wound about by +broad bands of linen that were secured with gum and impregnated with +spices and with myrrh. The odor of aromatics filled the tomb. The bat +escaped to the night. A stone was rolled before the opening, the brief +procession withdrew, and Mary was left with the dead. + +The momentary exertion, the bier, the sepulchre, the sight of the Christ +in his cerements, the brooding quiet—these things had roused her. Her mind +was nimbler, and thought more active. One by one the stars appeared. They +would vanish, she told herself, as her hopes had done. Only they would +reappear, and belief could not. It had come as a rainbow does, and +disappeared as vaporously, little by little, before the full glare of +might. For a minute, hours perhaps, she stood quite still, interrogating +the past in which so much had been, gauging the future in which so much +was to be. The one retreated, the other fled. Thoughts came to her +evanescently, and faded before they were wholly formed. At one moment she +was beckoning the unicorns from the desert, the winged lions from the +yonderland, commanding them to bear her to the home of some immense +revenge. At others she was asking her way of griffins, propounding the +problem to the Sphinx. But the unicorns and lions took flight, the +griffins spread their wings, the Sphinx fell asleep. There was no answer +to her appeal. + +Behind the sepulchre the moon rose; it dropped a beam near by. There is +light somewhere, it seemed to say; and in that telegram from Above, she +thought of Rome. She remembered now, in Rome was Tiberius, and in him +Revenge. She smiled at her own forgetfulness. Yes, it was there. She would +go to him, she would exact reparation; there should be another +crucifixion. Pilate should be nailed to the cross, Judas on one side, +Caiaphas on the other. Only it would be at Rome where there was no +Passover to interfere with the torture they endured. Things were done +better there. Men were crucified, not with the head up, but with the feet; +and so remained, not for hours, but for days; and died, not of their +wounds alone, but of hunger too. + +A chariot of dream caught her, and, borne across the intervening space, +she saw herself in a palace where there were gods and monsters, columns of +transparent quartz, floors of malachite, roofs of gold. And there, on a +dais, the Cæsar lay. Behind him a fan, luminous as a peacock’s tail, +oscillated to the tinkling of mysterious keys. In his crown was the +lividity of uncolored dawns, in his sceptre the dominion of the world. An +ulcer devoured his face, and in his ear a boy repeated the maxims of +Elephantis. Mary threw herself at his feet, her tears fell on them as rain +on leaves. “Vengeance,” she implored; but he listened merely to the boy at +his side. “Death is your servant,” she cried. “You command, it obeys.” The +ulcer oozed, the face grew vague, he gave no answer. She stood up and +menaced him. “Behind you spectres crouch; you may not see them. I do; +their name is To-morrow.” The murmurs of the boy were her sole reply. The +roof crumbled, the flooring disappeared, the emperor faded, and Mary +stared into space. + +The moon that had struck aslant the tomb had gone, but where its beams had +fallen the message remained. There is light somewhere, it repeated. Across +the heavens a meteor shot like a bee. In the air voices whispered +confusedly. It is not in Rome, one seemed to say. It is not on earth, +another called. + +Mary clutched at her beating breast. The sky now was an opening rose. What +the sunset had sown the dawn would reap. In the night that had enveloped, +day raised a lattice, and through it came a gust of higher thought. It is +not in revenge, a voice whispered. It is not in regret, another called. + +“I know it,” Mary gasped. “Yes, yes, I know it now. It is in faith.” + +“And in abnegation of self.” + +The stone which stood before the sepulchre had rolled away. At her side +the Christ stood. In his eyes were golden parables, in his face Truth +shone revealed. She stared, dumb with the unexpected joy of belief +confirmed, blinded by the sudden light, while he who had rent the bonds of +death passed on into the budding day. + +When the brief procession of the night before returned to the tomb, it was +empty. At the door Mary lay, her arms outstretched and vacant. + + + FINIS MARIÆ. + + + + + + + TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE + + +The table of contents has been added in the electronic version. + +The following changes have been made to the text: + + page 36, “forget” changed to “forgot”, “Hew” changed to “Her” + page 38, “a” added before “sword” + page 46, period added following “roof” + page 108, “surperber” changed to “superber” + page 118, “is” changed to “it” + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY MAGDALEN*** + + + + CREDITS + + +March 5, 2010 + + Project Gutenberg TEI edition 1 + Produced by Bryan Ness, Stefan Cramme and the Online + Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This + book was produced from scanned images of public domain + material from the Google Print project.) + + + + A WORD FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG + + +This file should be named 31510‐0.txt or 31510‐0.zip. + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + + + http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/5/1/31510/ + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one — the old editions will be +renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one +owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and +you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission +and without paying copyright royalties. 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/31510-0.zip b/31510-0.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..aab0585 --- /dev/null +++ b/31510-0.zip diff --git a/31510-8.txt b/31510-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d064747 --- /dev/null +++ b/31510-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4501 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Mary Magdalen + +Author: Edgar Saltus + +Release Date: March 5, 2010 [Ebook #31510] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY MAGDALEN*** + + + + + + By Mr. Saltus + + HISTORIA AMORIS + THE POMPS OF SATAN + IMPERIAL PURPLE + THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION + VANITY SQUARE + THE PERFUME OF EROS + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + _A Chronicle_ + + + _By_ + + EDGAR SALTUS + + + +NEW YORK +BRENTANO'S +MCMXIX + + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1891, + BY EDGAR SALTUS. + + + + + + CONTENTS + + +CHAPTER I. +CHAPTER II. +CHAPTER III. +CHAPTER IV. +CHAPTER V. +CHAPTER VI. +CHAPTER VII. +CHAPTER VIII. +CHAPTER IX. +CHAPTER X. +Transcriber's note + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + + + + + + CHAPTER I. + + + I. + + +"Three to one on Scarlet!" + +Throughout the brand-new circus were the eagerness, the gesticulations, +shouts, and murmurs of an impatient throng. On a ledge above the entrance +a man stood, a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. Beneath, on +either side, were gates. About him were series of ascending tiers, +close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored robes and parasols. The sand +of the track was very white: where the sunlight fell it had the glitter of +broken glass. In the centre was a low wall; at one end were pillars and +seven great balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, their tails in +the air. The uproar mounted in unequal vibrations, and stirred the pulse. +The air was heavy with odors, with the emanations of the crowd, the cloy +of myrrh. Through the exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the kitchens +below, and with them, from the exterior arcades, came the beat of +timbrels, the click of castanets. Overhead was a sky of troubled blue; +beyond, a lake. + +"They are off!" + +The strip of silk had fluttered and fallen, the gates flew open, there was +a rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, a yell that deafened, and four +tornadoes burst upon the track. + +They were shell-shaped, and before each six horses tore abreast. Between +the horses' ears were swaying feathers; their manes had been dyed clear +pink, the forelocks puffed; and as they bounded, the drivers, standing +upright, had the skill to guide but not the strength to curb. About their +waists the reins were tied; at the side a knife hung; from the forehead +the hair was shaven; and everything they wore, the waistcoat, the short +skirt, the ribbons, was of one color, scarlet, yellow, emerald, or blue: +and this color, repeated on the car and on the harness, distinguished them +from those with whom they raced. + +Already the cars had circled the hippodrome four times. There were but +three more rounds, and Scarlet, which in the beginning had trailed +applause behind it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now a little to the +rear. Green was leading. Its leadership did not seem to please; it was +cursed at and abused, threatened with naked fist; yet when for the sixth +time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout that held the thunder of Atlas +leaped abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued by the blue, had been, was +now a mass of sickening agitation--twelve fallen horses kicking each other +into pulp, the drivers brained already; and down upon that barrier of +blood and death swept the scarlet car. In a second it veered and passed; +in that second a flash of steel had out the reins, and, as the car swung +round, the driver, released, was tossed to the track. What then befell him +no one cared. Stable-men were busy there; the car itself, unguided, +continued vertiginously on its course. If it had lagged before, there was +no lagging now. The hoofs that beat upon the ring plunged with it through +the din down upon Emerald, and beyond it to the goal. And as the last +dolphin vanished and the seventh ball was removed, the palm was granted, +and the spectators shouted a salutation to the giver of the games--Herod +Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. + +He was superb, this Antipas. His beard was like a lady's fan. On his +cheeks was a touch of alkanet; his hair, powdered blue, was encircled by a +diadem set with gems. About his shoulders was a mantle that had a broad +purple border; beneath it was a tunic of yellow silk. Between the railing +of the tribune in which he sat one foot was visible, shod with badger's +skin, dyed blood-red. He was superb, but his eyelids drooped. He had a +straight nose and a retreating forehead, a physiognomy that was at once +weak and vicious. He looked melancholy; it may be that he was bored. At +the salutation, however, he affected a smile, and motioned that the games +should continue. And as the signals, the dolphins and the seven balls, +appeared again, his thoughts, forsaking the circus, went back to Rome. + +Insecure in the hearts of his people, uncertain even of the continued +favor of the volatile monster who was lounging then in his Caprian +retreat, it was with the idea of pleasing the one, of flattering the +other, that he had instituted the games. For here in his brand-new +Tiberias, a city which he had built in a minute, whose colonnades and +porticoes he had bought ready-made in Rome, and had erected by means of +that magic which only the Romans possessed--in this capital of a parvenu +was a mongrel rabble of Greeks, Cypriotes, Egyptians, Cappadocians, +Syrians, and Jews, whose temper was uncertain, and whose rebellion to be +feared. + +_Annon et spectaculis_ indeed! Antipas knew the dictum well; and with an +uprising in the yonderland, and a sedition under his feet, what more could +he do than quell the first with his mercenaries, and disarm the second +with his games? Tiberius, whom he emulated, never deigned to appear at the +hippodrome; it was a way he had of showing his contempt for a nation. +Antipas might have imitated his sovereign in that, only he was not sure +that Tiberius would take the compliment as it was meant. He might view +such abstention as the airs of a trumpery tetrarch, and depose him there +and then. He was irascible, and when displeased there were dungeons at his +command which reopened with difficulty, and where existence was not +secure. Ah, that sausage of blood and mud, how he feared and envied him! +An emperor now, a god hereafter, truly the dominion of this world and a +part of the next was a matter concerning which fear and envy well might +be. + +And as Antipas' vagabond fancy roamed in and out through the possibilities +of the Caesar's sway, unconsciously he thought of another monster, the son +of a priest of Ascalon, who had defied the Sanhedrim, won Cleopatra, +murdered the woman he loved the most, conquered Juda and found it too +small for his magnificence--of that Herod in fact, his own father, who gave +to Jerusalem her masterpiece of marble and gold, and meanwhile, drunk with +the dream of empire, had made himself successor of Solomon, Sultan of +Israel, King of the Jews, and who, even as he died, had vomited death and +crowns, diadems and crucifixions. + +It was through his legacy that Antipas ruled. The kingdom had been sliced +into three parts, of one of which Augustus had made a province; over +another a brother whom he hated ruled; and he had but this third part, the +smallest yet surely the most fair. Its unparalleled garden surrounded him, +and its eye, the lake, was just beyond. In the amphitheatre the hills +formed was a city of pink and blue marble, of cupolas, porticoes, volutes, +bronze doors, and copper roofs. Along the fringe of the shore were +Choraizin and Bethsada, purple with pomegranates, Capharnahum, beloved +for its honey, and Magdala, scented with spice. The slopes and intervales +were very green where they were not yellow, and there were terraces of +grape, glittering cliffs, and a sky of troubled blue, wadded with little +gold-edged clouds. + +Yes, it was paradise, but it was not monarchy. It was to that he aspired. +As he mused, a rancid-faced woman decked with paint and ostrich-plumes +snarled in his ear: + +"What have you heard of Iohanan?" + +And as with a gesture he signified that he had heard nothing, she snarled +again. + +Antipas turned to her reflectively, but it was of another that he +thought--the brown-eyed bride that Arabia had given him, the lithe-limbed +princess of the desert whose heart had beaten on his own, whom he had +loved with all the strength of youth and weakness, and whom he had +deserted while at Rome for his brother's wife, his own niece, Herodias, +who snarled at his side. + +Behind her were her women, and among them was one who, as the cars swept +by, turned her head with that movement a flower has which a breeze has +stirred. Her eyes were sultry, darkened with stibium; on her cheek was the +pink of the sea-shell, and her lips made one vermilion rhyme. The face was +oval and rather small; and though it was beautiful as victory, the wonder +of her eyes, which looked the haunts of hope fulfilled, the wonder of her +mouth, which seemed to promise more than any mortal mouth could give, were +forgotten in her hair, which was not orange nor flame, but a blending of +both. And now, as the cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, her hand +rose as a bird does and fluttered with delight. + +On the adjacent tiers were Greeks, fat-calved Cypriotes, Cappadocians with +flowers painted on their skin, red Egyptians, Thracian mercenaries, +Galilean fishermen, and a group of Lydians in women's clothes. + +On the tier just beyond was a man gazing wistfully at the woman that sat +behind Herodias. He was tall and sinewy, handsome with the comeliness of +the East. His beard was full, unmarred at the corners; his name was Judas. +Now and then he moistened his under lip, and a Thracian who sat at his +side heard him murmur "Mary" and some words of Syro-Chaldaic which the +Thracian did not understand. + +To him Mary paid no attention. She had turned from the track. An officer +had entered the tetrarch's tribune and addressed the prince. Antipas +started; Herodias colored through her paint. The latter evidently was +pleased. + +"Iohanan!" she exclaimed. "To Machrus with him! You may believe in fate +and mathematics; I believe in the axe." + +And questioningly Herodias looked at her husband, who avoided her look, +yet signified his assent to the command she had given. + +The din continued. From the tier beyond, Judas still gazed into the perils +of Mary's eyes. + +"Dear God," he muttered, in answer to an anterior thought, "it would be +the birthday of my life." + + + + + + CHAPTER II. + + + II. + + +"O Prophet Iohanan, how fair you are!" + +Iohanan was hideous. His ankles were in stocks, a chain about his waist +was looped in a ring that hung from the wall. About his body were tattered +furs, his hair was tangled, the face drawn and yellow. Vermin were visible +on his person. His lips twitched, and his gums, discolored, were as those +of a camel that has journeyed too far. A tooth projected, green as a fresh +almond is; the chin projected too, and from it on one side a rill of +saliva dripped upon the naked breast. On the terrace he was a blur, a +nightmare in a garden. + +"Ah, how fair!" + +Tantalizing as temptation, Mary stood just beyond his reach. Her eyes were +full of compliments, her body was bent, and, the folds of her gown held +back, she swayed a little, in the attitude of one cajoling a tiger. She +was quite at home and at her ease, and yet prepared for instant flight. + +Iohanan, or John--surnamed, because of practices of his, the +Baptist--beckoned her to approach. In his eyes was the innocence that oxen +have. + +"My body is chained, but my soul is free!" + +Mary made a pirouette, and through the terrace of the citadel the rattles +on her ankles rang. + +It was appalling, this citadel; it dominated the entire land. Perched on a +peak of basalt, it overhung an abyss in which Asphalitis, the Bitter Sea, +lay, a stretch of sapphire to the sun. In the distance were the heights of +Abraham, the crests of Gilead. Before it was the infinite, behind it the +desert. At its base a hamlet crouched, and a path hewn in the rock crawled +in zigzags to its gates. Irregular walls surrounded it, in some places a +hundred cubits high, and in each of the many angles was a turret. Seen +from below it was a threat in stone, but within was a caress, one of those +rapturous palaces that only the Orientals build. It was called Machrus. +Peopled with slaves and legends, it was a haunt of ghosts and fierce +delights. + +And now as Mary tripped before the prophet the walls alone repelled. The +terrace was a garden in which were lilies and sentries. For entrance there +was a portal of red porphyry, above which was a balcony hemmed by a +balustrade of yellow Numidian stone. + +Against it Antipas leaned. He had been eyeing the desert in tremulous +surmise. The day before, he had caught the glitter of lances, therewith +spirals of distant smoke, and he had become fearful lest Aretas, that king +of Arabia Petra whose daughter he had deserted, might be meditating +attack. But now there was nothing, at most a triangular mass speeding +westwards, of which only the edges moved, and which he knew to be a flight +of cranes. + +He took heart again and gazed in the valley below. It was the anniversary +of his birth. To celebrate it he had invited the stewards of his lands, +the notables of Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator of Juda, +the emir of Tadmor, mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and herdsmen. + +But in the valley only a few shepherds were visible. Along the ramparts +soldiers paced. At the further end of the terrace a group of domestics was +busy with hampers and luggage. The day was solemnly still, exquisitely +clear; and between two hills came a glare of gold projected from the +Temple of Jerusalem. + +Through the silence rang the tinkle of the rattles that Mary wore. The +prophet was beckoning her. + +"And Martha?" the tetrarch heard him ask. + +The pirouette ceased awkwardly. Mary's eyes forgot their compliments. Her +brows contracted, and, as though perplexed, she held her head a little to +one side. + +"There," he added, "there, I know you well. It was at Bethany I saw you +first. Yes, yes, I remember perfectly; you were leaving, and Martha was in +tears. Only a little since I had speech with her. She spoke of you; she +knew you were called the Magdalen. No," he continued, for Mary had shrunk +back, "no, I will not curse. There is another by whom you will be +blessed." + +Mary laughed. "I am going to Rome. Tiberius will give me a palace. I shall +sleep on the down the Teutons bring. I shall drink pearls dissolved in +falernian. I shall sup on peacocks' tongues." + +"No, Mary, Rome you will never see. The Eternal has you in His charge. +Your shame will be washed away." + +"Shame to you," she interrupted. "Shame and starvation too." She made as +though she were about to pirouette again. "Whom are you talking of?" + +"One whose shoes I am unworthy to bear." + +For a moment he seemed to meditate; then, with the melancholy of one +renounceing some immense ambition, he murmured, half to himself, half to +the sky, "For him to increase I must diminish." + +"As for that, you are not much to look at now. I must go. I must braid my +hair; the emir's eyes are eager." + +"Mary," he hissed, and the sudden asperity of his voice coerced her as a +bit might do, "you will go to Capharnahum, you will seek him, you will say +Iohanan is descended into the tombs to announce the Son of David." + +Through the lateral entrance to the terrace a number of guests had +entered. From the balcony above, Antipas leaned and listened. Some one +touched him; it was Herodias. + +"The procurator is coming," she announced. "You should be at the gate." + +"Ah!" + +He seemed indifferent. What Iohanan had said concerning the Son of David +stirred him like the point of a sword. He felt that there could be no such +person; his father had put a stop to all that. And yet, if there were! + +His indifference surprised Herodias. + +"What are you staring at?" she asked; and to assure herself she looked +over the balustrade. "That carrion? You should----" + +Her hand drawn across her throat completed the sentence. + +The tetrarch shook his head. There was no hurry. Then, too, the prophet +was useful. He reviled Jerusalem, and that flattered Galilee. But there +was another reason, which he kept to himself. Iohanan affected him as no +one had done before. + +He feared him, chained though he was, and into that fear something akin to +admiration entered. In his heart he wished he had let him alone. No, there +was no hurry. As he assured her of that the prophet looked up. + +"Jezebel!" + +The guests approached. Their number had increased. There were Greek +merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes +from Jerusalem. Herodias clapped her hands. A negro, naked to the waist, +appeared. + +"Take him below." + +But the guests surrounded Iohanan. The Pharisees recognized him at once. +He was the terror of the hierarchs. + +As he cried out at Herodias he seemed as though he would rise and wrench +his bonds and mount to where she was. His eyes had lost their pathos; they +blazed. + +"Woe unto you!" he shouted, "and woe unto your barren bed! Though you hid +in the bowels of the earth, in the uttermost depths of a jungle, the +stench of your incest would betray you. Woe unto you, I say; the swine +will turn from you, the Eternal will rend you, and the heart of hell will +vomit you back!" + +Herodias shook with anger. She was livid. Murmurs circulated through the +increasing throng. + +The Pharisees edged nearer. On their foreheads were slips of vellum on +which passages of the Law had been inscribed. About their left arms other +slips extended spiralwise from the elbow to the end of the third finger. +They were in white; where their garments had become soiled, the spots had +been chalked. + +To them the prophet showed his teeth. "And woe unto you too, race of +vipers, bladders of wind! As the fire devours the stubble, and the flame +consumes the chaff, so your root will be rottenness and your seed go up as +dust. Fear will engulf you like a torrent. The high peaks will be broken, +the mountains will sever, and night be upon all. The valleys and hills +will be strewn with your corpses, the rocks will run with your blood, the +plain will drink it, and the vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto you +all, I say, that call good evil, and evil good!" + +The invective continued. It enveloped the world. Everything was to be +destroyed. Presently it subsided; the voice of the prophet sank lower; his +eyes sought the sky, the pupils dilated; and the dream of his nation, the +triumphant future, the sanctification of the faithful, the magnificence +that was to be, poured rapturously from his lips. + +"The whole land will glow with glory. The sky will be a rose in bloom. The +meadows will rejoice, and the earth will be filled with men and maidens +singing and kneeling to Thee, Immanuel, whom I await." + +The vision would have expanded, perhaps, but the chain that bound him was +loosed, sinewy arms were dragging him away. As he went, he glared up again +at Herodias. His face had lost its beatitude. + +"You will be stripped of your purple, Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden +under foot. The pains of a woman in travail will be as joys unto yours. +There will be not enough stones to throw at you, and the abomination of +your lust will bellow, Accursed, even beyond the tomb." + +The anathema fainted in the distance. The Scribes consulted between their +teeth. By the Pharisees Antipas was blamed. A merchant from Hippos did not +understand, and the Law was explained. That a man should marry his +brother's wife was a duty, only in this instance it had not occurred to +the brother to die beforehand. Then, again, by her first husband Herodias +had a child, and in that was the abomination. + +The merchant did not wholly grasp the distinction, but he nodded as though +he had. + +"There was a child, was there?" + +A captain of the garrison answered: "A girl, Salom." + +He said nothing further, but the merchant could see that his mouth watered +at the thought of her. + +The crowd had become very dense. Suddenly a trumpet blared. At the gate +was Pontius Pilate. On his head was a high and dazzling helmet. His tunic +was short, open at the neck. His legs were bare. He was shod with shoes +that left the toes exposed. From his cuirass a gorgon's head had, in +deference to local prejudice, been effaced; in its stead were scrolls and +thunderbolts. From the belt rows of straps, embroidered and fringed, fell +nearly to the knee. He held his head in the air. His features were +excellent, and his beard hung in rows of short overlapping curls. + +Behind him was his body-guard. Before him Antipas stood, welcoming the +Roman in Greek. + +In the sky now were the advancing steps of night; in crevices of the +basalt the leaves of the baaras weed had begun to flicker. It was time for +the festival to begin; and, preceding the guests, Antipas passed into a +hall beyond. + +It was oblong, curved at the ends, and so vast that the roof was vague. On +the walls were slabs of different colors, marble spotted like the skin of +serpents, and onyx flecked with violet. On two sides were galleries +supported by columns of sandstone. A third gallery formed a semicircle. +Opposite, at the further end, on a dais, was the table of the tetrarch. + +Antipas faced the assemblage. At his left was the procurator, at his right +the emir of Tadmor. Curtains were looped on either side. Above were +panels; they separated, and flowers fell. On a little stool next to the +couch on which the emir lay was a beautiful boy with curly hair. The couch +of the procurator was covered with a dim Babylonian shawl. That of the +tetrarch was of ivory incrusted with gold. All three were cushioned. + +As the guests entered they were sprinkled with perfume. Throughout the +length of the hall other tables extended, and at these they found seats +and food: Syrian radishes, melons from the oases near the Oxus, white +olives from Bethany, honey from Capharnahum, and the little onions of +Ascalon. There were candelabra everywhere, liquids cooled with snow, +cheeses big as millstones, chunks of fat in wooden bowls, and behind the +tables, slaves with copper platters. On the platters were quarters of red +beef, breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds with their plumage on. In +the semicircular gallery musicians played, three notes, constantly +repeated. + +The tetrarch's table was spread with a cloth of byssus striped with +Laconian green. On it were jars of murrha filled with balsam, Sidonian +goblets of colored glass, jasper amphor, and water-melons from Egypt. +Before the procurator was a dish of oysters, lampreys, and boned barbels, +mixed well together, flavored with cinnamon and assafoetida; mashed +grasshoppers baked in saffron; and a roasted boar, the legs curled inward, +the eyes half-closed. The emir ate abundantly of heron's eggs whipped with +wine into an amber foam. When his fingers were soiled, he wiped them in +the curls of the beautiful boy who sat near by. + +The smell of food filled the hall, mounted to the roof. The atmosphere was +that of a bath, and the wines were heady. Already discussions had arisen. +A mountaineer and a Galilean skiffsman had been dragged away, the one +senseless, the other with features indistinguishable and masked in blood. +It was a great festival, and the tetrarch was entertaining, as only he +could, his friends, his enemies, and whoever chanced that way. + +"As a child he rubbed his body with the leaves of the cnyza, which is a +preservative of chastity." It was a little man with restless eyes and a +very long white beard detailing the virtues of Iohanan. "But," he added, +"he must have found cold water better." + +His neighbors laughed. One pounded the table. + +"Jeshua--" he began, but everyone was talking at once. + +"Jeshua--" he continued; yet, as no one would listen, he turned to a +passing eunuch and caught him by the arm--"Jeshua does more; he works +miracles, and not with the cnyza either." + +The eunuch eluded him and escaped. However, he would not be balked; he +stood up and, through the din, he shouted at the little man: + +"Baba Barbulah, I tell you he is the Messiah!" + +His voice was so loud it dominated the hubbub, and suddenly the hubbub +ceased. + +From the dais Pontius Pilate listened indifferently. Antipas held his +hands behind his ears that he might hear the better. The emir paid no +attention at all. On his head was a conical turban; about it were loops of +sapphire and coils of pearl. He wore a vest with scant sleeves that +reached to the knuckles, and trousers that overhung the instep and fell in +wide wrinkles on his feet; both were of leopard-skin. Over the vest was a +sleeveless tunic, clasped at the shoulders and girt at the waist. His hair +was long, plentifully oiled; his beard was bushy, blue-black, and specked +with silver. + +Mary had approached. From the lessening waist to the slender feet her +dress opened at either side. Beneath was a chemise of transparent +Bactrianian tissue. From girdle to armpits were little clasps; on her +ankles, bands; and above the elbow, on her bare white arm, two circlets of +emeralds from the mines of Djebel Zabur. + +The emir spoke to her. She listened with a glimpse of the most beautiful +teeth in the world. He put out a hand tentatively and touched her: the +tissue of her garment crackled and emitted sparks. He raised a goblet to +her. The wine it held was yellower than the marigold. She brushed it with +her lips; he drank it off, then, refreshed, he looked her up and down. + +In one hand she held a cup of horn, narrower at the top than at the end; +in it were dice made of the knee-joints of gazelles, and these she rattled +in his beard. + +"That beautiful Sultan, will he play?" + +With an ochre-tipped finger she pointed at the turban on his head. The +eyes of the emir vacillated. He undid a string of gems and placed them on +the table's edge. Mary unclasped a coil of emeralds and rattled the dice +again. She held the cup high up, then spilled the contents out. + +"Ashtaroth!" the emir cried. He had won. + +Mary leaned forward, fawned upon his breast, and gazed into his face. Her +breath had the fragrance of his own oasis, her lips were moist as the +pomegranate's pulp, her teeth as keen as his own desire. + +"No, beautiful Sultan, it is I." With the back of her hand she disturbed +the dice. "I am Ashtaroth, am I not?" + +Questioningly the emir explored the unfathomable eyes that gazed into his. + +On their surface floated an acquiescence to the tacit offer of his own. +Then he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered the jewels from the cloth of +byssus where they lay. + +"I tell you he is the Messiah!" It was the angry disputant shouting at the +little man. + +"Who is? What are you talking about?" + +Though the hubbub had ceased, throughout the hall were the mutterings of +dogs disturbed. + +"Jeshua," the disputant answered; "Jeshua the Nazarene." + +A Pharisee, very vexed, his bonnet tottering, gnashed back: "The Messiah +will uphold the law; this Nazarene attacks it." + +A Scribe interrupted: "Many things are to distinguish his advent. The +light of the sun will be increased a hundredfold, the orchards will bear +fruit a thousand times more abundantly. Death will be forgotten, joy will +be universal, Elijah will return." + +"But he has!" + +Antipas started. The Scribe trembled with rage. But the throng had caught +the name of Elijah, and knew to whom the disputant referred--a man in +tattered furs whom a few hours before they had seen dragged away by a +negro naked to the waist, and some one shouted: + +"Iohanan is Elijah." + +Baba Barbulah stood up and turned to whence the voice had come: + +"In the footprints of the Anointed impudence shall increase, and the face +of the generation shall be as the face of a dog. It may be," he added, +significantly--"it may be that you speak the truth." + +The sarcasm was lost. The musicians in the gallery, who had been playing +on flute and timbrel, began now on the psalteron and the native sambuca. +Behind was a row of lute-players; but most in view was a trignon, an +immense Egyptian harp, at which with nimble fingers a fair girl plucked. + +In the shadow Herodias leaned. At a signal from her the musicians attacked +the prelude of a Syrian dance, and in the midst of the assemblage a figure +veiled from head to foot suddenly appeared. For a moment it stood very +still; then the veil fell of itself, and from the garrison a shout went +up: + +"Salom! Salom!" + +Her hair, after an archaic Chanaanite fashion, was arranged in the form of +a tower. Her high bosom was wound about with protecting bands. Her waist +was bare. She wore long pink drawers of silk, and for girdle she had the +blue buds of the lotus, which are symbols of virginity. She was young and +exquisitely formed. In her face you read strange records, and on her lips +were promises as rare. Her eyes were tortoise-shell, her hair was black as +guilt. + +The prelude had ceased, the movement quickened. With a gesture of +abandonment the girl threw her head back, and, her arms extended, she +fluttered like a butterfly on a rose. She ran forward. The sambuca rang +quicker, the harp quicker yet. She threw herself to one side, then to the +other, her hips swaying as she moved. The buds at her girdle fell one by +one; she was dancing on flowers, her hips still swaying, her waist +advancing and retreating to the shiver of the harp. She was elusive as +dream, subtle as love; she intoxicated and entranced; and finally, as she +threw herself on her hands, her feet, first in the air and then slowly +descending, touched the ground, while her body straightened like a reed, +there was a long growl of unsatisfied content. + +She was kneeling now before the dais. Pilate compared her to Bathylle, a +mime whom he had applauded at Rome. The tetrarch was purple; he gnawed his +under lip. For the moment he forgot everything he should have +remembered--the presence of his guests, the stains of his household, his +wife even, whose daughter this girl was--and in a gust of passion he half +rose from his couch. + +"Come to me," he cried. "But come to me, and ask whatever you will." + +Salom hesitated and pouted, the point of her tongue protruding between +her lips. + +"Come to me," he pleaded; "you shall have slaves and palaces and cities; +you shall have hills and intervales. I will give you anything; half my +kingdom if you wish." + +There was a tinkle of feet; the girl had gone. In a moment she returned, +and balancing herself on one foot, she lisped very sweetly: "I should like +by and by to have you give me the head of Iohanan--" she looked about; in +the distance a eunuch was passing, a dish in his hand, and she added, "on +a platter." + +Antipas jumped as though a hound under the table had bitten him on the +leg. He turned to the procurator, who regarded him indifferently, and to +the emir, who was toying with Mary's agate-nailed hand. He had given his +word, however; the people had heard. About his ears the perspiration +started; from purple he had grown very gray. + +Salom still stood, balancing herself on one foot, the point of her tongue +just visible, while from the gallery beyond, in whose shadows he divined +the instigating presence of Herodias, came the grave music of an Hebraic +hymn. + +"So be it," he groaned. + +The order was given, and a tear trickled down through the paint and +furrows of his cheek. On the hall a silence had descended. The guests were +waiting, and the throb of the harp accentuated the suspense. Presently +there was the clatter of men-at-arms, and a negro, naked to the waist, +appeared, an axe in one hand, the head of the prophet in the other. + +He presented it deferentially to Antipas, who motioned it away, his face +averted. Salom smiled. She took it, and then, while she resumed her veil, +she put it down before the emir, who eyed it with the air of one that has +seen many another object such as that. + +But in a moment the veil was adjusted, and with the trophy the girl +disappeared. + +The harp meanwhile had ceased to sob, the guests were departing; already +the procurator had gone. The emir looked about for Mary, but she also had +departed; and, with the expectation, perhaps, of finding her without, he +too got up and left the hall. + +Antipas was alone. Through the lattice at his side he could see the baaras +in the basalt emitting its firefly sparks of flame. From an adjacent +corridor came the discreet click-clack of a sandal, and in a moment the +head of the prophet was placed on the table at which he lay. The tetrarch +leaned over and gazed into the unclosed eyes. They were haggard and +dilated, and they seemed to curse. + +He put his hand to his face and tried to think--to forget rather, and not +to remember; but his ears were charged with rustlings that extended +indefinitely and lost themselves in the future; his mind peopled itself +with phantoms of the past. Perhaps he dozed a little. When he looked up +again the head was no longer there, and he told himself that Herodias had +thrown it to the swine. + + + + + + CHAPTER III. + + + III. + + +In the distance the white and yellow limestone of the mountains rose. Near +by was a laughter of flowers, a tumult of green. Just beyond, in a border +of sedge and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the sky. In the background +were the blue and white terraces of Magdala, and about a speaker were +clustered a handful of people, a group of laborers and of fishermen. + +He was dressed as a rabbi, but he looked like a seer. In his face was the +youth of the world, in his eyes the infinite. As he spoke, his words +thrilled and his presence allured. "Repent," he was saying; "the kingdom +of heaven is at hand." And as the resplendent prophecy continued, you +would have said that a bird in his heart had burst into song. + +A little to one side, in an attitude of amused contempt, a few of the +tetrarch's courtiers stood; they were dressed in the Roman fashion, and +one, Pandera, a captain of the guard, wore a cuirass that glittered as he +laughed. He was young and very handsome. He had white teeth, red lips, a +fair skin, a dark beard, and, as he happened to be stationed in the +provinces, an acquired sneer. Dear old Rome, how vague it was! And as he +jested with his comrades he thought of its delights, and wished himself +either back again in the haunts he loved, or else, if he must be separated +from them, then, instead of vegetating in a tiresome tetrarchy, he felt +that it would be pleasant to be far off somewhere, where the uncouth +Britons were, a land which it took a year of adventures to reach; on the +banks of the Betis, whence the girls came that charmed the lupanars; in +Numidia, where the hunting was good; or in Thrace, where there was blood +in plenty--anywhere, in fact, save on the borders of the beautiful lake +where he happened to be. + +It was but the restlessness of youth, perhaps, that disturbed him so, for +in Galilee there were oafs as awkward as any that Britannia could show; +there was game in abundance; blood, too, was not as infrequent as it might +have been; and as for women, there at his side stood one as appetizing as +Rome, Spain even, had produced. He turned to her now, and plucked at his +dark beard and showed his white teeth; he had caught a phrase of the rabbi +in which the latter had mentioned the kingdoms of the earth, and the +phrase amused him. + +"I like that," he said. "What does he know about the kingdoms of the +earth? Mary, I wager what you will that he has never been two leagues from +where he stands. Let's ask and see." + +But Mary did not seem to hear. She was engrossed in the rabbi, and Pandera +had to tug at her sleeve before she consented to return to a life in which +he seemingly had a part. + +"What do you say?" he asked. + +Mary shook her head. She had the air of one whose mind is elsewhere. Into +her face a vacancy had come; she seemed incapable of reply; and as the +guardsman scrutinized her it occurred to him that she might be on the +point of having an attack of that catalepsy to which he knew her to be +subject. But immediately she reassured him. + +"Come, let us go." + +And, the guardsman at her side, the others in her train, she ascended the +little hill on which her castle was, and where the midday meal awaited. + +It was a charming residence. Built quadrangularwise, the court held a +fountain which was serviceable to those that wished to bathe. The roof was +a garden. The interior faade was of teak wood, carved and colored; the +frontal was of stone. Seen from the exterior it looked the fortress of +some umbrageous prince, but in the courtyard reigned the seduction of a +woman in love. From without it menaced, within it soothed. + +Her title to it was a matter of doubt. According to Pandera, who at the +mess-table at Tiberias had boasted his possession of her confidence, it +was a heritage from her father. Others declared that it had been given her +by her earliest lover, an old man who since had passed away. Yet, after +all, no one cared. She kept open house; the tetrarch held her in high +esteem; she was attached to the person of the tetrarch's wife; only a +little before, the emir of Tadmor had made a circuitous journey to visit +her; Vitellius, the governor of the province, had stopped time and again +beneath her roof; and--and here was the point--to see her was to acquire a +new conception of beauty. Of human flowers she was the most fair. + +Yet now, during the meal that followed, Mary, the toast of the tetrarchy, +she whose wit and brilliance had been echoed even in Rome, wrapped herself +in a mantle of silence. The guardsman jested in vain. To the others she +paid as much attention as the sun does to a torch; and when at last +Pandera, annoyed, perhaps, at her disregard of a quip of his, attempted to +whisper in her ear, she left the room. + +The nausea of the hour may have affected her, for presently, as she threw +herself on her great couch, her thoughts forsook the present and went back +into the past, her childhood returned, and faces that she had loved +reappeared and smiled. Her father, for instance, Theudas, who had been +satrap of Syria, and her mother, Eucharia, a descendant of former kings. + +But of these her memories were slight--they had died when she was still +very young--and in their place came her sister, Martha, kind of heart and +quick of temper, obdurate, indulgent, and continually perplexed; Simon, +Martha's husband, a Libyan, born in Cyrene, called by many the Leper +because of a former whiteness of his skin, a whiteness which had long +since vanished, for he was brown as a date; Eleazer, her brother, younger +than herself, a delicate boy with blue pathetic eyes; and with them came +the delight of Bethany, that lovely village on the oriental slope of the +Mount of Olives, where the rich of Jerusalem had their villas, and where +her girlhood had been passed. + +From the lattice at which she used to sit she could see the wide white +road begin its descent to the Jordan, a stretch of almond trees and +oleanders; and just beyond, in a woody hollow, a little house in which +Sephrah lived--a woman who came from no one knew where, and to whom Martha +had forbidden her to speak. + +She could see her still, a gaunt, gray creature, with projecting +cheek-bones, a skin of brick, and a low, insinuating voice. The +fascination which she had exercised over her partook both of wonder and of +fear, for it was rumored that she was a sorceress, and as old as the +world. To Mary, who was then barely nubile, and inquisitive as only +fanciful children are, she manifested a great affection, enticing her to +her dwelling with little cakes that were sweet to the tooth and fabulous +tales that stirred the heart: the story of Stratonice and Combabus, for +instance, which Mary did not in the least understand, but which seemed to +her intensely sad. + +"And then what?" she would ask when the tale was done; and the woman would +tell her of Ninus and Semiramis, of Sennachereb, of Sardanapalus, +Belsarazzur, of Dagon, the fish-god of Philistia, by whom Goliath swore +and in whose temple Samson died, or of Sargon, who, placed by his mother +in an ark of rushes, was set adrift in the Euphrates, yet, happily +discovered by a water-carrier, afterwards became a leader of men. + +"Why, that was Moses!" the child would exclaim. + +"No, no," the woman invariably answered, "it was Sargon." + +But that which pleasured Mary more highly even than these tales were the +legends of Hither Asia, the wonderlands of Babylon, and particularly the +story of the creation, for always the human mind has wished to read the +book of God. + +"Where did they say the world came from?" she would ask. + +And Sephrah, drawing a long breath, would answer: "Once all was darkness +and water. In this chaos lived strange animals, and men with two wings, +and others with four wings and two faces. Some had the thighs of goats, +some had horns, and some had horses' feet, or were formed behind like a +horse and in front like a man; there were bulls with human faces, and men +with the heads of dogs, and other animals of human shape with fins like +fishes, and fishes like sirens, and dragons, and creeping things, and +serpents, and fierce creatures, the images of which are preserved in the +temple of Bel. + +"Over all these ruled the great mother, Um Uruk. But Bel, whom your people +call Baal, divided the darkness and clove the woman asunder. Of one part +he made the earth, and of the other the sun, the moon, the planets. He +drew off the water, apportioned it to the land, and prepared and arranged +the world. The creatures on it could not endure the light of day and +became extinct. + +"Now when Bel saw the land fruitful yet uninhabited, he cut off his head +and made one of the gods mingle the blood which flowed from it with earth +and form therewith men and animals that could endure the sun. Presently +Chalda was plentifully populated, but the inhabitants lived like animals, +without order or rule. Then there appeared to them from the sea a monster +of the name of Yan. Its body was that of a fish, but under its head +another head was attached, and on its fins were feet, and its voice was +that of a man. Its image is still preserved. It came at morning, passed +the day, and taught language and science, the harvesting of seeds and of +fruits, the rules for the boundaries of land, the mode of building cities +and temples, arts and writing and all that pertains to civilized life, and +for four hundred and thirty-two thousand years the world went very well. + +"Then in a dream Bel revealed to Xisuthrus that there would be a great +storm, and men would be destroyed. He bade him bury in Sepharvaim, the +city of the sun, all the ancient, medival, and modern records, and build +a ship and embark in it with his kindred and his nearest friends. He was +also to take food and drink into the ship, and pairs of all creatures +winged and four-footed. + +"Xisuthrus did as he was bidden, and from the ends of heaven the storm +began to blow. Bin thundered; Nebo, the Revealer, came forth; Nergal, the +Destroyer, overthrew; and Adar, the Sublime, swept in his brightness +across the earth. The storm devoured the nations, it lapped the sky, +turned the land into an ocean, and destroyed everything that lived. Even +the gods were afraid. They sought refuge in the heaven of Anu, sovereign +of the upper realms. As hounds draw in their tails, they seated themselves +on their thrones, and to them Mylitta, the great goddess, spake: 'The +world has turned from me, and ruin I have proclaimed.' She wept, and the +gods on their thrones wept with her. + +"On the seventh day Xisuthrus perceived that the storm had abated and that +the sea had begun to fall. He sent out a dove, it returned; next, a +swallow, which also returned, but with mud on its feet; and again, a +raven, which saw the corpses in the water and ate them, and returned no +more. Then the boat was stayed and settled upon Mount Nasir. Xisuthrus +went out and worshipped the recovered earth. When his companions went in +search of him he had disappeared, but his voice called to them saying that +for his piety he had been carried away; that he was dwelling among the +gods; and that they were to return to Sepharvaim and dig up the books and +give them to mankind. Which they did, and erected many cities and temples, +and rebuilt Babylon and Mylitta's shrine." + +"It is simpler in Genesis," Mary said, the first time she heard this +marvellous tale. For to her, as to Martha and Eleazer, the khazzan, the +teacher of the synagogue, had read from the great square letters in which +the Pentateuch was written another account of the commingling of Chaos and +of Light. + +At the mention of the sacred canon, Sephrah would smile with that +indulgence which wisdom brings, and smooth her scanty plaits, and draw the +back of her hand across her mouth. + +"Burned on tiles in the land of the magi are the records of a million +years. In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the history of life and of time +is written on the cerements of kings. Where the bells ring at the neck of +the camels of Iran is a stretch of columns on which are inscribed the +words of those that lived in Paradise. On a wall of the temple of Bel are +the chronicles of creation; in the palace of Assurbanipal, the narrative +of the flood. It is from these lands and monuments the Thorah comes; its +verses are made of their memories; it gathered whatever it found, and +overlooked the essential, immortal life." + +And Sephrah added in a whisper, "For we are descended from gods, and +immortal as they." + +The khazzan had disclosed to Mary no such prospect as that. To him as to +all orthodox expounders of the Law man was essentially evanescent; he +lived his little day and disappeared forever. God alone was immortal, and +an immortal being would be God. The contrary beliefs of the Egyptians and +the Aryans were to them abominations, and the spiritualistic doctrine +inaugurated by Juda Maccabus and accepted by the Pharisees, an impiety. +The Pentateuch had not a word on the subject. Moses had expressly declared +that secret things belong to the Lord, and only visible things to man. The +prophets had indeed foretold a terrestrial immortality, but that +immortality was the immortality of a nation; and the realization of their +prophecy the entire people awaited. Apart from that there was only Sheol, +a sombre region of the under-earth, to which the dead descended, and there +remained without consciousness, abandoned by God. + +"Immortal!" Mary, with great wondering eyes, would echo. "Immortal!" + +"Yes; but to become so," Sephrah replied, "you must worship at another +shrine." + +"Where is it?" + +Sephrah answered evasively. Mary would find it in time--when the spring +came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had a word or two to say of Baal to such +effect even that Mary questioned the khazzan. + +"However great the god of the Gentiles has been imagined," the khazzan +announced, "he is bounded by the earth and the sky. His feet may touch the +one, his head the other, but of nature he is a part, and, to the Eternal, +nature is not even a garment, it is a substance He made, and which He can +remould at will. It is not in nature, it is in light, He is: in the +burning bush in which He revealed Himself; in the stake at which Isaac +would have died; in the lightning in which the Law was declared, the +column of fire, the flame of the sacrifices, and the gleaming throne in +which Isaiah saw Him sit--it is there that He is, and His shadow is the +sun." + +Of this Mary repeated the substance to her friend, and Sephrah mused. + +"No," she said at last--"no, he is not in light, but in the desert where +nature is absent, and where the world has ceased to be. The threats of a +land that never smiled are reflected in his face. The sight of him is +death. No, Baal is the sun-god. His eyes fecundate." + +And during the succeeding months Sephrah entertained Mary with Assyrian +annals and Egyptian lore. She told her more of Baal, whose temple was in +Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at Ascalon. She told her of the women +who wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason of their tears. She told her +of the union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, and +of Neith, mother of the sun; of the holy incest of Isis and Osiris; and of +Luz, called by the patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the foothold of a +straight stairway which messengers ceaselessly ascended and descended, and +at whose summit the Elohim sat. + +She told her of these things, of others as well; and now and then in the +telling of them a fat little man with beady eyes would wander in, the +smell of garlic about him, and stare at Mary's lips. His name was Pappus; +by Sephrah he was treated with great respect, and Mary learned that he +was rich and knew that Sephrah was poor. + +When the Passover had come and gone, Sephrah detected that Mary had +ceased to be a child; and of the gods and goddesses with whose adventures +she was wont to entertain her, gradually she confined herself to Mylitta; +and in describing the wonderlands which she knew so well, she spoke now +only of Babylon, where the great tower was, and the gardens that hung in +the air. + +It was all very marvellous and beautiful, and Sephrah described it in +fitting terms. There was the Temple of the Seven Spheres, where the +priests offered incense to the Houses of the Planets, to the whole host of +heaven, and to Bel, Lord of the Sky. There was the Home of the Height, a +sheer flight of solid masonry extending vertiginously, and surmounted by +turrets of copper capped with gold. In its utmost pinnacle were a +sanctuary and a dazzling couch. There the priests said that sometimes Bel +came and rested. For the truth of that statement, however, Sephrah +declined to vouch. She had never seen him; but the hanging gardens she had +seen, long before they were demolished. She had walked in them, and she +described their loveliness, and related that they were erected to pleasure +a Persian princess whose eyes had wearied of the monotony of the +Babylonian plain. + +Once when Pappus was present--and latterly he had been often there--she +passed from the gardens to the grove where the temple of Mylitta stood. At +the steps of the shrine, she declared, were white-winged lions, and +immense bulls with human heads. Within were dovecotes and cisterns, the +emblems of fecundity, and a block of stone which she did not describe. +Without, among the terebinths and evergreens, were little cabins and an +avenue bordered by cypress trees, in which men with pointed hats and long +embroidered gowns passed slowly, for there the maidens of Babylon sat, +chapleted with cords, burning bran for perfume, awaiting the will of the +first who should toss a coin in their lap and in the name of Mylitta +invite them to perform the sacred rite. + +"That," said Sephrah, "is the worship Mylitta exacts." As she spoke she +drew herself up, her height increased, an unnatural splendor filled her +eyes. "I," she continued, "am her priestess. I sacrificed at Byblus, but +you may sacrifice here. There is a dovecote, yonder is a cistern, beyond +are the cypress and the evergreens that she loves. Mary, do you wish to be +immortal? Do you see the way?" + +Mary smiled vaguely, and with the serenity of one worshipping a divinity +she suffered the fat Jerusalemite to take her in his arms. + +And now as she lay on her great couch these things returned to her, and +subsequent episodes as well. There had been the lamentable grief of +Martha, the added pathos in her brother's eyes. The estate of her father +had been divided, and the castle of Magdala had fallen to her share. +Meanwhile she had been at Jerusalem, and from there she had journeyed to +Antioch, where she had heard the beasts roar in the arena. She had looked +on blood, on the honey-colored moon that effaced the stars, and everywhere +she had encountered love. + +Since then her hours had been grooved in revolving circles of alternating +delights, and delights to which no shadow of regret had come. To her, +youth had been a chalice of aromatic wine. She had drained it and found no +dregs. Day had been interwoven with splendors, and night with the rays of +the sun. Where she passed she conquered; when she smiled there were slaves +ready-made. There had been hot brawls where she trod, the gleam of white +knives. Men had killed each other because of her eyes, and women had wept +themselves to death. For her a priest had gone mad, and a betrothed had +hid herself in the sea. In Hierapolis the galli had fancied her Ashtaroth; +and at Capri, where Tiberius lounged, a villa awaited her will. + +Her life had indeed been full, yet that morning its nausea had mounted to +her heart. At the words of the rabbi the horizon had expanded, the dream +of immortality returned. It had been forgot long since and abandoned, but +now, for the first time since her childhood, something there was which +admonished her that perhaps she still might stroll through lands where +dreams come true. The path was not wholly clear as yet, and as in her +troubled mind she tried to disentangle the past from the present the sun +went down behind the castle, the crouching shadows elongated and possessed +the walls. + +An echo came to her, Repent, and the prophecy continuing danced in her +ears; yet still the way was obscure. In the echo she divined merely that +the past must be put from her like a garment that is stained. The rest was +vague. Then suddenly she was back again in Machrus, and she heard the +ringing words of John. Could this be the Messiah her nation awaited? was +there a kingdom coming, and immortality too? + +Her thoughts entangled and grew confused. There was a murmur of harps in +the distance, and she wondered whence it could come. Some one was +speaking; she tried to rouse herself and listen. The room was filled with +bats that changed to butterflies. The murmur of harps continued, and +through the wall before her issued a litter in which a woman lay. + +A circle of slaves surrounded her. She was pale, and her eyes closed +languorously. "I am Indolence," she said. "Sleep is not softer than my +couch. My lightest wish is law to kings. I live on perfumes; my days are +as shadows on glass. Mary, come with me, and I will teach you to forget." + +She vanished, and where the litter had been stood a eunuch. "I am Envy," +he said, and his eyes drooped sullenly. "I separate those that love; I +dismantle altars and dismember nations. I corrode and corrupt; I destroy, +and I never rebuild. My joy is malice, and my creed false-witnessing. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to hate." + +He disappeared, and where his slime had dripped stood a being with fingers +intertwisted and a back that bent. "I am Greed," it said. "I sap the veins +of youth; I drain the hearts of women; I bring contention where peace +should be. I make fathers destroy their sons, and daughters betray their +mother. I never forget, and I never release. I am the master. Mary, come +with me, and you shall own the world." + +The fetor of the presence went, and in its place came one whose footsteps +thundered. "I am Anger," he declared. "I exterminate and rejoice. I batten +on blood. In my heart is suspicion, in my hand is flame. It is I that am +war and disaster and regret. My breath consumes, and my voice affrights. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to quell." + +He dissolved, and in the shadows stood one whose hands were ample, and +whose wide mouth laughed. "I am Gluttony," he announced, and as he spoke +his voice was thick. "I fatten and forsake. I offer satrapies for one new +dish. I invite and alienate, I welcome and repel. It is I that bring +disease and disorders. I am the harbinger of Death. Mary, come with me, +and you shall taste of Life." + +He also disappeared, and two heralds entered with trumpets on which they +blew, and one exclaimed, "Make way for Assurbanipal, ruler of land and of +sea." Then, with horsemen riding royally, Sardanapalus advanced through +the fissure in the wall. On his head a high and wonderful tiara shone with +zebras that had wings and horns. His hair was long, and his beard curled +in overlapping rings. His robe dazzled, and the close sleeves were +fastened over his knuckles with bracelets of precious stones. In one hand +he held a sceptre, in the other a chart. + +"I," he cried--"I am Assurbanipal; the progeny of Assur and of Baaltis, son +of the great king Riduti, whom the lord of crowns, in days remote +prophesying in his name, raised to the kingdom, and in the womb of his +mother created to rule. The man of war, the joy of Assur and of Istar, the +royal offspring, am I. When the gods seated me on the throne of the father +my begetter, Bin poured down his rain, Hea feasted the people. My enemies +I destroyed, and their gods glorified me before my camp. The god of their +oracles, whose image no man had seen, I took, and the goddesses whom the +kings worshipped I dishonored." + +He paused and looked proudly about, then he continued: + +"That which is in the storehouse of heaven is kindled, and to the city of +cities my glory flies. The queens above and below proclaim my glory. I am +Glory, and I am Pride. Mary, come with me, and you shall disdain the sky." + +But Mary gave no sign. The clattering horses vanished, and two men dressed +in women's clothes appeared. They bowed to the ground and chanted: + +"The holy goddess, our Lady Mylitta, whose sacrificants we are." + +Then came a form so luminous that Mary hid her face and listened merely. + +"I," said a voice--"I am Desire. In Greece I am revered, and there I am +Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in +Persia, Anhita; Tanit in Carthage; Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; +Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and +Aschera in the glades of Juda. And everywhere I am worshipped, and +everywhere I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight and pain. I appease +and appal. It is I that create and undo. It is I that make heaven and +people hell. I am the mistress of the world. Without me time would cease +to be. I am the germ of stars, the essence of things. I am all that is, +will be, and has been, and my robe no mortal has raised. I breathe, and +nations are; in my parturitions are planets; my home is space. My lips are +blissfuller than any bloom of bliss; my arms the opening gates of life. +The Infinite is mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall measure it." + +When Mary ventured to look again the vision had gone. They had all gone +now. She had made no effort to detain them. They were tempters of which +she was freed, in which she believed, and which were real to her. The wall +through which they had come and departed was vague and in the darkness +remote, but presently it dissolved again, and afar in the beckoning +distance was one breathing a soul into decrepit rites. "Come unto me, all +ye that sorrow and are heavy-laden," she heard him say; and, as with a +great sob of joy she rose to that gracious summons, night seized her. When +she awoke, a newer dawn had come. + + + + + + CHAPTER IV. + + + IV. + + +In the gardens of the palace the tetrarch mused. The green parasols of the +palms formed an avenue, and down that avenue now and then he looked. Near +him a Syrian bear, quite tame, with a sweet face and tufted silver fur, +gambolled prodigiously. Up and down a neighboring tree two lemurs chased +with that grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting animals alone +possess. Ringed-horned antelopes, the ankles slender as the stylus, the +eyes timid and trustful, pastured just beyond; and there too a black-faced +ape, irritated perhaps by the lemurs, turned indignant somersaults, the +tender coloring of his body glistening in the sun. + +"It is odd that Pahul does not return," the tetrarch reflected; and then, +it may be for consolation's sake, he plunged his face in a jar of wine +that had been drained, in accordance with a recipe of Vitellius, through +cinnamon and calamus, and drank abundantly. + +Long since he had deserted Machrus. The legends that peopled its +corridors had beset him with a sense of reality which before they had +never possessed. The leaves of the baaras glittered frenetically in the +basalt, and in their spectral light a phantom with eyes that cursed came +and went. At night he had drunk, and in the clear forenoons he paced the +terrace fancying always that there, beyond in the desert, Aretas prowled +like a wolf. Machrus was unhealthy; men had gone mad there, others had +disappeared entirely. It was a haunt of echoes, of memories, of ghosts +also, perhaps too of reproach. And so, with his court, he returned to his +brand-new Tiberias, where the air was serener, and nature laughed. + +And yet in the gardens that leaned to the lake the tranquillity he had +anticipated eluded and declined to be detained. Rumors that Herodias +collected came to him with the stamp of Rome. One of his brothers was +plotting against him; another, though in exile, was plotting too. It was +the Herod blood, his wife said; and, with the intemperance of a woman +whose ambition has been deceived, she taunted him with his plebeian +descent. "Your grandfather was a sweep at Ascalon, a eunuch at that," she +had remarked; and the tetrarch, by way of reply, had been obliged to +content himself by asking how, in that case, he could have been +grandfather at all. + +But latterly a new source of inquietude had come. At Magdala, Capharnahum, +Bethsada, there, within the throw of a stone, was a Nazarene going about +inciting the peasants to revolt. It was very vexatious, and he told +himself that when an annoyance fades another appears. Life, it occurred to +him, was a brier with renascent thorns. And now, as he gargled the wine +that left a pink foam on his lips, even that irritation lapsed in the +perplexing absence of Pahul. + +Pahul was a butler of his, a Greek whom he had picked up one adventurous +night in Rome, who had made himself useful, whom he had attached to his +household, whom he consulted, and on whom he relied. Early that day he had +sent him off with instructions to run the demagogue to earth, to listen, +to question if need were, and to hurry back and report. But as yet he had +not returned. The day was fading, and on the amphitheatre which the hills +made the sun seemed to balance itself, the disk blood-red. The lemurs had +tired, perhaps; their yellow eyes and circled tails had gone; the bear had +been led away; only the multicolored ape remained, gnawing now with little +plaintive moans at a bit of fruit which he held suspiciously in his +wrinkled hand. + +Presently a star appeared and quivered, then another came, and though +overhead were streaks of pink, and, where the sun had been, a violence of +red and orange, the east retained its cobalt, night still was remote--an +echo of crotals from the neighboring faubourg, the cry of elephants +impatient for their fodder, alone indicating that a day was dead. + +In the charm of the encroaching twilight the irritation of the tetrarch +waned and decreased. He lost himself in memories of the princess who had +been his bride, and he wondered were it possible that, despite the +irrevocable, he was never to see, to speak, to hold her to him again. +Truly her grievance was unmeasurable, the more so even that she had not +deigned to utter so much as a reproach. At the rumor of his treachery she +had betaken herself to the solitudes, where Aretas her father was king, +and had there remained girt in that unmurmuring silence which nobility +raises as a barrier between outrage and itself, and which the desert is +alone competent to suggest. + +"It is he!" + +The tetrarch started so abruptly that he narrowly missed the jar at his +side. On noiseless sandals Pahul had approached, and stood before him +nodding his head with an air of assured conviction. The ape had fled and a +stork stepped gingerly away. + +"It is he," the Greek repeated--"John the Baptist." + +Antipas plucked at his beard. "But he is dead," he gasped; "I beheaded +him. What nonsense you talk!" + +"It is he, I tell you, only grown younger. I found him in the synagogue." + +"Where? what synagogue?" + +Pahul made a gesture. "At Capharnahum," he answered, and gazed in the +tetrarch's face. He was slight of form and regular of feature. As a lad he +had crossed bare-handed from Cum to Rhegium, and from there drifted to +Rome, where he started a commerce in Boetican girls which had so far +prospered that he bought two vessels to carry the freight. Unfortunately +the vessels met in a storm and sank. Then he became a hanger-on of the +circus; in idle moments a tout. It was in the latter capacity that Antipas +met him, and, pleased with his shrewdness and perfect corruption, had +attached him to his house. This had occurred in years previous, and as yet +Antipas had found no cause to regret the trust imposed. He was a useful +braggart, idle, familiar, and discreet; and he had acquired the dialect of +the country with surprising ease. + +"There were any number of people," Pahul continued. "Some said he was the +son of Joseph, the son of----" + +"But he, what did he say? How tiresome you are!" + +"Ah!" And Pahul swung his arms. "Who is Mammon?" + +"Mammon? Mammon? How do I know? Plutus, I suppose. What about him?" + +"And who is Satan?" + +"Satan? Satan is a--He's a Jew god. Why? But what do you mean by asking me +questions?" + +Pahul nodded absently. "I heard him say," he continued, "that no man could +serve God and Mammon. At first I thought he meant you. It was this way. I +got into conversation with a friend of his, a man named Judas. He told me +any number of things about him, that he cured the sick----" + +"Bah! Some Greek physician." + +"That he walks on the sea----" + +"Nonsense!" + +"That he turns water into wine, feeds the multitude, raises the dead----" + +"Raises the dead!" And the tetrarch added in the _sotto voce_ of thought, +"So did Elijah." + +"That he had been in the desert----" + +"With Aretas?" + +"No; I questioned him on that point. He had never heard of Aretas, but he +said that in the desert this Satan had come and offered him--what do you +suppose? _The empire of the earth!_" + +Antipas shook with fright. "It must have been Aretas." + +"But that he had refused." + +"Then it is John." + +"There, you see." And Pahul dandled himself with the air of one who is +master of logic. "That's what I said myself. I said this: 'If he can raise +the dead, he can raise himself.' " + +"It _is_ John," the tetrarch repeated. + +"I am sure of it," the butler continued. "But he did not say so. Judas +didn't either. On the contrary, he declared he was not. He said John was +not good enough to carry his shoes. I saw through that, though," and Pahul +leered; "he knew whom I was, and he lied to protect his friend. I of +course pretended to believe him." + +"Quite right," said the tetrarch. + +"Yes, I played the fool. H'm, where was I? Oh, I asked Judas who then his +friend was, but he went over to where a woman stood; he spoke to her; she +moved away. Some of the others seemed to reprove him. I would have +followed, but at that moment his friend stood up; a khazzan offered him a +scroll, but he waved it aside; then some one asked him a question which I +did not catch; another spoke to him; a third interrupted; he seemed to be +arguing with them. I was too far away to hear well, and I got nearer; then +I heard him say, 'I am the bread of life.' Now, what did he mean by that?" + +Antipas had no explanation to offer. + +"Then," Pahul continued, "he said he had come down from heaven. A man near +me exclaimed, 'He is the Messiah;' but others----" + +"The Messiah!" echoed the tetrarch. For a moment his thoughts stammered, +then at once he was back in the citadel. On one side was the procurator, +on the other the emir of Tadmor. In front of him was a drunken rabble, +wrangling Pharisees, and one man dominating the din with an announcement +of the Messiah's approach. The murmur of lutes threaded through it all; +and now, as his thoughts deviated, he wondered could that announcement +have been the truth. + +"But others," Pahul continued, "objected loudly. For a little I could not +catch a word. At last they became quieter, and I heard him repeat that he +was the bread of life, adding, 'Your fathers ate manna and are dead, but +this bread a man may eat of and never die.' At this there was new +contention. A woman fainted--the one to whom Judas had spoken. They carried +her out. As she passed I could see her face. It was Mary of Magdala. Judas +held her by the waist, another her feet." + +Antipas drew a hand across his face. "It is impossible," he muttered. + +"Not impossible at all. I saw her as plainly as I see you. The man next to +me said that the Rabbi had cast from her seven devils. Moreover, Johanna +was there--yes, yes, the wife of Khuza, your steward; it was she, I +remember now, who had her by the feet. And there were others that I +recognized, and others that the man next to me pointed out: Zabdia, a +well-to-do fisherman whom I have seen time and again, and with him his +sons James and John, and Salom his wife. Then, too, there were Simon +Barjona and Andrew his brother. Simon had his wife with him, his children, +and his mother-in-law. The man next to me said that the Rabbi called James +and John the Sons of Thunder, and Simon a stone. There was Mathias the +tax-gatherer, Philip of Bethsada, Joseph Barsaba, Mary Clopas, Susannah, +Nathaniel of Cana, Thomas, Thaddeus, Aristian the custom-house officer, +Ruth the tax-gatherer's wife, mechanics from Scythopolis, and Scribes from +Jerusalem." + +The fingers of Antipas' hand glittered with jewels. He played with them +nervously. The sky seemed immeasurably distant. For some little time it +had been hesitating between different shades of blue, but now it chose a +fathomless indigo; Night unloosed her draperies, and, with the prodigality +of a queen who reigns only when she falls, flung out upon them uncounted +stars. + +Pahul continued: "And many of them seemed to be at odds with each other. +They wrangled so that often I could not distinguish a word. Some of them +left the synagogue. The Rabbi himself must have been vexed, for in a lull +I heard him say to those who were nearest, 'Will you also go away?' Judas +came in at that moment, and he turned to him: 'Have I not chosen twelve, +and is not one of you a devil?' Judas came forward at once and protested. +I could see he was in earnest, and meant what he said. The man next told +me that he was devoted to the Rabbi. Then Simon Barjona, in answer to his +question, called out, 'To whom should we go? Thou art Christ, the Son of +God.' " + +Antipas had ceased to listen. At the mention of the Messiah the dream of +Israel had returned, and with it the pageants of its faith unrolled. + +Behind the confines of history, in the naked desert he saw a bedouin, +austere and grandiose, preparing the tenets of a nation's creed; in the +remoter past a shadow in which there was lightning, then the splendor of +that first dawn where the future opened like a book, and in the grammar of +the Eternal the promise of an age of gold. + +Through the echo of succeeding generations came the rumor of that initial +impulse which drew the world in its flight. The bedouin had put the desert +behind him, and stared at another. Where the sand had been was the sea. As +he passed, the land leapt into life. There were tents and passions, clans +not men, an aggregate of forces in which the unit disappeared. For +chieftain there was Might; and above, the subjects of impersonal verbs, +the Elohim from whom the thunder came, the rain, light and darkness, death +and birth, dream too, and nightmare as well. The clans migrated. Goshen +called. In its heart Chalda spoke. The Elohim vanished, and there was El, +the one great god, and Isra-el, the great god's elect. From heights that +lost themselves in immensity the ineffable name, incommunicable and never +to be pronounced, was seared by forked flames on a tablet of stone. A +nation learned that El was Jehovah, that they were in his charge, that he +was omnipotent, and that the world was theirs. + +They had a law, a covenant, a future, and a god; and as they passed into +the lands of the well-beloved, leaving tombs and altars to mark their +passage, they had battle-cries that frightened and hymns that exalted the +heart. Above were the jealous eyes of Jehovah, and beyond was the +resplendent to-morrow. They ravaged the land like hailstones. They had the +whirlwind for ally; the moon was their servant; and to aid them the sun +stood still. The terror of Sinai gleamed from their breastplates; men +could not see their faces and live. They encroached and conquered. They +had a home, they made a capitol, and there on a rock-bound hill Antipas +saw David founding a line of kings, and Solomon the city of god. + +It was in their loins the Messiah was; in them the apex of a nation's +prosperity; in them glory at its apogee. And across that tableau of might, +of splendor, and of submission for one second flitted the silhouette of +that dainty princess of Utopia, the Queen of Sheba, bringing riddles, +romance, and riches to the wise young king. + +She must have been very beautiful, Antipas with melancholy retrospection +reflected; and he fancied her more luminous than the twelve signs of the +zodiac, lounging nonchalantly in a palanquin that a white elephant with +swaying tail balanced on his painted back. And even as she returned, with +a child perhaps, to the griffons of the fabulous Yemen whence she came, +Antipas noted a speck on the horizon that grew from minim into mountain, +and obscured the entire sky. He saw the empire split in twain, and in the +twin halves that formed the perfect whole, a concussion of armies, +brothers appealing against their kin, the flight of the Ideal. + +Unsummoned before him paraded the regicides, convulsions, and anarchies +that deified Hatred until Vengeance incarnate talked Assyrian, and +Nebuchadnezzar loomed above the desert beyond. His statue filled the +perspective. With one broad hand he overturned Jerusalem; with another he +swept a nation into captivity, leaving in derision a pigmy for King of +Solitude behind, and, blowing the Jews into Babylon, there retained them +until it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates' course. + +By the light of that legend Antipas saw an immense hall, illuminated by +the seven branches of countless candelabra, and filled with revellers +celebrating a monarch's feast. Beyond, through retreating columns, were +cyclopean arches and towers whose summits were lost in clouds that the +lightning rent. At the royal table sat Belsarazzur, laughing mightily at +the enterprise of the Persian king; about him were the grandees of his +court, the flower of his concubines; at his side were the sacred vases +filled with wine. He raised one to his lips, and there on the frieze +before him leapt out the flaming letters of his doom, while to the +trumpetings of heralds Cyrus and his army beat down the city's gates. + +It passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace +after exile, the joy of bondage unloosed. For a moment it lasted--a century +or two at most; and after Alexander, in chasing kings hither and thither, +had passed with his huntsmen that way, Isis and Osiris beckoned, and the +descendants of the bedouin belonged to Goshen again, and so remained until +Syria took them, lost them, reconquered them, and might have done with +them utterly had not Juda Maccabus flaunted his banner, and the Roman +eagles pounced upon their prey. Once more the Temple was rebuilt, superber +than ever, and from the throne of David, Antipas saw the upstart that was +his father rule Juda. + +With him the panorama and the kaleidoscope of its details abruptly ceased. +But through it all the voices of the prophets had rung more insistently +with each defeat. The covenant in the wilderness was unforgetable; in the +chained links of slavery they saw the steps of a throne, the triumph of +truth over error, peace over war, Israel pontiff and shepherd of the +nations of the world. + +The expectation of a liberator who should free the bonds of a people and +definitively re-create the land of the elect possessed them utterly; his +advent had been constantly awaited, obstinately proclaimed; the faith in +him was unshakeable. Palestine was filled with believers praying the +Eternal not to let them die before the promise was fulfilled; the +atmosphere itself was charged with expectation. + +And as the visions rushed through his mind, Antipas fell to wondering +whether that covenant was as meaningless as he had thought, or whether by +any chance this rabbi who had been arguing at Capharnahum could be the +usher of Israel's hope. If he were, then indeed he might say good-bye to +his tetrarchy, to his dream of a kingdom as well. + +"Yes," Pahul repeated, "the Son of God!" + +Antipas had been so far away that now he started as one does whom the +touch of a hand awakes. To recover himself he leaned over and plunged his +face in the jar. The wine brought him courage. + +He must be suppressed, he decided. + +"But," the butler continued, "I----" + +The frontal of the palace was set with lights. The parasols of the palms +had turned from green to black, the stars seemed remoter, the sky more +dark. From beyond came the call and answer of the sentinels. + +Antipas stood up. A fringe of his tunic was detained by a rivet of the +bench on which he had sat; he stooped to loose it; something moist touched +his fingers, and as he moved to the palace the black-faced ape sprang at +his side and nibbled at the jewels on his hand. + + + + + + CHAPTER V. + + + V. + + +The house of Simon Barlevi was gray, and in shape an oblong. It had a flat +roof laid with a plaster of lime, about which was a fretwork of open +tiles. Beneath, for doorway, was a recess, surmounted by an arch and +covered with a layer of mud. On each side was a room. + +In the recess, sheltered from the sun and visited by the breeze, Simon +stood. His garments were white, and where they were not they had been +neatly chalked. On the border of his skirt and sleeves were the regulation +fringes, and on his forehead and about his left arm the phylacteries which +Pharisees affect. He was not pleasant to the eye, but he was virtuous and +a strict observer of the Law. + +In the room at his left were mats and painted stools, set in the manner +customary when guests are awaited. For on that day Simon Barlevi was to +give a little feast, to which he had bidden his friends and also a rabbi +whom he had listened to in the synagogue, and with whose ideas he did not +at all agree. Save for the mats and stools, and a lamp of red clay, the +room was bare. + +In front of the house was a bit of ground enclosed by a hedge of stones; +and now as Simon stood in the recess a guest appeared. + +"Reulah!" he exclaimed, "the Lord be with you." + +And Reulah answering, as etiquette required, "Unto you be peace, and to +your house be peace, and unto all you have be peace," the two friends +clasped hands raised them as though to kiss them, then each withdrawing +kissed his own hand, and struck it on his forehead. + +Singularly enough, host and guest looked much alike. Simon had the +appearance of one conscious of and strong in his own rectitude, while +Reulah seemed humbler and more effaced. Otherwise there was not a pin to +choose between them. + +To Simon's face had come an expression of perplexity in which there was +zeal. + +"I was thinking, Reulah," he announced, "of the rabbi who is to break +bread with us to-day. His teaching does not comfort me." + +Reulah was unlatching his shoes. "Nor me," he interjected. + +"On questions of purity and impurity he seems unscrupulously negligent. I +have heard that he is a glutton and a wine-bibber. I have heard that he +despises the washing of the hands." + +"Whoso does," Reulah threw back, "will be rooted out of the world." + +Simon nodded; a smile of protracted amiability hovered in the corners of +his mouth. For a moment he played with his beard. + +"I think," he added, "that he will find here food in plenty, and counsel +as well." + +Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and Simon, in a falsetto which he +affected when he desired to impress, continued in gentle menace: + +"But I have certain questions to put to him. Whether water from an unclean +vessel defiles that which is clean. Whether the flesh of a dead body alone +defiles, or the skin and bones as well. I want to see how he will answer +that. Then I may ask his opinion on points of the ritual. Should the +incense be lighted before the high-priest appears or as he does so. Is or +is not the Sabbath broken by the killing of the Paschal lamb? Why is it +lawful to take tithe of corn and wine and oil, and not of anise, cummin, +and peppers? In swearing by the Temple, should one not first swear by the +gold on the Temple? and in swearing by the altar, should one or should one +not first swear by the sacrifices on it? These things, since he preaches, +he must know. If he does not----" + +And Simon looked at his friend as who should say: What is there wanting in +me? + +"If I may be taught another duty I will observe it," said Reulah, sweetly. + +At this evidence of meekness Simon grunted. Two other guests were +approaching. On the edges of their tallth were tassels made of four +threads which had been drawn through an eyelet and doubled to make eight. +Seven of these threads were of equal length, but the eighth was longer, +and, twisted into five knots, represented the five books of the Law. The +right hand on the left breast, they saluted their host, and placing in +turn a hand under his beard, they kissed it. A buzz of inquiries followed, +interrupted by the coming and embracing of newer guests, the unloosing of +sandals, the washing of feet. + +As they assembled, one drew Simon aside and whispered importantly. Simon's +eyes dilated, astonishment lifted him, visibly, like a lash, and his hands +trembled above his head. + +"Have you heard," he exclaimed to the others--"have you heard that the +Nazarene whom I invited here, and who pretends to be a prophet, allowed +his followers to pluck corn on the Sabbath, to thresh it even, and +defended and approved their violation of the Law? Have you heard it? Is it +true?" + +Reulah quaked as one stricken by palsy. "On the Sabbath!" he moaned. "On +the Sabbath! Why, I would not send a message on Wednesday, lest perchance +it should be delivered on the Sabbath day. Surely it cannot be." + +But on that point the others were certain. They were all aware of the +scandal; one had been an eye-witness, another had heard the Nazarene +assert that he was "Lord of the Day." + +"This is monstrous!" Simon cried. + +"He declared," the eye-witness continued, "that the Sabbath was made for +man, and not man for the Sabbath." + +"It is monstrous!" Simon repeated. "The command to do no manner of work is +absolute and emphatic. The killing of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous +as the butchering of a bullock. The preservation of life itself is +inhibited. Moses had the son of Shelomith stoned to death for gathering +sticks on it. Shammai occupied six days of the week in thinking how he +could best observe it. It is unlawful to wear a false tooth on the +Sabbath, and if a tooth ache it is unlawful to rinse the mouth with +vinegar." + +"Yet," objected Reulah, "it is lawful to hold the vinegar in the mouth +provided you swallow it afterward." + +No one paid any attention to him. Simon's indignation increased. Of the +thirty-nine Abhth he quoted twelve; he showed that the Nazarene had +violated each one of these prohibitions against labor; he showed, too, +that by his subsequent speech and bearing he had practically scoffed at +the Toldth, at the synagogue which had drawn it up as well. + +"If the Sadducees were not in power, Jerusalem should hear of this. As it +is----" + +Whatever resolution he may have intended to express remained unuttered. A +silence fell upon his lips; his guests drew back. At the step stood the +Nazarene, behind him his treasurer, Judas of Kerioth. For a second only +Jesus hesitated. He stooped, undid his shoes, and moved to where Simon +stood. The latter bowed constrainedly. + +"Master," he said, "we awaited you." + +At this his friends retreated into the little room. Reulah reached the +middle seat of the central mat first and held it, his nostrils quivering +at the envy of the others. + +Preceded by their host, Jesus and Judas found places near together, and, +the usual ablutions performed, the customary prayers recited, lay, the +upper part of the body supported by the left arm, the head raised, the +limbs outstretched. + +On the stools were dishes of stewed lentils, milk, and cakes of mashed +locusts. Reulah ate with the tips of his lips, greedily, like a goat. +Judas, too, ate with an air of hunger. The Master broke bread absently, +his thoughts on other things. These thoughts Simon interrupted. + +"Rabbi"--and to his wide mouth came the sneer of one propounding a riddle +already solved--"it is not meet, is it, to thresh on the Sabbath day? Yet +since you permit your followers to do so, how are we to distinguish +between what is lawful and what is not?" + +The Master raised his eyes. The dawn was in them, high noon as well. + +"Show yourself a tried money-changer. Choose that which is good metal, +reject that which is bad." + +Simon blinked as at a sudden light. + +"But," he persisted, "in seeking to observe the Law, there is not a jot or +tittle in it that can be rejected." + +With an acquiescence that was both vague and melancholy, Jesus looked the +Pharisee in the face. + +"Seek those things that are great, and little things will be added unto +you----" + +He would have said more, perhaps, but a woman who had entered from the +recess approached circuitously, and kneeling beside him let a tear, long +as a pearl, fall upon his unsandalled feet. + +Judas' heart bounded; he glared at her, his eyes dilating like a leopard +preparing to spring. At once he was back in the circus, gazing into the +perils and the splendors of a woman's face, telling himself with +reiterated insistence that to hold her to him would be the birthday of his +life; and here, within reach of his hand, was she whom in the din of the +chariots he had recognized as the one woman in all the world, and who for +one moment the day before had lain unconscious in his arms. + +Reulah sat motionless, his mouth agape, a finger extended. "The paramour +of Pandera," he stammered at last; and lowering his eyes, he looked at her +covetously from beneath the lids. + +Simon, too, sat motionless. There was rage in his expression, hate +even--that hatred which the beautiful excites in the base. Time and again +he had seen her; she was a byword with him; from the height of her +residence she looked down on his mean gray walls; her luxury had been an +insult to his abstinence; and with that zest which a small nature takes in +the humiliation of its superior, he determined, in spite of her manifest +abjection, to humiliate her still more. + +"If this man," he confided to his neighbor, "has in him anything of that +which goes to the making of a prophet, he will divine what manner of woman +she is. If he does not, I will denounce them both." And nourishing his +hate he waited yet a while. + +The Master seemed depressed. The great secret which in all the world he +alone possessed may have weighed with him. But he turned to Mary and +looked at her. As he looked she bent yet lower. The marvel of her hair was +unconfined; it fell about her in tangling streams of gold and flame, while +on his feet there fell from her tears such as no woman ever shed before. +In the era of primitive hospitality the daughters of kings had not +disdained to unlatch the sandals of their fathers' guests; but now, at the +feet of Mercy, for the first time Repentance knelt. And still the tears +continued, unstanched and undetained. Grief, something keener still +perhaps, had claimed her as its own. She bent lower. Then Misery looked up +at Compassion. + +The Master stretched his hand. For a moment it rested on her head. She +quivered and clutched at her throat; and as he withdrew that hand, in +which all panaceas were, from her gown she took a little box, opened it, +and dropping the contents where the tears had fallen, with a sudden +movement she caught her hair and poured its lava on his feet. + +An aroma of beckoning oases filled the small room, passed into the recess, +mounted to the roof, pervaded and penetrated it, and escaped to the sky +above. + +And still she wept. Judas no longer saw her tears, he heard them. They +fell swiftly one after another, like the ripple of the rain. A sob broke +from her, but in it was something which foretokened peace, the sob which +comes to those who have conceived a despairing hope, and suddenly +intercept its fulfilment. Her hands trembled; the little box fell from her +and broke. The noise it made exorcised the silence. + +The Master turned to his host. "I have a word to say to you." + +Simon stroked his beard and bowed. + +"There was once a man who had two debtors. One owed him five hundred +pence, the other fifty. Both were poor, and because of their poverty the +debt of each he forgave." + +For an instant Jesus paused and seemed to muse; then, with that indulgence +which was to illuminate the world, "Tell me, Simon," he inquired, "which +was the more grateful?" + +Simon assumed an air of perplexity, and glanced cunningly from one guest +to another. Presently he laughed outright. + +"Why, the one who owed the most, of course." + +Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the expression of the others it was patent +that to them also the jest appealed. Only Judas did not seem to have +heard; he sat bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his violent eyes. + +The Master made a gesture of assent, and turned to where Mary crouched. +She was staring at him with that look which the magnetized share with +animals. + +"You see her?" + +Straightening himself, he leaned on his elbow and scrutinized his host. + +"Simon, I am your guest. When I entered here there was no kiss to greet +me, there was no oil for my head, no water for my feet. But this woman +whom you despise has not ceased to embrace them. She has washed them with +her tears, anointed them with nard, and dried them with her hair. Her +sins, it may be, are many, but, Simon, they are forgiven----" + +Simon, Reulah, the others, muttered querulously. To forgive sins was +indeed an attribute which no one, save the Eternal, could arrogate to +himself. + +"--for she has loved much." + +And turning again to Mary, who still crouched at his side, he added: + +"Your sins are forgiven. Go now, and in peace." + +But the fierce surprise of the Pharisees was not to be shocked into +silence. Reulah showed his teeth; they were pointed and treacherous as a +jackal's. Simon loudly asserted disapproval and wonder too. + +"I am amazed----" he began. + +The Master checked him: + +"The beginning of truth is amazement. Wonder, then, at what you see; for +he that wonders shall reign, and he that reigns shall rest." + +The music of his voice heightened the beauty of the speech. On Mary it +fell and rested as had the touch of his hand. + +"Messiah, my Lord!" she cried. "In your breast is the future, in your +heart the confidence of God. Let me but tell you. There are those that +live whose lives are passed; the tombs do not hold all of those that are +dead. I was dead; you brought me to life. I had no conscience; you gave me +one, for I was dead," she insisted. "And yet," she added, with a little +moan, so human, so sincere, that it might have stirred a Csar, let alone +a Christ, "not wholly dead. No, no, dear Lord, not wholly dead." + +Again her tears gushed forth, profuser and more abundant than before; her +frail body shook with sobs, her fingers intertwined. + +"Not wholly dead," she kept repeating. "No, no, not wholly dead." + +Jesus touched his treasurer. + +"She is not herself. Lead her away; see her to her home." And that the +others might hear, and profit as well, he added, in a higher key, +"Deference to a woman is always due." + +And to those words, which were to found chivalry and banish the boor, +Judas led Mary from the room. + + + + + + CHAPTER VI. + + + VI. + + +"Are you better?" + +The road that skirted the lake had branched to the left, and there an easy +ascent led to the hill beyond. On both sides were carpets of flowers and +of green, and slender larches that held their arms and hid the sky. Above, +an eagle circled, and on the lake a sail flapped idly. + +"Yes, I am better," Mary answered. + +From her eyes the perils had passed, but the splendors remained, +accentuated now by vistas visible only to herself. The antimony, too, with +which she darkened them had gone, and with it the alkanet she had used on +her cheeks. Her dress was olive, and, contrary to custom, her head +uncovered. + +"You are not strong, perhaps?" + +As Judas spoke, he thought of the episode in the synagogue, and wished her +again unconscious in his arms. + +"I have been so weak," she murmured. And after a moment she added: "I am +tired; let me sit awhile." + +The carpet of flowers and of green invited, and presently Judas dropped at +her side. About his waist a linen girdle had been wound many times; from +it a bag of lynx-skin hung. The white garments, the ample turban that he +wore, were those of ordinary life, but in his bearing was just that +evanescent charm which now and then the Oriental possesses--the subtlety +that subjugates and does not last. + +"But you must be strong; we need your strength." + +Mary turned to him wonderingly. + +"Yes," he repeated, "we need your strength. Johanna has joined us, as you +know. Susannah too. They do what they can; but we need others--we need +you." + +"Do you mean----" + +Something had tapped at her heart, something which was both joy and dread, +and she hesitated, fearing that the possibility which Judas suggested was +unreal, that she had not heard his words aright. + +"Do you mean that he would let me?" + +"He would love you for it. But then he loves everyone, yet best, I think, +his enemies." + +"They need it most," Mary answered; but her thoughts had wandered. + +"And I," Judas added--"I loved you long ago." + +Then he too hesitated, as though uncertain what next to say, and glanced +at her covertly. She was looking across the lake, over the country of the +Gadarenes, beyond even that, perhaps, into some infinite veiled to him. + +"I remember," he continued, tentatively, "it was there at Tiberias I saw +you first. You were entering the palace. I waited. The sentries ordered me +off; one threw a stone. I went to where the garden is; I thought you might +be among the flowers. The wall was so high I could not see. The guards +drove me away. I ran up the hill through the white and red terraces of the +grape. From there I could see the gardens, the elephants with their ears +painted, and the oxen with the twisted horns. The wind sung about me like +a flute; the sky was a tent of different hues. Something within me had +sprung into life. It was love, I knew. It had come before, yes, often, but +never as then. For," he added, and the gleam of his eyes was as a fanfare +to the thought he was about to express, "love returns to the heart as the +leaf returns to the tree." + +Mary looked at him vacantly. "What was he saying?" she wondered. From a +sea of grief she seemed to be passing onto an archipelago of dream. + +"The next day I loitered in the neighborhood of the palace. You did not +appear. Toward evening I questioned a gardener. He said your name was +Mary, but he would tell me nothing else. On the morrow was the circus. I +made sure you would be there--with the tetrarch, I thought; and, that I +might be near the tribune, before the sun had set I was at the circus +gate. There were others that came and waited, but I was first. I remember +that night as never any since. I lay outstretched, and watched the moon; +your face was in it: it was a dream, of course. Yes, the night passed +quickly, but the morning lagged. When the gate was open, I sprang like a +zemer from tier to tier until I reached the tribune. There, close by, I +sat and waited. At last you came, and with you new perfumes and poisons. +Did you feel my eyes? they must have burned into you. But no, you gave no +heed to me. They told me afterward that Scarlet won three times. I did not +know. I saw but you. Once merely an abyss in which lightning was. + +"Before the last race was done I got down and tried to be near the exit +through which I knew you must pass. The guards would not let me. The next +day I made friends with a sentry. He told me that you were Mirjam of +Magdala; that Tiberius wished you at Rome, and that you had gone with +Antipas to his citadel. In the wine-shops that night men slunk from me +afraid. A week followed of which I knew nothing, then chance disentangled +its threads. I found myself in a crowd at the base of a hill; a prophet +was preaching. I had heard prophets before; they were as torches in the +night: he was the Day. I listened and forgot you. He called me; I +followed. Until Sunday I had not thought of you again. But when you +appeared in the synagogue I started; and when you fainted, when I held you +in my arms and your eyes opened as flowers do, I looked into them and it +all returned. Mary, kiss me and kill me, but kiss me first." + +"Yes, he is the Day." + +Of the entire speech she had heard but that. It had entered perhaps into +thoughts of her own with which it was in unison, and she repeated the +phrase mechanically, as a child might do. But now as he ceased to speak, +perplexed, annoyed too at the inappositeness of her reply, she came back +from the infinite in which she had roamed, and for a moment both were +silent. + +At the turning of the road a man appeared. At the sight of Judas he +halted, then called him excitedly by name. + +"It is Mathias," Judas muttered, and got to his feet. The man hurried to +them. He was broad of shoulder and of girth, the jaw lank and earnest. His +eyes were small, and the lids twitched nervously. He was out of breath, +and his garments were dust-covered. + +"Where is the Master?" he asked; and at once, without waiting a reply, he +added: "I have just seen Johanna. Her husband told her that the tetrarch +is seeking him; he thinks him John, and would do him harm. We must go from +here." + +Judas assented. "Yes, we must all go. Mary, it may be a penance, but it is +his will." + +Mathias gazed inquiringly at them both. + +"It is his will," Judas repeated, authoritatively. + +Mary turned away and caught her forehead in her hands. "If this is a +penance," she murmured, "what then are his rewards?" + + + + + + CHAPTER VII. + + + VII. + + +On the floor of a little room Mary lay, her face to the ground. In her +ears was the hideousness of a threat that had fastened on her abruptly +like a cheetah in the dark. From below came the sound of banqueting. +Beyond was the Bitter Sea, the stars dancing in its ripples; and there in +the shadow of the evergreens was the hut in which that Sephrah lived to +whom long ago Martha had forbidden her to speak. Through the lattice came +the scent of olive-trees, and with it the irresistible breath of spring. + +In its caress the threat which had made her its own presently was lifted, +and mingling with other things fused into them. The kaleidoscope of time +and events which visits those that drown possessed her, and for a second +Mary relived a year. + +There had been the sudden flight from Magdala, the first days with the +Master, the gorges of the Jordan, the journey to the coast, the glittering +green scales of that hydra the sea. Then the loiterings on the banks of +the sacred Leontes, the journey back to Galilee, the momentary halt at +Magdala, the sail past Bethsada, Capharnahum, Chorazin, the fording of +the river, the trip to Csarea Philippi, the snow and gold of Hermon, the +visit to Gennesareth, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and the return to +Bethany. + +Her recollections intercrossed, scenes that were trivial ousted others +that were grave; the purple limpets of Sidon, the shrine of Ashtaroth, the +invective at Bethsada, the transfiguration on the mountain height, the +cure of lepers, and the presence that coerced. Yet through them all +certain things remained immutable, and of these, primarily her contact +with the Christ. + +To her, Jesus was not the Son of man alone, he was the light of this +world, the usher of the next. When he spoke, there came to her a sense of +frightened joy so acute that the hypostatical union which left even the +disciples perplexed was by her realized and understood. She had the faith +of a little child. And on the hills and through the intervales over which +they journeyed, in the glare of the eager sun or beneath the wattled +boughs, the emanations of the Divine filled her with transports so +contagious that they affected even Thomas, who was skeptical by birth; and +when, after the descent from Hermon, two or three of the disciples mused +together over the spectacle which they had seen, the rhyme of her lips +parted ineffably. She too had seen him aureoled with the sun, dazzling as +the snow-fields on the heights. To her it was ever in that aspect he +appeared, with a radiance so intense even that there had been moments in +which she had veiled her eyes as from a light that only eagles could +support. To her, marvels were as natural as the escape of night. At +Beth-Sen she had heard him speak to dumb beasts, and never doubted but +that they answered him. At Dan she had seen a short-eared hare rush to him +for refuge, and follow him afterwards as a dog might do. At Kinnereth he +had called to a lark that from a tree-top was pouring its heart out to the +morning, and the lark had fluttered down and nestled in his hand. At +Gadara he had tamed wild doves, and a swarm of bees had stopped and +glistened in his hair. At Csarea, when he began to speak, the thrushes +that had been singing ceased; and when the parables were delivered, began +anew, louder, more jubilant than before, and continued to sing until he +blessed them, when they mounted in one long ascending line straight to the +zenith above. At his approach the little gold-bellied fish of the Leontes +had leaped from the stream. In the suburbs of Sidon the jackals had fawned +at his feet. The underbrush had parted to let him pass, and where he +passed white roses came and the tenderness of anemones. At times he seemed +to her immaterial as a shadow in a dream, at others appalling as the +desert; and once when, in prayer, she entered with him into the intimacy +of the infinite, she caught the shiver of an invisible harp whose notes +seemed to fall from the night. And as she journeyed, her love expanded +with the horizon. She loved with a love no woman's heart has transcended. +In its prodigality and ascending gammes there was place for nothing save +the Ideal. + +The little band meanwhile lived as strangers on earth. Out of her abundant +means their simple wants were supplied. She was less a burden than a +sustenance; her faith bridged many a doubtful hour; and when, as often +occurred, they disputed among themselves concerning their future rank and +precedence, Mary dreamed of a paradise more pure. + +One evening, near the rushes of Lake Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew +to the light, a Greek merchant who had refused them shelter at Seleucia +ambled that way on an ass, and would have stopped, perhaps, but one of the +band scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared in the haze of the +hills. + +Unobserved, the Master had seen and heard; presently he called them to +where he stood. + +"Do not think," he admonished--"do not think that because you imitate the +Pharisees you are perfecting your lives. They fast, they pray, they weep, +and they mortify the flesh; but to them one thing is impossible, charity +to the failings of others. Whoso then shall come to you, be he friend or +foe, penitent or thief, receive him kindly. Aid the helpless, console the +unfortunate, forgive your enemy, and forget yourselves--that is charity. +Without it the kingdom of heaven is lost to you. There, there is neither +Greek nor Jew, male nor female; nor can it come to you until the garment +of shame is trampled under foot, until two are as one, and the body which +is without is as the soul within." + +Thereat, with a gesture of exquisite indulgence, he turned and left them +to the stars. + +Mary had heard, and in the palingenesis disclosed she saw space wrapped in +a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied lay behind the sun. There, +instead of the thrones and diadems of the elect, was an immutable realm in +which there was neither death nor life, clear ether merely, charged with +beatitudes. And so, when the disciples disputed among themselves, Mary +dreamed of diaphanous hours and immaculate days that knew no night, and in +this wise lived until from the terrace of Jerusalem's Temple the Master +bade her return to Bethany and wait him there. + +Obedience to that command was bitter to her. She did not murmur, however. +"Rabboni," she cried, "let me but do your will on earth, and afterwards +save me or destroy me as your pleasure is." + +With that she had gone to her sister's house, and to the bewildered Martha +poured out her heart anew. There could be no question of forgiveness now, +of penitence even; her sins, such as they were, had been remitted by one +to whom pardon was an attribute. And this doubtless Martha understood, for +she took her in her arms unreproachfully and mingled her tears with hers. + +Where all is marvel the marvellous disappears. To the accounts which Mary +gave of her journeys with the little band that followed the Master, Martha +listened with an attention which nothing could distract. With her she +sailed on the lovely lake; with her she visited cities smothering in the +scent of cassia and of sugar-cane; with her she passed through glens where +panthers prowled, and bandits crueller than they. With her eyes she saw +the listening multitudes, with her ears she heard again the words of +divine forgiveness; and, the lulab and the citron in her hands, she +assisted at the Feast of the Tabernacles, and watched the vain attempt to +charm the recalcitrant Temple and captivate the inimical town. + +For in Jerusalem, in place of the reassuring confidence of peasants, was +the irritable incredulity of priests; instead of meadows, courts. Besides, +was not this prophet from Galilee, and what good had ever come from there? +Then, too, he was not an authorized teacher. He belonged to no school. The +followers of Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not recognize him. He +was merely a fractious Nazarene trained in the shop of a carpenter; one +who, by repeating that it was easier for a camel to pass through a +needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, flattered +basely the mob of mendicants that surrounded him. The rabble admired, but +the clergy stood aloof. When he was not ignored he was disdained. Save the +pleb, no one listened. + +Presently he spoke louder. Into the grave music of the Syro-Chaldaic +tongue he put the mutterings of thunder. Where he had preached, he +upbraided; in place of exquisite parables came sonorous threats. He +blessed but rarely, sometimes he cursed. That mosaic, the Law, he treated +like a cobweb; and to the arrogant clergy a rumor filtered that this +vagabond, who had not where to lay his head, declared his ability to +destroy the Temple, and to rebuild it, in three days, anew. + +A rumor such as that was incredible. Inquiries were made. The rumor was +substantiated. It was learned that he healed the sick, cured the blind; +that he was in league, perhaps, with the Pharisees. + +The Sanhedrim took counsel. They were Sadducees every one. The Pharisees +were their hereditary foes. Both were militant, directing men and things +as best they could. The Sadducees held strictly to the letter of the Law; +the Pharisees held to the Law, and to tradition as well. But the Sadducees +were in power, the Pharisees were not. The former endeavored in every way +to maintain their authority over the people; and against that authority, +against the aristocracy, the priesthood, and the accomplices of foreign +dominion, the Pharisees ceaselessly excited the mob. In their inability to +overthrow the pontificate, they undermined it. With microscopic attention +they examined and criticised every act of the clergy; and, with a view of +showing the incompetence of the priests, they affected rigid theories in +regard to ritualistic points. Every detail of the ceremonial office was +watched by them with eyes that were never pleased. They asserted that the +rolls of the Law from which the priests read the Pentateuch were made of +impure matter, and, having handled them, the priests had become impure as +well. The manner in which the incense was made and offered, the minuti +governing the sacrifices, the legality of hierarchal decisions--on each and +every possible subject they exerted themselves to show the unworthiness of +the officiants, insinuating even that the names of the fathers of many of +the priests were not inscribed at Zipporim in the archives of Jeshana. As +a consequence, many of those whose rights the Pharisees affected to uphold +saw in the hierarchy little more than a body of men unworthy to approach +the altar, a group of Herodians who in religion lacked every requisite for +the service of God, and who in public and in private were bankrupts in +patriotism, morality, and shame. + +The possibility, therefore, that this fractious demagogue had found favor +with the Pharisees was grave. He was becoming a force. He threatened many +a prerogative. Moreover, Jerusalem had had enough of agitators. People +were drawn by their promises into the solitudes, and there incited to +revolt. Rome did not look upon these things leniently. If they continued, +Tiberius was quite capable of putting Juda in a yoke which it would not +be easy to carry. Clearly the Nazarene was seditious, and as such to be +abolished. The difficulty was to abolish him and yet conciliate the mob. + +It was then that the Sanhedrim took counsel. As a result, and with the +hope of entrapping him into some blasphemous utterance on which a charge +would lie, they sent meek-eyed Scribes to question him concerning the +authority that he claimed. He routed the meek-eyed Scribes. Then, fancying +that he might be seduced into some expression which could be construed as +treason, they sent young and earnest men to learn from him their duty to +Rome. The young and earnest men returned crestfallen and abashed. + +The elders, nonplussed, debated. A levite suspected that the casuistry and +marvellous cures of the Nazarene must be due to a knowledge of the +incommunicable name, Shemhammephorash, seared on stone in the thunders of +Sinai, and which to utter was to summon life or beckon death. Another had +heard that while in Galilee he was believed to be in league with +Baal-Zebub, Lord of Flies. + +To this gossip no attention was paid. Annas, merely--the old high-priest, +father-in-law of Caiaphas, who officiated in his stead--laughed to himself. +There was no such stone, there was no such god. Another idea had been +welcomed. A festival was in progress; there was gayety in the +neighborhood, drinking too; and as over a million of pilgrims were herded +together, now and then an offence occurred. The previous night, for +instance, a woman had been arrested for illicit commerce. + +Annas tapped on his chin. He had the pompous air of a chameleon, the same +long, thin lips, the large, protruding eyes. + +"Take her before the Galilean," he said. "He claims to be a rabbi; he must +know the Law. If he acquit her, it is heresy, and for that a charge will +lie. Does he condemn her he is at our mercy, for he will have alienated +the mob." + +A smile of perfect understanding passed like a vagrant breeze across the +faces of the elders, and the levites were ordered to lead the prisoner to +the Christ. + +They found him in the Woman's Court. From a lateral chamber a priest, +unfit for other than menial services because of a carbuncle on his lip, +dropped the wood he was sorting for the altar and gazed curiously at the +advancing throng, in which the prisoner was. + +She must have been very fair, but now her features were distorted with +anguish, veiled with shame. The blue robe she wore was torn, and a sleeve +rent to the shoulder disclosed a bare white arm. She was a wife, a mother +too. Her name was Ahulah; her husband was a shoemaker. At the Gannath +Gate, where her home was, were two little children. She worshipped them, +and her husband she adored. Some hallucination, a tremor of the flesh, the +flush of wine, and there, circled by a leering crowd, she crouched, her +life disgraced, irrecoverable for evermore. + +The charge was made, the usual question propounded. The Master had glanced +at her but once. He seemed to be looking afar, beyond the Temple and its +terraces, beyond the horizon itself. But the accusers were impatient. He +bent forward and with a finger wrote on the ground. The letters were +illegible, perhaps, yet the symbol of obliteration was in that dust which +the morrow would disperse. Again he wrote, but the charge was repeated, +louder, more impatiently than before. + +Jesus straightened himself. With the weary indulgence of one to whom +hearts are as books, he looked about him, then to the dome above. + +"Whoever is without sin among you," he declared, "may cast the first +stone." + +When he looked again the crowd had slunk away. Only Ahulah remained, her +head bowed on her bare white arm. From the lateral chamber the priest +still peered, the carbuncle glistening on his lip. + +"Did none condemn you?" the Master asked. + +And as she sobbed merely, he added: "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin +no more." + +To the elders this was very discomforting. They had failed to unmask him +as a traitor to God, to Rome even, or yet as a demagogue defying the Law. +They did not care to question again. He had worsted them three times. Nor +could they without due cause arrest him, for there were the Pharisees. +Besides, a religious trial was full of risk, and the coperation of the +procurator not readily to be relied on. It was that coperation they +needed most, for with it such feeling as might be aroused would fall on +Rome and not on them. As for Pilate, he could put a sword in front of what +he said. + +In their enforced inaction they got behind that wall of prejudice where +they and their kin feel most secure, and there waited, prepared at the +first opportunity to invoke the laws of their ancestors, laws so +cumbersome and complex that the Romans, accustomed to the clearest +pandects, had laughed and left them, erasing only the right to kill. + +At last chance smiled. Into Jerusalem a rumor filtered that the Nazarene +they hated so had raised the dead, that the suburbs hailed him as the +Messiah, and that he proclaimed himself the Son of God. At once the +Sanhedrim reassembled. A political deliverer they might have welcomed, but +in a Messiah they had little faith. The very fact of his Messiahship +constituted him a claimant to the Jewish throne, and as such a pretender +with whom Pilate could deal. Moreover--and here was the point--to claim +divinity was to attack the unity of God. Of impious blasphemy there was no +higher form. + +It were better, Annas suggested, that a man should die than that a nation +should perish--a truism, surely, not to be gainsaid. + +That night it was decided that Jesus and Judaism could not live together; +a price was placed upon his head, and to the blare of four hundred +trumpets excommunication was pronounced. + +Of all of these incidents save the last Mary had been necessarily aware. +In company with Johanna, the wife of Herod's steward, Mary, wife of +Clopas, and Salom, mother of Zebedee's children, she had heard him +reiterate the burning words of Jeremiah, and seen him purge the Temple of +its traffickers; she had heard, too, the esoteric proclamation, "Before +Abraham was, I am;" and she had seen him lash the Sadducees with +invective. She had been present when a letter was brought from Abgar +Uchomo, King of Edessa, to Jesus, "the good Redeemer," in which the +potentate prayed the prophet to come and heal him of a sickness which he +had, offering him a refuge from the Jews, and quaintly setting forth the +writer's belief that Jesus was God or else His Son. She had been present, +also, when the charge was made against Ahulah, and had comforted that +unfortunate in womanly ways. "Surely," she had said, "if the Master who +does not love you can forgive, how much more readily must your husband who +does!" Whereupon Ahulah had become her slave, tending her thereafter with +almost bestial devotion. + +These episodes, one after another, she related to Martha; to Eleazer, her +brother; to Simon, Martha's husband; to anyone that chanced that way. For +it was then that the Master had bade her go to Bethany. For a little space +he too had forsaken Jerusalem. Now and then with some of his followers he +would venture in the neighborhood, yet only to be off again through the +scorched hollows of the Ghr before the sun was up. + +These things it was that paraded before her as she lay on the floor of the +little room, felled by the hideousness of a threat that had sprung upon +her, abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark. To Martha and to the others on +one subject alone had she been silent, and now at the moment it dominated +all else. + +From the day on which she joined the little band to whom the future was to +give half of this world and all of the next, Judas had been ever at her +ear. As a door that opens and shuts at the will of a hand, his presence +and absence had barred the vistas or left them clear. At first he had +affected her as a scarabus affects the rose. She knew of him, and that +was all. When he spoke, she thought of other things. And as the blind +remain unawakened by the day, he never saw that where the wanton had been +the saint had come. To him she was a book of ivory bound in gold, whose +contents he longed to possess; she was a book, but one from which whole +chapters had been torn, the preface destroyed; and when his increasing +insistence forced itself upon her, demanding, obviously, countenance or +rebuke, she walked serenely on her way, disdaining either, occupied with +higher things. It was of the Master only that she appeared to think. When +he spoke, it was to her as though God really lived on earth; her eyes +lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was instantly forgot. At that time +her life was a dream into whose charmed precincts a bat had flown. + +These things, gradually, Judas must have understood. In Mary's eyes he may +have caught the intimation that to her now only the ideal was real; or the +idea may have visited him that in the infinite of her faith he disappeared +and ceased to be. In any event he must have taken counsel with himself, +for one day he approached her with a newer theme. + +"I have knocked on the tombs; they are dumb." + +Mary, with that grace with which a woman gathers a flower when thinking of +him whom she loves, bent a little and turned away. + +"Have you heard of the Buddha?" he asked. "Babylon is peopled with his +disciples. One of them met Jesus in the desert, and taught him his belief. +It is that he preaches now, only the Buddha did not know of a heaven, for +there is none." + +And he added, after a pause: "I tell you I have knocked on the tombs; +there is no answer there." + +With that, as a panther falls asleep, his claw blood-red, Judas nodded and +left her to her thoughts. + +"In Eternity there is room for everything," she said, when he came to her +again. + +"Eternity is an abyss which the tomb uses for a sewer," he answered. "Its +flood is corruption. The day only exists, but in it is that freedom which +waves possess. Mary, if you would but taste it with me! Oh, to mix with +you as light with day, as stream with sea, I would suck the flame that +flickers on the walls of sepulchres." + +She shuddered, and he saw it. + +"You have taught me to love," he hissed; "do not teach me now to hate." + +Mary mastered her revolt. "Judas, the day will come when you will cease to +speak as you do." + +"You believe, then, still?" + +"Yes, surely; and so do you." + +"The day will come," he muttered, "when you will cease to believe." + +"And you too," she answered. "For then you will _know_." + +The dialogue with its variations continued, at intervals, for months. +There were times, weeks even, when he avoided all speech with her. Then, +abruptly, when she expected it least, he would return more volcanic than +before. These attacks she accustomed herself to regard as necessary, +perhaps, to the training of patience, of charity too, and so bore with +them, until at last Jerusalem was reached. Meanwhile she held to her trust +as to a fringe of the mantle of Christ. To her the past was a grammar, its +name--To-morrow. And in the service of the Master, in the future which he +had evoked, she journeyed and dreamed. + +But in Jerusalem Judas grew acrider. He had fits of unnecessary laughter, +and spells of the deepest melancholy. He quarrelled with anyone who would +let him, and then for the irritation he had displayed he would make amends +that were wholly slavish. His companions distrusted him. He had been seen +talking amicably with the corrupt levites, the police of the Temple, and +once he had been detected in a wine-shop of low repute. The Master, +apparently, noticed nothing of this; nor did Mary, whose thoughts were on +other things. + +At Bethany one evening Judas came to her. The sun, sinking through clouds, +placed in the west the tableau of a duel to the death between a titan and +a god. There was the glitter of gigantic swords, and the red of immortal +blood. + +"Mary," he began, and as he spoke there was a new note in his voice--"Mary, +I have watched and waited, and to those that watch how many lamps burn +out! One after another those that I tended went. There was a flicker, a +little smoke, and they had gone. I tried to relight them, but perhaps the +oil was spent; perhaps, too, I was like the blind that hold a torch. My +way has not been clear. The faith I had, and which, I do not know, but +which, it may be, would have been strengthened, evaporated when you came. +The rays of the sun I had revered became as the threads of shadows, +interconnecting life and death. In them I could see but you. In the jaw of +night, in the teeth of day, always I have seen you. Mary, love is a net +which woman throws. In casting yours--there! unintentionally, I know--you +caught my soul. It is yours now wholly until time shall cease to be. Will +you take it, Mary, or will you put it aside, a thing forever dead?" + +Mary made no answer. It may be she had not heard. In the west both titan +and god had disappeared. Above, in a field of stars, the moon hung, a +scythe of gold. The air was still, the hush of locusts accentuating the +silence and bidding it be at rest. In a house near by there were lights +shining. A woman looked out and called into the night. + +Then, as though moved by some jealousy of the impalpable, Judas leaned +forward and peered into her face. + +"It is the Master who keeps you from me, is it not?" + +"It is my belief," she answered, simply. + +"It was he that gave it to you. Mary, do you know that there is a price +upon his head? Do you know that if I cannot slake my love, at least I can +gorge my hate? Do you know that, Mary? Do you know it? Now choose between +your belief and me; if you prefer the former, the Sanhedrim will have him +to-morrow. There, your sister is calling; go--and choose." + +It was with the hideousness of this threat in her ears that Mary escaped +to the little room where her childhood had been passed and flung herself +on the floor. From beyond came the sound of banqueting. Martha was +entertaining the Lord, his disciples as well; and Mary knew that her aid +was needed. But the threat pinioned and held her down. To accede was +death, not of the body alone, but of the soul as well. There was no clear +pool in which she might cleanse the stain; there could be no forgiveness, +no obliteration, nothing in fact save the loss never to be recovered of +life in the diaphanous hours and immaculate days of which she had dreamed +so long. + +For a little space she tried to comfort herself. Perhaps Judas was not in +earnest; perhaps even he had lied. And if he had not, was there not time +in plenty? The desert was neighborly. She could follow the Master there, +and minister to him till the sky opened and the kingdom was prepared. And +the threat, coupled with that perspective, charmed, and for the moment had +for her that enticement which the quarrels and kisses of children equally +possess. She would warn him secretly, she decided, for surely as yet he +did not know; she would warn him, and before the sun was up he could be +beyond the Sanhedrim's reach, and she preparing to follow. For a moment +she lost herself in anticipation; then, the threat loosening its hold, she +stood up, her face very white in the starlight, her eyes brave and alert. +Already her plan was formed; and, taking a vase that she had brought with +her from Magdala, she hurried to the room below. + +The Master; the disciples; Eleazer, her brother; Simon, her sister's +husband, were all at meat. Martha was serving, and as Mary entered Judas +stood up. She moved to where the Master was, and on him poured the +contents of the vase. Thomas sniffed delightedly, for now the room was +full of fragrance. The Master turned to her and smiled; the homage +evidently was grateful. Mary bent nearer. Thomas and Bartholomew joined in +loud praises of the aroma of the nard, and under cover of their voices she +whispered, "Rabboni, the Sanhedrim has placed a price on----" + +The whisper was drowned and interrupted. Judas had shoved her away. "To +what end is this waste?" he asked; and as Mary looked in his face she saw +by the expression in it that her purpose had been divined and her warning +overheard. + +"It is absurd," he continued, with affected anger. "Ointment such as that +has a value. It might better have been saved for the poor." + +Thomas chimed in approvingly; placed in that light it was indeed an +extravagance, unnecessary too, and he looked about to his comrades for +support. Eleazer and Peter seemed inclined to view the matter differently. +A discussion would have arisen, but the Master checked it gently, as was +his wont. + +"The poor are always with you, but me you cannot always have." + +As he spoke he turned to Judas with that indulgence which was to be a +heritage. + +Could he _know_? Judas wondered. Had he heard what Mary said? And, the +Master's speech continuing, he glanced at her and left the room. + +The moon had mowed the stars, but the sky was visibly blue. Behind the +shoulder of Olivet he divined the silence of Jerusalem, the welcome of the +Sadducees, the joy of hate assuaged. There was but one thing now that +might deter; and as his thoughts groped through that possibility, Mary +stood at his side. + +"Judas----" + +He wheeled, and, catching her by the wrists, stared into her eyes. + +"Is it yes?" + +A shudder seized her. There was dread in it, anguish too, and both were +mortal. He had not lied, she saw, and the threat was real. + +"Is it yes?" he repeated. + +There may be moments that prolong, but there are others in which time no +longer is; and as Mary shrank in the blight of Judas' stare, both felt +that the culmination of life was reached. + +"No!" + +The monosyllable dropped from her lips like a stone, yet even as it fell +the banner of Maccabus unfurled and flaunted in her face; the voice of +Esther murmured, and a vision of Judith saving a nation visited her, and, +continuing, made spots on the night. + +Judas had flung her from him. She reeled; the violence roused her. Who was +she to consider herself when the security of the Master was at stake? How +should it matter though she died, if he were safe? + +"It is my soul you ask," she cried. "Take it. If I had a thousand souls, I +would give each one for Him." + +But she cried to the unanswering night. Where the road curved about the +shoulder of the Mount of Olives, for one second she saw a white robe +glisten. Agonized, she called again, but there was no one now to hear. + +A little later, when the followers of the Lord issued from the house, Mary +lay before the door, her eyes closed, her head in the dust. They touched +her. She had fainted. + + + + + + CHAPTER VIII. + + + VIII. + + +"They have him, they are taking him to Pilate." + +It was Eleazer calling to his sister from the turn of the road. In a +moment he was at her side, dust-covered, his sandals torn, his pathetic +eyes dilated. He was breathless too, and, in default of words, with a +gesture that swept the Mount of Olives, he pointed to where the holy city +lay. + +To Mary the morrow succeeding her swoon was a pall. Love, it may be, is a +forgetfulness of all things else, but despair is very actual. It takes a +hold on memory, inhabits it, and makes it its own. And during the day that +followed, Mary lay preyed upon by the acutest agony that ever tortured +woman yet. Early in the night, before her senses returned, the Master had +gone without mentioning whither. His destination may have been Ephram, +Jericho even, or further yet, beyond the hollows of the Ghr. Then, again, +he might have loitered in the neighborhood, on the hill perhaps, in that +open-air solitude he loved so well, and for which so often he forsook the +narrowness of roofs and towns. But yet, in view of the Passover, he might +have gone to Jerusalem, and it was that idea that tortured most. + +It was there the keen police, the levites, were, and their masters the +Sadducees, who had placed a price on his head. Did he get within the +walls, then surely he was lost. At the possibilities which that idea +evoked her thoughts sank like the roots of a tree and grappled with the +under-earth. To her despair, regret brought its burden. A moment of +self-forgetfulness, and, however horrible that forgetfulness might have +been, in it danger to him whom she revered would have been averted, and, +for the time being at least, dispersed utterly as last year's leaves. It +had been cowardice on her part to let Judas go; she should have been +strong when strength was needed. There were glaives to be had; the head of +Holofernes could have greeted his. The legend of Judith still echoed its +reproach, and recurring, pointed a slender finger of disdain. + +To the heart that is sinking, hope throws a straw. Immaterial and +caressing as a shadow, came to her the fancy that if the Master were in +the neighborhood, at any moment he might appear. In that event it was +needful that she should be prepared to aid him at once beyond the confines +of Juda. Were he already beyond them, presently she must learn it, and +then could warn him of the danger of return. But meanwhile, for security's +sake, had he gone by any chance to Jerusalem, some one must be there to +warn him of the plot. She thought of her sister, and dismissed her. Martha +was too feather-headed for an errand such as that. She thought of Ahulah, +but some of those well-intentioned friends that everyone possesses had +told of the misadventure to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a woman, +had spat upon her, and now through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, +incompetent to aid. Her brother occurred to her. It was on him she could +rely. His devotion was surpassed only by her own. Thereupon she sought him +out, instructed him in his duty, and sent him forth to watch and warn. + +The green afternoon faded in the hemorrhages of the setting sun. Twilight +approached like a wolf. Night unfurled her great black fan; the moon came, +fumbling the shadows, checkering the underbrush with silver spots. Once a +caravan passed, and once from the hillside came the bark of a dog, caught +up and repeated in some farm beyond; otherwise the night was unstirred; +and as Mary stared into the immensities where lightning wearies and +subsides, a lethargy beset her, her body was imprisoned; but her soul was +free, and in a moment it mounted sheerly to a fringe of the heavens and +bathed in space. + +When it descended, another day had come, and Eleazer was calling to her +from the turn of the road. At once she was on earth and on her feet, and +as the brother gasped for breath the sister's strength returned. There +must be no more weakness now, she knew; it was time to act. She got drink, +water for the feet; then Eleazer, refreshed, continued: + +"I ran through the ridge and up to where the two cedars are. I looked +among the cypresses beyond, in the pines where the descent begins, through +the olive groves below and the booths and tents beneath. There was no +trace of him anywhere. I crossed the brook and sat awhile at the Shushan +gate, watching those that entered. The crowd became so dense that it was +impossible to distinguish. I thought I might hear of him in the Temple. +The porch was thronged. I roamed through the Mountain of the House into +the Woman's Court, and out of it on the Chel. But they were all so filled +with pilgrims that had he been there only accident could have brought me +to him. It was on that I counted, and I went out on Zion and Acra, where +the crowd was less. It was getting late. Beth-horon was dim. I could see +lights in Herod's palace. Some one said that the tetrarch of Galilee was +there, the guest of the procurator. I went back by way of Antonia to +Birket Israil and the Red Heifer Bridge. I had given up; it seemed to me +useless to make further attempt. Suddenly I saw Judas in the angle of the +porch. With him was a levite. I got behind a pillar, near where they +stood, and listened. The only thing I distinctly heard was the name of +Joseph of Haramatham. I fancied, though I was not certain, that Judas +spoke as though he had just left his house. They must have moved away +then, for when I looked they had gone. I knew that Joseph was a friend of +the Master's, and it struck me that he might be at his house. It is in the +sook of the Perfumers, back of Ophel. I ran there as fast as I could. It +was unlighted. I beat on the door: there was no answer. I felt that I had +been mistaken, anyway that I could do no more. I went down again into the +valley, crossed the Kedron, and would have returned here at once perhaps, +but I was tired, and so, on the slope where the olive-presses are, I lay +down and must have fallen asleep, for I remembered nothing till there came +a tramping of men. I crouched in the underbrush. They passed very close; +some had torches, some had spears. Judas was leading, and as an ape +munches a flower he was muttering the Master's name." + +Eleazer paused and looked at his sister. She was standing erect, her face +wan, the brow contracted, the rhymes of her lips tight-pressed. Then, with +a glance at Olivet, he continued: + +"For a little space I waited. They had ascended the slope and halted. +There was a shout, the waving of torches, then a silence. In it I heard +the Master's voice, followed by a cry of pain. I hurried to where they +were. They had him bound when I got there. I saw a soldier raising a hand +to his ear and looking at the palm; it was red. Peter was running one way, +Thomas another. I got nearer. Some one, a levite I think, caught me by the +coat. I freed myself from it and escaped up the hill. + +"From there I looked down. They were going away. When they had gone, I +went back and found my cloak. While I was putting it on, John appeared. +'They are taking him to Caiaphas,' he said; 'I shall follow. Come with me +if you wish.' I went with him. On the way we met Peter; he joined us. We +walked single-file, John leading. Beyond I could see the lights of the +torches, the glint of steel. No one spoke. Peter whimpered a little. We +crossed the Kedron and got up into the city. The soldiers went directly to +where Annas lives; they entered in a body, and the door closed. John +rapped: it was opened. He said something to the doorkeeper, who admitted +him. The door closed again. Peter and I waited a little, not knowing where +to turn. Presently the door reopened, and John motioned us to come in. In +the court was a fire; about it were servants and khazzans. I stopped a +moment to warm my hands; Peter did the same. John had disappeared. I heard +one of the khazzans say that they had taken the Master to Annas, and the +others discuss what he would probably do. While I stood there listening, +and wondering what had become of John, I saw the Master being led across +the court to the Lishcath ha-Gazith. I left Peter, and followed. In the +hall were the elders, ranged in a semicircle about Caiaphas. They must +have been prepared beforehand, for the clerks of acquittal and of +condemnation were there, the crier too, and a group of levites and +Scribes. In a corner were some of Annas' servants. I got among them and +stood unnoticed. + +"The Master's hands were bound. On either side of him was a soldier. +Caiaphas was livid. He looked him from head to foot. + +" 'You are accused,' he said, 'of inciting sedition, of defying the Law, +of blasphemy, and of breaking the Sabbath day. What have you to answer?' + +"The Master made no reply. + +"Caiaphas pointed to the levites. 'Here,' he continued, 'are witnesses.' + +"He motioned; one of them stepped forward and spoke. + +" 'I testify that this man has incited to sedition by denouncing the +members of this reverend council as hypocrites, wolves in sheep's +clothing, blind leaders of the blind; and I further testify that he has +declared no one should follow them.' + +" 'What have you to say to that?' Caiaphas snarled. But the Master said +nothing. + +"The first levite moved back, and at a gesture from the high-priest +another stepped forward. + +" 'I testify that I have seen that man eat, in defiance of the Law, with +unwashed hands, and consort with publicans and people of low repute.' + +" 'And what have you to say to that?' Caiaphas asked again. But still the +Master said nothing. + +"The second levite moved back, and a third advanced. + +" 'I testify that I have heard that man blaspheme in calling God his +father, and in declaring himself to be one with Him.' + +" 'Is that blasphemy or is it not?' Caiaphas bawled. But the Master's lips +never moved. + +"The third levite gave way to a fourth. + +" 'I testify that that man has broken the Sabbath in healing the sick on +that day, and further that he has seduced others to break it. On the +Sabbath I have heard him order a cripple to take up his bed and carry it +to his home. I have heard him also declare that he could destroy the +Temple and rebuild it, in three days, anew.' + +"Caiaphas turned to the Master. 'Do you still refuse to answer?' he asked. +'Do you think that silence can save you? Have you heard these witnesses?' + +"And as the Master still made no reply, Caiaphas lifted his hand and +cried, 'I adjure you by the Eternal to answer, Are you the Messiah, the +Son of God?' + +"In the breathless silence Jesus raised his eyes. He looked at the +high-priest, at the levites, the Scribes. 'You have said it,' he murmured, +and smiled with that air he has. + +"Caiaphas grew purple. He caught his gown at the throat and ripped it from +neck to hem. The elders started. I heard them mutter, '_Ish maveth_.' The +high-priest glanced toward them. 'You have heard this ragged blasphemy?' +he exclaimed; and, turning to where the Scribes stood, 'What,' he asked, +'does the Law decree concerning the Sabbath-breaker?' + +"One of them, the book unrolled in his hand, advanced and read: + +" 'Ye shall keep the Sabbath holy. Whoso does any work thereon shall be +cut off from his people.' + +" 'And what of blasphemy?' + +"The Scribe glanced at the roll and repeated from memory: 'He that +blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death. The congregation +shall stone him, as well the stranger as he that was born in the land.' + +"Caiaphas closed the fingers on the palm of his left hand, and, raising +it, turned again to the elders. '_Ish maveth_,' they repeated, closing +their fingers as he had done. + +"I knew then that he was condemned. After all"--and Eleazer looked wearily +to the ground--"it was legal enough. Each moment I expected him to give +some sign, but, save to affirm the charge of blasphemy, during the entire +time he kept silent. Yes, it was legal enough. From where I stood I heard +the Scribes say that he would be sentenced at sunrise, and then Pilate +would have a word with him. I could do nothing. Caiaphas still fumed. I +went out in the court again. In the corridor was Judas. Peter was +wrangling with the servants. I did not wait for more. I got away and into +the valley and up again on the hill. A cock was crowing, and I saw the +dawn. O Mary, the pity of it!" + +He looked at his sister. There was no weakness now in her face, nor beauty +either. Age must have passed her in the night. + +"And I will have a word with Pilate too," she said. + +As a somnambulist might, she drew her mantle closer, and, moving to the +wayside, ascended the hill. The silver and green of the olives closed +around her, and with them the branching dates. Above, a star left by the +morning glimmered feebly. In a myrtle a bird began to sing, and a lizard +that had come out to intercept the sun scurried as she passed. Upward and +onward still she went, and, the summit reached, for a moment she stopped +and rested. + +To the east the Dead Sea lay, a stretch of silk. At its edge was the +flutter of ospreys feasting on the barbels and breams of the Jordan, which +as they enter, die. Beyond was a glitter of white and gold, the scarp of +Moriah and its breast of stone, the Tyrian bevel of Solomon, the porphyry +of Nehemiah, the marble that Herod gave; ascending terraces, engulfing +porticoes, the splendor of Jerusalem at dawn. Between the houses nearest +was the dimness that shadows cast; those further away had a scatter of +pink; about it all was a wall surmounted by turrets; beneath was a ravine +in which was a brook, and a city of booths and tents, grazing camels and +fat-tailed sheep. + +Through the pines and cypresses Mary passed down to where the olives were. +The brook sent a message to her; the blood that had flowed from the +sacrifices was in it, and in the fresh morning it reeked a little, as such +brooks do. It was here, she thought, the Master had been taken, and for a +second she stopped again. The sun now was rising behind her; the color of +the sky shifted. Beyond Jerusalem a mountain was melting in excesses of +vermilion, and the ravine that had been gray was assuming the tenderest +green. The star had disappeared, but from each tree broke the greeting of +a bird. + +A rustle of the leaves near by startled her, and she looked about, +fearful, as women are, of some beast of prey. A white robe was there, a +white turban, and beneath it the swart face of one whom she had known. + +To her eyes came massacres. "Judas!" she exclaimed, and looked up in that +roof of her world where day puts its blue and night puts its black. +"Judas!" she repeated. Her small hands clenched, and the rhymes of her +mouth grew venomous. + +Then the woman spoke in her. "Why did you not kill me first?" + +Judas swayed like an ox hit on the forehead. The motion distracted and +irritated her. "Can't you speak," she cried, "or does hell hold you, +tongue and all?" + +He raised a hand as though he feared another blow. The gesture was so +human and yet so humble that Mary looked into his face. Time, which turns +the sweet-eyed girl into a withered spectre, must have touched him with +its thumb. His eyes were ringed and cavernous, his cheeks empty. + +"You have heard, then?" he said; but he evinced no curiosity. He spoke +with the apathy of one who takes everything for granted, one with whom +fate is to have its will. "I have just come from there," he added, with a +backward gesture. "I never thought that such a thing could be. No, I swear +it, I never did." Then, in answer perhaps to some inner twinge, perhaps +also because of the expression of Mary's lips, he continued: "If there is +a new oath, one that has never been used before, prompt me, and I will +swear again, I never did. I thought----" + +Mary interrupted him savagely: "There are ten kinds of hypocrisy. You have +nine of them; you will develop the tenth and invent a new one besides." + +At this Judas made a pass with his hands and stared absently at the +ground. "Mary," he said, "life is a book which man reads when he dies. +During the last hour I have been unrolling it. In its scroll I found +existence a wine-shop where the guest fares so badly that he would go at +once were it not that he fears to call for the reckoning. The reckoning, +Mary, is death. I have called for it. I am about to pay. Let me tell you. +I have no excuse to offer, no forgiveness now to await. My heart was a +meadow: you made it stone. There were well-springs in it: you dried them, +Mary. When I first saw you, you were a dream fulfilled. Others had brought +echoes of life; you brought its song. It was then that I heard the Master +speak. I followed him, and tried to forget. It must be that I failed, for +when I saw you in Capharnahum my blood danced, and when you spoke I +trembled. It was love, Mary; and love, when it is not death, is life. It +was that I sought at your side. You would not listen. Innocence is a +garment. You seemed to have wrapped it about you. I tried to tear it away. +There was my fault, and this my punishment. Your right was inflexible as a +prison-door, and yet always behind it was the murmur of a mysterious +Perhaps. The others turned to me; I turned to you. I forgot again, but +this time it was my duty, my allegiance, and my faith. Mary, I loved the +Master more wholly even than I loved you. He was the Spirit; you were the +flesh. In him was the future; in you the tomb. I thought to conquer both. +While I mixed my darkness with his light, I pursued you as night pursues +the day. On the light I have cast a shadow, and to you I have brought a +blight. But, Mary, both will disappear. The one consolation I cling to now +is that belief. When I delivered him up, it was myself I betrayed, not +him. I am forever dead, and he forever living. While I bargained with the +priests and pretended that my aim was coin, when I led the levites and the +Temple-guard just here to where he stood, during all the hours since I +left you, I tried to escape from that cage we call Fate. Mary, there is +something about us higher than our will. The revenge I sought on you +forsook me before I reached the city's gate. It is the intangible that has +brought me where I am. I have sworn to you I never thought this thing +could be. I swear it now again. In carrying out the threat I made, I +thought to make you fear my hate and make him greater than he was. His +enemies, I had seen, were many. Those that had believed in him grew daily +less. In Jerusalem his miracles had ceased, and I thought that, when the +levites and the Temple-guard approached, he would speak with Samuel's +thunder, answer with Elijah's flame. I thought the stars would shake, the +moon grow red; that he would produce the lost Urim, the vanished Ark, and +so forever silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he was right. Belief is in +the heart, not in the senses; the visible contradicts, but faith is not to +be confuted. No, Mary, the tombs are not dumb. I said so once, I know, but +they answer, and mine will speak. On it perhaps a caricature may be +daubed, and about it prejudice will uncoil. I deserve it. Yet though you +think me wholly base, remember no man is that. Since I met you my life has +been a battle-field in which I have fought with conscience. It has +conquered. I am its slave; it commands, and I obey." + +He drew a breath as though he had more to add, and turned to where she +stood. There was no one there. From an olive-branch a red-start piped to +the morning; over the buds of a pomegranate a bee buzzed its delight; +across the leaves of a myrtle a blue spider was busy with its web, but +Mary was no longer there. He peered through the underbrush, and wandered +to the grove beyond. There was no one. He looked to the hill-top: there +was the advancing sun. He looked in the valley: there were the pilgrims' +booths, the grazing camels and fat-tailed sheep. + +"She has gone," he told himself. "She would not even listen." + +He bent his head. For the first time since boyhood the tears rolled down +his face. + +"She might at least have heard me," he thought, and brushed the tears +away. Others came and replaced them. When they had fallen, there were +more. + +"Yes, she might at least have listened. If I had no excuse to offer, at +least I had regret." For a moment he fancied her, cruel as only woman is, +hurrying to some unknown goal. The tears he had tried to stanch ceased now +abruptly. "She is right," he mused. "She has left me to conscience and to +death." + +He turned again and went back to where he had stood before. As he crossed +the intervening space he unloosed the long girdle which he wore, and from +which still hung the treasury of the twelve. The bag that held it fell +where the bee was buzzing. One end of the girdle he tossed over a branch; +the red-start spread its wings and fled. He looked about. There was a +stone near by; he got it and with a little labor rolled it beneath the +branch. Then he made a noose, very carefully, that it might not come +undone, and settling it well under the chin, he tied the other end of the +girdle to it and swung himself from the stone. + + + + + + CHAPTER IX. + + + IX. + + +In the apartment of Claudia Procula, Mary and the wife of the procurator +stood face to face. + +The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem. Beneath was an open space tiled +with little oblong stones, red, yellow, and blue; the blue predominating. +On either side the colossal white wings of the palace stretched to a park, +very green in the sunlight, cut by colonnades in which fountains were, and +surrounded by a marble wall that was starred with turrets and fluttered +with doves. The Temple, which, from its cressets, radiated to the hills +beyond a glare of gold, was not as fair nor yet as vast as this. Within +its gates an army could manoeuvre; in its banquet-hall a cohort could have +supped. It was Herod's triumph, built subsequent to the Temple, to show +the world, perhaps, that to surpass a masterpiece he had only to conceive +another. + +To it now and then, for a week or more, the procurator descended from his +residence by the sea. He preferred the latter; the day was freer there, +life less cramped. But during festival times, when the fanatic Jews were +apt to be excited and need the chill of a curb, it was well for him and +his soldiery to be on hand. And so on this occasion he had come, and with +him his wife, Claudia Procula, and the tetrarch Antipas, who had joined +them on the way. + +Antipas and his retinue occupied the grippeum, the north wing of the +palace, while in the Csareum, the wing that leaned to the south, was +Pilate, his wife and body-guard. + +And now on this clear morning the sweet-faced patrician, Claudia Procula, +with perfectly feminine curiosity was looking into the drawn features of +the Magdalen, and wondering whence her rumored charm could come. + +"I will do my best," she said, at last, in answer to an anterior request. +And calling a servant, she wrote on a tablet a word for Pilate's eye. + +Mary moved to the portico. The variegated tiles of the quadrangle were +nearly covered now. A flight of wide, low steps led to the main entrance +of the palace, and there a high seat of enamelled ebony had been placed. +In it Pilate sat, in his hand the staff of office. Beside him were his +assessors, members of his suite, and Calcol, a centurion. On one of the +steps Caiaphas stood, near him the elders of the college. Below was the +Christ, bound and guarded. Across the quadrangle was a line of soldiery, +behind it a mob. + +The helmets, glancing mail, short skirts, and bare legs of the Romans +contrasted refreshingly with the blossoming garments, effeminate girdles, +frontlets, and horned blue bonnets of the priesthood. And in the riot of +color and glint of steel the Christ, bound as he was, looked, in the +simplicity of his seamless robe, the descendant of a larger sphere. Above, +to the left, Antipas, aroused by the clamor, leaned from a portico. +Opposite where the sunlight fell Mary held her cloak about her. + +Caiaphas, a hand indicating Jesus, his head turned to Pilate, was +formulating a complaint. Not indeed that the prisoner had declared himself +a divinity. There were far too many gods in the menagerie of the Pantheon +for a procurator to be the least disturbed at the rumor of a new one. It +was the right to rule, that attribute of the Messiah, on which he intended +the gravamen of the charge should rest. But he began circuitously, feeling +the way, in Greek at that, with an accent which might have been improved. + +"And so," he concluded, "in many ways he has transgressed the Law." + +"Why don't you judge him by it, then?" asked Pilate, grimly. + +A servant approached with a tablet. The procurator glanced at it, looked +up at the man, and motioned him away. + +"My lord governor, we have. The Sanhedrim, having found him guilty, has +sentenced him to death. But the Sanhedrim, as you know, may not execute +the sentence. The Senate has deprived us of that right. It is for you, as +its legate, to order it done." + +Pilate sneered. "I can't very well, until I know of what he is guilty. +What crime has he committed--written a letter on the Sabbath, or has he +been caught without his phylacteries?" + +"He has declared himself Israel's king!" + +"Ah!" And Pilate smiled wearily. "You are always expecting one; why not +take him?" + +"Why not, my lord? Because it is treason to do so." + +Pilate nodded with affected approval. "I admire your zeal." And with a +glance at the prisoner, he added: "You have heard the accusation; defend +yourself. What!" he continued, after a moment, "have you nothing to say?" + +Caiaphas exulted openly. The corners of his mouth had the width and +cruelty, and his nostrils the dilation, of a wolf. + +"My lord," he cried, "his silence is an admission." + +"Hold your tongue! It is for me to question." And therewith Pilate gave +the high-priest a look which was tantamount to a knee pressed on the +midriff. He glanced again at the tablet, then at the prisoner. + +"Tell me, do you really claim to be king?" + +"Is it your idea of me?" the Christ asked; and in his bearing was a +dignity which did not clash with the charge; "or have others prompted +you?" + +"But I am not a Jew," Pilate retorted. "The matter only interests me +officially. It is your hierarchy that bring the charge. Why have they? +What have you done? Tell me," he continued, in Latin, "do you think +yourself King?" + +"_Tu dixisti_," Jesus answered, and smiled as he had before, very gravely. +"But my royalty is not of the earth." And with a glance at his bonds, one +which was so significant that it annulled the charge, he added, still in +Latin, "I am Truth, and I preach it." + +Pilate with skeptical indulgence shook his head. Truth to him was an +elenchicism, an abstraction of the Platonists, whom in Rome he had +respected for their wisdom and avoided with care. He turned to Caiaphas. +The latter had been regretting the absence of an interpreter. This +amicable conversation, which he did not understand, was not in the least +to his liking, and as Pilate turned to him he frowned in his beard. + +"I am unable to find him guilty," the procurator announced. "He may call +himself king, but every philosopher does the same. You might yourself, for +that matter." + +"A philosopher, this mesth!" Caiaphas gnashed back. "Why, he seduces the +people; he incites to sedition; he is a rebel to Rome. It is for you, my +lord, to see the empire upheld. Would it be well to have another complaint +laid before the Csar? Ask yourself, is this Galilean worth it?" + +The thrust was as keen and as venomous as the tooth of a rat. Pilate had +been rebuked by the emperor already; he had no wish to incur further +displeasure. Sejanus, the emperor's favorite, to whom he owed his +procuratorship, had for suspected treason been strangled in a dumb dungeon +only a little before. Under Tiberius there was quiet, a future historian +was to note; and Pilate was aware that, should a disturbance occur, the +disturbance would be quelled, but at his expense. + +An idea presented itself. "Did I understand you to say he is a Galilean?" +he asked. + +"Yes," Caiaphas answered, expecting, perhaps, the usual jibe that was +flung at those who came from there. "Yes, he is a Nazarene." + +"Hm. In that case I have no jurisdiction. The tetrarch is my guest; take +your prisoner to him." + +"My lord," the high-priest objected, "our law is such that if we enter the +palace we cannot officiate at the Passover to-night." + +Pilate appeared to reflect. "I suppose," he said at last, "I might ask him +whether he would care to come here. In which case," he added, with a +gesture of elaborate courtesy, "you may remain uncontaminated where you +are. Ressala!" + +An official stepped forward; an order was given; he disappeared. Presently +a massive throne of sandalwood and gold was trundled out. Caiaphas had +seen it before, and in it--Herod. + +"The justice that comes from there," he muttered, "is as a snake that +issues from a tomb." + +His words were drowned in the clamors of the crowd. The sun had crossed +the zenith; in its rays the waters that gushed from the fountain-mouths of +bronze lions fell in rainbows and glistened in great basins that glistened +too. There was sunlight everywhere, a sky of untroubled blue, and from the +Temple beyond came a glare that radiated from Olivet to Bethlehem. + +Pilate was bored. The mantle which Mary wore caught his eye, and he looked +at her, wondering how she came in his wife's apartment, and where he had +seen her before. Her face was familiar, but the setting vague. Then at +once he remembered. It was at Machrus he had seen her, gambling with the +emir, while Salom danced. She was with Antipas, of course. He looked +again; she had gone. + +The Sanhedrim consulted nervously. The new turn of affairs was not at all +to their liking. The clamors of the mob continued. Once a fanatic pushed +against a soldier. There was a thud, a howl, and a mouth masked with +liquid red gasped to the sun and was seen no more. + +Behind the procurator came a movement. The officials massed about the +entrance parted in uneven ranks, and in the great vestibule beyond, +Antipas appeared. Pilate rose to greet him. The elders made obeisance. The +tetrarch moved forward and seated himself in his father's throne. At his +side was Pahul, the butler, balancing himself flamingowise on one leg, his +bold eyes foraging the priests. + +Caiaphas formulated the complaint anew, very majestically this time, and, +thinking perhaps to overawe the tetrarch, his voice assumed the authority +of a guardian of the keys of heaven, a chamberlain of the sceptres of the +earth. + +Antipas ignored him utterly. He plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and +stared at the Christ. He could see now he bore no resemblance to Iohanan. +There was nothing of the hyena about him, nor of the prophet either. +Evidently he was but a harmless vagabond, skilled in simples, if report +were true; perhaps a thaumaturge. And it was he whom he had feared and +fancied might be that Son of David for whom a star was created, whom the +magi had visited, whom his father had sought to destroy, and whom now from +his father's own throne he himself was called upon to judge! He shook his +head, and in the sunlight the indigo with which his hair was powdered made +bright blue motes. + +"I say----" + +Just beyond, where the assessors stood, Mary suddenly appeared. He stopped +abruptly; for more than a year he had not seen her. Pahul had told him she +had gone to Rome. If she had, he reflected, the journey had not improved +her appearance. Then for the moment he dismissed her, and returned to the +Christ. + +"See here: somebody the other day told me you worked miracles. I have +wanted to see one all my life. Gratify me, won't you? Oh, something very +easy to begin with. Send one of the guards up in the air, or turn your +bonds into bracelets." + +The Christ did not seem to hear. Pahul laughed and held to the throne for +support. Antipas shrugged his shoulders. + +"He looks harmless enough," he said. "Why not let him go?" + +Caiaphas glowered, and his fingers twitched. "He claims to be king!" + +At this statement the tetrarch laughed too. He gave an order to Pahul, who +vanished with a grin. + +"He has jeered at the Temple your father built," Caiaphas continued. "He +has declared he could destroy it and rebuild a better one, in three days +at that." + +"He is king, then, but of fools." + +"And he has called you a fox," Caiaphas added, significantly. + +"He doesn't claim to be one himself, does he?" + +"He is guilty of treason, and it is for you, his ruler, to sentence him." + +"Not I. The blood of kings is sacred. Pahul, make haste!" + +The butler, reappearing, held in his hand the glittering white vestment of +a candidate. The tetrarch took it and held it in air. + +"Here, put this on him, and let his subjects admire him to their hearts' +content." + +"Antipas, you disgrace your purple!" + +At the exclamation, the Sanhedrim, the guards, the assessors, the +officials, Pilate himself, everyone save the prisoner, turned and looked. +On the colored pavement Mary stood, her face very pale. + +The tetrarch flushed mightily; anger mounted into his shifting eyes. For a +moment the sky was blood-red; then he recovered himself and answered +lightly: + +"It seems to me, my dear, that you take things with a high hand. It may be +that you forget yourself." + +"I take them from where I am," she cried. "As for forgetfulness, remember +that my grandfather was satrap of Syria, my father after him, while +yours----" + +"Yes, yes, I dare say. He is not in power now; I am." + +"Not here, Antipas, nor in Rome. I appeal to Pilate." + +The tetrarch rose from the throne. The elders whispered together. Pilate +visibly was perplexed. Remembering Mary as he did, he looked upon the +incident as a family quarrel, one in which it would be unseemly for him to +interfere, and which none the less disturbed the decorum of his court. + +Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but the latter brushed him aside. + +"The hetaira is right," he exclaimed. "I am not in power here. If I were, +she should be lapidated." + +And, preceded by the butler, Antipas passed through the parting ranks to +the vestibule beyond. + +The perplexity of the procurator increased. He did not in the least +understand. To him Mary stood in the same relation to Antipas that +Cleopatra had to Herod. There had been a feud between the tetrarch and +himself, one recently mended, and which he had no wish to renew. Yet +manifestly Antipas was aggrieved, and his own path in the matter by no +means clear. + +"Bah!" he muttered, in the consoling undertone of thought, "what are their +beastly barbarian manners to me?" + +These reflections Caiaphas interrupted. + +"We are waiting, my lord, for the sentence to be pronounced." + +The tone he used was not, however, indicative of patience, and in +conjunction with the incident that had just occurred it irritated and +jarred. Besides, Pilate did not care to be prompted. It was for him to +speak first. He strangled an oath, and, gathering some fringe of the +majesty of Rome, he announced very measuredly: + +"You have brought this man before me as a rebel. I have examined him and +find no ground for the charge. His ruler, the tetrarch, has also examined +him, and by him too he has been acquitted. But in view of the fact that he +appears to have contravened some one or another of your laws I order him +to be scourged and to be liberated." + +With that he turned to the prisoner. During the entire proceedings the +attitude of Jesus had not altered. He stood as a disinterested spectator +might--one whom chance had brought that way and there hemmed in--his eyes on +remote, inaccessible horizons, the tongue silent, the head a little +raised. + +"Scourging, my lord," Caiaphas interjected, "is fit and proper, but," he +continued, one silk-gloved hand uplifted, "our law prescribes death. Only +an enemy to Tiberius would prevent it." + +At the veiled menace Pilate gnawed his under lip. He had no faith at all +in the loyalty of the hierarch; at any other time the affection the latter +manifested for the chains he bore would have been ludicrous and nothing +else. But at the moment he felt insecure. There were Galileans whom he had +sacrificed, Judans whom he had slaughtered, Samaritans whom he had +oppressed, an embassy might even now be on its way to Rome; he thought +again of Sejanus, and, with cause, he hesitated. Yet of the inward +perturbation he gave no outward sign. + +"On this day," he said at last, "it is customary that in commemoration of +your nation's delivery out of Egypt I should release a prisoner to you. +There are three others here, among them Jesus Barabba." + +Then, for support perhaps, he looked over at the clamoring mob. + +"I will leave the choice to the people." + +A wind seemed to raise the elders; they scattered through the court like +leaves. "Have done with the Nazarene," cried one. "He would lead you +astray," insinuated another. "He has violated the Law," exclaimed a third. + +And, filtering through the soldiery into the mob without, they exhorted +and prayed and coerced. "Ask for Barabba; denounce the blasphemer. Trust +to the Sanhedrim. We are your guides. Let him atone for his crimes. The +God of your fathers commands that you condemn. Demand Barabba; uphold your +nation. To the cross with the Nazarene!" + +"Whom do you choose?" shouted Pilate. + +And the pleb of Jerusalem shouted back as one man, "Barabba!" + +At the moment Pilate fancied himself in an amphitheatre, the arena filled +with beasts. There were the satin and stripes of the panther, the yellow +of treacherous eyes, the gnash of fangs, the guttural rumble, the +deafening yell, the scent of blood, and above, the same blue tender sky. + +"What of the prisoner?" he called. + +A roar leapt back. "Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified." + +Pilate had fronted a rabble before, and in two minutes had turned that +rabble into so many dead flies, the legs in the air. He shook his head, +and told himself he was not there to be coerced. + +"Release Barabba," he ordered. "And as for the prisoner, take him to the +barracks and have him scourged." + +"Brute!" cried a voice that lifted him as a blow might from his ebony +chair. "Pilate, though you are a plebeian, why show yourself a slave?" + +And Mary, with the strength of anger, brushed through the encircling +officials and towered before him, robed in wrath. + +"Ah, permit me," he answered; "you are singularly unjust." + +"Prove me so, and countermand the order that you gave." + +As she spoke she adjusted her mantle, which had become disarranged, and +looked him from head to foot, measuring him as it were, and finding him, +visibly, very small. + +Already the prisoner had been led away, and beyond, in the barracks, was +the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, rebounded, and lacerated again. + +"I will not," he answered. "What I have ordered, I have ordered. As for +you----" + +There had come to her that look which sibyls have. "Pilate," she +interrupted, "you are powerful here, I know, but"--and her hand shot out +like an arrow from a bow--"over there vultures are circling; in your power +is a corpse. What the vultures scent, I see." + +So abrupt and earnest was the gesture that unconsciously Pilate found +himself looking to where she seemed to point. He lowered his eyes in +vexation. Wrangling with a woman was not to his taste. + +"There, there," he said, much as one might to a fretful child; "don't +throw stones." + +"I have but one; it is Justice, and that I keep to hurl at you." + +The procurator's mouth twitched ominously. "My dear," he said, "you are +too pretty to talk that way; it spoils the looks. Besides, I have no time +to listen." + +"Tiberius has and will." + +Pilate nodded; it was the third time he had heard the threat that day. + +"There are many rooms in his palace," he answered, with covert +significance. + +"Yes, I know it. There are many, as you say. But there is one I will +enter. On the door stands written The Future, and behind it, Pilate, is +your death." + +The Roman, goaded to exasperation, sprang to his feet. An expression which +Antipas had used occurred to him. "Away with the hetaira," he cried; and +he was about, it may be, to order her to be tossed to the fierce wild +swine in the paddocks of the park when the prisoner and his guards +reappeared on the tessellated pavement, and Mary, already dragged from +him, was instantly forgot. + +A tattered sagum, which had once been scarlet, but which had faded since, +hung, detained at the shoulder by a rusty buckle, and bordered by a +laticlave, loosely about his form. In his hand a bulrush swayed; on his +head was a twisted coil of bear's-breech, in which, among the ruffled +leaves, one bud remained; it was white, the opening edges flecked with +pink, perhaps with blood, for from the temples and about the ear a rill +ran down and mixed with the purple of the laticlave below. And in this red +parody of kingship the Christ stood, unmoved as a phantom, but in his face +and eyes there was a projecting light so luminous, so intangible, and yet +so real, that the skeptical procurator started, the staff of office +pendent in his grasp. + +"Ecce homo!" he exclaimed. Instinctively he drew back, and, wonderingly, +half to himself, half to the Christ, "Who are you?" he asked. + +"A flame below, a soul above," Jesus answered, yet so inaudibly that the +guards beside him did not catch the words. + +To Pilate his lips had barely moved, and his wonderment increased. "Why do +you not answer?" he said. "You must know that I have the power to condemn +and to acquit." + +With that gentleness that was the flower of his parables Jesus raised his +voice. "No," he replied, "you can have no power against me unless it come +from above." + +Again Pilate drew back. Unsummoned to his lips had sprung the words, +"Behold the man!" and now he exclaimed, "Behold the king!" + +But to the mob the vision he intercepted was lost. They saw the jest +merely, and with it the stains that torture leaves. The sight of blood is +heady; it inebriates more surely than wine. The mob, trained by the +elders, and used by them as a body-guard, fanatic before, were intoxicated +now. With one accord they shrieked the liturgy again. + +"Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified." + +In that gust of hatred Pilate recovered. He turned to Caiaphas: + +"I have released one prisoner; I will release another too." + +"My lord, be warned by one who is your elder." + +"One whom I can remove." + +"No doubt, my lord; but suffer him while he may to warn you not to cause a +revolution on the day of the Paschal feast. You hear that multitude. Then +be warned." + +"But your feast is one of mercy." + +The high-priest gazed curiously at his silk-gloved hands. You would have +said they were objects he had never seen before. Then he returned the +procurator's stare. + +"We know of no such god." + +"Ah!" And the procurator drew a long breath of understanding. "It is that, +I believe, he preaches." + +"And it is for that," Caiaphas echoed, "that he must die. Yes, Pilate, it +is for that. There is no such doctrine in the Pentateuch. We have done our +duty. We have convicted a rebel of his guilt. We have brought him to you, +and we demand his sentence. Pilate, it is not so very long ago you had +hundreds massacred without judgment, without trial either, and for +what?--for one rebellious cry. You must have a reason for the favor you +show this man. It would interest me to learn it; it would interest +Tiberius as well. Listen to that multitude. If you pay no heed to our +accusation nor yet to their demand, on you the consequences rest. We are +absolved." + +"He is your king," the procurator objected, meditatively. + +Caiaphas wheeled like a feather a breeze has caught. One hand outstretched +he held to the mob, with the other he pointed to the Christ. + +"Our king!" he cried. "The procurator says he is our king!" + +As the thunder peals, a roar surged back: + +"We have no other king than Csar." + +"Think of Sejanus," the high-priest suggested. The thrust was so well +timed it told. + +Pilate looked sullenly about. "Fetch me water," he ordered. + +A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing a custom from the Jews he +loathed, he dipped his fingers in it. + +"I wash my hands of it all," he muttered. + +Caiaphas looked at the elders and sighed with infinite relief. He had +conquered. For the first time that day he smiled. He became gracious also, +and he bowed. + +"The blood be upon us, my lord, and on our children. Will you give the +order?" + +"Calcol!" + +The centurion approached. An order was given him in an undertone, and as +he turned to the guards, Pilate drew the staff of office across his knee, +snapped it in two, tossed the pieces to the ground, and through the ranks +of his servitors passed on into the great blue vestibule beyond. + + + + + + CHAPTER X. + + + X. + + +In a sook near the Gannath Gate Mary stood. In the distance the palace of +Herod defied the sun. Beyond the gate lay the Hennom Valley, the Geia +Hennom, contracted by the people into Ge' Hennom, or Gehenna, and +converted by them into a sewer, a place where carrion was thrown, and the +filth of a great city. In earlier days children had been immolated to +Moloch there, human victims had been burned; it was a place accursed, and +to purify the air, as a safeguard against pestilence, the offal was +consumed by bonfires that were constantly renewed and never extinguished. +At its extremity was an elevation, a hilly contour which to the popular +fancy suggested a skull. To the west it fell steeply away. It was called +Glgolta. + +The sook in which Mary stood was affected by shoemakers. Against the +dwelling of one of them she leaned. The mantle was gone from her now, and +the olive robe had a rent, but the splendor of her hair fell unconfined, +the perils of her eyes had increased; yet in their depths where love had +been was hate. One arm lay along the resisting stone, the other hung at +her side; her face was turned to the palace, her thin nostrils quivering, +her breath coming and going with that spasmodic irregularity which the +consciousness of outrage brings. She laid it all to Judas; he must have +returned to Kerioth, she thought. The sook itself was silent, stirred +merely by some echo of the uproar in the palace beyond. + +From a grilled lattice near by an old man peered out. He had the restless +eyes of a ferret, and a white beard that was very long. He too was looking +toward the palace. Now and then he muttered inaudibly in Aramaic to +himself. In the shadow of a neighboring house a woman appeared; he shook +at the lattice as an ape does at the bars of a cage, and spat a bestial +insult at her. The woman shrank back. Instinctively Mary turned. In the +retreating figure she recognized Ahulah, and at once, without conscious +effort, she divined that the dwelling against which she leaned was that of +Baba Barbulah, the husband of the woman whom the Master had declined to +condemn. + +But other things possessed her--the outrage to the Christ, perplexity as to +how the trial would result, more remotely the indignity to herself, the +slurs of the tetrarch and of the procurator; and with them, sapping her +heart as fever might, was that thirst for reparation, unquenchable in its +intensity, which comes to those who have seen their own life wrecked and +its ideals dispersed. + +Already Ahulah was forgot. On the wings of vagabond fancy she was in Rome, +demanding vengeance of Tiberius, wresting it from him by the sheer force +of entreaty, and with it exulting in the death-throes of the procurator. +Oh, to see his nails pulled out, his outer skin removed, his tongue +severed, his eyes seared with irons, his wrists slowly twisted till they +snapped! to hear him cry for mercy! to promise it and not fulfil!--dear +God, what joy was there! + +From the alley into which Ahulah had shrunk a man issued. He was sturdy as +a bludgeon, and he had a growth of thick black hair that curled about an +honest face. In his hand was a basket. At the sight of Mary his steps +hesitated, and his eyes followed hers to where the palace lay. Then he +crossed the zigzag of the intervening space, but he had to touch her +outstretched arm before she noticed him. + +"Simon!" she exclaimed, with that start one has when suddenly awaked. + +"Yes, Simon indeed;" and through the silence of the sook his clear laugh +rang. "I frightened you, did I not?" + +Mary interrupted him. "Haven't you heard? Has not Eleazer told you----" + +"When I left Bethany he was sleeping with both fists closed. Martha----" + +"The Master is arrested. Last night he was before the Sanhedrim; he is +before the procurator now." + +Hurriedly Mary gave an account of what had occurred. As the recital +continued, Simon's expression grew darker than his curling hair, he +clutched at the basket which he held, so tightly that the handle severed, +the basket fell, and fruit that imprisoned the sunlight rolled on the +ground. + +"They were for the Master," he said. "I thought he would sup with us +to-night." + +"He may do so yet," she answered. "Perhaps----" + +"Never!" cried a voice from the lattice. "They are leading him to Glgolta +now." + +Beyond, through the palace gate, a mass undulated, the body elongated, +expanding as it moved. It was black, but at the sides was the glisten that +cobras have. About it dust circled, and from it came the rumble of thunder +heard afar. As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; the black lessened +into varying hues. To the glisten came the glint of steel; the cobra +changed into a multitude, the escort of a squad of soldiery, fronted by a +centurion and led by the banner of Imperial Rome. + +Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his faded sagum, staggered, overweighted +by the burden of a cross. Two comrades in misery were at his side, but +they moved with steadier step, bearing their crosses with the brawn of +muscular and untired arms. The soldiers marched impassibly, preceding the +executioners--four stalwart Cypriotes, distinguishable by the fatness of +their calves--while behind was the Sanhedrim, and, extending indefinitely +to the rear, the rabble of yelling Jews. + +In a cobra's coils is death, its eyes transfix. Neither Mary nor Simon had +spoken, and now, as the soldiery was upon them, they leaned yet nearer the +wall. For a moment Mary hid her face. At her feet the Christ had fallen, +and from her came one wail, choked down at once. She stooped to aid him, +but he stood up unassisted and reached to the wall for support. + +The bars of the lattice shook; the old man peered out. + +"Don't touch my house, you vagabond! Move on!" he cried. + +Calcol had turned to Simon, who was raising the cross. "Carry it for him," +he commanded. + +Baba Barbulah still shook at the lattice. "Move on!" he repeated. "Seducer +of the people, remitter of sins, upholder of adultery, move on; don't +touch my house, it will fall down on you! Move on, I say!" + +Calcol's command Simon had anticipated. He shouldered the cross. It was +heavier to him than to the Christ, not in weight, perhaps, but in purpose. +In the narrowness of the sook the crowd was impeded, but from the rear +they pushed, surprised at the halt. + +Mary sprang at the lattice. "It is you that shall move on," she cried; +"yes, you; and forever. The desert will call to you, 'March;' and the sea +will snarl, 'Further yet.' The gates of cities will deny you, and the +doors of hamlets be closed. The eagles may return to their eyrie, the +panthers retreat to their lair, but you will have no home, no rest, and, +till time dies, no tomb." + +The old man gnashed back at her an insult more bestial than he used +before, and spat at her through the bars. But Mary had turned to the +Christ. He was surrounded now by some women who had filtered through the +alley above. Johanna, Mary Clopas, the wife of Zebdia, and Bernice, a +fragile girl newly enrolled. The latter was wiping from his face the +stains of blood and dust. The others were beating their breasts, crying +aloud. + +Of the disciples there was no trace, nor yet of any of those who had +greeted him as the Messiah. It may be that the admiring throngs that had +gathered about him had faded before a superior force. It may be they had +lost heart, belief perhaps as well. Invective never propitiates. Recently +he had omitted to prophesy, he argued. The exquisite parables with which +he had been wont to charm even the recalcitrant seemed to have been put +aside, and with them those wonders which rumor held him to have worked. +But now that pathos and grace which endeared, that perfection of sentiment +and expression which exalted the heart, returned to him, accentuated +perhaps by the agonies he had endured. + +"Weep for me no more," he entreated. "But weep for yourselves and for your +children. The days are coming," he added, with a gesture at the impatient +mob--"the days are coming in which they shall say to the mountains, Fall on +us; to the hills, Cover us. For if these things are done in the green +tree, what will be done in the dry?" + +And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted them to view disaster otherwise +than from the external and evanescent aspect, the voice of the prophet +rang once more. + +Mary as yet had not realized the full portent of the soldiery and the mob. +When it was approaching it had occurred to her that it might be another +triumphal escort, such as she had once seen surround him on his way to a +feast. As it advanced, the roar bewildered, and she had ceased to +conjecture; then the Master had fallen, and the old Jew had vomited his +slime. At the moment it was that, and that only, which had impressed her, +and she had answered with the force of that new strength which suddenly +she had found. But now at the sight of the women beating their breasts, +and the blood-stained face of the Master, an inkling came to her; she +stared open-mouthed at the cross, at Calcol, and at the executioners that +were there. + +Then immediately that horrible longing to know the worst beset her, and +she darted to where the centurion stood. + +"What is it?" she gasped. "What are you to do with him?" + +By way of answer Calcol extended his arms straight out from either side, +his head thrown back. He was a good-natured ruffian, with clear and +pleasant eyes. + +"Not crucify?" she cried. "Tell me, it is not that?" + +Calcol nodded. To him one Jew more, one Jew less, was immaterial, provided +he had his pay, and the prospect of a return to Rome was not too long +delayed. Yet none the less in some misty way he wondered why this woman, +with her splendid hair and scorching eyes, should have upbraided the +tetrarch and abused the procurator because of the friendless Galilean whom +he was leading to the cross. Woman to him, however, was, as she has been +to others wiser than he, an enigma he failed to solve. And so he nodded +merely, not unkindly, and smiled in Mary's face. + +The horrible longing now was stilled. She knew the worst; yet as the +knowledge of it penetrated her being, it seemed to her as though it could +not be true, that she was the plaything of some hallucination, her mind +inhabited by a nightmare from which she must presently awake. The howl of +the impatient mob undeceived her. It was real; it was actual; it was life. +She stared at Calcol, her fair mouth agape. There were many things she +wanted to say; her thoughts teemed with arguments, her mind with +persuasions; but she could utter nothing; she was as one struck dumb; and +it was not until the centurion smiled that the spell dissolved and the +power of speech returned. + +"Ah, _that_ never; you shall kill me first!" she cried. And already she +saw herself circumventing the centurion, blinding the soldiery, defying +the mob, and leading the Master through byways and underground passages +out of the accursed city into the fresh glades of Gethsemane, over the +hill, down the hollows to the Jordan, and into the desert beyond. There +was one spot she knew very well; one that only a bird could find; one that +she would mention to no one, but to which she could take him and keep him +hidden there in the brakes till night came, and the fording of the river +was safe. + +"That never!" she cried. And brushing Bernice off, she caught the Master +by the cloak. "Come with me," she murmured. "I know a way----" + +And she would have dragged him perhaps, regardless of the others, but the +centurion had her by the arm. + +"See here, my pretty friend, your place is not here." + +With a twist he sent her spinning back to Baba Barbulah's wall. + +"March!" he ordered. + +The soldiery, disarranged, fell in line. The two robbers picked up their +burden. The Master turned to Mary, to the others as well, with that +expression which he alone possessed, that look which both promised and +assuaged, and, it may be, would have said some word of encouragement, but +Mary was at his side again, her hand upon his cloak. + +"It shall never be," she repeated. "They must kill me first." + +Calcol wheeled. His short sword glistened, reversed, and her cheek was +laid open by the hilt. She staggered back. The soldiery moved on. The +women surrounded her and stanched the wound. To her the blow held the +difference between a cut and a cancer; she knew that it could never heal; +and, as the blood poured down her face, for the first time she divined the +uselessness of revolt. + +Presently a wave of the mob caught her, separating her from the other +women, and carrying her in its eddy through the gate, into the valley and +on to the hillock beyond. On one side were the glimmer of fires, the smell +of smoke, of offal too. On the infrequent trees vultures perched. To the +right was a nest of gardens and of tombs. + +In the eddies Mary lost foothold and lagged a little to the rear. When she +reached Glgolta the soldiery had formed three sides of a square. In it +were the executioners, the prisoners, and the centurion. At the place +where a fourth side might have been a steep decline began. + +Within the square three crosses lay; before them the prisoners stood, +stripped of their clothing now, and naked. + +The Sanhedrim was grouped about that side of the square which leaned to +the south, the horned bonnet of Caiaphas towering its lacework above the +others. To the wide and cruel corners of his mouth had come the calm of a +cheetah devouring its prey. At the outer angle, to the right, the standard +of the empire swayed; and from an oak two vultures soared with a scream +into the air, their eyes fixed on the vision of bare white flesh. + +Through the ranks an elder passed. In his hand was a gourd, which he +offered to one of the thieves. + +"Drink of it, Dysmas," he invited. "In it grains of frankincense have been +dissolved." + +To the rear Annas nodded his approval. His lean, lank jaws parted. "Give +strong drink," he announced, authoritatively; "give strong and heady drink +to those about to die, and wine to those that sorrow." + +Dysmas drank abundantly of the soporific, and held the gourd to his +comrade. + +"Take it, Stegas." + +As the second thief raised it to his lips, with a motion of arm and knee +an executioner caught Dysmas beneath the chin, behind the leg, and the +thief lay on a cross. In a second his wrists were bound, his feet as well. +There was the blow of a hammer on a nail, a spurt of blood from the open +hand; another blow, another spurt; and the cross, upraised, settled in a +cavity already prepared, a beam behind it for support. + +Stegas, his thirst slaked, fell as Dysmas had, and the elder caught the +gourd and offered it to the Christ. If he had been tempted in the desert, +as rumor alleged, the temptation could have been as nothing in comparison +to the enticements of that cup. It held relief from thought, from the +acutest pain that flesh can know, from life, from death. + +He waved it aside. The executioner started with surprise; but he had his +duty to perform, and, recovering himself, he caught the Christ, and in a +moment he too was down, his hands transfixed, the cross upraised. The +blood dripped leisurely on the sand beneath. Across his features a shadow +passed and vanished. His lips moved. + +"Father," he murmured, "forgive them; they know not what they do." + +Calcol gave an order. Over the heads of Dysmas and of Stegas the sanis +were affixed, wooden tablets smeared with gypsum, bearing the name of the +crucified and with it the offence. They were simple and terse; but above +the Christ appeared a legend in three tongues, in Aramaic, in Greek, and +in Latin: + + [Aramaic: Mlk d Jehudje] + + _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}._ + + Rex Judorum. + +Caiaphas sprang back as from the point of a sword. + +"Mlk d Jehudje!" he bellowed. "King of the Jews! It is a blasphemy, an +iniquity, and an outrage. Centurion, tear it down." + +Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and pointed to the palace. "What the +procurator has written he has written," he answered. + +In the tone, in the gesture that preceded it, and in its impertinence +Caiaphas read Pilate's one yet supreme revenge, the expression of his +absolute contempt for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation that it ruled. + +From the rear the mob jumped at the title as at a catchword. To them the +irony of the procurator presumably was lost. + +"King of the Jews!" they shouted. "Mlk d Jehudje, come down from your +cross!" + +It was a great festival, and as they jeered at Jesus they enjoyed +themselves hugely. + +In their vast delight the voice of Stegas was drowned. + +"I am a Roman citizen," he kept repeating, his head swaying, and +indicating with his eyes the wounds in his hands, the torture he endured. +"Kill me," he implored. And finding entreaty idle, he reviled the +centurion, cursed the soldiery, and would have spat at them, but to his +burning throat no spittle came. + +The tongue of Dysmas lolled from his mouth. He had not the ability to +speak, even if in speech relief could come. Flame licked at his flesh, his +joints were severing, each artery was a nerve exposed, and something was +crunching his brain. He could no longer groan; he could suffer merely, +such suffering as hell perhaps has failed to contrive, that apogee of +agony which it was left for man to devise. + +Stegas, catching the refrain the mob repeated, turned his eyes from the +soldiery to the adjacent cross. + +"If you are as they say," he cried, "save yourself and us." + +As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, "Behold your king!" and raising a +stalk of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he had dipped in the posca, +the thin wine the soldiers drink, he offered it to the Christ. + +The sun was nearing the horizon. Caiaphas gathered his ample folds about +him. He had seen enough. The feast, wretchedly embittered, was nearly +done. There was another at which he must officiate: the shofa presently +would sound; the skewering of the Paschal lamb it was needful for him to +superintend. It was time, he knew, to return to the Temple; and as he gave +a last indignant look at the placard, the lips of the Christ parted to one +despairing cry: + +"El, El, lemh shebktan?" + +Caiaphas, nodding to the elders, smiled with satisfaction. + +At last the false pretender was forced to acknowledge the invalidity of +his claims. The Father whose son he vaunted himself to be had disowned him +when his recognition was needed, if ever it had been needed at all. And +so, with the smile of one whose labor has had its recompense, Caiaphas +patted his skirt, and the elders about him strolled back through the +Gannath Gate to the Temple that awaited him. + +The multitude meanwhile had decreased. To the crowd also the Temple had +its attractions, its duties, and its offices. Moreover, the spectacle was +at an end. With a blow of the mallet the legs of the thieves had been +broken. They had died without a shriek, a thing to be regretted. The +Galilean too, pierced by the level stroke of a spear, had succumbed +without a word. Sundown was approaching. Clearly it was best to be within +the walls where other gayeties were. The mob dispersed, leaving behind but +the dead, the circling vultures, a group of soldiers throwing dice for the +garments of the crucified, and, remotely, a group of women huddled beneath +a protecting oak. + +During the hour or two that intervened, the force which had visited Mary +evaporated in strength overtaxed. She was conscious only that she +suffocated. The words of the women that had drawn her to them were empty +as blanks in a dream; the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty bier. To but +one thing was she alive, the fact that death could be. Little by little, +as the impossible merged into the actual, the understanding came to her +that the worst that could be had been done, and she ceased to suffer. The +departing hierarchy, the dispersing mob, retreating before encroaching +night, left her unimpressed. To her the setting sun was Christ. + +The soldiers passed. She did not see them. Calcol called to her. She did +not hear. The women had gone from her; she did not notice it. She stood as +a cataleptic might, her eyes on the cross. Once only, when the Christ had +uttered his despairing cry, she too had cried in her despair. In the roar +of the mob the cry was lost as a stone tossed in the sea. Since then she +had been dumb, sightless also, existing, if at all, unconsciously, her +life-springs nourished by death. + +Though she gazed at the cross, she had ceased to distinguish it. A little +group that had reached it before the soldiery left had been unmarked by +her. On the platform of her dream a serpent had emerged. In its coils were +her immortal hopes. It was that she saw, and that alone. Those moments of +agony in which the imagination oscillates between the past and the future, +devouring the one, fumbling the other, had been endured, and resignation +failed to bring its balm. She had believed with a faith so firm that now +in its demolition there was nothing left--an abyss merely, where light was +not. + +A hand touched her, and she quivered as a leaf does at the wing of a bird. +"Mary, come with us," some one was saying; "we are taking him to a tomb." + +Just beyond were men and women whom she knew. Joseph of Haramatham, a +close follower of the Master; Nikodemon, the richest man in all Juda; +Johanna, Mary Clopas, Salom, Bernice, and the servants of the opulent +Jew. It was Ahulah who had touched her; and as Mary started she saw before +her a coffin which the others bore. + +"Come with us," Ahulah repeated; and Mary crossed the intervening ridge to +where the gardens were and the tombs she had already passed. + +At the door of a sepulchre the brief procession halted. Within was a room, +a little grotto furnished with a stone slab and a lamp that flickered, +surmounted by an arch. The coffin, placed on the slab, routed a bat that +flew to the arch, and a lizard that scurried to a crevice. In the coffin +the Christ lay, his head wrapped in a napkin, the body wound about by +broad bands of linen that were secured with gum and impregnated with +spices and with myrrh. The odor of aromatics filled the tomb. The bat +escaped to the night. A stone was rolled before the opening, the brief +procession withdrew, and Mary was left with the dead. + +The momentary exertion, the bier, the sepulchre, the sight of the Christ +in his cerements, the brooding quiet--these things had roused her. Her mind +was nimbler, and thought more active. One by one the stars appeared. They +would vanish, she told herself, as her hopes had done. Only they would +reappear, and belief could not. It had come as a rainbow does, and +disappeared as vaporously, little by little, before the full glare of +might. For a minute, hours perhaps, she stood quite still, interrogating +the past in which so much had been, gauging the future in which so much +was to be. The one retreated, the other fled. Thoughts came to her +evanescently, and faded before they were wholly formed. At one moment she +was beckoning the unicorns from the desert, the winged lions from the +yonderland, commanding them to bear her to the home of some immense +revenge. At others she was asking her way of griffins, propounding the +problem to the Sphinx. But the unicorns and lions took flight, the +griffins spread their wings, the Sphinx fell asleep. There was no answer +to her appeal. + +Behind the sepulchre the moon rose; it dropped a beam near by. There is +light somewhere, it seemed to say; and in that telegram from Above, she +thought of Rome. She remembered now, in Rome was Tiberius, and in him +Revenge. She smiled at her own forgetfulness. Yes, it was there. She would +go to him, she would exact reparation; there should be another +crucifixion. Pilate should be nailed to the cross, Judas on one side, +Caiaphas on the other. Only it would be at Rome where there was no +Passover to interfere with the torture they endured. Things were done +better there. Men were crucified, not with the head up, but with the feet; +and so remained, not for hours, but for days; and died, not of their +wounds alone, but of hunger too. + +A chariot of dream caught her, and, borne across the intervening space, +she saw herself in a palace where there were gods and monsters, columns of +transparent quartz, floors of malachite, roofs of gold. And there, on a +dais, the Csar lay. Behind him a fan, luminous as a peacock's tail, +oscillated to the tinkling of mysterious keys. In his crown was the +lividity of uncolored dawns, in his sceptre the dominion of the world. An +ulcer devoured his face, and in his ear a boy repeated the maxims of +Elephantis. Mary threw herself at his feet, her tears fell on them as rain +on leaves. "Vengeance," she implored; but he listened merely to the boy at +his side. "Death is your servant," she cried. "You command, it obeys." The +ulcer oozed, the face grew vague, he gave no answer. She stood up and +menaced him. "Behind you spectres crouch; you may not see them. I do; +their name is To-morrow." The murmurs of the boy were her sole reply. The +roof crumbled, the flooring disappeared, the emperor faded, and Mary +stared into space. + +The moon that had struck aslant the tomb had gone, but where its beams had +fallen the message remained. There is light somewhere, it repeated. Across +the heavens a meteor shot like a bee. In the air voices whispered +confusedly. It is not in Rome, one seemed to say. It is not on earth, +another called. + +Mary clutched at her beating breast. The sky now was an opening rose. What +the sunset had sown the dawn would reap. In the night that had enveloped, +day raised a lattice, and through it came a gust of higher thought. It is +not in revenge, a voice whispered. It is not in regret, another called. + +"I know it," Mary gasped. "Yes, yes, I know it now. It is in faith." + +"And in abnegation of self." + +The stone which stood before the sepulchre had rolled away. At her side +the Christ stood. In his eyes were golden parables, in his face Truth +shone revealed. She stared, dumb with the unexpected joy of belief +confirmed, blinded by the sudden light, while he who had rent the bonds of +death passed on into the budding day. + +When the brief procession of the night before returned to the tomb, it was +empty. 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margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">HISTORIA AMORIS</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">THE POMPS OF SATAN</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">IMPERIAL PURPLE</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">VANITY SQUARE</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem" style="text-align: center"><th class="tei tei-label" style="text-align: center"></th><td class="tei tei-item" style="text-align: center">THE PERFUME OF EROS</td></tr></tbody></table> + + </div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-titlePage" style="text-align: center"> + <div class="tei tei-pb" style="text-align: center"></div> + + <span class="tei tei-docTitle" style="text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 173%">MARY MAGDALEN</span></span></span> + <br /><br /> + <span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 144%; font-style: italic">A Chronicle</span></span></span> + </span> + + <div class="tei tei-byline" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By</span></span> + <br /><br /> + <span class="tei tei-docAuthor" style="text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">EDGAR SALTUS</span></span></span> + </div> + <br /><br /><br /> + <span class="tei tei-docImprint" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 4.00em"> + NEW YORK<br /> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">BRENTANO’S</span></span><br /> + <span class="tei tei-docDate" style="text-align: center">MCMXIX</span> + </span> + + </div><hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-pb"></div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Copyright, 1891, + </span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">By EDGAR SALTUS.</span></span></p> + +</div><hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <div class="tei tei-pb"></div> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> +<ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc1">CHAPTER I.</a></li><li><a href="#toc3">CHAPTER II.</a></li><li><a href="#toc5">CHAPTER III.</a></li><li><a href="#toc7">CHAPTER IV.</a></li><li><a href="#toc9">CHAPTER V.</a></li><li><a href="#toc11">CHAPTER VI.</a></li><li><a href="#toc13">CHAPTER VII.</a></li><li><a href="#toc15">CHAPTER VIII.</a></li><li><a href="#toc17">CHAPTER IX.</a></li><li><a href="#toc19">CHAPTER X.</a></li><li><a href="#toc21">Transcriber’s note</a></li></ul> + +</div><hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">MARY MAGDALEN</span></span> + </p> + + <div class="tei tei-pb"></div> + </div> +</div> +<div lang="en" class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em" xml:lang="en"><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg 17]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a><a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER I.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page19">[pg 19]</span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">I.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Three to one on Scarlet!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Throughout the brand-new circus were +the eagerness, the gesticulations, shouts, +and murmurs of an impatient throng. On +a ledge above the entrance a man stood, +a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. +Beneath, on either side, were gates. +About him were series of ascending tiers, +close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored +robes and parasols. The sand of +the track was very white: where the sunlight +fell it had the glitter of broken +glass. In the centre was a low wall; at +one end were pillars and seven great +balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, +their tails in the air. The uproar +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>mounted in unequal vibrations, and +stirred the pulse. The air was heavy +with odors, with the emanations of the +crowd, the cloy of myrrh. Through the +exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the +kitchens below, and with them, from the +exterior arcades, came the beat of timbrels, +the click of castanets. Overhead +was a sky of troubled blue; beyond, a +lake. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“They are off!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The strip of silk had fluttered and +fallen, the gates flew open, there was a +rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, +a yell that deafened, and four tornadoes +burst upon the track. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +They were shell-shaped, and before +each six horses tore abreast. Between +the horses’ ears were swaying feathers; +their manes had been dyed clear pink, +the forelocks puffed; and as they bounded, +the drivers, standing upright, had the +skill to guide but not the strength to +curb. About their waists the reins were +tied; at the side a knife hung; from the +forehead the hair was shaven; and +every<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg 21]</span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>thing they wore, the waistcoat, the short +skirt, the ribbons, was of one color, scarlet, +yellow, emerald, or blue: and this +color, repeated on the car and on the +harness, distinguished them from those +with whom they raced. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Already the cars had circled the hippodrome +four times. There were but three +more rounds, and Scarlet, which in the +beginning had trailed applause behind +it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now +a little to the rear. Green was leading. +Its leadership did not seem to please; it +was cursed at and abused, threatened +with naked fist; yet when for the sixth +time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout +that held the thunder of Atlas leaped +abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued +by the blue, had been, was now a mass of +sickening agitation—twelve fallen horses +kicking each other into pulp, the drivers +brained already; and down upon that +barrier of blood and death swept the +scarlet car. In a second it veered and +passed; in that second a flash of steel +had out the reins, and, as the car swung +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page22">[pg 22]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>round, the driver, released, was tossed to +the track. What then befell him no one +cared. Stable-men were busy there; the +car itself, unguided, continued vertiginously +on its course. If it had lagged +before, there was no lagging now. The +hoofs that beat upon the ring plunged +with it through the din down upon Emerald, +and beyond it to the goal. And as +the last dolphin vanished and the seventh +ball was removed, the palm was granted, +and the spectators shouted a salutation +to the giver of the games—Herod Antipas, +tetrarch of Galilee. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He was superb, this Antipas. His +beard was like a lady’s fan. On his +cheeks was a touch of alkanet; his hair, +powdered blue, was encircled by a diadem +set with gems. About his shoulders was +a mantle that had a broad purple border; +beneath it was a tunic of yellow silk. +Between the railing of the tribune in +which he sat one foot was visible, shod +with badger’s skin, dyed blood-red. He +was superb, but his eyelids drooped. He +had a straight nose and a retreating +fore<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg 23]</span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>head, a physiognomy that was at once +weak and vicious. He looked melancholy; +it may be that he was bored. +At the salutation, however, he affected a +smile, and motioned that the games +should continue. And as the signals, the +dolphins and the seven balls, appeared +again, his thoughts, forsaking the circus, +went back to Rome. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Insecure in the hearts of his people, +uncertain even of the continued favor of +the volatile monster who was lounging +then in his Caprian retreat, it was with +the idea of pleasing the one, of flattering +the other, that he had instituted the +games. For here in his brand-new Tiberias, +a city which he had built in a +minute, whose colonnades and porticoes +he had bought ready-made in Rome, and +had erected by means of that magic which +only the Romans possessed—in this capital +of a parvenu was a mongrel rabble of +Greeks, Cypriotes, Egyptians, Cappadocians, +Syrians, and Jews, whose temper +was uncertain, and whose rebellion to be +feared. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Annonâ et spectaculis</span></span> indeed! Antipas +knew the dictum well; and with an uprising +in the yonderland, and a sedition +under his feet, what more could he do +than quell the first with his mercenaries, +and disarm the second with his games? +Tiberius, whom he emulated, never +deigned to appear at the hippodrome; +it was a way he had of showing his contempt +for a nation. Antipas might have +imitated his sovereign in that, only he +was not sure that Tiberius would take +the compliment as it was meant. He +might view such abstention as the airs +of a trumpery tetrarch, and depose him +there and then. He was irascible, and +when displeased there were dungeons at +his command which reopened with difficulty, +and where existence was not secure. +Ah, that sausage of blood and mud, how +he feared and envied him! An emperor +now, a god hereafter, truly the dominion +of this world and a part of the next was +a matter concerning which fear and envy +well might be. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And as Antipas’ vagabond fancy roamed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg 25]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in and out through the possibilities of +the Caesar’s sway, unconsciously he +thought of another monster, the son of +a priest of Ascalon, who had defied the +Sanhedrim, won Cleopatra, murdered the +woman he loved the most, conquered +Judæa and found it too small for his +magnificence—of that Herod in fact, his +own father, who gave to Jerusalem her +masterpiece of marble and gold, and +meanwhile, drunk with the dream of empire, +had made himself successor of +Solomon, Sultan of Israel, King of the +Jews, and who, even as he died, had +vomited death and crowns, diadems and +crucifixions. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was through his legacy that Antipas +ruled. The kingdom had been sliced into +three parts, of one of which Augustus +had made a province; over another a +brother whom he hated ruled; and he +had but this third part, the smallest yet +surely the most fair. Its unparalleled +garden surrounded him, and its eye, the +lake, was just beyond. In the amphitheatre +the hills formed was a city of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg 26]</span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>pink and blue marble, of cupolas, porticoes, +volutes, bronze doors, and copper +roofs. Along the fringe of the shore were +Choraizin and Bethsaïda, purple with +pomegranates, Capharnahum, beloved for +its honey, and Magdala, scented with +spice. The slopes and intervales were +very green where they were not yellow, +and there were terraces of grape, glittering +cliffs, and a sky of troubled blue, +wadded with little gold-edged clouds. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yes, it was paradise, but it was not +monarchy. It was to that he aspired. As +he mused, a rancid-faced woman decked +with paint and ostrich-plumes snarled in +his ear: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“What have you heard of Iohanan?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And as with a gesture he signified +that he had heard nothing, she snarled +again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas turned to her reflectively, but +it was of another that he thought—the +brown-eyed bride that Arabia had given +him, the lithe-limbed princess of the +desert whose heart had beaten on his +own, whom he had loved with all the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page27">[pg 27]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>strength of youth and weakness, and +whom he had deserted while at Rome +for his brother’s wife, his own niece, +Herodias, who snarled at his side. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind her were her women, and +among them was one who, as the cars +swept by, turned her head with that +movement a flower has which a breeze +has stirred. Her eyes were sultry, darkened +with stibium; on her cheek was the +pink of the sea-shell, and her lips made +one vermilion rhyme. The face was +oval and rather small; and though it was +beautiful as victory, the wonder of her +eyes, which looked the haunts of hope +fulfilled, the wonder of her mouth, which +seemed to promise more than any mortal +mouth could give, were forgotten in her +hair, which was not orange nor flame, +but a blending of both. And now, as the +cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, +her hand rose as a bird does and fluttered +with delight. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On the adjacent tiers were Greeks, +fat-calved Cypriotes, Cappadocians with +flowers painted on their skin, red +Egypt<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ians, Thracian mercenaries, Galilean +fishermen, and a group of Lydians in +women’s clothes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On the tier just beyond was a man +gazing wistfully at the woman that sat +behind Herodias. He was tall and sinewy, +handsome with the comeliness of the East. +His beard was full, unmarred at the +corners; his name was Judas. Now and +then he moistened his under lip, and a +Thracian who sat at his side heard him +murmur <span class="tei tei-q">“Mary”</span> and some words of +Syro-Chaldaic which the Thracian did +not understand. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To him Mary paid no attention. She +had turned from the track. An officer +had entered the tetrarch’s tribune and +addressed the prince. Antipas started; +Herodias colored through her paint. The +latter evidently was pleased. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Iohanan!”</span> she exclaimed. <span class="tei tei-q">“To +Machærus with him! You may believe +in fate and mathematics; I believe in +the axe.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And questioningly Herodias looked at +her husband, who avoided her look, yet +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>signified his assent to the command she +had given. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The din continued. From the tier beyond, +Judas still gazed into the perils of +Mary’s eyes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Dear God,”</span> he muttered, in answer +to an anterior thought, <span class="tei tei-q">“it would be the +birthday of my life.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page31">[pg 31]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a><a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER II.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">II.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“O Prophet Iohanan, how fair you +are!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Iohanan was hideous. His ankles were +in stocks, a chain about his waist was +looped in a ring that hung from the wall. +About his body were tattered furs, his +hair was tangled, the face drawn and +yellow. Vermin were visible on his person. +His lips twitched, and his gums, +discolored, were as those of a camel that +has journeyed too far. A tooth projected, +green as a fresh almond is; the chin projected +too, and from it on one side a rill +of saliva dripped upon the naked breast. +On the terrace he was a blur, a nightmare +in a garden. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, how fair!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Tantalizing as temptation, Mary stood +just beyond his reach. Her eyes were +full of compliments, her body was bent, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg 34]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and, the folds of her gown held back, +she swayed a little, in the attitude of one +cajoling a tiger. She was quite at home +and at her ease, and yet prepared for instant +flight. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Iohanan, or John—surnamed, because +of practices of his, the Baptist—beckoned +her to approach. In his eyes was +the innocence that oxen have. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“My body is chained, but my soul is +free!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary made a pirouette, and through +the terrace of the citadel the rattles on +her ankles rang. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was appalling, this citadel; it dominated +the entire land. Perched on a +peak of basalt, it overhung an abyss in +which Asphalitis, the Bitter Sea, lay, a +stretch of sapphire to the sun. In the +distance were the heights of Abraham, +the crests of Gilead. Before it was the +infinite, behind it the desert. At its base +a hamlet crouched, and a path hewn in +the rock crawled in zigzags to its gates. +Irregular walls surrounded it, in some +places a hundred cubits high, and in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg 35]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>each of the many angles was a turret. +Seen from below it was a threat in stone, +but within was a caress, one of those +rapturous palaces that only the Orientals +build. It was called Machærus. Peopled +with slaves and legends, it was a +haunt of ghosts and fierce delights. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And now as Mary tripped before the +prophet the walls alone repelled. The +terrace was a garden in which were lilies +and sentries. For entrance there was a +portal of red porphyry, above which was +a balcony hemmed by a balustrade of +yellow Numidian stone. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Against it Antipas leaned. He had +been eyeing the desert in tremulous surmise. +The day before, he had caught +the glitter of lances, therewith spirals of +distant smoke, and he had become fearful +lest Aretas, that king of Arabia Petræa +whose daughter he had deserted, +might be meditating attack. But now +there was nothing, at most a triangular +mass speeding westwards, of which only +the edges moved, and which he knew to +be a flight of cranes. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg 36]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He took heart again and gazed in the +valley below. It was the anniversary of +his birth. To celebrate it he had invited +the stewards of his lands, the notables of +Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator +of Judæa, the emir of Tadmor, +mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and +herdsmen. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But in the valley only a few shepherds +were visible. Along the ramparts soldiers +paced. At the further end of the +terrace a group of domestics was busy +with hampers and luggage. The day was +solemnly still, exquisitely clear; and between +two hills came a glare of gold projected +from the Temple of Jerusalem. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Through the silence rang the tinkle of +the rattles that Mary wore. The prophet +was beckoning her. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And Martha?”</span> the tetrarch heard him +ask. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The pirouette ceased awkwardly. +Mary’s eyes <a name="corr036" id="corr036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">forgot</span> their compliments. +<span class="tei tei-corr">Her</span> brows contracted, and, as though +perplexed, she held her head a little to +one side. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page37">[pg 37]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There,”</span> he added, <span class="tei tei-q">“there, I know you +well. It was at Bethany I saw you first. +Yes, yes, I remember perfectly; you were +leaving, and Martha was in tears. Only +a little since I had speech with her. She +spoke of you; she knew you were called +the Magdalen. No,”</span> he continued, for +Mary had shrunk back, <span class="tei tei-q">“no, I will not +curse. There is another by whom you +will be blessed.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary laughed. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am going to Rome. +Tiberius will give me a palace. I shall +sleep on the down the Teutons bring. I +shall drink pearls dissolved in falernian. +I shall sup on peacocks’ tongues.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No, Mary, Rome you will never see. +The Eternal has you in His charge. Your +shame will be washed away.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Shame to you,”</span> she interrupted. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Shame and starvation too.”</span> She made +as though she were about to pirouette +again. <span class="tei tei-q">“Whom are you talking of?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“One whose shoes I am unworthy to +bear.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For a moment he seemed to meditate; +then, with the melancholy of one +renounce<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg 38]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ing some immense ambition, he murmured, +half to himself, half to the sky, <span class="tei tei-q">“For him +to increase I must diminish.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“As for that, you are not much to look +at now. I must go. I must braid my +hair; the emir’s eyes are eager.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mary,”</span> he hissed, and the sudden asperity +of his voice coerced her as a bit +might do, <span class="tei tei-q">“you will go to Capharnahum, +you will seek him, you will say Iohanan +is descended into the tombs to announce +the Son of David.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Through the lateral entrance to the +terrace a number of guests had entered. +From the balcony above, Antipas leaned +and listened. Some one touched him; +it was Herodias. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The procurator is coming,”</span> she announced. +<span class="tei tei-q">“You should be at the gate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He seemed indifferent. What Iohanan +had said concerning the Son of David +stirred him like the point of <a name="corr038" id="corr038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">a</span> sword. He +felt that there could be no such person; +his father had put a stop to all that. And +yet, if there were! +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg 39]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His indifference surprised Herodias. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“What are you staring at?”</span> she asked; +and to assure herself she looked over +the balustrade. <span class="tei tei-q">“That carrion? You +should——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her hand drawn across her throat +completed the sentence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tetrarch shook his head. There +was no hurry. Then, too, the prophet +was useful. He reviled Jerusalem, and +that flattered Galilee. But there was +another reason, which he kept to himself. +Iohanan affected him as no one +had done before. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He feared him, chained though he was, +and into that fear something akin to +admiration entered. In his heart he +wished he had let him alone. No, there +was no hurry. As he assured her of that +the prophet looked up. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Jezebel!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The guests approached. Their number +had increased. There were Greek +merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, +Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg 40]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Jerusalem. Herodias clapped her hands. +A negro, naked to the waist, appeared. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Take him below.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But the guests surrounded Iohanan. +The Pharisees recognized him at once. +He was the terror of the hierarchs. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As he cried out at Herodias he seemed +as though he would rise and wrench his +bonds and mount to where she was. His +eyes had lost their pathos; they blazed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Woe unto you!”</span> he shouted, <span class="tei tei-q">“and +woe unto your barren bed! Though you +hid in the bowels of the earth, in the +uttermost depths of a jungle, the stench +of your incest would betray you. Woe +unto you, I say; the swine will turn +from you, the Eternal will rend you, and +the heart of hell will vomit you back!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Herodias shook with anger. She was +livid. Murmurs circulated through the +increasing throng. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Pharisees edged nearer. On their +foreheads were slips of vellum on which +passages of the Law had been inscribed. +About their left arms other slips extended +spiralwise from the elbow to the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page41">[pg 41]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>end of the third finger. They were in +white; where their garments had become +soiled, the spots had been chalked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To them the prophet showed his teeth. +<span class="tei tei-q">“And woe unto you too, race of vipers, +bladders of wind! As the fire devours +the stubble, and the flame consumes the +chaff, so your root will be rottenness +and your seed go up as dust. Fear will +engulf you like a torrent. The high +peaks will be broken, the mountains will +sever, and night be upon all. The valleys +and hills will be strewn with your +corpses, the rocks will run with your +blood, the plain will drink it, and the +vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto +you all, I say, that call good evil, and +evil good!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The invective continued. It enveloped +the world. Everything was to be destroyed. +Presently it subsided; the voice +of the prophet sank lower; his eyes +sought the sky, the pupils dilated; and +the dream of his nation, the triumphant +future, the sanctification of the faithful, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the magnificence that was to be, poured +rapturously from his lips. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The whole land will glow with glory. +The sky will be a rose in bloom. The +meadows will rejoice, and the earth will +be filled with men and maidens singing +and kneeling to Thee, Immanuel, whom +I await.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The vision would have expanded, perhaps, +but the chain that bound him was +loosed, sinewy arms were dragging him +away. As he went, he glared up again at +Herodias. His face had lost its beatitude. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You will be stripped of your purple, +Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden +under foot. The pains of a woman in +travail will be as joys unto yours. There +will be not enough stones to throw at +you, and the abomination of your lust +will bellow, Accursed, even beyond the +tomb.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The anathema fainted in the distance. +The Scribes consulted between their +teeth. By the Pharisees Antipas was +blamed. A merchant from Hippos did +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg 43]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>not understand, and the Law was explained. +That a man should marry his +brother’s wife was a duty, only in this instance +it had not occurred to the brother +to die beforehand. Then, again, by her +first husband Herodias had a child, and +in that was the abomination. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The merchant did not wholly grasp the +distinction, but he nodded as though he +had. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There was a child, was there?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A captain of the garrison answered: +<span class="tei tei-q">“A girl, Salomè.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He said nothing further, but the merchant +could see that his mouth watered +at the thought of her. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The crowd had become very dense. +Suddenly a trumpet blared. At the +gate was Pontius Pilate. On his head +was a high and dazzling helmet. His tunic +was short, open at the neck. His legs +were bare. He was shod with shoes that +left the toes exposed. From his cuirass +a gorgon’s head had, in deference to local +prejudice, been effaced; in its stead were +scrolls and thunderbolts. From the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg 44]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>belt rows of straps, embroidered and +fringed, fell nearly to the knee. He held +his head in the air. His features were +excellent, and his beard hung in rows of +short overlapping curls. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind him was his body-guard. Before +him Antipas stood, welcoming the +Roman in Greek. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the sky now were the advancing +steps of night; in crevices of the basalt +the leaves of the baaras weed had begun +to flicker. It was time for the festival to +begin; and, preceding the guests, Antipas +passed into a hall beyond. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was oblong, curved at the ends, and +so vast that the roof was vague. On the +walls were slabs of different colors, marble +spotted like the skin of serpents, and +onyx flecked with violet. On two sides +were galleries supported by columns of +sandstone. A third gallery formed a +semicircle. Opposite, at the further end, +on a dais, was the table of the tetrarch. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas faced the assemblage. At his +left was the procurator, at his right the +emir of Tadmor. Curtains were looped +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg 45]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on either side. Above were panels; they +separated, and flowers fell. On a little stool +next to the couch on which the emir lay +was a beautiful boy with curly hair. +The couch of the procurator was covered +with a dim Babylonian shawl. That of +the tetrarch was of ivory incrusted with +gold. All three were cushioned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As the guests entered they were sprinkled +with perfume. Throughout the +length of the hall other tables extended, +and at these they found seats and food: +Syrian radishes, melons from the oases +near the Oxus, white olives from Bethany, +honey from Capharnahum, and the +little onions of Ascalon. There were candelabra +everywhere, liquids cooled with +snow, cheeses big as millstones, chunks +of fat in wooden bowls, and behind the +tables, slaves with copper platters. On +the platters were quarters of red beef, +breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds +with their plumage on. In the semicircular +gallery musicians played, three +notes, constantly repeated. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tetrarch’s table was spread with a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg 46]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>cloth of byssus striped with Laconian +green. On it were jars of murrha filled +with balsam, Sidonian goblets of colored +glass, jasper amphoræ, and water-melons +from Egypt. Before the procurator was +a dish of oysters, lampreys, and boned +barbels, mixed well together, flavored +with cinnamon and assafœtida; mashed +grasshoppers baked in saffron; and a +roasted boar, the legs curled inward, the +eyes half-closed. The emir ate abundantly +of heron’s eggs whipped with wine +into an amber foam. When his fingers +were soiled, he wiped them in the +curls of the beautiful boy who sat near +by. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The smell of food filled the hall, +mounted to the <a name="corr046" id="corr046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">roof.</span> The atmosphere +was that of a bath, and the wines were +heady. Already discussions had arisen. +A mountaineer and a Galilean skiffsman +had been dragged away, the one senseless, +the other with features indistinguishable +and masked in blood. It was +a great festival, and the tetrarch was entertaining, +as only he could, his friends, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg 47]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his enemies, and whoever chanced that +way. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“As a child he rubbed his body with +the leaves of the cnyza, which is a preservative +of chastity.”</span> It was a little man +with restless eyes and a very long white +beard detailing the virtues of Iohanan. +<span class="tei tei-q">“But,”</span> he added, <span class="tei tei-q">“he must have found +cold water better.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His neighbors laughed. One pounded +the table. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Jeshua—”</span> he began, but everyone was +talking at once. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Jeshua—”</span> he continued; yet, as no +one would listen, he turned to a passing +eunuch and caught him by the arm—<span class="tei tei-q">“Jeshua +does more; he works miracles, +and not with the cnyza either.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The eunuch eluded him and escaped. +However, he would not be balked; he +stood up and, through the din, he shouted +at the little man: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Baba Barbulah, I tell you he is the +Messiah!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His voice was so loud it dominated the +hubbub, and suddenly the hubbub ceased. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg 48]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the dais Pontius Pilate listened +indifferently. Antipas held his hands +behind his ears that he might hear the +better. The emir paid no attention at +all. On his head was a conical turban; +about it were loops of sapphire and coils +of pearl. He wore a vest with scant +sleeves that reached to the knuckles, and +trousers that overhung the instep and fell +in wide wrinkles on his feet; both were +of leopard-skin. Over the vest was a +sleeveless tunic, clasped at the shoulders +and girt at the waist. His hair was long, +plentifully oiled; his beard was bushy, +blue-black, and specked with silver. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary had approached. From the lessening +waist to the slender feet her dress +opened at either side. Beneath was a +chemise of transparent Bactrianian tissue. +From girdle to armpits were little +clasps; on her ankles, bands; and above +the elbow, on her bare white arm, two +circlets of emeralds from the mines of +Djebel Zabur. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The emir spoke to her. She listened +with a glimpse of the most beautiful +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg 49]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>teeth in the world. He put out a hand +tentatively and touched her: the tissue of +her garment crackled and emitted sparks. +He raised a goblet to her. The wine it +held was yellower than the marigold. +She brushed it with her lips; he drank it +off, then, refreshed, he looked her up and +down. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In one hand she held a cup of horn, +narrower at the top than at the end; in +it were dice made of the knee-joints of +gazelles, and these she rattled in his +beard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That beautiful Sultan, will he play?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With an ochre-tipped finger she pointed +at the turban on his head. The eyes of +the emir vacillated. He undid a string +of gems and placed them on the table’s +edge. Mary unclasped a coil of emeralds +and rattled the dice again. She +held the cup high up, then spilled the +contents out. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ashtaroth!”</span> the emir cried. He had +won. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary leaned forward, fawned upon his +breast, and gazed into his face. Her +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>breath had the fragrance of his own +oasis, her lips were moist as the pomegranate’s +pulp, her teeth as keen as his +own desire. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No, beautiful Sultan, it is I.”</span> With +the back of her hand she disturbed the +dice. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am Ashtaroth, am I not?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Questioningly the emir explored the +unfathomable eyes that gazed into his. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On their surface floated an acquiescence +to the tacit offer of his own. Then +he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered +the jewels from the cloth of byssus +where they lay. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I tell you he is the Messiah!”</span> It +was the angry disputant shouting at the +little man. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Who is? What are you talking +about?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Though the hubbub had ceased, +throughout the hall were the mutterings +of dogs disturbed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Jeshua,”</span> the disputant answered; +<span class="tei tei-q">“Jeshua the Nazarene.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A Pharisee, very vexed, his bonnet +tottering, gnashed back: <span class="tei tei-q">“The Messiah +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg 51]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>will uphold the law; this Nazarene attacks +it.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A Scribe interrupted: <span class="tei tei-q">“Many things +are to distinguish his advent. The light +of the sun will be increased a hundredfold, +the orchards will bear fruit a thousand +times more abundantly. Death will +be forgotten, joy will be universal, Elijah +will return.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But he has!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas started. The Scribe trembled +with rage. But the throng had caught +the name of Elijah, and knew to whom +the disputant referred—a man in tattered +furs whom a few hours before they had +seen dragged away by a negro naked to +the waist, and some one shouted: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Iohanan is Elijah.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Baba Barbulah stood up and turned to +whence the voice had come: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“In the footprints of the Anointed impudence +shall increase, and the face of +the generation shall be as the face of a +dog. It may be,”</span> he added, significantly—<span class="tei tei-q">“it +may be that you speak the truth.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The sarcasm was lost. The musicians +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page52">[pg 52]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in the gallery, who had been playing +on flute and timbrel, began now on the +psalteron and the native sambuca. Behind +was a row of lute-players; but most +in view was a trignon, an immense Egyptian +harp, at which with nimble fingers a +fair girl plucked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the shadow Herodias leaned. At a +signal from her the musicians attacked +the prelude of a Syrian dance, and in the +midst of the assemblage a figure veiled +from head to foot suddenly appeared. +For a moment it stood very still; then +the veil fell of itself, and from the garrison +a shout went up: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Salomè! Salomè!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her hair, after an archaic Chanaanite +fashion, was arranged in the form of a +tower. Her high bosom was wound +about with protecting bands. Her waist +was bare. She wore long pink drawers +of silk, and for girdle she had the blue +buds of the lotus, which are symbols of +virginity. She was young and exquisitely +formed. In her face you read strange +records, and on her lips were promises as +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page53">[pg 53]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>rare. Her eyes were tortoise-shell, her +hair was black as guilt. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The prelude had ceased, the movement +quickened. With a gesture of abandonment +the girl threw her head back, and, +her arms extended, she fluttered like a +butterfly on a rose. She ran forward. +The sambuca rang quicker, the harp +quicker yet. She threw herself to one +side, then to the other, her hips swaying +as she moved. The buds at her girdle +fell one by one; she was dancing on +flowers, her hips still swaying, her waist +advancing and retreating to the shiver of +the harp. She was elusive as dream, +subtle as love; she intoxicated and entranced; +and finally, as she threw herself +on her hands, her feet, first in the air +and then slowly descending, touched the +ground, while her body straightened like +a reed, there was a long growl of unsatisfied +content. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She was kneeling now before the dais. +Pilate compared her to Bathylle, a mime +whom he had applauded at Rome. The +tetrarch was purple; he gnawed his +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page54">[pg 54]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>under lip. For the moment he forgot +everything he should have remembered—the +presence of his guests, the stains +of his household, his wife even, whose +daughter this girl was—and in a gust of +passion he half rose from his couch. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Come to me,”</span> he cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“But come +to me, and ask whatever you will.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Salomè hesitated and pouted, the point +of her tongue protruding between her +lips. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Come to me,”</span> he pleaded; <span class="tei tei-q">“you shall +have slaves and palaces and cities; you +shall have hills and intervales. I will +give you anything; half my kingdom if +you wish.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There was a tinkle of feet; the girl +had gone. In a moment she returned, +and balancing herself on one foot, she +lisped very sweetly: <span class="tei tei-q">“I should like by +and by to have you give me the head of +Iohanan—”</span> she looked about; in the +distance a eunuch was passing, a dish in +his hand, and she added, <span class="tei tei-q">“on a platter.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas jumped as though a hound +under the table had bitten him on the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page55">[pg 55]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>leg. He turned to the procurator, who +regarded him indifferently, and to the +emir, who was toying with Mary’s agate-nailed +hand. He had given his word, +however; the people had heard. About +his ears the perspiration started; from +purple he had grown very gray. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Salomè still stood, balancing herself +on one foot, the point of her tongue just +visible, while from the gallery beyond, in +whose shadows he divined the instigating +presence of Herodias, came the grave +music of an Hebraic hymn. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“So be it,”</span> he groaned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The order was given, and a tear +trickled down through the paint and +furrows of his cheek. On the hall a +silence had descended. The guests were +waiting, and the throb of the harp accentuated +the suspense. Presently there +was the clatter of men-at-arms, and a +negro, naked to the waist, appeared, an +axe in one hand, the head of the prophet +in the other. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He presented it deferentially to Antipas, +who motioned it away, his face +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>averted. Salomè smiled. She took it, +and then, while she resumed her veil, she +put it down before the emir, who eyed it +with the air of one that has seen many +another object such as that. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But in a moment the veil was adjusted, +and with the trophy the girl disappeared. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The harp meanwhile had ceased to +sob, the guests were departing; already +the procurator had gone. The emir +looked about for Mary, but she also had +departed; and, with the expectation, perhaps, +of finding her without, he too got +up and left the hall. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas was alone. Through the lattice +at his side he could see the baaras +in the basalt emitting its firefly sparks of +flame. From an adjacent corridor came +the discreet click-clack of a sandal, and +in a moment the head of the prophet was +placed on the table at which he lay. The +tetrarch leaned over and gazed into the +unclosed eyes. They were haggard and +dilated, and they seemed to curse. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He put his hand to his face and tried +to think—to forget rather, and not to +re<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page57">[pg 57]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>member; but his ears were charged with +rustlings that extended indefinitely and +lost themselves in the future; his mind +peopled itself with phantoms of the past. +Perhaps he dozed a little. When he +looked up again the head was no longer +there, and he told himself that Herodias +had thrown it to the swine. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg 58]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a><a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER III.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page61">[pg 61]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">III.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the distance the white and yellow +limestone of the mountains rose. Near +by was a laughter of flowers, a tumult of +green. Just beyond, in a border of sedge +and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the +sky. In the background were the blue +and white terraces of Magdala, and about +a speaker were clustered a handful of +people, a group of laborers and of fishermen. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He was dressed as a rabbi, but he +looked like a seer. In his face was the +youth of the world, in his eyes the infinite. +As he spoke, his words thrilled and +his presence allured. <span class="tei tei-q">“Repent,”</span> he was +saying; <span class="tei tei-q">“the kingdom of heaven is at +hand.”</span> And as the resplendent prophecy +continued, you would have said that a +bird in his heart had burst into song. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little to one side, in an attitude of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg 62]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>amused contempt, a few of the tetrarch’s +courtiers stood; they were dressed in the +Roman fashion, and one, Pandera, a captain +of the guard, wore a cuirass that glittered +as he laughed. He was young and +very handsome. He had white teeth, +red lips, a fair skin, a dark beard, and, +as he happened to be stationed in the +provinces, an acquired sneer. Dear old +Rome, how vague it was! And as he jested +with his comrades he thought of its +delights, and wished himself either back +again in the haunts he loved, or else, if +he must be separated from them, then, +instead of vegetating in a tiresome tetrarchy, +he felt that it would be pleasant +to be far off somewhere, where the uncouth +Britons were, a land which it took +a year of adventures to reach; on the +banks of the Betis, whence the girls came +that charmed the lupanars; in Numidia, +where the hunting was good; or in Thrace, +where there was blood in plenty—anywhere, +in fact, save on the borders of the +beautiful lake where he happened to be. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was but the restlessness of youth, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg 63]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>perhaps, that disturbed him so, for in +Galilee there were oafs as awkward as +any that Britannia could show; there was +game in abundance; blood, too, was not +as infrequent as it might have been; and +as for women, there at his side stood one +as appetizing as Rome, Spain even, had +produced. He turned to her now, and +plucked at his dark beard and showed +his white teeth; he had caught a phrase +of the rabbi in which the latter had mentioned +the kingdoms of the earth, and the +phrase amused him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I like that,”</span> he said. <span class="tei tei-q">“What does +he know about the kingdoms of the +earth? Mary, I wager what you will +that he has never been two leagues from +where he stands. Let’s ask and see.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But Mary did not seem to hear. She +was engrossed in the rabbi, and Pandera +had to tug at her sleeve before she consented +to return to a life in which he +seemingly had a part. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“What do you say?”</span> he asked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary shook her head. She had the +air of one whose mind is elsewhere. Into +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page64">[pg 64]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>her face a vacancy had come; she seemed +incapable of reply; and as the guardsman +scrutinized her it occurred to him that +she might be on the point of having an +attack of that catalepsy to which he knew +her to be subject. But immediately she +reassured him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Come, let us go.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And, the guardsman at her side, the +others in her train, she ascended the little +hill on which her castle was, and where +the midday meal awaited. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was a charming residence. Built +quadrangularwise, the court held a fountain +which was serviceable to those that +wished to bathe. The roof was a garden. +The interior façade was of teak +wood, carved and colored; the frontal was +of stone. Seen from the exterior it looked +the fortress of some umbrageous prince, +but in the courtyard reigned the seduction +of a woman in love. From without +it menaced, within it soothed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her title to it was a matter of doubt. +According to Pandera, who at the mess-table +at Tiberias had boasted his +pos<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>session of her confidence, it was a heritage +from her father. Others declared +that it had been given her by her earliest +lover, an old man who since had passed +away. Yet, after all, no one cared. She +kept open house; the tetrarch held her +in high esteem; she was attached to the +person of the tetrarch’s wife; only a little +before, the emir of Tadmor had made a +circuitous journey to visit her; Vitellius, +the governor of the province, had stopped +time and again beneath her roof; and—and +here was the point—to see her was +to acquire a new conception of beauty. +Of human flowers she was the most fair. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yet now, during the meal that followed, +Mary, the toast of the tetrarchy, she +whose wit and brilliance had been echoed +even in Rome, wrapped herself in a mantle +of silence. The guardsman jested in +vain. To the others she paid as much +attention as the sun does to a torch; and +when at last Pandera, annoyed, perhaps, +at her disregard of a quip of his, attempted +to whisper in her ear, she left the +room. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The nausea of the hour may have affected +her, for presently, as she threw herself +on her great couch, her thoughts forsook +the present and went back into the +past, her childhood returned, and faces +that she had loved reappeared and smiled. +Her father, for instance, Theudas, who +had been satrap of Syria, and her mother, +Eucharia, a descendant of former +kings. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But of these her memories were slight—they +had died when she was still very +young—and in their place came her sister, +Martha, kind of heart and quick of temper, +obdurate, indulgent, and continually +perplexed; Simon, Martha’s husband, a +Libyan, born in Cyrene, called by many +the Leper because of a former whiteness of +his skin, a whiteness which had long since +vanished, for he was brown as a date; +Eleazer, her brother, younger than herself, +a delicate boy with blue pathetic +eyes; and with them came the delight of +Bethany, that lovely village on the oriental +slope of the Mount of Olives, +where the rich of Jerusalem had their +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page67">[pg 67]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>villas, and where her girlhood had been +passed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the lattice at which she used to +sit she could see the wide white road +begin its descent to the Jordan, a stretch +of almond trees and oleanders; and just +beyond, in a woody hollow, a little house +in which Sephôrah lived—a woman who +came from no one knew where, and to +whom Martha had forbidden her to speak. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She could see her still, a gaunt, gray +creature, with projecting cheek-bones, a +skin of brick, and a low, insinuating +voice. The fascination which she had exercised +over her partook both of wonder +and of fear, for it was rumored that she +was a sorceress, and as old as the world. +To Mary, who was then barely nubile, +and inquisitive as only fanciful children +are, she manifested a great affection, enticing +her to her dwelling with little +cakes that were sweet to the tooth and +fabulous tales that stirred the heart: the +story of Stratonice and Combabus, for +instance, which Mary did not in the least +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page68">[pg 68]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>understand, but which seemed to her intensely +sad. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And then what?”</span> she would ask when +the tale was done; and the woman would +tell her of Ninus and Semiramis, of Sennachereb, +of Sardanapalus, Belsarazzur, +of Dagon, the fish-god of Philistia, by +whom Goliath swore and in whose temple +Samson died, or of Sargon, who, placed +by his mother in an ark of rushes, was +set adrift in the Euphrates, yet, happily +discovered by a water-carrier, afterwards +became a leader of men. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Why, that was Moses!”</span> the child +would exclaim. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No, no,”</span> the woman invariably answered, +<span class="tei tei-q">“it was Sargon.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But that which pleasured Mary more +highly even than these tales were the +legends of Hither Asia, the wonderlands +of Babylon, and particularly the story of +the creation, for always the human mind +has wished to read the book of God. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Where did they say the world came +from?”</span> she would ask. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And Sephôrah, drawing a long breath, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg 69]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>would answer: <span class="tei tei-q">“Once all was darkness +and water. In this chaos lived strange +animals, and men with two wings, and +others with four wings and two faces. +Some had the thighs of goats, some had +horns, and some had horses’ feet, or were +formed behind like a horse and in front +like a man; there were bulls with human +faces, and men with the heads of dogs, +and other animals of human shape with +fins like fishes, and fishes like sirens, and +dragons, and creeping things, and serpents, +and fierce creatures, the images of +which are preserved in the temple of Bel.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Over all these ruled the great mother, +Um Uruk. But Bel, whom your people +call Baal, divided the darkness and clove +the woman asunder. Of one part he +made the earth, and of the other the sun, +the moon, the planets. He drew off the +water, apportioned it to the land, and +prepared and arranged the world. The +creatures on it could not endure the light +of day and became extinct.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Now when Bel saw the land fruitful +yet uninhabited, he cut off his head and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg 70]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>made one of the gods mingle the blood +which flowed from it with earth and form +therewith men and animals that could +endure the sun. Presently Chaldæa was +plentifully populated, but the inhabitants +lived like animals, without order or rule. +Then there appeared to them from the +sea a monster of the name of Yan. Its +body was that of a fish, but under its +head another head was attached, and on +its fins were feet, and its voice was that +of a man. Its image is still preserved. +It came at morning, passed the day, and +taught language and science, the harvesting +of seeds and of fruits, the rules for +the boundaries of land, the mode of +building cities and temples, arts and +writing and all that pertains to civilized +life, and for four hundred and thirty-two +thousand years the world went very well.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Then in a dream Bel revealed to +Xisuthrus that there would be a great +storm, and men would be destroyed. He +bade him bury in Sepharvaim, the city of +the sun, all the ancient, mediæval, and +modern records, and build a ship and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page71">[pg 71]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>embark in it with his kindred and his +nearest friends. He was also to take +food and drink into the ship, and pairs +of all creatures winged and four-footed.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Xisuthrus did as he was bidden, and +from the ends of heaven the storm began +to blow. Bin thundered; Nebo, the Revealer, +came forth; Nergal, the Destroyer, +overthrew; and Adar, the Sublime, +swept in his brightness across the earth. +The storm devoured the nations, it lapped +the sky, turned the land into an ocean, +and destroyed everything that lived. Even +the gods were afraid. They sought refuge +in the heaven of Anu, sovereign of the +upper realms. As hounds draw in their +tails, they seated themselves on their +thrones, and to them Mylitta, the great +goddess, spake: <span class="tei tei-q">‘The world has turned +from me, and ruin I have proclaimed.’</span> +She wept, and the gods on their thrones +wept with her.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“On the seventh day Xisuthrus perceived +that the storm had abated and +that the sea had begun to fall. He sent +out a dove, it returned; next, a swallow, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which also returned, but with mud on its +feet; and again, a raven, which saw the +corpses in the water and ate them, and +returned no more. Then the boat was +stayed and settled upon Mount Nasir. +Xisuthrus went out and worshipped the +recovered earth. When his companions +went in search of him he had disappeared, +but his voice called to them saying that +for his piety he had been carried away; +that he was dwelling among the gods; +and that they were to return to Sepharvaim +and dig up the books and give them +to mankind. Which they did, and erected +many cities and temples, and rebuilt +Babylon and Mylitta’s shrine.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is simpler in Genesis,”</span> Mary said, +the first time she heard this marvellous +tale. For to her, as to Martha and Eleazer, +the khazzan, the teacher of the synagogue, +had read from the great square +letters in which the Pentateuch was written +another account of the commingling +of Chaos and of Light. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the mention of the sacred canon, +Sephôrah would smile with that +indul<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg 73]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>gence which wisdom brings, and smooth +her scanty plaits, and draw the back of +her hand across her mouth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Burned on tiles in the land of the +magi are the records of a million years. +In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the +history of life and of time is written on +the cerements of kings. Where the bells +ring at the neck of the camels of Iran +is a stretch of columns on which are inscribed +the words of those that lived in +Paradise. On a wall of the temple of +Bel are the chronicles of creation; in the +palace of Assurbanipal, the narrative of +the flood. It is from these lands and +monuments the Thorah comes; its verses +are made of their memories; it gathered +whatever it found, and overlooked the +essential, immortal life.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And Sephôrah added in a whisper, +<span class="tei tei-q">“For we are descended from gods, and +immortal as they.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The khazzan had disclosed to Mary +no such prospect as that. To him as to +all orthodox expounders of the Law man +was essentially evanescent; he lived his +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page74">[pg 74]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + little day and disappeared forever. God + alone was immortal, and an immortal being + would be God. The contrary beliefs + of the Egyptians and the Aryans were to + them abominations, and the spiritualistic + doctrine inaugurated by Juda Maccabæus + and accepted by the Pharisees, an + impiety. The Pentateuch had not a word + on the subject. Moses had expressly declared + that secret things belong to the + Lord, and only visible things to man. + The prophets had indeed foretold a terrestrial + immortality, but that immortality + was the immortality of a nation; and the + realization of their prophecy the entire + people awaited. Apart from that there + was only Sheol, a sombre region of the + under-earth, to which the dead descended, + and there remained without consciousness, + abandoned by God. + </p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Immortal!”</span> Mary, with great wondering + eyes, would echo. <span class="tei tei-q">“Immortal!”</span> + </p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes; but to become so,”</span> Sephôrah + replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“you must worship at another + shrine.”</span> + </p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> + <span class="tei tei-q">“Where is it?”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page75">[pg 75]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Sephôrah answered evasively. Mary +would find it in time—when the spring +came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had +a word or two to say of Baal to such effect +even that Mary questioned the khazzan. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“However great the god of the Gentiles +has been imagined,”</span> the khazzan +announced, <span class="tei tei-q">“he is bounded by the earth +and the sky. His feet may touch the +one, his head the other, but of nature he +is a part, and, to the Eternal, nature is not +even a garment, it is a substance He +made, and which He can remould at will. +It is not in nature, it is in light, He is: +in the burning bush in which He revealed +Himself; in the stake at which Isaac +would have died; in the lightning in which +the Law was declared, the column of fire, +the flame of the sacrifices, and the gleaming +throne in which Isaiah saw Him sit—it +is there that He is, and His shadow is +the sun.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Of this Mary repeated the substance +to her friend, and Sephôrah mused. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No,”</span> she said at last—<span class="tei tei-q">“no, he is not +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page76">[pg 76]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in light, but in the desert where nature is +absent, and where the world has ceased +to be. The threats of a land that never +smiled are reflected in his face. The +sight of him is death. No, Baal is the +sun-god. His eyes fecundate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And during the succeeding months +Sephôrah entertained Mary with Assyrian +annals and Egyptian lore. She told +her more of Baal, whose temple was in +Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at +Ascalon. She told her of the women who +wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason +of their tears. She told her of the +union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter +of the first beginning, and of Neith, +mother of the sun; of the holy incest of +Isis and Osiris; and of Luz, called by the +patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the +foothold of a straight stairway which +messengers ceaselessly ascended and descended, +and at whose summit the Elohim +sat. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She told her of these things, of others +as well; and now and then in the telling +of them a fat little man with beady eyes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page77">[pg 77]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>would wander in, the smell of garlic +about him, and stare at Mary’s lips. His +name was Pappus; by Sephôrah he was +treated with great respect, and Mary +learned that he was rich and knew that +Sephôrah was poor. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When the Passover had come and gone, +Sephôrah detected that Mary had ceased +to be a child; and of the gods and goddesses +with whose adventures she was +wont to entertain her, gradually she confined +herself to Mylitta; and in describing +the wonderlands which she knew so well, +she spoke now only of Babylon, where +the great tower was, and the gardens that +hung in the air. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was all very marvellous and beautiful, +and Sephôrah described it in fitting +terms. There was the Temple of the Seven +Spheres, where the priests offered incense +to the Houses of the Planets, to the +whole host of heaven, and to Bel, Lord +of the Sky. There was the Home of the +Height, a sheer flight of solid masonry +extending vertiginously, and surmounted +by turrets of copper capped with gold. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>In its utmost pinnacle were a sanctuary +and a dazzling couch. There the priests +said that sometimes Bel came and rested. +For the truth of that statement, however, +Sephôrah declined to vouch. She had +never seen him; but the hanging gardens +she had seen, long before they were demolished. +She had walked in them, and +she described their loveliness, and related +that they were erected to pleasure a Persian +princess whose eyes had wearied of +the monotony of the Babylonian plain. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Once when Pappus was present—and +latterly he had been often there—she +passed from the gardens to the grove +where the temple of Mylitta stood. At +the steps of the shrine, she declared, were +white-winged lions, and immense bulls +with human heads. Within were dovecotes +and cisterns, the emblems of fecundity, +and a block of stone which she did +not describe. Without, among the terebinths +and evergreens, were little cabins +and an avenue bordered by cypress trees, +in which men with pointed hats and long +embroidered gowns passed slowly, for +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg 79]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>there the maidens of Babylon sat, chapleted +with cords, burning bran for perfume, +awaiting the will of the first who +should toss a coin in their lap and in +the name of Mylitta invite them to perform +the sacred rite. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That,”</span> said Sephôrah, <span class="tei tei-q">“is the worship +Mylitta exacts.”</span> As she spoke she +drew herself up, her height increased, +an unnatural splendor filled her eyes. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I,”</span> she continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“am her priestess. +I sacrificed at Byblus, but you may sacrifice +here. There is a dovecote, yonder +is a cistern, beyond are the cypress and +the evergreens that she loves. Mary, do +you wish to be immortal? Do you see +the way?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary smiled vaguely, and with the +serenity of one worshipping a divinity +she suffered the fat Jerusalemite to take +her in his arms. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And now as she lay on her great couch +these things returned to her, and subsequent +episodes as well. There had +been the lamentable grief of Martha, the +added pathos in her brother’s eyes. The +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page80">[pg 80]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>estate of her father had been divided, +and the castle of Magdala had fallen to +her share. Meanwhile she had been at +Jerusalem, and from there she had +journeyed to Antioch, where she had +heard the beasts roar in the arena. +She had looked on blood, on the honey-colored +moon that effaced the stars, +and everywhere she had encountered +love. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Since then her hours had been grooved +in revolving circles of alternating delights, +and delights to which no shadow +of regret had come. To her, youth had +been a chalice of aromatic wine. She +had drained it and found no dregs. +Day had been interwoven with splendors, +and night with the rays of the sun. +Where she passed she conquered; when +she smiled there were slaves ready-made. +There had been hot brawls where she +trod, the gleam of white knives. Men +had killed each other because of her +eyes, and women had wept themselves +to death. For her a priest had gone +mad, and a betrothed had hid herself +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg 81]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in the sea. In Hierapolis the galli had +fancied her Ashtaroth; and at Capri, +where Tiberius lounged, a villa awaited +her will. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her life had indeed been full, yet that +morning its nausea had mounted to her +heart. At the words of the rabbi the +horizon had expanded, the dream of immortality +returned. It had been forgot +long since and abandoned, but now, for +the first time since her childhood, something +there was which admonished her +that perhaps she still might stroll through +lands where dreams come true. The +path was not wholly clear as yet, and as +in her troubled mind she tried to disentangle +the past from the present the +sun went down behind the castle, the +crouching shadows elongated and possessed +the walls. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An echo came to her, Repent, and the +prophecy continuing danced in her ears; +yet still the way was obscure. In the +echo she divined merely that the past +must be put from her like a garment +that is stained. The rest was vague. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg 82]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Then suddenly she was back again in +Machærus, and she heard the ringing +words of John. Could this be the Messiah +her nation awaited? was there a +kingdom coming, and immortality too? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her thoughts entangled and grew confused. +There was a murmur of harps in +the distance, and she wondered whence +it could come. Some one was speaking; +she tried to rouse herself and listen. +The room was filled with bats that +changed to butterflies. The murmur of +harps continued, and through the wall +before her issued a litter in which a +woman lay. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A circle of slaves surrounded her. +She was pale, and her eyes closed languorously. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am Indolence,”</span> she said. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Sleep is not softer than my couch. +My lightest wish is law to kings. I live +on perfumes; my days are as shadows +on glass. Mary, come with me, and I will +teach you to forget.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She vanished, and where the litter +had been stood a eunuch. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am Envy,”</span> +he said, and his eyes drooped sullenly. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page83">[pg 83]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“I separate those that love; I dismantle +altars and dismember nations. I corrode +and corrupt; I destroy, and I never +rebuild. My joy is malice, and my creed +false-witnessing. Mary, come with me, +and you will learn to hate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He disappeared, and where his slime +had dripped stood a being with fingers +intertwisted and a back that bent. <span class="tei tei-q">“I +am Greed,”</span> it said. <span class="tei tei-q">“I sap the veins of +youth; I drain the hearts of women; I +bring contention where peace should be. +I make fathers destroy their sons, and +daughters betray their mother. I never +forget, and I never release. I am the +master. Mary, come with me, and you +shall own the world.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The fetor of the presence went, and in +its place came one whose footsteps thundered. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am Anger,”</span> he declared. <span class="tei tei-q">“I +exterminate and rejoice. I batten on +blood. In my heart is suspicion, in my +hand is flame. It is I that am war and +disaster and regret. My breath consumes, +and my voice affrights. Mary, come with +me, and you will learn to quell.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page84">[pg 84]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He dissolved, and in the shadows stood +one whose hands were ample, and whose +wide mouth laughed. <span class="tei tei-q">“I am Gluttony,”</span> +he announced, and as he spoke his voice +was thick. <span class="tei tei-q">“I fatten and forsake. I offer +satrapies for one new dish. I invite and +alienate, I welcome and repel. It is I +that bring disease and disorders. I am +the harbinger of Death. Mary, come with +me, and you shall taste of Life.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He also disappeared, and two heralds +entered with trumpets on which they +blew, and one exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“Make way for +Assurbanipal, ruler of land and of sea.”</span> +Then, with horsemen riding royally, +Sardanapalus advanced through the fissure +in the wall. On his head a high +and wonderful tiara shone with zebras +that had wings and horns. His hair was +long, and his beard curled in overlapping +rings. His robe dazzled, and the +close sleeves were fastened over his +knuckles with bracelets of precious stones. +In one hand he held a sceptre, in the +other a chart. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I,”</span> he cried—<span class="tei tei-q">“I am Assurbanipal; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page85">[pg 85]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the progeny of Assur and of Baaltis, son +of the great king Riduti, whom the +lord of crowns, in days remote prophesying +in his name, raised to the kingdom, +and in the womb of his mother created +to rule. The man of war, the joy of Assur +and of Istar, the royal offspring, am I. +When the gods seated me on the throne +of the father my begetter, Bin poured +down his rain, Hea feasted the people. +My enemies I destroyed, and their gods +glorified me before my camp. The god +of their oracles, whose image no man had +seen, I took, and the goddesses whom +the kings worshipped I dishonored.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He paused and looked proudly about, +then he continued: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That which is in the storehouse of +heaven is kindled, and to the city of cities +my glory flies. The queens above and +below proclaim my glory. I am Glory, +and I am Pride. Mary, come with me, +and you shall disdain the sky.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But Mary gave no sign. The clattering +horses vanished, and two men dressed in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg 86]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>women’s clothes appeared. They bowed +to the ground and chanted: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The holy goddess, our Lady Mylitta, +whose sacrificants we are.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then came a form so luminous that +Mary hid her face and listened merely. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I,”</span> said a voice—<span class="tei tei-q">“I am Desire. In +Greece I am revered, and there I am +Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in +Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in +Persia, Anâhita; Tanit in Carthage; +Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; +Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; +Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and Aschera +in the glades of Judæa. And everywhere +I am worshipped, and everywhere +I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight +and pain. I appease and appal. +It is I that create and undo. It is I that +make heaven and people hell. I am the +mistress of the world. Without me time +would cease to be. I am the germ of +stars, the essence of things. I am all +that is, will be, and has been, and my robe +no mortal has raised. I breathe, and nations +are; in my parturitions are planets; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page87">[pg 87]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>my home is space. My lips are blissfuller +than any bloom of bliss; my arms +the opening gates of life. The Infinite is +mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall +measure it.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When Mary ventured to look again the +vision had gone. They had all gone now. +She had made no effort to detain them. +They were tempters of which she was +freed, in which she believed, and which +were real to her. The wall through which +they had come and departed was vague +and in the darkness remote, but presently +it dissolved again, and afar in the beckoning +distance was one breathing a soul into +decrepit rites. <span class="tei tei-q">“Come unto me, all ye that +sorrow and are heavy-laden,”</span> she heard +him say; and, as with a great sob of joy +she rose to that gracious summons, night +seized her. When she awoke, a newer +dawn had come. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg 88]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg 89]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a><a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER IV.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg 91]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">IV.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the gardens of the palace the tetrarch +mused. The green parasols of the +palms formed an avenue, and down that +avenue now and then he looked. Near +him a Syrian bear, quite tame, with a +sweet face and tufted silver fur, gambolled +prodigiously. Up and down a neighboring +tree two lemurs chased with that +grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting +animals alone possess. Ringed-horned +antelopes, the ankles slender as +the stylus, the eyes timid and trustful, +pastured just beyond; and there too a +black-faced ape, irritated perhaps by the +lemurs, turned indignant somersaults, the +tender coloring of his body glistening in +the sun. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is odd that Pahul does not return,”</span> +the tetrarch reflected; and then, it may be +for consolation’s sake, he plunged his face +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page92">[pg 92]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in a jar of wine that had been drained, in +accordance with a recipe of Vitellius, +through cinnamon and calamus, and drank +abundantly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Long since he had deserted Machærus. +The legends that peopled its corridors +had beset him with a sense of reality +which before they had never possessed. +The leaves of the baaras glittered frenetically +in the basalt, and in their spectral +light a phantom with eyes that cursed +came and went. At night he had drunk, +and in the clear forenoons he paced the +terrace fancying always that there, beyond +in the desert, Aretas prowled like a +wolf. Machærus was unhealthy; men had +gone mad there, others had disappeared +entirely. It was a haunt of echoes, of +memories, of ghosts also, perhaps too of +reproach. And so, with his court, he returned +to his brand-new Tiberias, where +the air was serener, and nature laughed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And yet in the gardens that leaned to +the lake the tranquillity he had anticipated +eluded and declined to be detained. +Rumors that Herodias collected came to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him with the stamp of Rome. One of his +brothers was plotting against him; another, +though in exile, was plotting too. +It was the Herod blood, his wife said; +and, with the intemperance of a woman +whose ambition has been deceived, she +taunted him with his plebeian descent. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Your grandfather was a sweep at Ascalon, +a eunuch at that,”</span> she had remarked; +and the tetrarch, by way of +reply, had been obliged to content himself +by asking how, in that case, he could +have been grandfather at all. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But latterly a new source of inquietude +had come. At Magdala, Capharnahum, +Bethsaïda, there, within the throw of a +stone, was a Nazarene going about inciting +the peasants to revolt. It was very vexatious, +and he told himself that when an +annoyance fades another appears. Life, +it occurred to him, was a brier with renascent +thorns. And now, as he gargled +the wine that left a pink foam on his +lips, even that irritation lapsed in the +perplexing absence of Pahul. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pahul was a butler of his, a Greek +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page94">[pg 94]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>whom he had picked up one adventurous +night in Rome, who had made himself +useful, whom he had attached to his +household, whom he consulted, and on +whom he relied. Early that day he had +sent him off with instructions to run the +demagogue to earth, to listen, to question +if need were, and to hurry back and report. +But as yet he had not returned. +The day was fading, and on the amphitheatre +which the hills made the sun seemed +to balance itself, the disk blood-red. The +lemurs had tired, perhaps; their yellow +eyes and circled tails had gone; the bear +had been led away; only the multicolored +ape remained, gnawing now with little +plaintive moans at a bit of fruit which he +held suspiciously in his wrinkled hand. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Presently a star appeared and quivered, +then another came, and though overhead +were streaks of pink, and, where the +sun had been, a violence of red and orange, +the east retained its cobalt, night +still was remote—an echo of crotals from +the neighboring faubourg, the cry of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page95">[pg 95]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>elephants impatient for their fodder, +alone indicating that a day was dead. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the charm of the encroaching twilight +the irritation of the tetrarch waned and +decreased. He lost himself in memories +of the princess who had been his bride, +and he wondered were it possible that, +despite the irrevocable, he was never to +see, to speak, to hold her to him again. +Truly her grievance was unmeasurable, +the more so even that she had not deigned +to utter so much as a reproach. At the +rumor of his treachery she had betaken +herself to the solitudes, where Aretas her +father was king, and had there remained +girt in that unmurmuring silence which +nobility raises as a barrier between outrage +and itself, and which the desert is +alone competent to suggest. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is he!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tetrarch started so abruptly that +he narrowly missed the jar at his side. +On noiseless sandals Pahul had approached, +and stood before him nodding +his head with an air of assured conviction. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page96">[pg 96]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>The ape had fled and a stork stepped +gingerly away. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is he,”</span> the Greek repeated—<span class="tei tei-q">“John +the Baptist.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas plucked at his beard. <span class="tei tei-q">“But +he is dead,”</span> he gasped; <span class="tei tei-q">“I beheaded him. +What nonsense you talk!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is he, I tell you, only grown younger. +I found him in the synagogue.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Where? what synagogue?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pahul made a gesture. <span class="tei tei-q">“At Capharnahum,”</span> +he answered, and gazed in +the tetrarch’s face. He was slight of form +and regular of feature. As a lad he had +crossed bare-handed from Cumæ to Rhegium, +and from there drifted to Rome, +where he started a commerce in Bœtican +girls which had so far prospered that he +bought two vessels to carry the freight. +Unfortunately the vessels met in a storm +and sank. Then he became a hanger-on +of the circus; in idle moments a tout. It +was in the latter capacity that Antipas +met him, and, pleased with his shrewdness +and perfect corruption, had attached him +to his house. This had occurred in years +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page97">[pg 97]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>previous, and as yet Antipas had found +no cause to regret the trust imposed. He +was a useful braggart, idle, familiar, and +discreet; and he had acquired the dialect +of the country with surprising ease. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There were any number of people,”</span> +Pahul continued. <span class="tei tei-q">“Some said he was +the son of Joseph, the son of——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But he, what did he say? How tiresome +you are!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> And Pahul swung his arms. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Who is Mammon?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mammon? Mammon? How do I +know? Plutus, I suppose. What about +him?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And who is Satan?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Satan? Satan is a—He’s a Jew +god. Why? But what do you mean by +asking me questions?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pahul nodded absently. <span class="tei tei-q">“I heard him +say,”</span> he continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“that no man could +serve God and Mammon. At first I +thought he meant you. It was this way. +I got into conversation with a friend of +his, a man named Judas. He told me any +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg 98]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>number of things about him, that he cured +the sick——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Bah! Some Greek physician.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That he walks on the sea——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Nonsense!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That he turns water into wine, feeds +the multitude, raises the dead——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Raises the dead!”</span> And the tetrarch +added in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">sotto voce</span></span> of thought, <span class="tei tei-q">“So +did Elijah.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That he had been in the desert——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“With Aretas?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No; I questioned him on that point. +He had never heard of Aretas, but he said +that in the desert this Satan had come +and offered him—what do you suppose? +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The empire of the earth!</span></span>”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas shook with fright. <span class="tei tei-q">“It must +have been Aretas.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But that he had refused.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Then it is John.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There, you see.”</span> And Pahul dandled +himself with the air of one who is master +of logic. <span class="tei tei-q">“That’s what I said myself. I +said this: <span class="tei tei-q">‘If he can raise the dead, he +can raise himself.’</span> ”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg 99]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> John,”</span> the tetrarch repeated. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am sure of it,”</span> the butler continued. +<span class="tei tei-q">“But he did not say so. Judas didn’t +either. On the contrary, he declared he +was not. He said John was not good +enough to carry his shoes. I saw through +that, though,”</span> and Pahul leered; <span class="tei tei-q">“he knew +whom I was, and he lied to protect his +friend. I of course pretended to believe +him.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Quite right,”</span> said the tetrarch. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I played the fool. H’m, where +was I? Oh, I asked Judas who then +his friend was, but he went over to where +a woman stood; he spoke to her; she +moved away. Some of the others seemed +to reprove him. I would have followed, +but at that moment his friend stood up; +a khazzan offered him a scroll, but he +waved it aside; then some one asked him +a question which I did not catch; another +spoke to him; a third interrupted; he +seemed to be arguing with them. I was +too far away to hear well, and I got nearer; +then I heard him say, <span class="tei tei-q">‘I am the bread of +life.’</span> Now, what did he mean by that?”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas had no explanation to offer. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Then,”</span> Pahul continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“he said he +had come down from heaven. A man +near me exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">‘He is the Messiah;’</span> +but others——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The Messiah!”</span> echoed the tetrarch. +For a moment his thoughts stammered, +then at once he was back in the citadel. +On one side was the procurator, on the +other the emir of Tadmor. In front of +him was a drunken rabble, wrangling +Pharisees, and one man dominating the +din with an announcement of the Messiah’s +approach. The murmur of lutes +threaded through it all; and now, as his +thoughts deviated, he wondered could that +announcement have been the truth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But others,”</span> Pahul continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“objected +loudly. For a little I could not +catch a word. At last they became quieter, +and I heard him repeat that he was the +bread of life, adding, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Your fathers ate +manna and are dead, but this bread a +man may eat of and never die.’</span> At this +there was new contention. A woman +fainted—the one to whom Judas had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>spoken. They carried her out. As she +passed I could see her face. It was +Mary of Magdala. Judas held her by +the waist, another her feet.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas drew a hand across his face. +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is impossible,”</span> he muttered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Not impossible at all. I saw her as +plainly as I see you. The man next to +me said that the Rabbi had cast from her +seven devils. Moreover, Johanna was +there—yes, yes, the wife of Khuza, your +steward; it was she, I remember now, who +had her by the feet. And there were +others that I recognized, and others that +the man next to me pointed out: Zabdia, +a well-to-do fisherman whom I have +seen time and again, and with him his +sons James and John, and Salomè his +wife. Then, too, there were Simon Barjona +and Andrew his brother. Simon +had his wife with him, his children, and +his mother-in-law. The man next to me +said that the Rabbi called James and +John the Sons of Thunder, and Simon a +stone. There was Mathias the tax-gatherer, +Philip of Bethsaïda, Joseph +Bar<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>saba, Mary Clopas, Susannah, Nathaniel +of Cana, Thomas, Thaddeus, Aristian the +custom-house officer, Ruth the tax-gatherer’s +wife, mechanics from Scythopolis, +and Scribes from Jerusalem.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The fingers of Antipas’ hand glittered +with jewels. He played with them nervously. +The sky seemed immeasurably +distant. For some little time it had been +hesitating between different shades of +blue, but now it chose a fathomless +indigo; Night unloosed her draperies, +and, with the prodigality of a queen who +reigns only when she falls, flung out upon +them uncounted stars. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pahul continued: <span class="tei tei-q">“And many of them +seemed to be at odds with each other. +They wrangled so that often I could not +distinguish a word. Some of them left +the synagogue. The Rabbi himself must +have been vexed, for in a lull I heard him +say to those who were nearest, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Will you +also go away?’</span> Judas came in at that +moment, and he turned to him: <span class="tei tei-q">‘Have I +not chosen twelve, and is not one of you a +devil?’</span> Judas came forward at once and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>protested. I could see he was in earnest, +and meant what he said. The man next +told me that he was devoted to the Rabbi. +Then Simon Barjona, in answer to his +question, called out, <span class="tei tei-q">‘To whom should we +go? Thou art Christ, the Son of God.’</span> ”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas had ceased to listen. At the +mention of the Messiah the dream of +Israel had returned, and with it the pageants +of its faith unrolled. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind the confines of history, in the +naked desert he saw a bedouin, austere +and grandiose, preparing the tenets of a +nation’s creed; in the remoter past a +shadow in which there was lightning, then +the splendor of that first dawn where the +future opened like a book, and in the +grammar of the Eternal the promise of an +age of gold. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Through the echo of succeeding generations +came the rumor of that initial impulse +which drew the world in its flight. +The bedouin had put the desert behind +him, and stared at another. Where the +sand had been was the sea. As he passed, +the land leapt into life. There were +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tents and passions, clans not men, an aggregate +of forces in which the unit disappeared. +For chieftain there was Might; +and above, the subjects of impersonal +verbs, the Elohim from whom the thunder +came, the rain, light and darkness, death +and birth, dream too, and nightmare as +well. The clans migrated. Goshen +called. In its heart Chaldæa spoke. The +Elohim vanished, and there was El, the +one great god, and Isra-el, the great +god’s elect. From heights that lost themselves +in immensity the ineffable name, +incommunicable and never to be pronounced, +was seared by forked flames on +a tablet of stone. A nation learned that +El was Jehovah, that they were in his +charge, that he was omnipotent, and that +the world was theirs. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +They had a law, a covenant, a future, +and a god; and as they passed into the +lands of the well-beloved, leaving tombs +and altars to mark their passage, they had +battle-cries that frightened and hymns +that exalted the heart. Above were the +jealous eyes of Jehovah, and beyond +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>was the resplendent to-morrow. They +ravaged the land like hailstones. They +had the whirlwind for ally; the moon was +their servant; and to aid them the sun +stood still. The terror of Sinai gleamed +from their breastplates; men could not +see their faces and live. They encroached +and conquered. They had a home, they +made a capitol, and there on a rock-bound +hill Antipas saw David founding a line of +kings, and Solomon the city of god. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was in their loins the Messiah was; +in them the apex of a nation’s prosperity; +in them glory at its apogee. And across +that tableau of might, of splendor, and +of submission for one second flitted the +silhouette of that dainty princess of +Utopia, the Queen of Sheba, bringing +riddles, romance, and riches to the wise +young king. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She must have been very beautiful, +Antipas with melancholy retrospection +reflected; and he fancied her more luminous +than the twelve signs of the zodiac, +lounging nonchalantly in a palanquin that +a white elephant with swaying tail +bal<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>anced on his painted back. And even as +she returned, with a child perhaps, to the +griffons of the fabulous Yemen whence +she came, Antipas noted a speck on the +horizon that grew from minim into +mountain, and obscured the entire sky. +He saw the empire split in twain, and in +the twin halves that formed the perfect +whole, a concussion of armies, brothers +appealing against their kin, the flight of +the Ideal. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Unsummoned before him paraded the +regicides, convulsions, and anarchies that +deified Hatred until Vengeance incarnate +talked Assyrian, and Nebuchadnezzar +loomed above the desert beyond. His +statue filled the perspective. With one +broad hand he overturned Jerusalem; with +another he swept a nation into captivity, +leaving in derision a pigmy for King of +Solitude behind, and, blowing the Jews +into Babylon, there retained them until +it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates’ +course. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +By the light of that legend Antipas saw +an immense hall, illuminated by the seven +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>branches of countless candelabra, and +filled with revellers celebrating a monarch’s +feast. Beyond, through retreating +columns, were cyclopean arches and towers +whose summits were lost in clouds that +the lightning rent. At the royal table sat +Belsarazzur, laughing mightily at the enterprise +of the Persian king; about him +were the grandees of his court, the flower +of his concubines; at his side were the +sacred vases filled with wine. He raised +one to his lips, and there on the frieze +before him leapt out the flaming letters +of his doom, while to the trumpetings of +heralds Cyrus and his army beat down +the city’s gates. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem +repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace after +exile, the joy of bondage unloosed. For +a moment it lasted—a century or two at +most; and after Alexander, in chasing +kings hither and thither, had passed with +his huntsmen that way, Isis and Osiris +beckoned, and the descendants of the bedouin +belonged to Goshen again, and so remained +until Syria took them, lost them, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>reconquered them, and might have done +with them utterly had not Juda Maccabæus +flaunted his banner, and the Roman +eagles pounced upon their prey. Once +more the Temple was rebuilt, <a name="corr108" id="corr108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">superber</span> +than ever, and from the throne of David, +Antipas saw the upstart that was his +father rule Judæa. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With him the panorama and the kaleidoscope +of its details abruptly ceased. +But through it all the voices of the +prophets had rung more insistently with +each defeat. The covenant in the wilderness +was unforgetable; in the chained +links of slavery they saw the steps of a +throne, the triumph of truth over error, +peace over war, Israel pontiff and shepherd +of the nations of the world. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The expectation of a liberator who +should free the bonds of a people and +definitively re-create the land of the elect +possessed them utterly; his advent had +been constantly awaited, obstinately proclaimed; +the faith in him was unshakeable. +Palestine was filled with believers +praying the Eternal not to let them die +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>before the promise was fulfilled; the atmosphere +itself was charged with expectation. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And as the visions rushed through his +mind, Antipas fell to wondering whether +that covenant was as meaningless as he +had thought, or whether by any chance +this rabbi who had been arguing at Capharnahum +could be the usher of Israel’s +hope. If he were, then indeed he might +say good-bye to his tetrarchy, to his +dream of a kingdom as well. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> Pahul repeated, <span class="tei tei-q">“the Son of +God!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas had been so far away that now +he started as one does whom the touch of +a hand awakes. To recover himself he +leaned over and plunged his face in the +jar. The wine brought him courage. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He must be suppressed, he decided. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But,”</span> the butler continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“I——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The frontal of the palace was set with +lights. The parasols of the palms had +turned from green to black, the stars +seemed remoter, the sky more dark. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>From beyond came the call and answer of +the sentinels. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas stood up. A fringe of his tunic +was detained by a rivet of the bench on +which he had sat; he stooped to loose it; +something moist touched his fingers, and +as he moved to the palace the black-faced +ape sprang at his side and nibbled at the +jewels on his hand. +</p> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a><a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER V.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">V.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The house of Simon Barlevi was gray, +and in shape an oblong. It had a flat +roof laid with a plaster of lime, about +which was a fretwork of open tiles. Beneath, +for doorway, was a recess, surmounted +by an arch and covered with a +layer of mud. On each side was a room. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the recess, sheltered from the sun +and visited by the breeze, Simon stood. +His garments were white, and where they +were not they had been neatly chalked. +On the border of his skirt and sleeves +were the regulation fringes, and on his +forehead and about his left arm the phylacteries +which Pharisees affect. He was +not pleasant to the eye, but he was virtuous +and a strict observer of the Law. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the room at his left were mats and +painted stools, set in the manner customary +when guests are awaited. For on +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that day Simon Barlevi was to give a +little feast, to which he had bidden his +friends and also a rabbi whom he had +listened to in the synagogue, and with +whose ideas he did not at all agree. +Save for the mats and stools, and a lamp +of red clay, the room was bare. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In front of the house was a bit of +ground enclosed by a hedge of stones; +and now as Simon stood in the recess a +guest appeared. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Reulah!”</span> he exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“the Lord +be with you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And Reulah answering, as etiquette required, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Unto you be peace, and to your +house be peace, and unto all you have be +peace,”</span> the two friends clasped hands +raised them as though to kiss them, then +each withdrawing kissed his own hand, +and struck it on his forehead. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Singularly enough, host and guest +looked much alike. Simon had the appearance +of one conscious of and strong +in his own rectitude, while Reulah seemed +humbler and more effaced. Otherwise +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>there was not a pin to choose between +them. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To Simon’s face had come an expression +of perplexity in which there was +zeal. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I was thinking, Reulah,”</span> he announced, +<span class="tei tei-q">“of the rabbi who is to break +bread with us to-day. His teaching does +not comfort me.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Reulah was unlatching his shoes. <span class="tei tei-q">“Nor +me,”</span> he interjected. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“On questions of purity and impurity +he seems unscrupulously negligent. I +have heard that he is a glutton and a +wine-bibber. I have heard that he despises +the washing of the hands.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Whoso does,”</span> Reulah threw back, +<span class="tei tei-q">“will be rooted out of the world.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon nodded; a smile of protracted +amiability hovered in the corners of his +mouth. For a moment he played with +his beard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I think,”</span> he added, <span class="tei tei-q">“that he will find +here food in plenty, and counsel as well.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and +Simon, in a falsetto which he affected +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>when he desired to impress, continued in +gentle menace: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But I have certain questions to put to +him. Whether water from an unclean +vessel defiles that which is clean. +Whether the flesh of a dead body alone +defiles, or the skin and bones as well. I +want to see how he will answer that. +Then I may ask his opinion on points of +the ritual. Should the incense be lighted +before the high-priest appears or as he +does so. Is or is not the Sabbath broken +by the killing of the Paschal lamb? +Why is it lawful to take tithe of corn and +wine and oil, and not of anise, cummin, +and peppers? In swearing by the Temple, +should one not first swear by the +gold on the Temple? and in swearing by +the altar, should one or should one not +first swear by the sacrifices on it? These +things, since he preaches, he must know. +If he does not——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And Simon looked at his friend as who +should say: What is there wanting in me? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“If I may be taught another duty I +will observe it,”</span> said Reulah, sweetly. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At this evidence of meekness Simon +grunted. Two other guests were approaching. +On the edges of their tallîth +were tassels made of four threads which +had been drawn through an eyelet and +doubled to make eight. Seven of these +threads were of equal length, but the +eighth was longer, and, twisted into five +knots, represented the five books of the +Law. The right hand on the left breast, +they saluted their host, and placing in +turn a hand under his beard, they kissed +it. A buzz of inquiries followed, interrupted +by the coming and embracing of +newer guests, the unloosing of sandals, +the washing of feet. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As they assembled, one drew Simon +aside and whispered importantly. Simon’s +eyes dilated, astonishment lifted +him, visibly, like a lash, and his hands +trembled above his head. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Have you heard,”</span> he exclaimed to the +others—<span class="tei tei-q">“have you heard that the Nazarene +whom I invited here, and who pretends +to be a prophet, allowed his followers +to pluck corn on the Sabbath, to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>thresh it even, and defended and approved +their violation of the Law? Have +you heard it? Is <a name="corr118" id="corr118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">it</span> true?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Reulah quaked as one stricken by +palsy. <span class="tei tei-q">“On the Sabbath!”</span> he moaned. +<span class="tei tei-q">“On the Sabbath! Why, I would not +send a message on Wednesday, lest perchance +it should be delivered on the +Sabbath day. Surely it cannot be.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But on that point the others were certain. +They were all aware of the scandal; +one had been an eye-witness, another had +heard the Nazarene assert that he was +<span class="tei tei-q">“Lord of the Day.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“This is monstrous!”</span> Simon cried. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He declared,”</span> the eye-witness continued, +<span class="tei tei-q">“that the Sabbath was made for +man, and not man for the Sabbath.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is monstrous!”</span> Simon repeated. +<span class="tei tei-q">“The command to do no manner of work +is absolute and emphatic. The killing +of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous as +the butchering of a bullock. The preservation +of life itself is inhibited. Moses +had the son of Shelomith stoned to death +for gathering sticks on it. Shammai +oc<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>cupied six days of the week in thinking +how he could best observe it. It is unlawful +to wear a false tooth on the Sabbath, +and if a tooth ache it is unlawful to +rinse the mouth with vinegar.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yet,”</span> objected Reulah, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is lawful +to hold the vinegar in the mouth provided +you swallow it afterward.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No one paid any attention to him. +Simon’s indignation increased. Of the +thirty-nine Abhôth he quoted twelve; he +showed that the Nazarene had violated +each one of these prohibitions against +labor; he showed, too, that by his subsequent +speech and bearing he had practically +scoffed at the Toldôth, at the +synagogue which had drawn it up as +well. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“If the Sadducees were not in power, +Jerusalem should hear of this. As it +is——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Whatever resolution he may have intended +to express remained unuttered. A +silence fell upon his lips; his guests drew +back. At the step stood the Nazarene, behind +him his treasurer, Judas of Kerioth. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>For a second only Jesus hesitated. He +stooped, undid his shoes, and moved to +where Simon stood. The latter bowed +constrainedly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Master,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“we awaited you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At this his friends retreated into the +little room. Reulah reached the middle +seat of the central mat first and held it, +his nostrils quivering at the envy of the +others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Preceded by their host, Jesus and +Judas found places near together, and, +the usual ablutions performed, the customary +prayers recited, lay, the upper +part of the body supported by the left +arm, the head raised, the limbs outstretched. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On the stools were dishes of stewed +lentils, milk, and cakes of mashed locusts. +Reulah ate with the tips of his lips, +greedily, like a goat. Judas, too, ate +with an air of hunger. The Master +broke bread absently, his thoughts on +other things. These thoughts Simon interrupted. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Rabbi”</span>—and to his wide mouth came +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the sneer of one propounding a riddle +already solved—<span class="tei tei-q">“it is not meet, is it, to +thresh on the Sabbath day? Yet since +you permit your followers to do so, how +are we to distinguish between what is +lawful and what is not?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master raised his eyes. The dawn +was in them, high noon as well. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Show yourself a tried money-changer. +Choose that which is good metal, reject +that which is bad.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon blinked as at a sudden light. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But,”</span> he persisted, <span class="tei tei-q">“in seeking to +observe the Law, there is not a jot or +tittle in it that can be rejected.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With an acquiescence that was both +vague and melancholy, Jesus looked the +Pharisee in the face. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Seek those things that are great, and +little things will be added unto you——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He would have said more, perhaps, but +a woman who had entered from the recess +approached circuitously, and kneeling +beside him let a tear, long as a pearl, +fall upon his unsandalled feet. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Judas’ heart bounded; he glared at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>her, his eyes dilating like a leopard preparing +to spring. At once he was back +in the circus, gazing into the perils and +the splendors of a woman’s face, telling +himself with reiterated insistence that to +hold her to him would be the birthday +of his life; and here, within reach of his +hand, was she whom in the din of the +chariots he had recognized as the one +woman in all the world, and who for one +moment the day before had lain unconscious +in his arms. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Reulah sat motionless, his mouth +agape, a finger extended. <span class="tei tei-q">“The paramour +of Pandera,”</span> he stammered at last; +and lowering his eyes, he looked at her +covetously from beneath the lids. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon, too, sat motionless. There was +rage in his expression, hate even—that +hatred which the beautiful excites in the +base. Time and again he had seen her; +she was a byword with him; from the +height of her residence she looked down +on his mean gray walls; her luxury had +been an insult to his abstinence; and with +that zest which a small nature takes in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the humiliation of its superior, he determined, +in spite of her manifest abjection, +to humiliate her still more. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“If this man,”</span> he confided to his +neighbor, <span class="tei tei-q">“has in him anything of that +which goes to the making of a prophet, +he will divine what manner of woman +she is. If he does not, I will denounce +them both.”</span> And nourishing his hate he +waited yet a while. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master seemed depressed. The +great secret which in all the world +he alone possessed may have weighed +with him. But he turned to Mary and +looked at her. As he looked she bent +yet lower. The marvel of her hair was +unconfined; it fell about her in tangling +streams of gold and flame, while on +his feet there fell from her tears such +as no woman ever shed before. In the +era of primitive hospitality the daughters +of kings had not disdained to unlatch +the sandals of their fathers’ guests; but +now, at the feet of Mercy, for the first +time Repentance knelt. And still the +tears continued, unstanched and +unde<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tained. Grief, something keener still +perhaps, had claimed her as its own. +She bent lower. Then Misery looked up +at Compassion. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master stretched his hand. For +a moment it rested on her head. She +quivered and clutched at her throat; and +as he withdrew that hand, in which all +panaceas were, from her gown she took a +little box, opened it, and dropping the +contents where the tears had fallen, with +a sudden movement she caught her hair +and poured its lava on his feet. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An aroma of beckoning oases filled the +small room, passed into the recess, mounted +to the roof, pervaded and penetrated +it, and escaped to the sky above. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And still she wept. Judas no longer +saw her tears, he heard them. They fell +swiftly one after another, like the ripple +of the rain. A sob broke from her, but +in it was something which foretokened +peace, the sob which comes to those who +have conceived a despairing hope, and +suddenly intercept its fulfilment. Her +hands trembled; the little box fell from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>her and broke. The noise it made exorcised +the silence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master turned to his host. <span class="tei tei-q">“I have +a word to say to you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon stroked his beard and bowed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There was once a man who had two +debtors. One owed him five hundred +pence, the other fifty. Both were poor, +and because of their poverty the debt of +each he forgave.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For an instant Jesus paused and seemed +to muse; then, with that indulgence which +was to illuminate the world, <span class="tei tei-q">“Tell me, +Simon,”</span> he inquired, <span class="tei tei-q">“which was the +more grateful?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon assumed an air of perplexity, +and glanced cunningly from one guest to +another. Presently he laughed outright. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Why, the one who owed the most, of +course.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the +expression of the others it was patent that +to them also the jest appealed. Only +Judas did not seem to have heard; he sat +bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his +violent eyes. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master made a gesture of assent, +and turned to where Mary crouched. She +was staring at him with that look which +the magnetized share with animals. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You see her?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Straightening himself, he leaned on his +elbow and scrutinized his host. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Simon, I am your guest. When I +entered here there was no kiss to greet +me, there was no oil for my head, no water +for my feet. But this woman whom you +despise has not ceased to embrace them. +She has washed them with her tears, +anointed them with nard, and dried them +with her hair. Her sins, it may be, are +many, but, Simon, they are forgiven——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Simon, Reulah, the others, muttered +querulously. To forgive sins was indeed +an attribute which no one, save the Eternal, +could arrogate to himself. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“—for she has loved much.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And turning again to Mary, who still +crouched at his side, he added: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Your sins are forgiven. Go now, and +in peace.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But the fierce surprise of the Pharisees +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>was not to be shocked into silence. +Reulah showed his teeth; they were +pointed and treacherous as a jackal’s. +Simon loudly asserted disapproval and +wonder too. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am amazed——”</span> he began. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master checked him: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The beginning of truth is amazement. +Wonder, then, at what you see; for he that +wonders shall reign, and he that reigns +shall rest.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The music of his voice heightened the +beauty of the speech. On Mary it fell +and rested as had the touch of his hand. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Messiah, my Lord!”</span> she cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“In +your breast is the future, in your heart +the confidence of God. Let me but tell +you. There are those that live whose +lives are passed; the tombs do not hold +all of those that are dead. I was dead; +you brought me to life. I had no conscience; +you gave me one, for I was dead,”</span> +she insisted. <span class="tei tei-q">“And yet,”</span> she added, with +a little moan, so human, so sincere, that it +might have stirred a Cæsar, let alone a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Christ, <span class="tei tei-q">“not wholly dead. No, no, dear +Lord, not wholly dead.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Again her tears gushed forth, profuser +and more abundant than before; her frail +body shook with sobs, her fingers intertwined. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Not wholly dead,”</span> she kept repeating. +<span class="tei tei-q">“No, no, not wholly dead.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Jesus touched his treasurer. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“She is not herself. Lead her away; +see her to her home.”</span> And that the +others might hear, and profit as well, he +added, in a higher key, <span class="tei tei-q">“Deference to a +woman is always due.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And to those words, which were to found +chivalry and banish the boor, Judas led +Mary from the room. +</p> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a><a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER VI.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VI.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Are you better?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The road that skirted the lake had +branched to the left, and there an easy +ascent led to the hill beyond. On both +sides were carpets of flowers and of green, +and slender larches that held their arms +and hid the sky. Above, an eagle circled, +and on the lake a sail flapped idly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I am better,”</span> Mary answered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From her eyes the perils had passed, +but the splendors remained, accentuated +now by vistas visible only to herself. +The antimony, too, with which she darkened +them had gone, and with it the +alkanet she had used on her cheeks. +Her dress was olive, and, contrary to +custom, her head uncovered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You are not strong, perhaps?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As Judas spoke, he thought of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>episode in the synagogue, and wished her +again unconscious in his arms. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I have been so weak,”</span> she murmured. +And after a moment she added: <span class="tei tei-q">“I am +tired; let me sit awhile.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The carpet of flowers and of green invited, +and presently Judas dropped at +her side. About his waist a linen girdle +had been wound many times; from it a +bag of lynx-skin hung. The white garments, +the ample turban that he wore, +were those of ordinary life, but in his +bearing was just that evanescent charm +which now and then the Oriental possesses—the +subtlety that subjugates and +does not last. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But you must be strong; we need +your strength.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary turned to him wonderingly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> he repeated, <span class="tei tei-q">“we need your +strength. Johanna has joined us, as you +know. Susannah too. They do what +they can; but we need others—we need +you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Do you mean——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Something had tapped at her heart, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>something which was both joy and dread, +and she hesitated, fearing that the possibility +which Judas suggested was unreal, +that she had not heard his words aright. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Do you mean that he would let me?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He would love you for it. But then +he loves everyone, yet best, I think, his +enemies.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“They need it most,”</span> Mary answered; +but her thoughts had wandered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And I,”</span> Judas added—<span class="tei tei-q">“I loved you +long ago.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then he too hesitated, as though uncertain +what next to say, and glanced at +her covertly. She was looking across the +lake, over the country of the Gadarenes, +beyond even that, perhaps, into some +infinite veiled to him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I remember,”</span> he continued, tentatively, +<span class="tei tei-q">“it was there at Tiberias I saw +you first. You were entering the palace. +I waited. The sentries ordered me off; +one threw a stone. I went to where the +garden is; I thought you might be among +the flowers. The wall was so high I +could not see. The guards drove me +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>away. I ran up the hill through the +white and red terraces of the grape. +From there I could see the gardens, the +elephants with their ears painted, and +the oxen with the twisted horns. The +wind sung about me like a flute; the +sky was a tent of different hues. Something +within me had sprung into life. It +was love, I knew. It had come before, +yes, often, but never as then. For,”</span> he +added, and the gleam of his eyes was as +a fanfare to the thought he was about to +express, <span class="tei tei-q">“love returns to the heart as +the leaf returns to the tree.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary looked at him vacantly. <span class="tei tei-q">“What +was he saying?”</span> she wondered. From a +sea of grief she seemed to be passing onto +an archipelago of dream. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The next day I loitered in the neighborhood +of the palace. You did not +appear. Toward evening I questioned a +gardener. He said your name was Mary, +but he would tell me nothing else. On +the morrow was the circus. I made sure +you would be there—with the tetrarch, I +thought; and, that I might be near the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tribune, before the sun had set I was at +the circus gate. There were others that +came and waited, but I was first. I remember +that night as never any since. I +lay outstretched, and watched the moon; +your face was in it: it was a dream, of +course. Yes, the night passed quickly, +but the morning lagged. When the gate +was open, I sprang like a zemer from tier +to tier until I reached the tribune. +There, close by, I sat and waited. At +last you came, and with you new perfumes +and poisons. Did you feel my +eyes? they must have burned into you. +But no, you gave no heed to me. They +told me afterward that Scarlet won three +times. I did not know. I saw but you. +Once merely an abyss in which lightning +was.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Before the last race was done I got +down and tried to be near the exit +through which I knew you must pass. +The guards would not let me. The next +day I made friends with a sentry. He +told me that you were Mirjam of Magdala; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that Tiberius wished you at Rome, and +that you had gone with Antipas to his +citadel. In the wine-shops that night +men slunk from me afraid. A week followed +of which I knew nothing, then +chance disentangled its threads. I found +myself in a crowd at the base of a hill; +a prophet was preaching. I had heard +prophets before; they were as torches +in the night: he was the Day. I listened +and forgot you. He called me; I followed. +Until Sunday I had not thought +of you again. But when you appeared in +the synagogue I started; and when you +fainted, when I held you in my arms and +your eyes opened as flowers do, I looked +into them and it all returned. Mary, kiss +me and kill me, but kiss me first.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, he is the Day.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Of the entire speech she had heard +but that. It had entered perhaps into +thoughts of her own with which it was +in unison, and she repeated the phrase +mechanically, as a child might do. But +now as he ceased to speak, perplexed, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>annoyed too at the inappositeness of her +reply, she came back from the infinite in +which she had roamed, and for a moment +both were silent. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the turning of the road a man appeared. +At the sight of Judas he halted, +then called him excitedly by name. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is Mathias,”</span> Judas muttered, and +got to his feet. The man hurried to +them. He was broad of shoulder and of +girth, the jaw lank and earnest. His +eyes were small, and the lids twitched +nervously. He was out of breath, and +his garments were dust-covered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Where is the Master?”</span> he asked; and +at once, without waiting a reply, he added: +<span class="tei tei-q">“I have just seen Johanna. Her husband +told her that the tetrarch is seeking +him; he thinks him John, and would do +him harm. We must go from here.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Judas assented. <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, we must all +go. Mary, it may be a penance, but it is +his will.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mathias gazed inquiringly at them +both. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is his will,”</span> Judas repeated, authoritatively. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary turned away and caught her +forehead in her hands. <span class="tei tei-q">“If this is a +penance,”</span> she murmured, <span class="tei tei-q">“what then are +his rewards?”</span> +</p> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a><a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER VII.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VII.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On the floor of a little room Mary lay, +her face to the ground. In her ears was +the hideousness of a threat that had +fastened on her abruptly like a cheetah +in the dark. From below came the +sound of banqueting. Beyond was the +Bitter Sea, the stars dancing in its ripples; +and there in the shadow of the evergreens +was the hut in which that Sephôrah +lived to whom long ago Martha had +forbidden her to speak. Through the +lattice came the scent of olive-trees, and +with it the irresistible breath of spring. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In its caress the threat which had +made her its own presently was lifted, +and mingling with other things fused into +them. The kaleidoscope of time and +events which visits those that drown +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>possessed her, and for a second Mary relived +a year. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There had been the sudden flight from +Magdala, the first days with the Master, +the gorges of the Jordan, the journey to +the coast, the glittering green scales of +that hydra the sea. Then the loiterings +on the banks of the sacred Leontes, the +journey back to Galilee, the momentary +halt at Magdala, the sail past Bethsaïda, +Capharnahum, Chorazin, the fording of +the river, the trip to Cæsarea Philippi, +the snow and gold of Hermon, the visit +to Gennesareth, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, +and the return to Bethany. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Her recollections intercrossed, scenes +that were trivial ousted others that were +grave; the purple limpets of Sidon, the +shrine of Ashtaroth, the invective at +Bethsaïda, the transfiguration on the +mountain height, the cure of lepers, and +the presence that coerced. Yet through +them all certain things remained immutable, +and of these, primarily her contact +with the Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To her, Jesus was not the Son of man +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>alone, he was the light of this world, the +usher of the next. When he spoke, there +came to her a sense of frightened joy so +acute that the hypostatical union which +left even the disciples perplexed was by +her realized and understood. She had +the faith of a little child. And on the +hills and through the intervales over +which they journeyed, in the glare of +the eager sun or beneath the wattled +boughs, the emanations of the Divine +filled her with transports so contagious +that they affected even Thomas, who was +skeptical by birth; and when, after the +descent from Hermon, two or three of the +disciples mused together over the spectacle +which they had seen, the rhyme of her +lips parted ineffably. She too had seen +him aureoled with the sun, dazzling as +the snow-fields on the heights. To her +it was ever in that aspect he appeared, +with a radiance so intense even that there +had been moments in which she had +veiled her eyes as from a light that only +eagles could support. To her, marvels +were as natural as the escape of night. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>At Beth-Seân she had heard him speak +to dumb beasts, and never doubted but +that they answered him. At Dan she +had seen a short-eared hare rush to him +for refuge, and follow him afterwards as +a dog might do. At Kinnereth he had +called to a lark that from a tree-top was +pouring its heart out to the morning, and +the lark had fluttered down and nestled +in his hand. At Gadara he had tamed +wild doves, and a swarm of bees had +stopped and glistened in his hair. At +Cæsarea, when he began to speak, the +thrushes that had been singing ceased; +and when the parables were delivered, +began anew, louder, more jubilant than +before, and continued to sing until he +blessed them, when they mounted in one +long ascending line straight to the zenith +above. At his approach the little gold-bellied +fish of the Leontes had leaped +from the stream. In the suburbs of +Sidon the jackals had fawned at his feet. +The underbrush had parted to let him +pass, and where he passed white roses +came and the tenderness of anemones. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>At times he seemed to her immaterial as +a shadow in a dream, at others appalling +as the desert; and once when, in prayer, +she entered with him into the intimacy of +the infinite, she caught the shiver of an +invisible harp whose notes seemed to fall +from the night. And as she journeyed, her +love expanded with the horizon. She +loved with a love no woman’s heart has +transcended. In its prodigality and ascending +gammes there was place for +nothing save the Ideal. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The little band meanwhile lived as +strangers on earth. Out of her abundant +means their simple wants were supplied. +She was less a burden than a sustenance; +her faith bridged many a doubtful hour; +and when, as often occurred, they disputed +among themselves concerning their +future rank and precedence, Mary +dreamed of a paradise more pure. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One evening, near the rushes of Lake +Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew to +the light, a Greek merchant who had refused +them shelter at Seleucia ambled +that way on an ass, and would have +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>stopped, perhaps, but one of the band +scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared +in the haze of the hills. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Unobserved, the Master had seen and +heard; presently he called them to where +he stood. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Do not think,”</span> he admonished—<span class="tei tei-q">“do +not think that because you imitate the +Pharisees you are perfecting your lives. +They fast, they pray, they weep, and they +mortify the flesh; but to them one thing +is impossible, charity to the failings of +others. Whoso then shall come to you, +be he friend or foe, penitent or thief, receive +him kindly. Aid the helpless, console +the unfortunate, forgive your enemy, +and forget yourselves—that is charity. +Without it the kingdom of heaven is lost +to you. There, there is neither Greek +nor Jew, male nor female; nor can it come +to you until the garment of shame is +trampled under foot, until two are as +one, and the body which is without is as +the soul within.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thereat, with a gesture of exquisite +in<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>dulgence, he turned and left them to the +stars. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary had heard, and in the palingenesis +disclosed she saw space wrapped in +a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied +lay behind the sun. There, instead +of the thrones and diadems of the elect, +was an immutable realm in which there +was neither death nor life, clear ether +merely, charged with beatitudes. And so, +when the disciples disputed among themselves, +Mary dreamed of diaphanous +hours and immaculate days that knew +no night, and in this wise lived until +from the terrace of Jerusalem’s Temple +the Master bade her return to Bethany +and wait him there. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Obedience to that command was bitter +to her. She did not murmur, however. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Rabboni,”</span> she cried, <span class="tei tei-q">“let me but do +your will on earth, and afterwards save +me or destroy me as your pleasure is.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With that she had gone to her sister’s +house, and to the bewildered Martha +poured out her heart anew. There could +be no question of forgiveness now, of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>penitence even; her sins, such as they +were, had been remitted by one to whom +pardon was an attribute. And this doubtless +Martha understood, for she took her +in her arms unreproachfully and mingled +her tears with hers. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Where all is marvel the marvellous disappears. +To the accounts which Mary +gave of her journeys with the little +band that followed the Master, Martha +listened with an attention which nothing +could distract. With her she sailed +on the lovely lake; with her she visited +cities smothering in the scent of cassia +and of sugar-cane; with her she passed +through glens where panthers prowled, +and bandits crueller than they. With +her eyes she saw the listening multitudes, +with her ears she heard again the +words of divine forgiveness; and, the lulab +and the citron in her hands, she assisted +at the Feast of the Tabernacles, and +watched the vain attempt to charm the +recalcitrant Temple and captivate the +inimical town. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For in Jerusalem, in place of the +re<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>assuring confidence of peasants, was the +irritable incredulity of priests; instead +of meadows, courts. Besides, was not this +prophet from Galilee, and what good had +ever come from there? Then, too, he +was not an authorized teacher. He belonged +to no school. The followers of +Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not +recognize him. He was merely a fractious +Nazarene trained in the shop of a +carpenter; one who, by repeating that +it was easier for a camel to pass through +a needle’s eye than for a rich man to +enter the kingdom of heaven, flattered +basely the mob of mendicants that surrounded +him. The rabble admired, but +the clergy stood aloof. When he was not +ignored he was disdained. Save the pleb, +no one listened. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Presently he spoke louder. Into the +grave music of the Syro-Chaldaic tongue +he put the mutterings of thunder. Where +he had preached, he upbraided; in place +of exquisite parables came sonorous +threats. He blessed but rarely, sometimes +he cursed. That mosaic, the Law, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>he treated like a cobweb; and to the arrogant +clergy a rumor filtered that this +vagabond, who had not where to lay his +head, declared his ability to destroy the +Temple, and to rebuild it, in three days, +anew. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A rumor such as that was incredible. +Inquiries were made. The rumor was +substantiated. It was learned that he +healed the sick, cured the blind; that he +was in league, perhaps, with the Pharisees. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Sanhedrim took counsel. They +were Sadducees every one. The Pharisees +were their hereditary foes. Both were +militant, directing men and things as best +they could. The Sadducees held strictly to +the letter of the Law; the Pharisees held +to the Law, and to tradition as well. But +the Sadducees were in power, the Pharisees +were not. The former endeavored +in every way to maintain their authority +over the people; and against that authority, +against the aristocracy, the priesthood, +and the accomplices of foreign dominion, +the Pharisees ceaselessly excited +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the mob. In their inability to overthrow +the pontificate, they undermined it. With +microscopic attention they examined and +criticised every act of the clergy; and, +with a view of showing the incompetence +of the priests, they affected rigid theories +in regard to ritualistic points. Every +detail of the ceremonial office was watched +by them with eyes that were never pleased. +They asserted that the rolls of the Law +from which the priests read the Pentateuch +were made of impure matter, and, +having handled them, the priests had +become impure as well. The manner in +which the incense was made and offered, +the minutiæ governing the sacrifices, the +legality of hierarchal decisions—on each +and every possible subject they exerted +themselves to show the unworthiness of +the officiants, insinuating even that the +names of the fathers of many of the +priests were not inscribed at Zipporim +in the archives of Jeshana. As a consequence, +many of those whose rights the +Pharisees affected to uphold saw in the +hierarchy little more than a body of men +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>unworthy to approach the altar, a group +of Herodians who in religion lacked every +requisite for the service of God, and who +in public and in private were bankrupts in +patriotism, morality, and shame. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The possibility, therefore, that this +fractious demagogue had found favor +with the Pharisees was grave. He was +becoming a force. He threatened many +a prerogative. Moreover, Jerusalem had +had enough of agitators. People were +drawn by their promises into the solitudes, +and there incited to revolt. Rome +did not look upon these things leniently. +If they continued, Tiberius was quite capable +of putting Judæa in a yoke which +it would not be easy to carry. Clearly +the Nazarene was seditious, and as such +to be abolished. The difficulty was to +abolish him and yet conciliate the mob. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was then that the Sanhedrim took +counsel. As a result, and with the hope +of entrapping him into some blasphemous +utterance on which a charge would lie, +they sent meek-eyed Scribes to question +him concerning the authority that he +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>claimed. He routed the meek-eyed +Scribes. Then, fancying that he might +be seduced into some expression which +could be construed as treason, they sent +young and earnest men to learn from him +their duty to Rome. The young and +earnest men returned crestfallen and +abashed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The elders, nonplussed, debated. A +levite suspected that the casuistry and +marvellous cures of the Nazarene must +be due to a knowledge of the incommunicable +name, Shemhammephorash, seared +on stone in the thunders of Sinai, and +which to utter was to summon life or +beckon death. Another had heard that +while in Galilee he was believed to be in +league with Baal-Zebub, Lord of Flies. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To this gossip no attention was paid. +Annas, merely—the old high-priest, +father-in-law of Caiaphas, who officiated +in his stead—laughed to himself. There +was no such stone, there was no such god. +Another idea had been welcomed. A +festival was in progress; there was gayety +in the neighborhood, drinking too; and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as over a million of pilgrims were herded +together, now and then an offence occurred. +The previous night, for instance, +a woman had been arrested for illicit commerce. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Annas tapped on his chin. He had the +pompous air of a chameleon, the same +long, thin lips, the large, protruding eyes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Take her before the Galilean,”</span> he +said. <span class="tei tei-q">“He claims to be a rabbi; he must +know the Law. If he acquit her, it is +heresy, and for that a charge will lie. +Does he condemn her he is at our mercy, +for he will have alienated the mob.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A smile of perfect understanding passed +like a vagrant breeze across the faces of +the elders, and the levites were ordered +to lead the prisoner to the Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +They found him in the Woman’s Court. +From a lateral chamber a priest, unfit for +other than menial services because of a +carbuncle on his lip, dropped the wood +he was sorting for the altar and gazed +curiously at the advancing throng, in +which the prisoner was. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She must have been very fair, but now +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>her features were distorted with anguish, +veiled with shame. The blue robe she +wore was torn, and a sleeve rent to the +shoulder disclosed a bare white arm. +She was a wife, a mother too. Her name +was Ahulah; her husband was a shoemaker. +At the Gannath Gate, where her +home was, were two little children. She +worshipped them, and her husband she +adored. Some hallucination, a tremor of +the flesh, the flush of wine, and there, circled +by a leering crowd, she crouched, her +life disgraced, irrecoverable for evermore. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The charge was made, the usual question +propounded. The Master had +glanced at her but once. He seemed to +be looking afar, beyond the Temple and +its terraces, beyond the horizon itself. +But the accusers were impatient. He bent +forward and with a finger wrote on the +ground. The letters were illegible, perhaps, +yet the symbol of obliteration was +in that dust which the morrow would disperse. +Again he wrote, but the charge +was repeated, louder, more impatiently +than before. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Jesus straightened himself. With the +weary indulgence of one to whom hearts +are as books, he looked about him, then +to the dome above. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Whoever is without sin among you,”</span> +he declared, <span class="tei tei-q">“may cast the first stone.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When he looked again the crowd had +slunk away. Only Ahulah remained, her +head bowed on her bare white arm. +From the lateral chamber the priest still +peered, the carbuncle glistening on his +lip. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Did none condemn you?”</span> the Master +asked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And as she sobbed merely, he added: +<span class="tei tei-q">“Neither do I condemn you. Go, and +sin no more.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To the elders this was very discomforting. +They had failed to unmask him as +a traitor to God, to Rome even, or yet as +a demagogue defying the Law. They did +not care to question again. He had +worsted them three times. Nor could +they without due cause arrest him, for +there were the Pharisees. Besides, a religious +trial was full of risk, and the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>coöperation of the procurator not readily +to be relied on. It was that coöperation +they needed most, for with it such feeling +as might be aroused would fall on Rome +and not on them. As for Pilate, he could +put a sword in front of what he said. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In their enforced inaction they got +behind that wall of prejudice where they +and their kin feel most secure, and there +waited, prepared at the first opportunity +to invoke the laws of their ancestors, +laws so cumbersome and complex that +the Romans, accustomed to the clearest +pandects, had laughed and left them, +erasing only the right to kill. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At last chance smiled. Into Jerusalem +a rumor filtered that the Nazarene they +hated so had raised the dead, that the +suburbs hailed him as the Messiah, and +that he proclaimed himself the Son of +God. At once the Sanhedrim reassembled. +A political deliverer they might +have welcomed, but in a Messiah they +had little faith. The very fact of his +Messiahship constituted him a claimant +to the Jewish throne, and as such a +pre<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tender with whom Pilate could deal. +Moreover—and here was the point—to +claim divinity was to attack the unity of +God. Of impious blasphemy there was +no higher form. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It were better, Annas suggested, that +a man should die than that a nation +should perish—a truism, surely, not to +be gainsaid. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That night it was decided that Jesus +and Judaism could not live together; a +price was placed upon his head, and to +the blare of four hundred trumpets excommunication +was pronounced. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Of all of these incidents save the +last Mary had been necessarily aware. +In company with Johanna, the wife of +Herod’s steward, Mary, wife of Clopas, +and Salomè, mother of Zebedee’s children, +she had heard him reiterate the burning +words of Jeremiah, and seen him purge +the Temple of its traffickers; she had +heard, too, the esoteric proclamation, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Before Abraham was, I am;”</span> and she +had seen him lash the Sadducees with +invective. She had been present when a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>letter was brought from Abgar Uchomo, +King of Edessa, to Jesus, <span class="tei tei-q">“the good +Redeemer,”</span> in which the potentate prayed +the prophet to come and heal him of a +sickness which he had, offering him a +refuge from the Jews, and quaintly setting +forth the writer’s belief that Jesus was +God or else His Son. She had been +present, also, when the charge was made +against Ahulah, and had comforted that +unfortunate in womanly ways. <span class="tei tei-q">“Surely,”</span> +she had said, <span class="tei tei-q">“if the Master who does +not love you can forgive, how much more +readily must your husband who does!”</span> +Whereupon Ahulah had become her +slave, tending her thereafter with almost +bestial devotion. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These episodes, one after another, +she related to Martha; to Eleazer, her +brother; to Simon, Martha’s husband; to +anyone that chanced that way. For it +was then that the Master had bade her +go to Bethany. For a little space he +too had forsaken Jerusalem. Now and +then with some of his followers he would +venture in the neighborhood, yet only to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>be off again through the scorched hollows +of the Ghôr before the sun was up. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These things it was that paraded before +her as she lay on the floor of the +little room, felled by the hideousness +of a threat that had sprung upon her, +abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark. To +Martha and to the others on one subject +alone had she been silent, and now at the +moment it dominated all else. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the day on which she joined the +little band to whom the future was to +give half of this world and all of the +next, Judas had been ever at her ear. +As a door that opens and shuts at the +will of a hand, his presence and absence +had barred the vistas or left them clear. +At first he had affected her as a scarabæus +affects the rose. She knew of him, +and that was all. When he spoke, she +thought of other things. And as the +blind remain unawakened by the day, he +never saw that where the wanton had +been the saint had come. To him she +was a book of ivory bound in gold, whose +contents he longed to possess; she was a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>book, but one from which whole chapters +had been torn, the preface destroyed; +and when his increasing insistence forced +itself upon her, demanding, obviously, +countenance or rebuke, she walked serenely +on her way, disdaining either, occupied +with higher things. It was of the +Master only that she appeared to think. +When he spoke, it was to her as though +God really lived on earth; her eyes +lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was +instantly forgot. At that time her life +was a dream into whose charmed precincts +a bat had flown. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These things, gradually, Judas must +have understood. In Mary’s eyes he +may have caught the intimation that to +her now only the ideal was real; or the +idea may have visited him that in the +infinite of her faith he disappeared and +ceased to be. In any event he must have +taken counsel with himself, for one day +he approached her with a newer theme. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I have knocked on the tombs; they +are dumb.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary, with that grace with which a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>woman gathers a flower when thinking +of him whom she loves, bent a little and +turned away. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Have you heard of the Buddha?”</span> he +asked. <span class="tei tei-q">“Babylon is peopled with his +disciples. One of them met Jesus in the +desert, and taught him his belief. It is +that he preaches now, only the Buddha +did not know of a heaven, for there is +none.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And he added, after a pause: <span class="tei tei-q">“I tell +you I have knocked on the tombs; there +is no answer there.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With that, as a panther falls asleep, his +claw blood-red, Judas nodded and left +her to her thoughts. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“In Eternity there is room for everything,”</span> +she said, when he came to her +again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Eternity is an abyss which the tomb +uses for a sewer,”</span> he answered. <span class="tei tei-q">“Its +flood is corruption. The day only exists, +but in it is that freedom which waves +possess. Mary, if you would but taste it +with me! Oh, to mix with you as light +with day, as stream with sea, I would +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>suck the flame that flickers on the walls +of sepulchres.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She shuddered, and he saw it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You have taught me to love,”</span> he +hissed; <span class="tei tei-q">“do not teach me now to hate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary mastered her revolt. <span class="tei tei-q">“Judas, +the day will come when you will cease +to speak as you do.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You believe, then, still?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, surely; and so do you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The day will come,”</span> he muttered, +<span class="tei tei-q">“when you will cease to believe.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And you too,”</span> she answered. <span class="tei tei-q">“For +then you will <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></span>.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The dialogue with its variations continued, +at intervals, for months. There +were times, weeks even, when he avoided +all speech with her. Then, abruptly, +when she expected it least, he would +return more volcanic than before. These +attacks she accustomed herself to regard +as necessary, perhaps, to the training of +patience, of charity too, and so bore with +them, until at last Jerusalem was reached. +Meanwhile she held to her trust as to a +fringe of the mantle of Christ. To her +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the past was a grammar, its name—To-morrow. +And in the service of the +Master, in the future which he had evoked, +she journeyed and dreamed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But in Jerusalem Judas grew acrider. +He had fits of unnecessary laughter, and +spells of the deepest melancholy. He +quarrelled with anyone who would let +him, and then for the irritation he had +displayed he would make amends that +were wholly slavish. His companions +distrusted him. He had been seen talking +amicably with the corrupt levites, the +police of the Temple, and once he had +been detected in a wine-shop of low repute. +The Master, apparently, noticed +nothing of this; nor did Mary, whose +thoughts were on other things. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At Bethany one evening Judas came to +her. The sun, sinking through clouds, +placed in the west the tableau of a duel +to the death between a titan and a god. +There was the glitter of gigantic swords, +and the red of immortal blood. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mary,”</span> he began, and as he spoke +there was a new note in his voice—<span class="tei tei-q">“Mary, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I have watched and waited, and to +those that watch how many lamps +burn out! One after another those that +I tended went. There was a flicker, a +little smoke, and they had gone. I tried +to relight them, but perhaps the oil was +spent; perhaps, too, I was like the blind +that hold a torch. My way has not been +clear. The faith I had, and which, I do +not know, but which, it may be, would +have been strengthened, evaporated when +you came. The rays of the sun I had +revered became as the threads of shadows, +interconnecting life and death. In +them I could see but you. In the jaw of +night, in the teeth of day, always I have +seen you. Mary, love is a net which +woman throws. In casting yours—there! +unintentionally, I know—you caught my +soul. It is yours now wholly until time +shall cease to be. Will you take it, +Mary, or will you put it aside, a thing +forever dead?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary made no answer. It may be she +had not heard. In the west both titan +and god had disappeared. Above, in a field +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of stars, the moon hung, a scythe of gold. +The air was still, the hush of locusts accentuating +the silence and bidding it be +at rest. In a house near by there were +lights shining. A woman looked out +and called into the night. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then, as though moved by some jealousy +of the impalpable, Judas leaned forward +and peered into her face. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is the Master who keeps you from +me, is it not?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is my belief,”</span> she answered, simply. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It was he that gave it to you. Mary, +do you know that there is a price upon +his head? Do you know that if I cannot +slake my love, at least I can gorge my +hate? Do you know that, Mary? Do +you know it? Now choose between your +belief and me; if you prefer the former, +the Sanhedrim will have him to-morrow. +There, your sister is calling; go—and +choose.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was with the hideousness of this +threat in her ears that Mary escaped to +the little room where her childhood had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>been passed and flung herself on the +floor. From beyond came the sound of +banqueting. Martha was entertaining +the Lord, his disciples as well; and Mary +knew that her aid was needed. But the +threat pinioned and held her down. To +accede was death, not of the body alone, +but of the soul as well. There was no +clear pool in which she might cleanse the +stain; there could be no forgiveness, no +obliteration, nothing in fact save the loss +never to be recovered of life in the diaphanous +hours and immaculate days of +which she had dreamed so long. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For a little space she tried to comfort +herself. Perhaps Judas was not in earnest; +perhaps even he had lied. And if he +had not, was there not time in plenty? +The desert was neighborly. She could +follow the Master there, and minister to +him till the sky opened and the kingdom +was prepared. And the threat, +coupled with that perspective, charmed, +and for the moment had for her that +enticement which the quarrels and kisses +of children equally possess. She would +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>warn him secretly, she decided, for surely +as yet he did not know; she would warn +him, and before the sun was up he could +be beyond the Sanhedrim’s reach, and +she preparing to follow. For a moment +she lost herself in anticipation; then, +the threat loosening its hold, she stood +up, her face very white in the starlight, +her eyes brave and alert. Already her +plan was formed; and, taking a vase that +she had brought with her from Magdala, +she hurried to the room below. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Master; the disciples; Eleazer, +her brother; Simon, her sister’s husband, +were all at meat. Martha was serving, +and as Mary entered Judas stood up. +She moved to where the Master was, and +on him poured the contents of the vase. +Thomas sniffed delightedly, for now the +room was full of fragrance. The Master +turned to her and smiled; the homage +evidently was grateful. Mary bent nearer. +Thomas and Bartholomew joined in loud +praises of the aroma of the nard, and +under cover of their voices she whispered, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“Rabboni, the Sanhedrim has placed a +price on——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The whisper was drowned and interrupted. +Judas had shoved her away. +<span class="tei tei-q">“To what end is this waste?”</span> he asked; +and as Mary looked in his face she saw +by the expression in it that her purpose +had been divined and her warning overheard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is absurd,”</span> he continued, with affected +anger. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ointment such as that has +a value. It might better have been saved +for the poor.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Thomas chimed in approvingly; placed +in that light it was indeed an extravagance, +unnecessary too, and he looked +about to his comrades for support. Eleazer +and Peter seemed inclined to view the +matter differently. A discussion would +have arisen, but the Master checked it +gently, as was his wont. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The poor are always with you, but me +you cannot always have.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As he spoke he turned to Judas with that +indulgence which was to be a heritage. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Could he <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></span>? Judas wondered. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Had he heard what Mary said? And, the +Master’s speech continuing, he glanced at +her and left the room. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The moon had mowed the stars, but the +sky was visibly blue. Behind the shoulder +of Olivet he divined the silence of Jerusalem, +the welcome of the Sadducees, the +joy of hate assuaged. There was but one +thing now that might deter; and as his +thoughts groped through that possibility, +Mary stood at his side. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Judas——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He wheeled, and, catching her by the +wrists, stared into her eyes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Is it yes?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A shudder seized her. There was dread +in it, anguish too, and both were mortal. +He had not lied, she saw, and the threat +was real. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Is it yes?”</span> he repeated. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There may be moments that prolong, +but there are others in which time no +longer is; and as Mary shrank in the +blight of Judas’ stare, both felt that the +culmination of life was reached. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No!”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The monosyllable dropped from her +lips like a stone, yet even as it fell the +banner of Maccabæus unfurled and +flaunted in her face; the voice of Esther +murmured, and a vision of Judith saving +a nation visited her, and, continuing, +made spots on the night. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Judas had flung her from him. She +reeled; the violence roused her. Who +was she to consider herself when the security +of the Master was at stake? How +should it matter though she died, if he +were safe? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It is my soul you ask,”</span> she cried. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Take it. If I had a thousand souls, I +would give each one for Him.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But she cried to the unanswering night. +Where the road curved about the shoulder +of the Mount of Olives, for one second +she saw a white robe glisten. Agonized, +she called again, but there was no one +now to hear. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little later, when the followers of the +Lord issued from the house, Mary lay before +the door, her eyes closed, her head +in the dust. They touched her. She had +fainted. +</p> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc15" id="toc15"></a><a name="pdf16" id="pdf16"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER VIII.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VIII.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“They have him, they are taking him +to Pilate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was Eleazer calling to his sister from +the turn of the road. In a moment he +was at her side, dust-covered, his sandals +torn, his pathetic eyes dilated. He was +breathless too, and, in default of words, +with a gesture that swept the Mount of +Olives, he pointed to where the holy city +lay. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To Mary the morrow succeeding her +swoon was a pall. Love, it may be, is a +forgetfulness of all things else, but despair +is very actual. It takes a hold on +memory, inhabits it, and makes it its own. +And during the day that followed, Mary +lay preyed upon by the acutest agony +that ever tortured woman yet. Early +in the night, before her senses returned, +the Master had gone without mentioning +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>whither. His destination may have been +Ephraïm, Jericho even, or further yet, beyond +the hollows of the Ghôr. Then, again, +he might have loitered in the neighborhood, +on the hill perhaps, in that open-air +solitude he loved so well, and for which +so often he forsook the narrowness of +roofs and towns. But yet, in view of the +Passover, he might have gone to Jerusalem, +and it was that idea that tortured +most. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was there the keen police, the levites, +were, and their masters the Sadducees, +who had placed a price on his head. Did +he get within the walls, then surely he +was lost. At the possibilities which that +idea evoked her thoughts sank like the +roots of a tree and grappled with the under-earth. +To her despair, regret brought +its burden. A moment of self-forgetfulness, +and, however horrible that forgetfulness +might have been, in it danger to him +whom she revered would have been averted, +and, for the time being at least, dispersed +utterly as last year’s leaves. It +had been cowardice on her part to let +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Judas go; she should have been strong +when strength was needed. There were +glaives to be had; the head of Holofernes +could have greeted his. The legend +of Judith still echoed its reproach, and +recurring, pointed a slender finger of disdain. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To the heart that is sinking, hope throws +a straw. Immaterial and caressing as a +shadow, came to her the fancy that if the +Master were in the neighborhood, at any +moment he might appear. In that event +it was needful that she should be prepared +to aid him at once beyond the confines +of Judæa. Were he already beyond +them, presently she must learn it, and +then could warn him of the danger of +return. But meanwhile, for security’s +sake, had he gone by any chance to Jerusalem, +some one must be there to warn +him of the plot. She thought of her sister, +and dismissed her. Martha was too +feather-headed for an errand such as that. +She thought of Ahulah, but some of those +well-intentioned friends that everyone +possesses had told of the misadventure +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a +woman, had spat upon her, and now +through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, +incompetent to aid. Her brother +occurred to her. It was on him she could +rely. His devotion was surpassed only +by her own. Thereupon she sought him +out, instructed him in his duty, and sent +him forth to watch and warn. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The green afternoon faded in the hemorrhages +of the setting sun. Twilight +approached like a wolf. Night unfurled +her great black fan; the moon came, +fumbling the shadows, checkering the +underbrush with silver spots. Once a +caravan passed, and once from the hillside +came the bark of a dog, caught up and +repeated in some farm beyond; otherwise +the night was unstirred; and as Mary +stared into the immensities where lightning +wearies and subsides, a lethargy +beset her, her body was imprisoned; but +her soul was free, and in a moment it +mounted sheerly to a fringe of the heavens +and bathed in space. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When it descended, another day had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>come, and Eleazer was calling to her from +the turn of the road. At once she was on +earth and on her feet, and as the brother +gasped for breath the sister’s strength +returned. There must be no more weakness +now, she knew; it was time to act. +She got drink, water for the feet; then +Eleazer, refreshed, continued: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I ran through the ridge and up to +where the two cedars are. I looked among +the cypresses beyond, in the pines +where the descent begins, through the +olive groves below and the booths and +tents beneath. There was no trace of +him anywhere. I crossed the brook and +sat awhile at the Shushan gate, watching +those that entered. The crowd became +so dense that it was impossible to distinguish. +I thought I might hear of him +in the Temple. The porch was thronged. +I roamed through the Mountain of the +House into the Woman’s Court, and out +of it on the Chel. But they were all so +filled with pilgrims that had he been +there only accident could have brought +me to him. It was on that I counted, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I went out on Zion and Acra, where the +crowd was less. It was getting late. +Beth-horon was dim. I could see lights +in Herod’s palace. Some one said that +the tetrarch of Galilee was there, the +guest of the procurator. I went back by +way of Antonia to Birket Israil and the +Red Heifer Bridge. I had given up; +it seemed to me useless to make further +attempt. Suddenly I saw Judas in the +angle of the porch. With him was a levite. +I got behind a pillar, near where +they stood, and listened. The only thing +I distinctly heard was the name of Joseph +of Haramathaïm. I fancied, though I was +not certain, that Judas spoke as though +he had just left his house. They must +have moved away then, for when I looked +they had gone. I knew that Joseph was +a friend of the Master’s, and it struck me +that he might be at his house. It is in +the sook of the Perfumers, back of Ophel. +I ran there as fast as I could. It was unlighted. +I beat on the door: there was +no answer. I felt that I had been mistaken, +anyway that I could do no more. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I went down again into the valley, crossed +the Kedron, and would have returned +here at once perhaps, but I was tired, and +so, on the slope where the olive-presses +are, I lay down and must have fallen +asleep, for I remembered nothing till +there came a tramping of men. I +crouched in the underbrush. They passed +very close; some had torches, some had +spears. Judas was leading, and as an ape +munches a flower he was muttering the +Master’s name.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Eleazer paused and looked at his sister. +She was standing erect, her face +wan, the brow contracted, the rhymes of +her lips tight-pressed. Then, with a glance +at Olivet, he continued: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“For a little space I waited. They had +ascended the slope and halted. There +was a shout, the waving of torches, then +a silence. In it I heard the Master’s +voice, followed by a cry of pain. I hurried +to where they were. They had him +bound when I got there. I saw a soldier +raising a hand to his ear and looking at +the palm; it was red. Peter was running +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>one way, Thomas another. I got nearer. +Some one, a levite I think, caught me by +the coat. I freed myself from it and escaped +up the hill.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“From there I looked down. They +were going away. When they had gone, +I went back and found my cloak. While +I was putting it on, John appeared. +<span class="tei tei-q">‘They are taking him to Caiaphas,’</span> he +said; <span class="tei tei-q">‘I shall follow. Come with me if +you wish.’</span> I went with him. On the way +we met Peter; he joined us. We walked +single-file, John leading. Beyond I could +see the lights of the torches, the glint of +steel. No one spoke. Peter whimpered +a little. We crossed the Kedron and got +up into the city. The soldiers went directly +to where Annas lives; they entered +in a body, and the door closed. John +rapped: it was opened. He said something +to the doorkeeper, who admitted him. +The door closed again. Peter and I +waited a little, not knowing where to turn. +Presently the door reopened, and John +motioned us to come in. In the court +was a fire; about it were servants and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>khazzans. I stopped a moment to warm +my hands; Peter did the same. John +had disappeared. I heard one of the +khazzans say that they had taken the +Master to Annas, and the others discuss +what he would probably do. While I +stood there listening, and wondering what +had become of John, I saw the Master +being led across the court to the Lishcath +ha-Gazith. I left Peter, and followed. +In the hall were the elders, ranged in a +semicircle about Caiaphas. They must +have been prepared beforehand, for the +clerks of acquittal and of condemnation +were there, the crier too, and a group of +levites and Scribes. In a corner were +some of Annas’ servants. I got among +them and stood unnoticed.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The Master’s hands were bound. On +either side of him was a soldier. Caiaphas +was livid. He looked him from head +to foot.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘You are accused,’</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">‘of inciting +sedition, of defying the Law, of blasphemy, +and of breaking the Sabbath day. +What have you to answer?’</span></span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The Master made no reply.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Caiaphas pointed to the levites. +<span class="tei tei-q">‘Here,’</span> he continued, <span class="tei tei-q">‘are witnesses.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He motioned; one of them stepped +forward and spoke.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘I testify that this man has incited +to sedition by denouncing the members +of this reverend council as hypocrites, +wolves in sheep’s clothing, blind leaders +of the blind; and I further testify that he +has declared no one should follow them.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘What have you to say to that?’</span> +Caiaphas snarled. But the Master said +nothing.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The first levite moved back, and at +a gesture from the high-priest another +stepped forward.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘I testify that I have seen that man +eat, in defiance of the Law, with unwashed +hands, and consort with publicans and +people of low repute.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘And what have you to say to that?’</span> +Caiaphas asked again. But still the +Master said nothing.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The second levite moved back, and a +third advanced.</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘I testify that I have heard that man +blaspheme in calling God his father, and +in declaring himself to be one with Him.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘Is that blasphemy or is it not?’</span> +Caiaphas bawled. But the Master’s lips +never moved.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The third levite gave way to a fourth.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘I testify that that man has broken +the Sabbath in healing the sick on that +day, and further that he has seduced +others to break it. On the Sabbath I +have heard him order a cripple to take +up his bed and carry it to his home. I +have heard him also declare that he could +destroy the Temple and rebuild it, in +three days, anew.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Caiaphas turned to the Master. <span class="tei tei-q">‘Do +you still refuse to answer?’</span> he asked. +<span class="tei tei-q">‘Do you think that silence can save you? +Have you heard these witnesses?’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And as the Master still made no reply, +Caiaphas lifted his hand and cried, +<span class="tei tei-q">‘I adjure you by the Eternal to answer, +Are you the Messiah, the Son of God?’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“In the breathless silence Jesus raised +his eyes. He looked at the high-priest, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>at the levites, the Scribes. <span class="tei tei-q">‘You have +said it,’</span> he murmured, and smiled with +that air he has.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Caiaphas grew purple. He caught his +gown at the throat and ripped it from neck +to hem. The elders started. I heard +them mutter, <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ish maveth</span></span>.’</span> The high-priest +glanced toward them. <span class="tei tei-q">‘You have +heard this ragged blasphemy?’</span> he exclaimed; +and, turning to where the Scribes +stood, <span class="tei tei-q">‘What,’</span> he asked, <span class="tei tei-q">‘does the Law +decree concerning the Sabbath-breaker?’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“One of them, the book unrolled in his +hand, advanced and read:</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘Ye shall keep the Sabbath holy. +Whoso does any work thereon shall be +cut off from his people.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“ <span class="tei tei-q">‘And what of blasphemy?’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The Scribe glanced at the roll and +repeated from memory: <span class="tei tei-q">‘He that blasphemeth +the name of the Lord shall be +put to death. The congregation shall +stone him, as well the stranger as he that +was born in the land.’</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Caiaphas closed the fingers on the +palm of his left hand, and, raising it, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>turned again to the elders. <span class="tei tei-q">‘<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ish maveth</span></span>,’</span> +they repeated, closing their fingers as he +had done.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I knew then that he was condemned. +After all”</span>—and Eleazer looked wearily to +the ground—<span class="tei tei-q">“it was legal enough. Each +moment I expected him to give some +sign, but, save to affirm the charge of blasphemy, +during the entire time he kept +silent. Yes, it was legal enough. From +where I stood I heard the Scribes say +that he would be sentenced at sunrise, +and then Pilate would have a word with +him. I could do nothing. Caiaphas +still fumed. I went out in the court +again. In the corridor was Judas. Peter +was wrangling with the servants. I +did not wait for more. I got away and +into the valley and up again on the hill. +A cock was crowing, and I saw the dawn. +O Mary, the pity of it!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He looked at his sister. There was no +weakness now in her face, nor beauty +either. Age must have passed her in the +night. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And I will have a word with Pilate +too,”</span> she said. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As a somnambulist might, she drew her +mantle closer, and, moving to the wayside, +ascended the hill. The silver and green +of the olives closed around her, and with +them the branching dates. Above, a star +left by the morning glimmered feebly. +In a myrtle a bird began to sing, and a +lizard that had come out to intercept the +sun scurried as she passed. Upward +and onward still she went, and, the summit +reached, for a moment she stopped +and rested. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To the east the Dead Sea lay, a stretch +of silk. At its edge was the flutter of +ospreys feasting on the barbels and +breams of the Jordan, which as they enter, +die. Beyond was a glitter of white +and gold, the scarp of Moriah and its +breast of stone, the Tyrian bevel of Solomon, +the porphyry of Nehemiah, the marble +that Herod gave; ascending terraces, +engulfing porticoes, the splendor of Jerusalem +at dawn. Between the houses +nearest was the dimness that shadows +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>cast; those further away had a scatter of +pink; about it all was a wall surmounted +by turrets; beneath was a ravine in which +was a brook, and a city of booths and +tents, grazing camels and fat-tailed sheep. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Through the pines and cypresses Mary +passed down to where the olives were. +The brook sent a message to her; the +blood that had flowed from the sacrifices +was in it, and in the fresh morning it +reeked a little, as such brooks do. It was +here, she thought, the Master had been +taken, and for a second she stopped again. +The sun now was rising behind her; the +color of the sky shifted. Beyond Jerusalem +a mountain was melting in excesses +of vermilion, and the ravine that had been +gray was assuming the tenderest green. +The star had disappeared, but from each +tree broke the greeting of a bird. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A rustle of the leaves near by startled +her, and she looked about, fearful, as +women are, of some beast of prey. A +white robe was there, a white turban, and +beneath it the swart face of one whom +she had known. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To her eyes came massacres. <span class="tei tei-q">“Judas!”</span> +she exclaimed, and looked up in that roof +of her world where day puts its blue and +night puts its black. <span class="tei tei-q">“Judas!”</span> she repeated. +Her small hands clenched, and +the rhymes of her mouth grew venomous. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then the woman spoke in her. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why +did you not kill me first?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Judas swayed like an ox hit on the +forehead. The motion distracted and irritated +her. <span class="tei tei-q">“Can’t you speak,”</span> she +cried, <span class="tei tei-q">“or does hell hold you, tongue and +all?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He raised a hand as though he feared +another blow. The gesture was so human +and yet so humble that Mary looked +into his face. Time, which turns the +sweet-eyed girl into a withered spectre, +must have touched him with its thumb. +His eyes were ringed and cavernous, his +cheeks empty. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You have heard, then?”</span> he said; but +he evinced no curiosity. He spoke with +the apathy of one who takes everything +for granted, one with whom fate is to +have its will. <span class="tei tei-q">“I have just come from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>there,”</span> he added, with a backward gesture. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I never thought that such a thing could +be. No, I swear it, I never did.”</span> Then, +in answer perhaps to some inner twinge, +perhaps also because of the expression +of Mary’s lips, he continued: <span class="tei tei-q">“If there +is a new oath, one that has never been +used before, prompt me, and I will swear +again, I never did. I thought——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary interrupted him savagely: +<span class="tei tei-q">“There are ten kinds of hypocrisy. You +have nine of them; you will develop the +tenth and invent a new one besides.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At this Judas made a pass with his +hands and stared absently at the ground. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mary,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“life is a book which +man reads when he dies. During the last +hour I have been unrolling it. In its scroll +I found existence a wine-shop where the +guest fares so badly that he would go at +once were it not that he fears to call for +the reckoning. The reckoning, Mary, is +death. I have called for it. I am about +to pay. Let me tell you. I have no excuse +to offer, no forgiveness now to await. My +heart was a meadow: you made it stone. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>There were well-springs in it: you dried +them, Mary. When I first saw you, you +were a dream fulfilled. Others had brought +echoes of life; you brought its song. It +was then that I heard the Master speak. +I followed him, and tried to forget. It +must be that I failed, for when I saw you +in Capharnahum my blood danced, and +when you spoke I trembled. It was love, +Mary; and love, when it is not death, is +life. It was that I sought at your side. +You would not listen. Innocence is a +garment. You seemed to have wrapped +it about you. I tried to tear it away. +There was my fault, and this my punishment. +Your right was inflexible as a +prison-door, and yet always behind it was +the murmur of a mysterious Perhaps. +The others turned to me; I turned to you. +I forgot again, but this time it was my +duty, my allegiance, and my faith. Mary, +I loved the Master more wholly even than +I loved you. He was the Spirit; you +were the flesh. In him was the future; in +you the tomb. I thought to conquer both. +While I mixed my darkness with his light, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I pursued you as night pursues the day. +On the light I have cast a shadow, and to +you I have brought a blight. But, Mary, +both will disappear. The one consolation +I cling to now is that belief. When +I delivered him up, it was myself I betrayed, +not him. I am forever dead, and +he forever living. While I bargained +with the priests and pretended that my +aim was coin, when I led the levites and +the Temple-guard just here to where he +stood, during all the hours since I left +you, I tried to escape from that cage we +call Fate. Mary, there is something about +us higher than our will. The revenge I +sought on you forsook me before I reached +the city’s gate. It is the intangible that +has brought me where I am. I have +sworn to you I never thought this thing +could be. I swear it now again. In +carrying out the threat I made, I thought +to make you fear my hate and make him +greater than he was. His enemies, I had +seen, were many. Those that had believed +in him grew daily less. In Jerusalem his +miracles had ceased, and I thought that, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>when the levites and the Temple-guard +approached, he would speak with Samuel’s +thunder, answer with Elijah’s flame. +I thought the stars would shake, the moon +grow red; that he would produce the lost +Urim, the vanished Ark, and so forever +silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he +was right. Belief is in the heart, not in +the senses; the visible contradicts, but +faith is not to be confuted. No, Mary, +the tombs are not dumb. I said so once, +I know, but they answer, and mine will +speak. On it perhaps a caricature may +be daubed, and about it prejudice will uncoil. +I deserve it. Yet though you think +me wholly base, remember no man is that. +Since I met you my life has been a battle-field +in which I have fought with conscience. +It has conquered. I am its +slave; it commands, and I obey.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He drew a breath as though he had +more to add, and turned to where she +stood. There was no one there. From +an olive-branch a red-start piped to the +morning; over the buds of a pomegranate +a bee buzzed its delight; across the leaves +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of a myrtle a blue spider was busy with +its web, but Mary was no longer there. +He peered through the underbrush, and +wandered to the grove beyond. There +was no one. He looked to the hill-top: +there was the advancing sun. He looked +in the valley: there were the pilgrims’ +booths, the grazing camels and fat-tailed +sheep. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“She has gone,”</span> he told himself. <span class="tei tei-q">“She +would not even listen.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He bent his head. For the first time +since boyhood the tears rolled down his +face. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“She might at least have heard me,”</span> he +thought, and brushed the tears away. +Others came and replaced them. When +they had fallen, there were more. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, she might at least have listened. +If I had no excuse to offer, at least I had +regret.”</span> For a moment he fancied her, +cruel as only woman is, hurrying to some +unknown goal. The tears he had tried +to stanch ceased now abruptly. <span class="tei tei-q">“She is +right,”</span> he mused. <span class="tei tei-q">“She has left me to +conscience and to death.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He turned again and went back to +where he had stood before. As he crossed +the intervening space he unloosed the +long girdle which he wore, and from which +still hung the treasury of the twelve. +The bag that held it fell where the bee +was buzzing. One end of the girdle +he tossed over a branch; the red-start +spread its wings and fled. He +looked about. There was a stone near by; +he got it and with a little labor rolled it +beneath the branch. Then he made a +noose, very carefully, that it might not +come undone, and settling it well under +the chin, he tied the other end of the +girdle to it and swung himself from the +stone. +</p> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc17" id="toc17"></a><a name="pdf18" id="pdf18"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER IX.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">IX.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the apartment of Claudia Procula, +Mary and the wife of the procurator +stood face to face. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem. +Beneath was an open space tiled +with little oblong stones, red, yellow, and +blue; the blue predominating. On either +side the colossal white wings of the palace +stretched to a park, very green in the +sunlight, cut by colonnades in which +fountains were, and surrounded by a marble +wall that was starred with turrets and +fluttered with doves. The Temple, which, +from its cressets, radiated to the hills +beyond a glare of gold, was not as fair +nor yet as vast as this. Within its gates +an army could manœuvre; in its banquet-hall +a cohort could have supped. It was +Herod’s triumph, built subsequent to the +Temple, to show the world, perhaps, that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to surpass a masterpiece he had only to +conceive another. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To it now and then, for a week or more, +the procurator descended from his residence +by the sea. He preferred the +latter; the day was freer there, life less +cramped. But during festival times, when +the fanatic Jews were apt to be excited +and need the chill of a curb, it was well +for him and his soldiery to be on hand. +And so on this occasion he had come, and +with him his wife, Claudia Procula, and +the tetrarch Antipas, who had joined +them on the way. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas and his retinue occupied the +Ægrippeum, the north wing of the palace, +while in the Cæsareum, the wing that +leaned to the south, was Pilate, his wife +and body-guard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And now on this clear morning the +sweet-faced patrician, Claudia Procula, +with perfectly feminine curiosity was +looking into the drawn features of the +Magdalen, and wondering whence her +rumored charm could come. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I will do my best,”</span> she said, at last, in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>answer to an anterior request. And calling +a servant, she wrote on a tablet a +word for Pilate’s eye. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary moved to the portico. The variegated +tiles of the quadrangle were nearly +covered now. A flight of wide, low +steps led to the main entrance of the palace, +and there a high seat of enamelled +ebony had been placed. In it Pilate sat, +in his hand the staff of office. Beside +him were his assessors, members of his +suite, and Calcol, a centurion. On one of +the steps Caiaphas stood, near him the +elders of the college. Below was the +Christ, bound and guarded. Across the +quadrangle was a line of soldiery, behind +it a mob. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The helmets, glancing mail, short +skirts, and bare legs of the Romans contrasted +refreshingly with the blossoming +garments, effeminate girdles, frontlets, and +horned blue bonnets of the priesthood. +And in the riot of color and glint of steel +the Christ, bound as he was, looked, in +the simplicity of his seamless robe, the +descendant of a larger sphere. Above, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to the left, Antipas, aroused by the clamor, +leaned from a portico. Opposite +where the sunlight fell Mary held her +cloak about her. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas, a hand indicating Jesus, his +head turned to Pilate, was formulating a +complaint. Not indeed that the prisoner +had declared himself a divinity. There +were far too many gods in the menagerie +of the Pantheon for a procurator to be +the least disturbed at the rumor of a new +one. It was the right to rule, that attribute +of the Messiah, on which he intended +the gravamen of the charge should rest. +But he began circuitously, feeling the +way, in Greek at that, with an accent +which might have been improved. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And so,”</span> he concluded, <span class="tei tei-q">“in many +ways he has transgressed the Law.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Why don’t you judge him by it, +then?”</span> asked Pilate, grimly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A servant approached with a tablet. +The procurator glanced at it, looked up +at the man, and motioned him away. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“My lord governor, we have. The +Sanhedrim, having found him guilty, has +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sentenced him to death. But the Sanhedrim, +as you know, may not execute the +sentence. The Senate has deprived us of +that right. It is for you, as its legate, to +order it done.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate sneered. <span class="tei tei-q">“I can’t very well, +until I know of what he is guilty. What +crime has he committed—written a letter +on the Sabbath, or has he been caught +without his phylacteries?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He has declared himself Israel’s +king!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> And Pilate smiled wearily. +<span class="tei tei-q">“You are always expecting one; why not +take him?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Why not, my lord? Because it is +treason to do so.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate nodded with affected approval. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I admire your zeal.”</span> And with a glance +at the prisoner, he added: <span class="tei tei-q">“You have +heard the accusation; defend yourself. +What!”</span> he continued, after a moment, +<span class="tei tei-q">“have you nothing to say?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas exulted openly. The corners +of his mouth had the width and cruelty, +and his nostrils the dilation, of a wolf. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“My lord,”</span> he cried, <span class="tei tei-q">“his silence is an +admission.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Hold your tongue! It is for me to +question.”</span> And therewith Pilate gave +the high-priest a look which was tantamount +to a knee pressed on the midriff. +He glanced again at the tablet, then at +the prisoner. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Tell me, do you really claim to be +king?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Is it your idea of me?”</span> the Christ +asked; and in his bearing was a dignity +which did not clash with the charge; +<span class="tei tei-q">“or have others prompted you?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But I am not a Jew,”</span> Pilate retorted. +<span class="tei tei-q">“The matter only interests me officially. +It is your hierarchy that bring the +charge. Why have they? What have +you done? Tell me,”</span> he continued, in +Latin, <span class="tei tei-q">“do you think yourself King?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Tu dixisti</span></span>,”</span> Jesus answered, and smiled +as he had before, very gravely. <span class="tei tei-q">“But my +royalty is not of the earth.”</span> And with +a glance at his bonds, one which was so +significant that it annulled the charge, he +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>added, still in Latin, <span class="tei tei-q">“I am Truth, and I +preach it.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate with skeptical indulgence shook +his head. Truth to him was an elenchicism, +an abstraction of the Platonists, +whom in Rome he had respected for their +wisdom and avoided with care. He turned +to Caiaphas. The latter had been regretting +the absence of an interpreter. +This amicable conversation, which he did +not understand, was not in the least to +his liking, and as Pilate turned to him +he frowned in his beard. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am unable to find him guilty,”</span> the +procurator announced. <span class="tei tei-q">“He may call +himself king, but every philosopher does +the same. You might yourself, for that +matter.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“A philosopher, this mesîth!”</span> Caiaphas +gnashed back. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why, he seduces the +people; he incites to sedition; he is a +rebel to Rome. It is for you, my lord, +to see the empire upheld. Would it be +well to have another complaint laid before +the Cæsar? Ask yourself, is this +Galilean worth it?”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The thrust was as keen and as venomous +as the tooth of a rat. Pilate had +been rebuked by the emperor already; +he had no wish to incur further displeasure. +Sejanus, the emperor’s favorite, +to whom he owed his procuratorship, +had for suspected treason been strangled +in a dumb dungeon only a little before. +Under Tiberius there was quiet, a future +historian was to note; and Pilate was +aware that, should a disturbance occur, +the disturbance would be quelled, but at +his expense. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An idea presented itself. <span class="tei tei-q">“Did I understand +you to say he is a Galilean?”</span> he +asked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> Caiaphas answered, expecting, +perhaps, the usual jibe that was flung at +those who came from there. <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, he is +a Nazarene.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Hm. In that case I have no jurisdiction. +The tetrarch is my guest; take +your prisoner to him.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“My lord,”</span> the high-priest objected, +<span class="tei tei-q">“our law is such that if we enter the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>palace we cannot officiate at the Passover +to-night.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate appeared to reflect. <span class="tei tei-q">“I suppose,”</span> +he said at last, <span class="tei tei-q">“I might ask him +whether he would care to come here. In +which case,”</span> he added, with a gesture of +elaborate courtesy, <span class="tei tei-q">“you may remain uncontaminated +where you are. Ressala!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An official stepped forward; an order +was given; he disappeared. Presently a +massive throne of sandalwood and gold +was trundled out. Caiaphas had seen it +before, and in it—Herod. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The justice that comes from there,”</span> +he muttered, <span class="tei tei-q">“is as a snake that issues +from a tomb.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His words were drowned in the clamors +of the crowd. The sun had crossed the +zenith; in its rays the waters that gushed +from the fountain-mouths of bronze lions +fell in rainbows and glistened in great +basins that glistened too. There was +sunlight everywhere, a sky of untroubled +blue, and from the Temple beyond came +a glare that radiated from Olivet to Bethlehem. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate was bored. The mantle which +Mary wore caught his eye, and he looked +at her, wondering how she came in his +wife’s apartment, and where he had seen +her before. Her face was familiar, but +the setting vague. Then at once he remembered. +It was at Machærus he had +seen her, gambling with the emir, while +Salomè danced. She was with Antipas, +of course. He looked again; she had +gone. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Sanhedrim consulted nervously. +The new turn of affairs was not at all to +their liking. The clamors of the mob +continued. Once a fanatic pushed against +a soldier. There was a thud, a howl, and +a mouth masked with liquid red gasped +to the sun and was seen no more. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind the procurator came a movement. +The officials massed about the +entrance parted in uneven ranks, and +in the great vestibule beyond, Antipas +appeared. Pilate rose to greet him. The +elders made obeisance. The tetrarch +moved forward and seated himself in his +father’s throne. At his side was Pahul, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the butler, balancing himself flamingowise +on one leg, his bold eyes foraging +the priests. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas formulated the complaint +anew, very majestically this time, and, +thinking perhaps to overawe the tetrarch, +his voice assumed the authority of a +guardian of the keys of heaven, a chamberlain +of the sceptres of the earth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Antipas ignored him utterly. He +plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and +stared at the Christ. He could see now +he bore no resemblance to Iohanan. +There was nothing of the hyena about +him, nor of the prophet either. Evidently +he was but a harmless vagabond, skilled +in simples, if report were true; perhaps +a thaumaturge. And it was he whom he +had feared and fancied might be that Son +of David for whom a star was created, +whom the magi had visited, whom his +father had sought to destroy, and whom +now from his father’s own throne he himself +was called upon to judge! He shook +his head, and in the sunlight the indigo +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with which his hair was powdered made +bright blue motes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I say——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Just beyond, where the assessors stood, +Mary suddenly appeared. He stopped +abruptly; for more than a year he had +not seen her. Pahul had told him +she had gone to Rome. If she had, he +reflected, the journey had not improved +her appearance. Then for the moment +he dismissed her, and returned to the +Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“See here: somebody the other day +told me you worked miracles. I have +wanted to see one all my life. Gratify +me, won’t you? Oh, something very easy +to begin with. Send one of the guards up +in the air, or turn your bonds into bracelets.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Christ did not seem to hear. Pahul +laughed and held to the throne for +support. Antipas shrugged his shoulders. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He looks harmless enough,”</span> he said. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Why not let him go?”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas glowered, and his fingers +twitched. <span class="tei tei-q">“He claims to be king!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At this statement the tetrarch laughed +too. He gave an order to Pahul, who +vanished with a grin. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He has jeered at the Temple your +father built,”</span> Caiaphas continued. <span class="tei tei-q">“He +has declared he could destroy it and +rebuild a better one, in three days at +that.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He is king, then, but of fools.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And he has called you a fox,”</span> Caiaphas +added, significantly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He doesn’t claim to be one himself, +does he?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He is guilty of treason, and it is for +you, his ruler, to sentence him.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Not I. The blood of kings is sacred. +Pahul, make haste!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The butler, reappearing, held in his +hand the glittering white vestment of a +candidate. The tetrarch took it and held +it in air. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Here, put this on him, and let his +subjects admire him to their hearts’ +content.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Antipas, you disgrace your purple!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the exclamation, the Sanhedrim, the +guards, the assessors, the officials, Pilate +himself, everyone save the prisoner, +turned and looked. On the colored pavement +Mary stood, her face very pale. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tetrarch flushed mightily; anger +mounted into his shifting eyes. For a +moment the sky was blood-red; then he +recovered himself and answered lightly: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It seems to me, my dear, that you +take things with a high hand. It may be +that you forget yourself.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I take them from where I am,”</span> she +cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“As for forgetfulness, remember +that my grandfather was satrap of Syria, +my father after him, while yours——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, yes, I dare say. He is not in +power now; I am.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Not here, Antipas, nor in Rome. I +appeal to Pilate.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tetrarch rose from the throne. +The elders whispered together. Pilate +visibly was perplexed. Remembering +Mary as he did, he looked upon the incident +as a family quarrel, one in which it +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>would be unseemly for him to interfere, +and which none the less disturbed the +decorum of his court. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but +the latter brushed him aside. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The hetaira is right,”</span> he exclaimed. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am not in power here. If I were, she +should be lapidated.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And, preceded by the butler, Antipas +passed through the parting ranks to the +vestibule beyond. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The perplexity of the procurator increased. +He did not in the least understand. +To him Mary stood in the same +relation to Antipas that Cleopatra had to +Herod. There had been a feud between +the tetrarch and himself, one recently +mended, and which he had no wish to +renew. Yet manifestly Antipas was aggrieved, +and his own path in the matter +by no means clear. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Bah!”</span> he muttered, in the consoling +undertone of thought, <span class="tei tei-q">“what are their +beastly barbarian manners to me?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These reflections Caiaphas interrupted. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“We are waiting, my lord, for the sentence +to be pronounced.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tone he used was not, however, +indicative of patience, and in conjunction +with the incident that had just occurred +it irritated and jarred. Besides, Pilate +did not care to be prompted. It was for +him to speak first. He strangled an oath, +and, gathering some fringe of the majesty +of Rome, he announced very measuredly: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“You have brought this man before +me as a rebel. I have examined him and +find no ground for the charge. His ruler, +the tetrarch, has also examined him, and +by him too he has been acquitted. But +in view of the fact that he appears to have +contravened some one or another of your +laws I order him to be scourged and to +be liberated.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With that he turned to the prisoner. +During the entire proceedings the attitude +of Jesus had not altered. He stood as a +disinterested spectator might—one whom +chance had brought that way and there +hemmed in—his eyes on remote, +inacces<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sible horizons, the tongue silent, the head +a little raised. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Scourging, my lord,”</span> Caiaphas interjected, +<span class="tei tei-q">“is fit and proper, but,”</span> he continued, +one silk-gloved hand uplifted, +<span class="tei tei-q">“our law prescribes death. Only an +enemy to Tiberius would prevent it.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the veiled menace Pilate gnawed +his under lip. He had no faith at all in +the loyalty of the hierarch; at any other +time the affection the latter manifested +for the chains he bore would have been +ludicrous and nothing else. But at the +moment he felt insecure. There were +Galileans whom he had sacrificed, Judæans +whom he had slaughtered, Samaritans +whom he had oppressed, an embassy +might even now be on its way to +Rome; he thought again of Sejanus, and, +with cause, he hesitated. Yet of the inward +perturbation he gave no outward +sign. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“On this day,”</span> he said at last, <span class="tei tei-q">“it is +customary that in commemoration of +your nation’s delivery out of Egypt I +should release a prisoner to you. There +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>are three others here, among them Jesus +Barabba.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then, for support perhaps, he looked +over at the clamoring mob. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I will leave the choice to the people.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A wind seemed to raise the elders; +they scattered through the court like +leaves. <span class="tei tei-q">“Have done with the Nazarene,”</span> +cried one. <span class="tei tei-q">“He would lead you astray,”</span> +insinuated another. <span class="tei tei-q">“He has violated +the Law,”</span> exclaimed a third. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And, filtering through the soldiery into +the mob without, they exhorted and +prayed and coerced. <span class="tei tei-q">“Ask for Barabba; +denounce the blasphemer. Trust to the +Sanhedrim. We are your guides. Let +him atone for his crimes. The God of +your fathers commands that you condemn. +Demand Barabba; uphold your +nation. To the cross with the Nazarene!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Whom do you choose?”</span> shouted +Pilate. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And the pleb of Jerusalem shouted +back as one man, <span class="tei tei-q">“Barabba!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the moment Pilate fancied himself +in an amphitheatre, the arena filled with +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>beasts. There were the satin and stripes +of the panther, the yellow of treacherous +eyes, the gnash of fangs, the guttural +rumble, the deafening yell, the scent of +blood, and above, the same blue tender +sky. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“What of the prisoner?”</span> he called. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A roar leapt back. <span class="tei tei-q">“Sekaph! Sekaph! +Let him be crucified.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate had fronted a rabble before, and +in two minutes had turned that rabble +into so many dead flies, the legs in the +air. He shook his head, and told himself +he was not there to be coerced. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Release Barabba,”</span> he ordered. <span class="tei tei-q">“And +as for the prisoner, take him to the barracks +and have him scourged.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Brute!”</span> cried a voice that lifted him +as a blow might from his ebony chair. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Pilate, though you are a plebeian, why +show yourself a slave?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And Mary, with the strength of anger, +brushed through the encircling officials +and towered before him, robed in wrath. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, permit me,”</span> he answered; <span class="tei tei-q">“you +are singularly unjust.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Prove me so, and countermand the +order that you gave.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As she spoke she adjusted her mantle, +which had become disarranged, and looked +him from head to foot, measuring him as it +were, and finding him, visibly, very small. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Already the prisoner had been led +away, and beyond, in the barracks, was +the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, +rebounded, and lacerated again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I will not,”</span> he answered. <span class="tei tei-q">“What I +have ordered, I have ordered. As for +you——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +There had come to her that look which +sibyls have. <span class="tei tei-q">“Pilate,”</span> she interrupted, +<span class="tei tei-q">“you are powerful here, I know, but”</span>—and +her hand shot out like an arrow +from a bow—<span class="tei tei-q">“over there vultures are +circling; in your power is a corpse. +What the vultures scent, I see.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +So abrupt and earnest was the gesture +that unconsciously Pilate found himself +looking to where she seemed to point. +He lowered his eyes in vexation. +Wrangling with a woman was not to +his taste. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There, there,”</span> he said, much as one +might to a fretful child; <span class="tei tei-q">“don’t throw +stones.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I have but one; it is Justice, and that +I keep to hurl at you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The procurator’s mouth twitched ominously. +<span class="tei tei-q">“My dear,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“you are +too pretty to talk that way; it spoils the +looks. Besides, I have no time to listen.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Tiberius has and will.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate nodded; it was the third time +he had heard the threat that day. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“There are many rooms in his palace,”</span> +he answered, with covert significance. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I know it. There are many, as +you say. But there is one I will enter. +On the door stands written The Future, +and behind it, Pilate, is your death.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Roman, goaded to exasperation, +sprang to his feet. An expression which +Antipas had used occurred to him. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Away with the hetaira,”</span> he cried; and +he was about, it may be, to order her to +be tossed to the fierce wild swine in the +paddocks of the park when the prisoner +and his guards reappeared on the +tessel<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>lated pavement, and Mary, already +dragged from him, was instantly forgot. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A tattered sagum, which had once been +scarlet, but which had faded since, hung, +detained at the shoulder by a rusty +buckle, and bordered by a laticlave, loosely +about his form. In his hand a bulrush +swayed; on his head was a twisted coil of +bear’s-breech, in which, among the ruffled +leaves, one bud remained; it was white, +the opening edges flecked with pink, +perhaps with blood, for from the temples +and about the ear a rill ran down and +mixed with the purple of the laticlave +below. And in this red parody of kingship +the Christ stood, unmoved as a +phantom, but in his face and eyes there +was a projecting light so luminous, so +intangible, and yet so real, that the skeptical +procurator started, the staff of office +pendent in his grasp. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ecce homo!”</span> he exclaimed. Instinctively +he drew back, and, wonderingly, +half to himself, half to the Christ, <span class="tei tei-q">“Who +are you?”</span> he asked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“A flame below, a soul above,”</span> Jesus +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>answered, yet so inaudibly that the guards +beside him did not catch the words. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To Pilate his lips had barely moved, +and his wonderment increased. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why +do you not answer?”</span> he said. <span class="tei tei-q">“You +must know that I have the power to condemn +and to acquit.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With that gentleness that was the flower +of his parables Jesus raised his voice. +<span class="tei tei-q">“No,”</span> he replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“you can have no power +against me unless it come from above.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Again Pilate drew back. Unsummoned +to his lips had sprung the words, <span class="tei tei-q">“Behold +the man!”</span> and now he exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“Behold +the king!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But to the mob the vision he intercepted +was lost. They saw the jest merely, +and with it the stains that torture leaves. +The sight of blood is heady; it inebriates +more surely than wine. The mob, trained +by the elders, and used by them as a +body-guard, fanatic before, were intoxicated +now. With one accord they shrieked +the liturgy again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In that gust of hatred Pilate recovered. +He turned to Caiaphas: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I have released one prisoner; I will +release another too.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“My lord, be warned by one who is +your elder.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“One whom I can remove.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“No doubt, my lord; but suffer him +while he may to warn you not to cause a +revolution on the day of the Paschal feast. +You hear that multitude. Then be +warned.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“But your feast is one of mercy.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The high-priest gazed curiously at his +silk-gloved hands. You would have said +they were objects he had never seen before. +Then he returned the procurator’s +stare. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“We know of no such god.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah!”</span> And the procurator drew a +long breath of understanding. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is that, +I believe, he preaches.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And it is for that,”</span> Caiaphas echoed, +<span class="tei tei-q">“that he must die. Yes, Pilate, it is for +that. There is no such doctrine in the +Pentateuch. We have done our duty. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>We have convicted a rebel of his guilt. +We have brought him to you, and we demand +his sentence. Pilate, it is not so +very long ago you had hundreds massacred +without judgment, without trial +either, and for what?—for one rebellious +cry. You must have a reason for the +favor you show this man. It would interest +me to learn it; it would interest +Tiberius as well. Listen to that multitude. +If you pay no heed to our accusation nor +yet to their demand, on you the consequences +rest. We are absolved.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He is your king,”</span> the procurator objected, +meditatively. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas wheeled like a feather a breeze +has caught. One hand outstretched he +held to the mob, with the other he pointed +to the Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Our king!”</span> he cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“The procurator +says he is our king!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As the thunder peals, a roar surged +back: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“We have no other king than Cæsar.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Think of Sejanus,”</span> the high-priest +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>suggested. The thrust was so well timed +it told. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Pilate looked sullenly about. <span class="tei tei-q">“Fetch +me water,”</span> he ordered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing +a custom from the Jews he loathed, he +dipped his fingers in it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I wash my hands of it all,”</span> he muttered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas looked at the elders and +sighed with infinite relief. He had conquered. +For the first time that day he +smiled. He became gracious also, and he +bowed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The blood be upon us, my lord, and +on our children. Will you give the +order?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Calcol!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The centurion approached. An order +was given him in an undertone, and as he +turned to the guards, Pilate drew the staff +of office across his knee, snapped it in +two, tossed the pieces to the ground, and +through the ranks of his servitors passed +on into the great blue vestibule beyond. +</p> + +</div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<a name="toc19" id="toc19"></a><a name="pdf20" id="pdf20"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER X.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-pb"></div><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">X.</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In a sook near the Gannath Gate Mary +stood. In the distance the palace of +Herod defied the sun. Beyond the gate +lay the Hennom Valley, the Geia Hennom, +contracted by the people into Ge’ +Hennom, or Gehenna, and converted by +them into a sewer, a place where carrion +was thrown, and the filth of a great city. +In earlier days children had been immolated +to Moloch there, human victims had +been burned; it was a place accursed, and +to purify the air, as a safeguard against +pestilence, the offal was consumed by +bonfires that were constantly renewed +and never extinguished. At its extremity +was an elevation, a hilly contour which +to the popular fancy suggested a skull. +To the west it fell steeply away. It was +called Gülgolta. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The sook in which Mary stood was +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>affected by shoemakers. Against the +dwelling of one of them she leaned. The +mantle was gone from her now, and the +olive robe had a rent, but the splendor of +her hair fell unconfined, the perils of her +eyes had increased; yet in their depths +where love had been was hate. One arm +lay along the resisting stone, the other +hung at her side; her face was turned to +the palace, her thin nostrils quivering, her +breath coming and going with that spasmodic +irregularity which the consciousness +of outrage brings. She laid it all to +Judas; he must have returned to Kerioth, +she thought. The sook itself was silent, +stirred merely by some echo of the uproar +in the palace beyond. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From a grilled lattice near by an old +man peered out. He had the restless +eyes of a ferret, and a white beard that +was very long. He too was looking toward +the palace. Now and then he muttered +inaudibly in Aramaic to himself. +In the shadow of a neighboring house a +woman appeared; he shook at the lattice +as an ape does at the bars of a cage, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>spat a bestial insult at her. The woman +shrank back. Instinctively Mary turned. +In the retreating figure she recognized +Ahulah, and at once, without conscious +effort, she divined that the dwelling +against which she leaned was that of Baba +Barbulah, the husband of the woman +whom the Master had declined to condemn. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +But other things possessed her—the +outrage to the Christ, perplexity as to +how the trial would result, more remotely +the indignity to herself, the slurs of the +tetrarch and of the procurator; and with +them, sapping her heart as fever might, +was that thirst for reparation, unquenchable +in its intensity, which comes to those +who have seen their own life wrecked and +its ideals dispersed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Already Ahulah was forgot. On the +wings of vagabond fancy she was in Rome, +demanding vengeance of Tiberius, wresting +it from him by the sheer force of entreaty, +and with it exulting in the death-throes +of the procurator. Oh, to see his +nails pulled out, his outer skin removed, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his tongue severed, his eyes seared with +irons, his wrists slowly twisted till they +snapped! to hear him cry for mercy! to +promise it and not fulfil!—dear God, what +joy was there! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the alley into which Ahulah had +shrunk a man issued. He was sturdy as +a bludgeon, and he had a growth of thick +black hair that curled about an honest +face. In his hand was a basket. At the +sight of Mary his steps hesitated, and his +eyes followed hers to where the palace +lay. Then he crossed the zigzag of the +intervening space, but he had to touch +her outstretched arm before she noticed +him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Simon!”</span> she exclaimed, with that +start one has when suddenly awaked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, Simon indeed;”</span> and through the +silence of the sook his clear laugh rang. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I frightened you, did I not?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary interrupted him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Haven’t you +heard? Has not Eleazer told you——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“When I left Bethany he was sleeping +with both fists closed. Martha——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The Master is arrested. Last night +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>he was before the Sanhedrim; he is before +the procurator now.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Hurriedly Mary gave an account of +what had occurred. As the recital continued, +Simon’s expression grew darker +than his curling hair, he clutched at the +basket which he held, so tightly that the +handle severed, the basket fell, and fruit +that imprisoned the sunlight rolled on +the ground. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“They were for the Master,”</span> he said. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I thought he would sup with us to-night.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“He may do so yet,”</span> she answered. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Never!”</span> cried a voice from the lattice. +<span class="tei tei-q">“They are leading him to Gülgolta now.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Beyond, through the palace gate, a +mass undulated, the body elongated, expanding +as it moved. It was black, but +at the sides was the glisten that cobras +have. About it dust circled, and from it +came the rumble of thunder heard afar. +As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; +the black lessened into varying +hues. To the glisten came the glint of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>steel; the cobra changed into a multitude, +the escort of a squad of soldiery, +fronted by a centurion and led by the +banner of Imperial Rome. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his +faded sagum, staggered, overweighted +by the burden of a cross. Two comrades +in misery were at his side, but +they moved with steadier step, bearing +their crosses with the brawn of muscular +and untired arms. The soldiers marched +impassibly, preceding the executioners—four +stalwart Cypriotes, distinguishable +by the fatness of their calves—while +behind was the Sanhedrim, and, extending +indefinitely to the rear, the rabble of +yelling Jews. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In a cobra’s coils is death, its eyes +transfix. Neither Mary nor Simon had +spoken, and now, as the soldiery was +upon them, they leaned yet nearer the +wall. For a moment Mary hid her face. +At her feet the Christ had fallen, and +from her came one wail, choked down at +once. She stooped to aid him, but he +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>stood up unassisted and reached to the +wall for support. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The bars of the lattice shook; the old +man peered out. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t touch my house, you vagabond! +Move on!”</span> he cried. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol had turned to Simon, who was +raising the cross. <span class="tei tei-q">“Carry it for him,”</span> he +commanded. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Baba Barbulah still shook at the lattice. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Move on!”</span> he repeated. <span class="tei tei-q">“Seducer +of the people, remitter of sins, upholder +of adultery, move on; don’t touch my +house, it will fall down on you! Move +on, I say!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol’s command Simon had anticipated. +He shouldered the cross. It was +heavier to him than to the Christ, not in +weight, perhaps, but in purpose. In the +narrowness of the sook the crowd was +impeded, but from the rear they pushed, +surprised at the halt. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary sprang at the lattice. <span class="tei tei-q">“It is you +that shall move on,”</span> she cried; <span class="tei tei-q">“yes, +you; and forever. The desert will call +to you, <span class="tei tei-q">‘March;’</span> and the sea will snarl, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">‘Further yet.’</span> The gates of cities will +deny you, and the doors of hamlets be +closed. The eagles may return to their +eyrie, the panthers retreat to their lair, +but you will have no home, no rest, and, +till time dies, no tomb.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The old man gnashed back at her an +insult more bestial than he used before, +and spat at her through the bars. But +Mary had turned to the Christ. He was +surrounded now by some women who +had filtered through the alley above. +Johanna, Mary Clopas, the wife of Zebdia, +and Bernice, a fragile girl newly enrolled. +The latter was wiping from his +face the stains of blood and dust. The +others were beating their breasts, crying +aloud. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Of the disciples there was no trace, nor +yet of any of those who had greeted him +as the Messiah. It may be that the admiring +throngs that had gathered about +him had faded before a superior force. +It may be they had lost heart, belief +perhaps as well. Invective never propitiates. +Recently he had omitted to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>prophesy, he argued. The exquisite +parables with which he had been wont +to charm even the recalcitrant seemed to +have been put aside, and with them those +wonders which rumor held him to have +worked. But now that pathos and grace +which endeared, that perfection of sentiment +and expression which exalted the +heart, returned to him, accentuated perhaps +by the agonies he had endured. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Weep for me no more,”</span> he entreated. +<span class="tei tei-q">“But weep for yourselves and for your +children. The days are coming,”</span> he +added, with a gesture at the impatient +mob—<span class="tei tei-q">“the days are coming in which +they shall say to the mountains, Fall on +us; to the hills, Cover us. For if these +things are done in the green tree, what +will be done in the dry?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted +them to view disaster otherwise +than from the external and evanescent +aspect, the voice of the prophet rang +once more. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary as yet had not realized the full +portent of the soldiery and the mob. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>When it was approaching it had occurred +to her that it might be another triumphal +escort, such as she had once seen surround +him on his way to a feast. As it +advanced, the roar bewildered, and she +had ceased to conjecture; then the Master +had fallen, and the old Jew had vomited +his slime. At the moment it was that, and +that only, which had impressed her, and +she had answered with the force of that +new strength which suddenly she had +found. But now at the sight of the +women beating their breasts, and the +blood-stained face of the Master, an inkling +came to her; she stared open-mouthed +at the cross, at Calcol, and at +the executioners that were there. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then immediately that horrible longing +to know the worst beset her, and she +darted to where the centurion stood. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“What is it?”</span> she gasped. <span class="tei tei-q">“What are +you to do with him?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +By way of answer Calcol extended his +arms straight out from either side, his +head thrown back. He was a good-natured +ruffian, with clear and pleasant eyes. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Not crucify?”</span> she cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“Tell me, it +is not that?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol nodded. To him one Jew more, +one Jew less, was immaterial, provided +he had his pay, and the prospect of a return +to Rome was not too long delayed. +Yet none the less in some misty way he +wondered why this woman, with her +splendid hair and scorching eyes, should +have upbraided the tetrarch and abused +the procurator because of the friendless +Galilean whom he was leading to the +cross. Woman to him, however, was, as +she has been to others wiser than he, an +enigma he failed to solve. And so he +nodded merely, not unkindly, and smiled +in Mary’s face. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The horrible longing now was stilled. +She knew the worst; yet as the knowledge +of it penetrated her being, it seemed to +her as though it could not be true, that +she was the plaything of some hallucination, +her mind inhabited by a nightmare +from which she must presently awake. +The howl of the impatient mob undeceived +her. It was real; it was actual; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>it was life. She stared at Calcol, her fair +mouth agape. There were many things +she wanted to say; her thoughts teemed +with arguments, her mind with persuasions; +but she could utter nothing; she +was as one struck dumb; and it was not +until the centurion smiled that the spell +dissolved and the power of speech returned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Ah, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">that</span></span> never; you shall kill me +first!”</span> she cried. And already she saw +herself circumventing the centurion, blinding +the soldiery, defying the mob, and +leading the Master through byways and +underground passages out of the accursed +city into the fresh glades of Gethsemane, +over the hill, down the hollows +to the Jordan, and into the desert beyond. +There was one spot she knew +very well; one that only a bird could +find; one that she would mention to no +one, but to which she could take him and +keep him hidden there in the brakes till +night came, and the fording of the river +was safe. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“That never!”</span> she cried. And +brush<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ing Bernice off, she caught the Master by +the cloak. <span class="tei tei-q">“Come with me,”</span> she murmured. +<span class="tei tei-q">“I know a way——”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +And she would have dragged him perhaps, +regardless of the others, but the +centurion had her by the arm. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“See here, my pretty friend, your place +is not here.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With a twist he sent her spinning back +to Baba Barbulah’s wall. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“March!”</span> he ordered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The soldiery, disarranged, fell in line. +The two robbers picked up their burden. +The Master turned to Mary, to the others +as well, with that expression which he +alone possessed, that look which both +promised and assuaged, and, it may be, +would have said some word of encouragement, +but Mary was at his side again, +her hand upon his cloak. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“It shall never be,”</span> she repeated. +<span class="tei tei-q">“They must kill me first.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol wheeled. His short sword +glistened, reversed, and her cheek was +laid open by the hilt. She staggered +back. The soldiery moved on. The +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>women surrounded her and stanched the +wound. To her the blow held the difference +between a cut and a cancer; she +knew that it could never heal; and, as the +blood poured down her face, for the first +time she divined the uselessness of revolt. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Presently a wave of the mob caught +her, separating her from the other women, +and carrying her in its eddy through +the gate, into the valley and on to the +hillock beyond. On one side were the +glimmer of fires, the smell of smoke, of +offal too. On the infrequent trees vultures +perched. To the right was a nest +of gardens and of tombs. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the eddies Mary lost foothold and +lagged a little to the rear. When she +reached Gülgolta the soldiery had formed +three sides of a square. In it were the +executioners, the prisoners, and the centurion. +At the place where a fourth side +might have been a steep decline began. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Within the square three crosses lay; +before them the prisoners stood, stripped +of their clothing now, and naked. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Sanhedrim was grouped about +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that side of the square which leaned to +the south, the horned bonnet of Caiaphas +towering its lacework above the others. +To the wide and cruel corners of his +mouth had come the calm of a cheetah +devouring its prey. At the outer angle, +to the right, the standard of the empire +swayed; and from an oak two vultures +soared with a scream into the air, their +eyes fixed on the vision of bare white +flesh. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Through the ranks an elder passed. In +his hand was a gourd, which he offered to +one of the thieves. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Drink of it, Dysmas,”</span> he invited. +<span class="tei tei-q">“In it grains of frankincense have been +dissolved.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To the rear Annas nodded his approval. +His lean, lank jaws parted. <span class="tei tei-q">“Give strong +drink,”</span> he announced, authoritatively; +<span class="tei tei-q">“give strong and heady drink to those +about to die, and wine to those that sorrow.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Dysmas drank abundantly of the soporific, +and held the gourd to his comrade. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Take it, Stegas.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As the second thief raised it to his lips, +with a motion of arm and knee an executioner +caught Dysmas beneath the chin, +behind the leg, and the thief lay on a +cross. In a second his wrists were bound, +his feet as well. There was the blow of +a hammer on a nail, a spurt of blood from +the open hand; another blow, another +spurt; and the cross, upraised, settled in +a cavity already prepared, a beam behind +it for support. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Stegas, his thirst slaked, fell as Dysmas +had, and the elder caught the gourd and +offered it to the Christ. If he had been +tempted in the desert, as rumor alleged, +the temptation could have been as nothing +in comparison to the enticements of +that cup. It held relief from thought, +from the acutest pain that flesh can know, +from life, from death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +He waved it aside. The executioner +started with surprise; but he had his +duty to perform, and, recovering himself, +he caught the Christ, and in a moment he +too was down, his hands transfixed, the +cross upraised. The blood dripped +lei<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>surely on the sand beneath. Across his +features a shadow passed and vanished. +His lips moved. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Father,”</span> he murmured, <span class="tei tei-q">“forgive +them; they know not what they do.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol gave an order. Over the heads +of Dysmas and of Stegas the sanis were +affixed, wooden tablets smeared with +gypsum, bearing the name of the crucified +and with it the offence. They were +simple and terse; but above the Christ +appeared a legend in three tongues, in +Aramaic, in Greek, and in Latin: +</p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/titulus.png" alt="Aramaic: Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje" /></div> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span lang="el" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: center" xml:lang="el"><span style="font-style: normal">Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων.</span></span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rex Judæorum.</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas sprang back as from the +point of a sword. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje!”</span> he bellowed. +<span class="tei tei-q">“King of the Jews! It is a blasphemy, +an iniquity, and an outrage. Centurion, +tear it down.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and +pointed to the palace. <span class="tei tei-q">“What the procurator +has written he has written,”</span> he +answered. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the tone, in the gesture that preceded +it, and in its impertinence Caiaphas +read Pilate’s one yet supreme revenge, +the expression of his absolute contempt +for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation +that it ruled. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +From the rear the mob jumped at the +title as at a catchword. To them the +irony of the procurator presumably was +lost. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“King of the Jews!”</span> they shouted. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje, come down from +your cross!”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It was a great festival, and as they +jeered at Jesus they enjoyed themselves +hugely. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In their vast delight the voice of Stegas +was drowned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am a Roman citizen,”</span> he kept repeating, +his head swaying, and indicating +with his eyes the wounds in his hands, +the torture he endured. <span class="tei tei-q">“Kill me,”</span> he +implored. And finding entreaty idle, he +reviled the centurion, cursed the soldiery, +and would have spat at them, but to his +burning throat no spittle came. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The tongue of Dysmas lolled from his +mouth. He had not the ability to speak, +even if in speech relief could come. +Flame licked at his flesh, his joints were +severing, each artery was a nerve exposed, +and something was crunching his brain. +He could no longer groan; he could +suffer merely, such suffering as hell perhaps +has failed to contrive, that apogee +of agony which it was left for man to +devise. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Stegas, catching the refrain the mob +repeated, turned his eyes from the soldiery +to the adjacent cross. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“If you are as they say,”</span> he cried, +<span class="tei tei-q">“save yourself and us.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Behold your king!”</span> and raising a stalk +of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he +had dipped in the posca, the thin wine +the soldiers drink, he offered it to the +Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The sun was nearing the horizon. +Caiaphas gathered his ample folds about +him. He had seen enough. The feast, +wretchedly embittered, was nearly done. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>There was another at which he must officiate: +the shofa presently would sound; +the skewering of the Paschal lamb it was +needful for him to superintend. It was +time, he knew, to return to the Temple; +and as he gave a last indignant look at +the placard, the lips of the Christ parted +to one despairing cry: +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Elî, Elî, lemâh shebâktanî?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Caiaphas, nodding to the elders, smiled +with satisfaction. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At last the false pretender was forced +to acknowledge the invalidity of his +claims. The Father whose son he vaunted +himself to be had disowned him when +his recognition was needed, if ever it had +been needed at all. And so, with the +smile of one whose labor has had its +recompense, Caiaphas patted his skirt, +and the elders about him strolled back +through the Gannath Gate to the Temple +that awaited him. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The multitude meanwhile had decreased. +To the crowd also the Temple +had its attractions, its duties, and its +offices. Moreover, the spectacle was at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>an end. With a blow of the mallet the +legs of the thieves had been broken. +They had died without a shriek, a thing +to be regretted. The Galilean too, +pierced by the level stroke of a spear, +had succumbed without a word. Sundown +was approaching. Clearly it was +best to be within the walls where other +gayeties were. The mob dispersed, leaving +behind but the dead, the circling +vultures, a group of soldiers throwing dice +for the garments of the crucified, and, +remotely, a group of women huddled +beneath a protecting oak. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +During the hour or two that intervened, +the force which had visited Mary evaporated +in strength overtaxed. She was +conscious only that she suffocated. The +words of the women that had drawn her +to them were empty as blanks in a dream; +the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty +bier. To but one thing was she alive, +the fact that death could be. Little by +little, as the impossible merged into the +actual, the understanding came to her +that the worst that could be had been +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>done, and she ceased to suffer. The departing +hierarchy, the dispersing mob, +retreating before encroaching night, left +her unimpressed. To her the setting sun +was Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The soldiers passed. She did not see +them. Calcol called to her. She did +not hear. The women had gone from +her; she did not notice it. She stood as +a cataleptic might, her eyes on the cross. +Once only, when the Christ had uttered +his despairing cry, she too had cried in +her despair. In the roar of the mob the +cry was lost as a stone tossed in the sea. +Since then she had been dumb, sightless +also, existing, if at all, unconsciously, her +life-springs nourished by death. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Though she gazed at the cross, she had +ceased to distinguish it. A little group +that had reached it before the soldiery +left had been unmarked by her. On the +platform of her dream a serpent had +emerged. In its coils were her immortal +hopes. It was that she saw, and that +alone. Those moments of agony in +which the imagination oscillates between +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the past and the future, devouring the +one, fumbling the other, had been endured, +and resignation failed to bring its +balm. She had believed with a faith so +firm that now in its demolition there was +nothing left—an abyss merely, where +light was not. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A hand touched her, and she quivered +as a leaf does at the wing of a bird. +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mary, come with us,”</span> some one was +saying; <span class="tei tei-q">“we are taking him to a tomb.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Just beyond were men and women +whom she knew. Joseph of Haramathaïm, +a close follower of the Master; +Nikodemon, the richest man in all Judæa; +Johanna, Mary Clopas, Salomè, Bernice, +and the servants of the opulent Jew. It +was Ahulah who had touched her; and as +Mary started she saw before her a coffin +which the others bore. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Come with us,”</span> Ahulah repeated; and +Mary crossed the intervening ridge to +where the gardens were and the tombs +she had already passed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the door of a sepulchre the brief +procession halted. Within was a room, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a little grotto furnished with a stone slab +and a lamp that flickered, surmounted by +an arch. The coffin, placed on the slab, +routed a bat that flew to the arch, and a +lizard that scurried to a crevice. In the +coffin the Christ lay, his head wrapped in +a napkin, the body wound about by +broad bands of linen that were secured +with gum and impregnated with spices +and with myrrh. The odor of aromatics +filled the tomb. The bat escaped to the +night. A stone was rolled before the +opening, the brief procession withdrew, +and Mary was left with the dead. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The momentary exertion, the bier, the +sepulchre, the sight of the Christ in his +cerements, the brooding quiet—these +things had roused her. Her mind was +nimbler, and thought more active. One +by one the stars appeared. They would +vanish, she told herself, as her hopes had +done. Only they would reappear, and +belief could not. It had come as a rainbow +does, and disappeared as vaporously, +little by little, before the full glare of +might. For a minute, hours perhaps, she +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>stood quite still, interrogating the past +in which so much had been, gauging the +future in which so much was to be. The +one retreated, the other fled. Thoughts +came to her evanescently, and faded before +they were wholly formed. At one +moment she was beckoning the unicorns +from the desert, the winged lions from the +yonderland, commanding them to bear +her to the home of some immense revenge. +At others she was asking her way of +griffins, propounding the problem to the +Sphinx. But the unicorns and lions took +flight, the griffins spread their wings, the +Sphinx fell asleep. There was no answer +to her appeal. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Behind the sepulchre the moon rose; it +dropped a beam near by. There is light +somewhere, it seemed to say; and in that +telegram from Above, she thought of +Rome. She remembered now, in Rome +was Tiberius, and in him Revenge. She +smiled at her own forgetfulness. Yes, it +was there. She would go to him, she +would exact reparation; there should be +another crucifixion. Pilate should be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>nailed to the cross, Judas on one side, +Caiaphas on the other. Only it would be +at Rome where there was no Passover to +interfere with the torture they endured. +Things were done better there. Men were +crucified, not with the head up, but with +the feet; and so remained, not for hours, +but for days; and died, not of their wounds +alone, but of hunger too. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A chariot of dream caught her, and, +borne across the intervening space, she saw +herself in a palace where there were gods +and monsters, columns of transparent +quartz, floors of malachite, roofs of gold. +And there, on a dais, the Cæsar lay. +Behind him a fan, luminous as a peacock’s +tail, oscillated to the tinkling of +mysterious keys. In his crown was the +lividity of uncolored dawns, in his sceptre +the dominion of the world. An ulcer devoured +his face, and in his ear a boy repeated +the maxims of Elephantis. Mary +threw herself at his feet, her tears fell on +them as rain on leaves. <span class="tei tei-q">“Vengeance,”</span> +she implored; but he listened merely to +the boy at his side. <span class="tei tei-q">“Death is your +ser<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>vant,”</span> she cried. <span class="tei tei-q">“You command, it +obeys.”</span> The ulcer oozed, the face grew +vague, he gave no answer. She stood up +and menaced him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Behind you spectres +crouch; you may not see them. I do; their +name is To-morrow.”</span> The murmurs of +the boy were her sole reply. The roof +crumbled, the flooring disappeared, the +emperor faded, and Mary stared into +space. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The moon that had struck aslant the +tomb had gone, but where its beams had +fallen the message remained. There is +light somewhere, it repeated. Across the +heavens a meteor shot like a bee. In the +air voices whispered confusedly. It is +not in Rome, one seemed to say. It is +not on earth, another called. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary clutched at her beating breast. +The sky now was an opening rose. What +the sunset had sown the dawn would reap. +In the night that had enveloped, day +raised a lattice, and through it came a +gust of higher thought. It is not in revenge, +a voice whispered. It is not in +regret, another called. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I know it,”</span> Mary gasped. <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, yes, +I know it now. It is in faith.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“And in abnegation of self.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The stone which stood before the sepulchre +had rolled away. At her side the +Christ stood. In his eyes were golden +parables, in his face Truth shone revealed. +She stared, dumb with the unexpected +joy of belief confirmed, blinded by the +sudden light, while he who had rent the +bonds of death passed on into the budding +day. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When the brief procession of the night +before returned to the tomb, it was empty. +At the door Mary lay, her arms outstretched +and vacant. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%">FINIS MARIÆ.</span></span> +</p> + </div></div> + <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + <div class="boxed tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="toc21" id="toc21"></a><a name="pdf22" id="pdf22"></a> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Transcriber’s note</span></h1> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The table of contents has been added in the electronic version.</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The following changes have been made to the text:</p> + <table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr036" class="tei tei-ref">page 36</a>, <span class="tei tei-q">“forget”</span> changed to <span class="tei tei-q">“forgot”</span>, <span class="tei tei-q">“Hew”</span> changed to <span class="tei tei-q">“Her”</span></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr038" class="tei tei-ref">page 38</a>, <span class="tei tei-q">“a”</span> added before <span class="tei tei-q">“sword”</span></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr046" class="tei tei-ref">page 46</a>, period added following <span class="tei tei-q">“roof”</span></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr108" class="tei tei-ref">page 108</a>, <span class="tei tei-q">“surperber”</span> changed to <span class="tei tei-q">“superber”</span></td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr118" class="tei tei-ref">page 118</a>, <span class="tei tei-q">“is”</span> changed to <span class="tei tei-q">“it”</span></td></tr></tbody></table> + </div> + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; 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rend="font-size: large">EDGAR SALTUS</hi></docAuthor> + </byline> + <lb/><lb/><lb/> + <docImprint rend="margin-top:4"> + NEW YORK<lb/> + <hi rend="font-size: large">BRENTANO’S</hi><lb/> + <docDate>MCMXIX</docDate> + </docImprint> + + </titlePage><div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <pb/> + + <p rend="center"><hi rend='smallcaps; font-size: small'>Copyright, 1891, + <lb/>By EDGAR SALTUS.</hi></p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <pb/> +<head>Contents</head> +<divGen type="toc"/> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <p rend="center"> + <hi rend="font-size: large">MARY MAGDALEN</hi> + </p> + + <pb/> + </div> +</front> +<body lang="en"><div rend="page-break-before: right"> + +<pb n="17"/><anchor id="Pg017"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER I.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg018"/> + +<pb n="19"/><anchor id="Pg019"/> +<head rend="page-break-before: right">I.</head> + +<p> +<q>Three to one on Scarlet!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Throughout the brand-new circus were +the eagerness, the gesticulations, shouts, +and murmurs of an impatient throng. On +a ledge above the entrance a man stood, +a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. +Beneath, on either side, were gates. +About him were series of ascending tiers, +close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored +robes and parasols. The sand of +the track was very white: where the sunlight +fell it had the glitter of broken +glass. In the centre was a low wall; at +one end were pillars and seven great +balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, +their tails in the air. The uproar +<pb n="20"/><anchor id="Pg020"/>mounted in unequal vibrations, and +stirred the pulse. The air was heavy +with odors, with the emanations of the +crowd, the cloy of myrrh. Through the +exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the +kitchens below, and with them, from the +exterior arcades, came the beat of timbrels, +the click of castanets. Overhead +was a sky of troubled blue; beyond, a +lake. +</p> + +<p> +<q>They are off!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The strip of silk had fluttered and +fallen, the gates flew open, there was a +rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, +a yell that deafened, and four tornadoes +burst upon the track. +</p> + +<p> +They were shell-shaped, and before +each six horses tore abreast. Between +the horses’ ears were swaying feathers; +their manes had been dyed clear pink, +the forelocks puffed; and as they bounded, +the drivers, standing upright, had the +skill to guide but not the strength to +curb. About their waists the reins were +tied; at the side a knife hung; from the +forehead the hair was shaven; and +every<pb n="21"/><anchor id="Pg021"/>thing they wore, the waistcoat, the short +skirt, the ribbons, was of one color, scarlet, +yellow, emerald, or blue: and this +color, repeated on the car and on the +harness, distinguished them from those +with whom they raced. +</p> + +<p> +Already the cars had circled the hippodrome +four times. There were but three +more rounds, and Scarlet, which in the +beginning had trailed applause behind +it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now +a little to the rear. Green was leading. +Its leadership did not seem to please; it +was cursed at and abused, threatened +with naked fist; yet when for the sixth +time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout +that held the thunder of Atlas leaped +abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued +by the blue, had been, was now a mass of +sickening agitation—twelve fallen horses +kicking each other into pulp, the drivers +brained already; and down upon that +barrier of blood and death swept the +scarlet car. In a second it veered and +passed; in that second a flash of steel +had out the reins, and, as the car swung +<pb n="22"/><anchor id="Pg022"/>round, the driver, released, was tossed to +the track. What then befell him no one +cared. Stable-men were busy there; the +car itself, unguided, continued vertiginously +on its course. If it had lagged +before, there was no lagging now. The +hoofs that beat upon the ring plunged +with it through the din down upon Emerald, +and beyond it to the goal. And as +the last dolphin vanished and the seventh +ball was removed, the palm was granted, +and the spectators shouted a salutation +to the giver of the games—Herod Antipas, +tetrarch of Galilee. +</p> + +<p> +He was superb, this Antipas. His +beard was like a lady’s fan. On his +cheeks was a touch of alkanet; his hair, +powdered blue, was encircled by a diadem +set with gems. About his shoulders was +a mantle that had a broad purple border; +beneath it was a tunic of yellow silk. +Between the railing of the tribune in +which he sat one foot was visible, shod +with badger’s skin, dyed blood-red. He +was superb, but his eyelids drooped. He +had a straight nose and a retreating +fore<pb n="23"/><anchor id="Pg023"/>head, a physiognomy that was at once +weak and vicious. He looked melancholy; +it may be that he was bored. +At the salutation, however, he affected a +smile, and motioned that the games +should continue. And as the signals, the +dolphins and the seven balls, appeared +again, his thoughts, forsaking the circus, +went back to Rome. +</p> + +<p> +Insecure in the hearts of his people, +uncertain even of the continued favor of +the volatile monster who was lounging +then in his Caprian retreat, it was with +the idea of pleasing the one, of flattering +the other, that he had instituted the +games. For here in his brand-new Tiberias, +a city which he had built in a +minute, whose colonnades and porticoes +he had bought ready-made in Rome, and +had erected by means of that magic which +only the Romans possessed—in this capital +of a parvenu was a mongrel rabble of +Greeks, Cypriotes, Egyptians, Cappadocians, +Syrians, and Jews, whose temper +was uncertain, and whose rebellion to be +feared. +</p> + +<pb n="24"/><anchor id="Pg024"/> + +<p> +<hi rend="italic">Annonâ et spectaculis</hi> indeed! Antipas +knew the dictum well; and with an uprising +in the yonderland, and a sedition +under his feet, what more could he do +than quell the first with his mercenaries, +and disarm the second with his games? +Tiberius, whom he emulated, never +deigned to appear at the hippodrome; +it was a way he had of showing his contempt +for a nation. Antipas might have +imitated his sovereign in that, only he +was not sure that Tiberius would take +the compliment as it was meant. He +might view such abstention as the airs +of a trumpery tetrarch, and depose him +there and then. He was irascible, and +when displeased there were dungeons at +his command which reopened with difficulty, +and where existence was not secure. +Ah, that sausage of blood and mud, how +he feared and envied him! An emperor +now, a god hereafter, truly the dominion +of this world and a part of the next was +a matter concerning which fear and envy +well might be. +</p> + +<p> +And as Antipas’ vagabond fancy roamed +<pb n="25"/><anchor id="Pg025"/>in and out through the possibilities of +the Caesar’s sway, unconsciously he +thought of another monster, the son of +a priest of Ascalon, who had defied the +Sanhedrim, won Cleopatra, murdered the +woman he loved the most, conquered +Judæa and found it too small for his +magnificence—of that Herod in fact, his +own father, who gave to Jerusalem her +masterpiece of marble and gold, and +meanwhile, drunk with the dream of empire, +had made himself successor of +Solomon, Sultan of Israel, King of the +Jews, and who, even as he died, had +vomited death and crowns, diadems and +crucifixions. +</p> + +<p> +It was through his legacy that Antipas +ruled. The kingdom had been sliced into +three parts, of one of which Augustus +had made a province; over another a +brother whom he hated ruled; and he +had but this third part, the smallest yet +surely the most fair. Its unparalleled +garden surrounded him, and its eye, the +lake, was just beyond. In the amphitheatre +the hills formed was a city of +<pb n="26"/><anchor id="Pg026"/>pink and blue marble, of cupolas, porticoes, +volutes, bronze doors, and copper +roofs. Along the fringe of the shore were +Choraizin and Bethsaïda, purple with +pomegranates, Capharnahum, beloved for +its honey, and Magdala, scented with +spice. The slopes and intervales were +very green where they were not yellow, +and there were terraces of grape, glittering +cliffs, and a sky of troubled blue, +wadded with little gold-edged clouds. +</p> + +<p> +Yes, it was paradise, but it was not +monarchy. It was to that he aspired. As +he mused, a rancid-faced woman decked +with paint and ostrich-plumes snarled in +his ear: +</p> + +<p> +<q>What have you heard of Iohanan?</q> +</p> + +<p> +And as with a gesture he signified +that he had heard nothing, she snarled +again. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas turned to her reflectively, but +it was of another that he thought—the +brown-eyed bride that Arabia had given +him, the lithe-limbed princess of the +desert whose heart had beaten on his +own, whom he had loved with all the +<pb n="27"/><anchor id="Pg027"/>strength of youth and weakness, and +whom he had deserted while at Rome +for his brother’s wife, his own niece, +Herodias, who snarled at his side. +</p> + +<p> +Behind her were her women, and +among them was one who, as the cars +swept by, turned her head with that +movement a flower has which a breeze +has stirred. Her eyes were sultry, darkened +with stibium; on her cheek was the +pink of the sea-shell, and her lips made +one vermilion rhyme. The face was +oval and rather small; and though it was +beautiful as victory, the wonder of her +eyes, which looked the haunts of hope +fulfilled, the wonder of her mouth, which +seemed to promise more than any mortal +mouth could give, were forgotten in her +hair, which was not orange nor flame, +but a blending of both. And now, as the +cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, +her hand rose as a bird does and fluttered +with delight. +</p> + +<p> +On the adjacent tiers were Greeks, +fat-calved Cypriotes, Cappadocians with +flowers painted on their skin, red +Egypt<pb n="28"/><anchor id="Pg028"/>ians, Thracian mercenaries, Galilean +fishermen, and a group of Lydians in +women’s clothes. +</p> + +<p> +On the tier just beyond was a man +gazing wistfully at the woman that sat +behind Herodias. He was tall and sinewy, +handsome with the comeliness of the East. +His beard was full, unmarred at the +corners; his name was Judas. Now and +then he moistened his under lip, and a +Thracian who sat at his side heard him +murmur <q>Mary</q> and some words of +Syro-Chaldaic which the Thracian did +not understand. +</p> + +<p> +To him Mary paid no attention. She +had turned from the track. An officer +had entered the tetrarch’s tribune and +addressed the prince. Antipas started; +Herodias colored through her paint. The +latter evidently was pleased. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Iohanan!</q> she exclaimed. <q>To +Machærus with him! You may believe +in fate and mathematics; I believe in +the axe.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And questioningly Herodias looked at +her husband, who avoided her look, yet +<pb n="29"/><anchor id="Pg029"/>signified his assent to the command she +had given. +</p> + +<p> +The din continued. From the tier beyond, +Judas still gazed into the perils of +Mary’s eyes. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dear God,</q> he muttered, in answer +to an anterior thought, <q>it would be the +birthday of my life.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="30"/><anchor id="Pg030"/> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="31"/><anchor id="Pg031"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER II.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg032"/> + +<pb n="33"/><anchor id="Pg033"/> +<head rend="page-break-before: right">II.</head> + +<p> +<q>O Prophet Iohanan, how fair you +are!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Iohanan was hideous. His ankles were +in stocks, a chain about his waist was +looped in a ring that hung from the wall. +About his body were tattered furs, his +hair was tangled, the face drawn and +yellow. Vermin were visible on his person. +His lips twitched, and his gums, +discolored, were as those of a camel that +has journeyed too far. A tooth projected, +green as a fresh almond is; the chin projected +too, and from it on one side a rill +of saliva dripped upon the naked breast. +On the terrace he was a blur, a nightmare +in a garden. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah, how fair!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Tantalizing as temptation, Mary stood +just beyond his reach. Her eyes were +full of compliments, her body was bent, +<pb n="34"/><anchor id="Pg034"/>and, the folds of her gown held back, +she swayed a little, in the attitude of one +cajoling a tiger. She was quite at home +and at her ease, and yet prepared for instant +flight. +</p> + +<p> +Iohanan, or John—surnamed, because +of practices of his, the Baptist—beckoned +her to approach. In his eyes was +the innocence that oxen have. +</p> + +<p> +<q>My body is chained, but my soul is +free!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary made a pirouette, and through +the terrace of the citadel the rattles on +her ankles rang. +</p> + +<p> +It was appalling, this citadel; it dominated +the entire land. Perched on a +peak of basalt, it overhung an abyss in +which Asphalitis, the Bitter Sea, lay, a +stretch of sapphire to the sun. In the +distance were the heights of Abraham, +the crests of Gilead. Before it was the +infinite, behind it the desert. At its base +a hamlet crouched, and a path hewn in +the rock crawled in zigzags to its gates. +Irregular walls surrounded it, in some +places a hundred cubits high, and in +<pb n="35"/><anchor id="Pg035"/>each of the many angles was a turret. +Seen from below it was a threat in stone, +but within was a caress, one of those +rapturous palaces that only the Orientals +build. It was called Machærus. Peopled +with slaves and legends, it was a +haunt of ghosts and fierce delights. +</p> + +<p> +And now as Mary tripped before the +prophet the walls alone repelled. The +terrace was a garden in which were lilies +and sentries. For entrance there was a +portal of red porphyry, above which was +a balcony hemmed by a balustrade of +yellow Numidian stone. +</p> + +<p> +Against it Antipas leaned. He had +been eyeing the desert in tremulous surmise. +The day before, he had caught +the glitter of lances, therewith spirals of +distant smoke, and he had become fearful +lest Aretas, that king of Arabia Petræa +whose daughter he had deserted, +might be meditating attack. But now +there was nothing, at most a triangular +mass speeding westwards, of which only +the edges moved, and which he knew to +be a flight of cranes. +</p> + +<pb n="36"/><anchor id="Pg036"/> + +<p> +He took heart again and gazed in the +valley below. It was the anniversary of +his birth. To celebrate it he had invited +the stewards of his lands, the notables of +Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator +of Judæa, the emir of Tadmor, +mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and +herdsmen. +</p> + +<p> +But in the valley only a few shepherds +were visible. Along the ramparts soldiers +paced. At the further end of the +terrace a group of domestics was busy +with hampers and luggage. The day was +solemnly still, exquisitely clear; and between +two hills came a glare of gold projected +from the Temple of Jerusalem. +</p> + +<p> +Through the silence rang the tinkle of +the rattles that Mary wore. The prophet +was beckoning her. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Martha?</q> the tetrarch heard him +ask. +</p> + +<p> +The pirouette ceased awkwardly. +Mary’s eyes <anchor id="corr036"/><corr sic="forget">forgot</corr> their compliments. +<corr sic="Hew">Her</corr> brows contracted, and, as though +perplexed, she held her head a little to +one side. +</p> + +<pb n="37"/><anchor id="Pg037"/> + +<p> +<q>There,</q> he added, <q>there, I know you +well. It was at Bethany I saw you first. +Yes, yes, I remember perfectly; you were +leaving, and Martha was in tears. Only +a little since I had speech with her. She +spoke of you; she knew you were called +the Magdalen. No,</q> he continued, for +Mary had shrunk back, <q>no, I will not +curse. There is another by whom you +will be blessed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary laughed. <q>I am going to Rome. +Tiberius will give me a palace. I shall +sleep on the down the Teutons bring. I +shall drink pearls dissolved in falernian. +I shall sup on peacocks’ tongues.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, Mary, Rome you will never see. +The Eternal has you in His charge. Your +shame will be washed away.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Shame to you,</q> she interrupted. +<q>Shame and starvation too.</q> She made +as though she were about to pirouette +again. <q>Whom are you talking of?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>One whose shoes I am unworthy to +bear.</q> +</p> + +<p> +For a moment he seemed to meditate; +then, with the melancholy of one +renounce<pb n="38"/><anchor id="Pg038"/>ing some immense ambition, he murmured, +half to himself, half to the sky, <q>For him +to increase I must diminish.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>As for that, you are not much to look +at now. I must go. I must braid my +hair; the emir’s eyes are eager.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mary,</q> he hissed, and the sudden asperity +of his voice coerced her as a bit +might do, <q>you will go to Capharnahum, +you will seek him, you will say Iohanan +is descended into the tombs to announce +the Son of David.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Through the lateral entrance to the +terrace a number of guests had entered. +From the balcony above, Antipas leaned +and listened. Some one touched him; +it was Herodias. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The procurator is coming,</q> she announced. +<q>You should be at the gate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah!</q> +</p> + +<p> +He seemed indifferent. What Iohanan +had said concerning the Son of David +stirred him like the point of <anchor id="corr038"/><corr sic="omitted">a</corr> sword. He +felt that there could be no such person; +his father had put a stop to all that. And +yet, if there were! +</p> + +<pb n="39"/><anchor id="Pg039"/> + +<p> +His indifference surprised Herodias. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What are you staring at?</q> she asked; +and to assure herself she looked over +the balustrade. <q>That carrion? You +should——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Her hand drawn across her throat +completed the sentence. +</p> + +<p> +The tetrarch shook his head. There +was no hurry. Then, too, the prophet +was useful. He reviled Jerusalem, and +that flattered Galilee. But there was +another reason, which he kept to himself. +Iohanan affected him as no one +had done before. +</p> + +<p> +He feared him, chained though he was, +and into that fear something akin to +admiration entered. In his heart he +wished he had let him alone. No, there +was no hurry. As he assured her of that +the prophet looked up. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jezebel!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The guests approached. Their number +had increased. There were Greek +merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, +Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes from +<pb n="40"/><anchor id="Pg040"/>Jerusalem. Herodias clapped her hands. +A negro, naked to the waist, appeared. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take him below.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But the guests surrounded Iohanan. +The Pharisees recognized him at once. +He was the terror of the hierarchs. +</p> + +<p> +As he cried out at Herodias he seemed +as though he would rise and wrench his +bonds and mount to where she was. His +eyes had lost their pathos; they blazed. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe unto you!</q> he shouted, <q>and +woe unto your barren bed! Though you +hid in the bowels of the earth, in the +uttermost depths of a jungle, the stench +of your incest would betray you. Woe +unto you, I say; the swine will turn +from you, the Eternal will rend you, and +the heart of hell will vomit you back!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Herodias shook with anger. She was +livid. Murmurs circulated through the +increasing throng. +</p> + +<p> +The Pharisees edged nearer. On their +foreheads were slips of vellum on which +passages of the Law had been inscribed. +About their left arms other slips extended +spiralwise from the elbow to the +<pb n="41"/><anchor id="Pg041"/>end of the third finger. They were in +white; where their garments had become +soiled, the spots had been chalked. +</p> + +<p> +To them the prophet showed his teeth. +<q>And woe unto you too, race of vipers, +bladders of wind! As the fire devours +the stubble, and the flame consumes the +chaff, so your root will be rottenness +and your seed go up as dust. Fear will +engulf you like a torrent. The high +peaks will be broken, the mountains will +sever, and night be upon all. The valleys +and hills will be strewn with your +corpses, the rocks will run with your +blood, the plain will drink it, and the +vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto +you all, I say, that call good evil, and +evil good!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The invective continued. It enveloped +the world. Everything was to be destroyed. +Presently it subsided; the voice +of the prophet sank lower; his eyes +sought the sky, the pupils dilated; and +the dream of his nation, the triumphant +future, the sanctification of the faithful, +<pb n="42"/><anchor id="Pg042"/>the magnificence that was to be, poured +rapturously from his lips. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The whole land will glow with glory. +The sky will be a rose in bloom. The +meadows will rejoice, and the earth will +be filled with men and maidens singing +and kneeling to Thee, Immanuel, whom +I await.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The vision would have expanded, perhaps, +but the chain that bound him was +loosed, sinewy arms were dragging him +away. As he went, he glared up again at +Herodias. His face had lost its beatitude. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You will be stripped of your purple, +Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden +under foot. The pains of a woman in +travail will be as joys unto yours. There +will be not enough stones to throw at +you, and the abomination of your lust +will bellow, Accursed, even beyond the +tomb.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The anathema fainted in the distance. +The Scribes consulted between their +teeth. By the Pharisees Antipas was +blamed. A merchant from Hippos did +<pb n="43"/><anchor id="Pg043"/>not understand, and the Law was explained. +That a man should marry his +brother’s wife was a duty, only in this instance +it had not occurred to the brother +to die beforehand. Then, again, by her +first husband Herodias had a child, and +in that was the abomination. +</p> + +<p> +The merchant did not wholly grasp the +distinction, but he nodded as though he +had. +</p> + +<p> +<q>There was a child, was there?</q> +</p> + +<p> +A captain of the garrison answered: +<q>A girl, Salomè.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He said nothing further, but the merchant +could see that his mouth watered +at the thought of her. +</p> + +<p> +The crowd had become very dense. +Suddenly a trumpet blared. At the +gate was Pontius Pilate. On his head +was a high and dazzling helmet. His tunic +was short, open at the neck. His legs +were bare. He was shod with shoes that +left the toes exposed. From his cuirass +a gorgon’s head had, in deference to local +prejudice, been effaced; in its stead were +scrolls and thunderbolts. From the +<pb n="44"/><anchor id="Pg044"/>belt rows of straps, embroidered and +fringed, fell nearly to the knee. He held +his head in the air. His features were +excellent, and his beard hung in rows of +short overlapping curls. +</p> + +<p> +Behind him was his body-guard. Before +him Antipas stood, welcoming the +Roman in Greek. +</p> + +<p> +In the sky now were the advancing +steps of night; in crevices of the basalt +the leaves of the baaras weed had begun +to flicker. It was time for the festival to +begin; and, preceding the guests, Antipas +passed into a hall beyond. +</p> + +<p> +It was oblong, curved at the ends, and +so vast that the roof was vague. On the +walls were slabs of different colors, marble +spotted like the skin of serpents, and +onyx flecked with violet. On two sides +were galleries supported by columns of +sandstone. A third gallery formed a +semicircle. Opposite, at the further end, +on a dais, was the table of the tetrarch. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas faced the assemblage. At his +left was the procurator, at his right the +emir of Tadmor. Curtains were looped +<pb n="45"/><anchor id="Pg045"/>on either side. Above were panels; they +separated, and flowers fell. On a little stool +next to the couch on which the emir lay +was a beautiful boy with curly hair. +The couch of the procurator was covered +with a dim Babylonian shawl. That of +the tetrarch was of ivory incrusted with +gold. All three were cushioned. +</p> + +<p> +As the guests entered they were sprinkled +with perfume. Throughout the +length of the hall other tables extended, +and at these they found seats and food: +Syrian radishes, melons from the oases +near the Oxus, white olives from Bethany, +honey from Capharnahum, and the +little onions of Ascalon. There were candelabra +everywhere, liquids cooled with +snow, cheeses big as millstones, chunks +of fat in wooden bowls, and behind the +tables, slaves with copper platters. On +the platters were quarters of red beef, +breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds +with their plumage on. In the semicircular +gallery musicians played, three +notes, constantly repeated. +</p> + +<p> +The tetrarch’s table was spread with a +<pb n="46"/><anchor id="Pg046"/>cloth of byssus striped with Laconian +green. On it were jars of murrha filled +with balsam, Sidonian goblets of colored +glass, jasper amphoræ, and water-melons +from Egypt. Before the procurator was +a dish of oysters, lampreys, and boned +barbels, mixed well together, flavored +with cinnamon and assafœtida; mashed +grasshoppers baked in saffron; and a +roasted boar, the legs curled inward, the +eyes half-closed. The emir ate abundantly +of heron’s eggs whipped with wine +into an amber foam. When his fingers +were soiled, he wiped them in the +curls of the beautiful boy who sat near +by. +</p> + +<p> +The smell of food filled the hall, +mounted to the <anchor id="corr046"/><corr sic="roof">roof.</corr> The atmosphere +was that of a bath, and the wines were +heady. Already discussions had arisen. +A mountaineer and a Galilean skiffsman +had been dragged away, the one senseless, +the other with features indistinguishable +and masked in blood. It was +a great festival, and the tetrarch was entertaining, +as only he could, his friends, +<pb n="47"/><anchor id="Pg047"/>his enemies, and whoever chanced that +way. +</p> + +<p> +<q>As a child he rubbed his body with +the leaves of the cnyza, which is a preservative +of chastity.</q> It was a little man +with restless eyes and a very long white +beard detailing the virtues of Iohanan. +<q>But,</q> he added, <q>he must have found +cold water better.</q> +</p> + +<p> +His neighbors laughed. One pounded +the table. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jeshua—</q> he began, but everyone was +talking at once. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jeshua—</q> he continued; yet, as no +one would listen, he turned to a passing +eunuch and caught him by the arm—<q>Jeshua +does more; he works miracles, +and not with the cnyza either.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The eunuch eluded him and escaped. +However, he would not be balked; he +stood up and, through the din, he shouted +at the little man: +</p> + +<p> +<q>Baba Barbulah, I tell you he is the +Messiah!</q> +</p> + +<p> +His voice was so loud it dominated the +hubbub, and suddenly the hubbub ceased. +</p> + +<pb n="48"/><anchor id="Pg048"/> + +<p> +From the dais Pontius Pilate listened +indifferently. Antipas held his hands +behind his ears that he might hear the +better. The emir paid no attention at +all. On his head was a conical turban; +about it were loops of sapphire and coils +of pearl. He wore a vest with scant +sleeves that reached to the knuckles, and +trousers that overhung the instep and fell +in wide wrinkles on his feet; both were +of leopard-skin. Over the vest was a +sleeveless tunic, clasped at the shoulders +and girt at the waist. His hair was long, +plentifully oiled; his beard was bushy, +blue-black, and specked with silver. +</p> + +<p> +Mary had approached. From the lessening +waist to the slender feet her dress +opened at either side. Beneath was a +chemise of transparent Bactrianian tissue. +From girdle to armpits were little +clasps; on her ankles, bands; and above +the elbow, on her bare white arm, two +circlets of emeralds from the mines of +Djebel Zabur. +</p> + +<p> +The emir spoke to her. She listened +with a glimpse of the most beautiful +<pb n="49"/><anchor id="Pg049"/>teeth in the world. He put out a hand +tentatively and touched her: the tissue of +her garment crackled and emitted sparks. +He raised a goblet to her. The wine it +held was yellower than the marigold. +She brushed it with her lips; he drank it +off, then, refreshed, he looked her up and +down. +</p> + +<p> +In one hand she held a cup of horn, +narrower at the top than at the end; in +it were dice made of the knee-joints of +gazelles, and these she rattled in his +beard. +</p> + +<p> +<q>That beautiful Sultan, will he play?</q> +</p> + +<p> +With an ochre-tipped finger she pointed +at the turban on his head. The eyes of +the emir vacillated. He undid a string +of gems and placed them on the table’s +edge. Mary unclasped a coil of emeralds +and rattled the dice again. She +held the cup high up, then spilled the +contents out. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ashtaroth!</q> the emir cried. He had +won. +</p> + +<p> +Mary leaned forward, fawned upon his +breast, and gazed into his face. Her +<pb n="50"/><anchor id="Pg050"/>breath had the fragrance of his own +oasis, her lips were moist as the pomegranate’s +pulp, her teeth as keen as his +own desire. +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, beautiful Sultan, it is I.</q> With +the back of her hand she disturbed the +dice. <q>I am Ashtaroth, am I not?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Questioningly the emir explored the +unfathomable eyes that gazed into his. +</p> + +<p> +On their surface floated an acquiescence +to the tacit offer of his own. Then +he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered +the jewels from the cloth of byssus +where they lay. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I tell you he is the Messiah!</q> It +was the angry disputant shouting at the +little man. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who is? What are you talking +about?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Though the hubbub had ceased, +throughout the hall were the mutterings +of dogs disturbed. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jeshua,</q> the disputant answered; +<q>Jeshua the Nazarene.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A Pharisee, very vexed, his bonnet +tottering, gnashed back: <q>The Messiah +<pb n="51"/><anchor id="Pg051"/>will uphold the law; this Nazarene attacks +it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A Scribe interrupted: <q>Many things +are to distinguish his advent. The light +of the sun will be increased a hundredfold, +the orchards will bear fruit a thousand +times more abundantly. Death will +be forgotten, joy will be universal, Elijah +will return.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he has!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas started. The Scribe trembled +with rage. But the throng had caught +the name of Elijah, and knew to whom +the disputant referred—a man in tattered +furs whom a few hours before they had +seen dragged away by a negro naked to +the waist, and some one shouted: +</p> + +<p> +<q>Iohanan is Elijah.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Baba Barbulah stood up and turned to +whence the voice had come: +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the footprints of the Anointed impudence +shall increase, and the face of +the generation shall be as the face of a +dog. It may be,</q> he added, significantly—<q>it +may be that you speak the truth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The sarcasm was lost. The musicians +<pb n="52"/><anchor id="Pg052"/>in the gallery, who had been playing +on flute and timbrel, began now on the +psalteron and the native sambuca. Behind +was a row of lute-players; but most +in view was a trignon, an immense Egyptian +harp, at which with nimble fingers a +fair girl plucked. +</p> + +<p> +In the shadow Herodias leaned. At a +signal from her the musicians attacked +the prelude of a Syrian dance, and in the +midst of the assemblage a figure veiled +from head to foot suddenly appeared. +For a moment it stood very still; then +the veil fell of itself, and from the garrison +a shout went up: +</p> + +<p> +<q>Salomè! Salomè!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Her hair, after an archaic Chanaanite +fashion, was arranged in the form of a +tower. Her high bosom was wound +about with protecting bands. Her waist +was bare. She wore long pink drawers +of silk, and for girdle she had the blue +buds of the lotus, which are symbols of +virginity. She was young and exquisitely +formed. In her face you read strange +records, and on her lips were promises as +<pb n="53"/><anchor id="Pg053"/>rare. Her eyes were tortoise-shell, her +hair was black as guilt. +</p> + +<p> +The prelude had ceased, the movement +quickened. With a gesture of abandonment +the girl threw her head back, and, +her arms extended, she fluttered like a +butterfly on a rose. She ran forward. +The sambuca rang quicker, the harp +quicker yet. She threw herself to one +side, then to the other, her hips swaying +as she moved. The buds at her girdle +fell one by one; she was dancing on +flowers, her hips still swaying, her waist +advancing and retreating to the shiver of +the harp. She was elusive as dream, +subtle as love; she intoxicated and entranced; +and finally, as she threw herself +on her hands, her feet, first in the air +and then slowly descending, touched the +ground, while her body straightened like +a reed, there was a long growl of unsatisfied +content. +</p> + +<p> +She was kneeling now before the dais. +Pilate compared her to Bathylle, a mime +whom he had applauded at Rome. The +tetrarch was purple; he gnawed his +<pb n="54"/><anchor id="Pg054"/>under lip. For the moment he forgot +everything he should have remembered—the +presence of his guests, the stains +of his household, his wife even, whose +daughter this girl was—and in a gust of +passion he half rose from his couch. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come to me,</q> he cried. <q>But come +to me, and ask whatever you will.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Salomè hesitated and pouted, the point +of her tongue protruding between her +lips. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come to me,</q> he pleaded; <q>you shall +have slaves and palaces and cities; you +shall have hills and intervales. I will +give you anything; half my kingdom if +you wish.</q> +</p> + +<p> +There was a tinkle of feet; the girl +had gone. In a moment she returned, +and balancing herself on one foot, she +lisped very sweetly: <q>I should like by +and by to have you give me the head of +Iohanan—</q> she looked about; in the +distance a eunuch was passing, a dish in +his hand, and she added, <q>on a platter.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas jumped as though a hound +under the table had bitten him on the +<pb n="55"/><anchor id="Pg055"/>leg. He turned to the procurator, who +regarded him indifferently, and to the +emir, who was toying with Mary’s agate-nailed +hand. He had given his word, +however; the people had heard. About +his ears the perspiration started; from +purple he had grown very gray. +</p> + +<p> +Salomè still stood, balancing herself +on one foot, the point of her tongue just +visible, while from the gallery beyond, in +whose shadows he divined the instigating +presence of Herodias, came the grave +music of an Hebraic hymn. +</p> + +<p> +<q>So be it,</q> he groaned. +</p> + +<p> +The order was given, and a tear +trickled down through the paint and +furrows of his cheek. On the hall a +silence had descended. The guests were +waiting, and the throb of the harp accentuated +the suspense. Presently there +was the clatter of men-at-arms, and a +negro, naked to the waist, appeared, an +axe in one hand, the head of the prophet +in the other. +</p> + +<p> +He presented it deferentially to Antipas, +who motioned it away, his face +<pb n="56"/><anchor id="Pg056"/>averted. Salomè smiled. She took it, +and then, while she resumed her veil, she +put it down before the emir, who eyed it +with the air of one that has seen many +another object such as that. +</p> + +<p> +But in a moment the veil was adjusted, +and with the trophy the girl disappeared. +</p> + +<p> +The harp meanwhile had ceased to +sob, the guests were departing; already +the procurator had gone. The emir +looked about for Mary, but she also had +departed; and, with the expectation, perhaps, +of finding her without, he too got +up and left the hall. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas was alone. Through the lattice +at his side he could see the baaras +in the basalt emitting its firefly sparks of +flame. From an adjacent corridor came +the discreet click-clack of a sandal, and +in a moment the head of the prophet was +placed on the table at which he lay. The +tetrarch leaned over and gazed into the +unclosed eyes. They were haggard and +dilated, and they seemed to curse. +</p> + +<p> +He put his hand to his face and tried +to think—to forget rather, and not to +re<pb n="57"/><anchor id="Pg057"/>member; but his ears were charged with +rustlings that extended indefinitely and +lost themselves in the future; his mind +peopled itself with phantoms of the past. +Perhaps he dozed a little. When he +looked up again the head was no longer +there, and he told himself that Herodias +had thrown it to the swine. +</p> + +<pb n="58"/><anchor id="Pg058"/> +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="59"/><anchor id="Pg059"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER III.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg060"/> + +<pb n="61"/><anchor id="Pg061"/> +<head rend="page-break-before: right">III.</head> + +<p> +In the distance the white and yellow +limestone of the mountains rose. Near +by was a laughter of flowers, a tumult of +green. Just beyond, in a border of sedge +and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the +sky. In the background were the blue +and white terraces of Magdala, and about +a speaker were clustered a handful of +people, a group of laborers and of fishermen. +</p> + +<p> +He was dressed as a rabbi, but he +looked like a seer. In his face was the +youth of the world, in his eyes the infinite. +As he spoke, his words thrilled and +his presence allured. <q>Repent,</q> he was +saying; <q>the kingdom of heaven is at +hand.</q> And as the resplendent prophecy +continued, you would have said that a +bird in his heart had burst into song. +</p> + +<p> +A little to one side, in an attitude of +<pb n="62"/><anchor id="Pg062"/>amused contempt, a few of the tetrarch’s +courtiers stood; they were dressed in the +Roman fashion, and one, Pandera, a captain +of the guard, wore a cuirass that glittered +as he laughed. He was young and +very handsome. He had white teeth, +red lips, a fair skin, a dark beard, and, +as he happened to be stationed in the +provinces, an acquired sneer. Dear old +Rome, how vague it was! And as he jested +with his comrades he thought of its +delights, and wished himself either back +again in the haunts he loved, or else, if +he must be separated from them, then, +instead of vegetating in a tiresome tetrarchy, +he felt that it would be pleasant +to be far off somewhere, where the uncouth +Britons were, a land which it took +a year of adventures to reach; on the +banks of the Betis, whence the girls came +that charmed the lupanars; in Numidia, +where the hunting was good; or in Thrace, +where there was blood in plenty—anywhere, +in fact, save on the borders of the +beautiful lake where he happened to be. +</p> + +<p> +It was but the restlessness of youth, +<pb n="63"/><anchor id="Pg063"/>perhaps, that disturbed him so, for in +Galilee there were oafs as awkward as +any that Britannia could show; there was +game in abundance; blood, too, was not +as infrequent as it might have been; and +as for women, there at his side stood one +as appetizing as Rome, Spain even, had +produced. He turned to her now, and +plucked at his dark beard and showed +his white teeth; he had caught a phrase +of the rabbi in which the latter had mentioned +the kingdoms of the earth, and the +phrase amused him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I like that,</q> he said. <q>What does +he know about the kingdoms of the +earth? Mary, I wager what you will +that he has never been two leagues from +where he stands. Let’s ask and see.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But Mary did not seem to hear. She +was engrossed in the rabbi, and Pandera +had to tug at her sleeve before she consented +to return to a life in which he +seemingly had a part. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What do you say?</q> he asked. +</p> + +<p> +Mary shook her head. She had the +air of one whose mind is elsewhere. Into +<pb n="64"/><anchor id="Pg064"/>her face a vacancy had come; she seemed +incapable of reply; and as the guardsman +scrutinized her it occurred to him that +she might be on the point of having an +attack of that catalepsy to which he knew +her to be subject. But immediately she +reassured him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come, let us go.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And, the guardsman at her side, the +others in her train, she ascended the little +hill on which her castle was, and where +the midday meal awaited. +</p> + +<p> +It was a charming residence. Built +quadrangularwise, the court held a fountain +which was serviceable to those that +wished to bathe. The roof was a garden. +The interior façade was of teak +wood, carved and colored; the frontal was +of stone. Seen from the exterior it looked +the fortress of some umbrageous prince, +but in the courtyard reigned the seduction +of a woman in love. From without +it menaced, within it soothed. +</p> + +<p> +Her title to it was a matter of doubt. +According to Pandera, who at the mess-table +at Tiberias had boasted his +pos<pb n="65"/><anchor id="Pg065"/>session of her confidence, it was a heritage +from her father. Others declared +that it had been given her by her earliest +lover, an old man who since had passed +away. Yet, after all, no one cared. She +kept open house; the tetrarch held her +in high esteem; she was attached to the +person of the tetrarch’s wife; only a little +before, the emir of Tadmor had made a +circuitous journey to visit her; Vitellius, +the governor of the province, had stopped +time and again beneath her roof; and—and +here was the point—to see her was +to acquire a new conception of beauty. +Of human flowers she was the most fair. +</p> + +<p> +Yet now, during the meal that followed, +Mary, the toast of the tetrarchy, she +whose wit and brilliance had been echoed +even in Rome, wrapped herself in a mantle +of silence. The guardsman jested in +vain. To the others she paid as much +attention as the sun does to a torch; and +when at last Pandera, annoyed, perhaps, +at her disregard of a quip of his, attempted +to whisper in her ear, she left the +room. +</p> + +<pb n="66"/><anchor id="Pg066"/> + +<p> +The nausea of the hour may have affected +her, for presently, as she threw herself +on her great couch, her thoughts forsook +the present and went back into the +past, her childhood returned, and faces +that she had loved reappeared and smiled. +Her father, for instance, Theudas, who +had been satrap of Syria, and her mother, +Eucharia, a descendant of former +kings. +</p> + +<p> +But of these her memories were slight—they +had died when she was still very +young—and in their place came her sister, +Martha, kind of heart and quick of temper, +obdurate, indulgent, and continually +perplexed; Simon, Martha’s husband, a +Libyan, born in Cyrene, called by many +the Leper because of a former whiteness of +his skin, a whiteness which had long since +vanished, for he was brown as a date; +Eleazer, her brother, younger than herself, +a delicate boy with blue pathetic +eyes; and with them came the delight of +Bethany, that lovely village on the oriental +slope of the Mount of Olives, +where the rich of Jerusalem had their +<pb n="67"/><anchor id="Pg067"/>villas, and where her girlhood had been +passed. +</p> + +<p> +From the lattice at which she used to +sit she could see the wide white road +begin its descent to the Jordan, a stretch +of almond trees and oleanders; and just +beyond, in a woody hollow, a little house +in which Sephôrah lived—a woman who +came from no one knew where, and to +whom Martha had forbidden her to speak. +</p> + +<p> +She could see her still, a gaunt, gray +creature, with projecting cheek-bones, a +skin of brick, and a low, insinuating +voice. The fascination which she had exercised +over her partook both of wonder +and of fear, for it was rumored that she +was a sorceress, and as old as the world. +To Mary, who was then barely nubile, +and inquisitive as only fanciful children +are, she manifested a great affection, enticing +her to her dwelling with little +cakes that were sweet to the tooth and +fabulous tales that stirred the heart: the +story of Stratonice and Combabus, for +instance, which Mary did not in the least +<pb n="68"/><anchor id="Pg068"/>understand, but which seemed to her intensely +sad. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And then what?</q> she would ask when +the tale was done; and the woman would +tell her of Ninus and Semiramis, of Sennachereb, +of Sardanapalus, Belsarazzur, +of Dagon, the fish-god of Philistia, by +whom Goliath swore and in whose temple +Samson died, or of Sargon, who, placed +by his mother in an ark of rushes, was +set adrift in the Euphrates, yet, happily +discovered by a water-carrier, afterwards +became a leader of men. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why, that was Moses!</q> the child +would exclaim. +</p> + +<p> +<q>No, no,</q> the woman invariably answered, +<q>it was Sargon.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But that which pleasured Mary more +highly even than these tales were the +legends of Hither Asia, the wonderlands +of Babylon, and particularly the story of +the creation, for always the human mind +has wished to read the book of God. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where did they say the world came +from?</q> she would ask. +</p> + +<p> +And Sephôrah, drawing a long breath, +<pb n="69"/><anchor id="Pg069"/>would answer: <q rend="post: none">Once all was darkness +and water. In this chaos lived strange +animals, and men with two wings, and +others with four wings and two faces. +Some had the thighs of goats, some had +horns, and some had horses’ feet, or were +formed behind like a horse and in front +like a man; there were bulls with human +faces, and men with the heads of dogs, +and other animals of human shape with +fins like fishes, and fishes like sirens, and +dragons, and creeping things, and serpents, +and fierce creatures, the images of +which are preserved in the temple of Bel.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Over all these ruled the great mother, +Um Uruk. But Bel, whom your people +call Baal, divided the darkness and clove +the woman asunder. Of one part he +made the earth, and of the other the sun, +the moon, the planets. He drew off the +water, apportioned it to the land, and +prepared and arranged the world. The +creatures on it could not endure the light +of day and became extinct.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Now when Bel saw the land fruitful +yet uninhabited, he cut off his head and +<pb n="70"/><anchor id="Pg070"/>made one of the gods mingle the blood +which flowed from it with earth and form +therewith men and animals that could +endure the sun. Presently Chaldæa was +plentifully populated, but the inhabitants +lived like animals, without order or rule. +Then there appeared to them from the +sea a monster of the name of Yan. Its +body was that of a fish, but under its +head another head was attached, and on +its fins were feet, and its voice was that +of a man. Its image is still preserved. +It came at morning, passed the day, and +taught language and science, the harvesting +of seeds and of fruits, the rules for +the boundaries of land, the mode of +building cities and temples, arts and +writing and all that pertains to civilized +life, and for four hundred and thirty-two +thousand years the world went very well.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Then in a dream Bel revealed to +Xisuthrus that there would be a great +storm, and men would be destroyed. He +bade him bury in Sepharvaim, the city of +the sun, all the ancient, mediæval, and +modern records, and build a ship and +<pb n="71"/><anchor id="Pg071"/>embark in it with his kindred and his +nearest friends. He was also to take +food and drink into the ship, and pairs +of all creatures winged and four-footed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Xisuthrus did as he was bidden, and +from the ends of heaven the storm began +to blow. Bin thundered; Nebo, the Revealer, +came forth; Nergal, the Destroyer, +overthrew; and Adar, the Sublime, +swept in his brightness across the earth. +The storm devoured the nations, it lapped +the sky, turned the land into an ocean, +and destroyed everything that lived. Even +the gods were afraid. They sought refuge +in the heaven of Anu, sovereign of the +upper realms. As hounds draw in their +tails, they seated themselves on their +thrones, and to them Mylitta, the great +goddess, spake: <q>The world has turned +from me, and ruin I have proclaimed.</q> +She wept, and the gods on their thrones +wept with her.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>On the seventh day Xisuthrus perceived +that the storm had abated and +that the sea had begun to fall. He sent +out a dove, it returned; next, a swallow, +<pb n="72"/><anchor id="Pg072"/>which also returned, but with mud on its +feet; and again, a raven, which saw the +corpses in the water and ate them, and +returned no more. Then the boat was +stayed and settled upon Mount Nasir. +Xisuthrus went out and worshipped the +recovered earth. When his companions +went in search of him he had disappeared, +but his voice called to them saying that +for his piety he had been carried away; +that he was dwelling among the gods; +and that they were to return to Sepharvaim +and dig up the books and give them +to mankind. Which they did, and erected +many cities and temples, and rebuilt +Babylon and Mylitta’s shrine.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is simpler in Genesis,</q> Mary said, +the first time she heard this marvellous +tale. For to her, as to Martha and Eleazer, +the khazzan, the teacher of the synagogue, +had read from the great square +letters in which the Pentateuch was written +another account of the commingling +of Chaos and of Light. +</p> + +<p> +At the mention of the sacred canon, +Sephôrah would smile with that +indul<pb n="73"/><anchor id="Pg073"/>gence which wisdom brings, and smooth +her scanty plaits, and draw the back of +her hand across her mouth. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Burned on tiles in the land of the +magi are the records of a million years. +In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the +history of life and of time is written on +the cerements of kings. Where the bells +ring at the neck of the camels of Iran +is a stretch of columns on which are inscribed +the words of those that lived in +Paradise. On a wall of the temple of +Bel are the chronicles of creation; in the +palace of Assurbanipal, the narrative of +the flood. It is from these lands and +monuments the Thorah comes; its verses +are made of their memories; it gathered +whatever it found, and overlooked the +essential, immortal life.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And Sephôrah added in a whisper, +<q>For we are descended from gods, and +immortal as they.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The khazzan had disclosed to Mary +no such prospect as that. To him as to +all orthodox expounders of the Law man +was essentially evanescent; he lived his +<pb n="74"/><anchor id="Pg074"/> + little day and disappeared forever. God + alone was immortal, and an immortal being + would be God. The contrary beliefs + of the Egyptians and the Aryans were to + them abominations, and the spiritualistic + doctrine inaugurated by Juda Maccabæus + and accepted by the Pharisees, an + impiety. The Pentateuch had not a word + on the subject. Moses had expressly declared + that secret things belong to the + Lord, and only visible things to man. + The prophets had indeed foretold a terrestrial + immortality, but that immortality + was the immortality of a nation; and the + realization of their prophecy the entire + people awaited. Apart from that there + was only Sheol, a sombre region of the + under-earth, to which the dead descended, + and there remained without consciousness, + abandoned by God. + </p><p> + <q>Immortal!</q> Mary, with great wondering + eyes, would echo. <q>Immortal!</q> + </p><p> + <q>Yes; but to become so,</q> Sephôrah + replied, <q>you must worship at another + shrine.</q> + </p><p> + <q>Where is it?</q> +</p> + +<pb n="75"/><anchor id="Pg075"/> + +<p> +Sephôrah answered evasively. Mary +would find it in time—when the spring +came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had +a word or two to say of Baal to such effect +even that Mary questioned the khazzan. +</p> + +<p> +<q>However great the god of the Gentiles +has been imagined,</q> the khazzan +announced, <q>he is bounded by the earth +and the sky. His feet may touch the +one, his head the other, but of nature he +is a part, and, to the Eternal, nature is not +even a garment, it is a substance He +made, and which He can remould at will. +It is not in nature, it is in light, He is: +in the burning bush in which He revealed +Himself; in the stake at which Isaac +would have died; in the lightning in which +the Law was declared, the column of fire, +the flame of the sacrifices, and the gleaming +throne in which Isaiah saw Him sit—it +is there that He is, and His shadow is +the sun.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Of this Mary repeated the substance +to her friend, and Sephôrah mused. +</p> + +<p> +<q>No,</q> she said at last—<q>no, he is not +<pb n="76"/><anchor id="Pg076"/>in light, but in the desert where nature is +absent, and where the world has ceased +to be. The threats of a land that never +smiled are reflected in his face. The +sight of him is death. No, Baal is the +sun-god. His eyes fecundate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And during the succeeding months +Sephôrah entertained Mary with Assyrian +annals and Egyptian lore. She told +her more of Baal, whose temple was in +Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at +Ascalon. She told her of the women who +wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason +of their tears. She told her of the +union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter +of the first beginning, and of Neith, +mother of the sun; of the holy incest of +Isis and Osiris; and of Luz, called by the +patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the +foothold of a straight stairway which +messengers ceaselessly ascended and descended, +and at whose summit the Elohim +sat. +</p> + +<p> +She told her of these things, of others +as well; and now and then in the telling +of them a fat little man with beady eyes +<pb n="77"/><anchor id="Pg077"/>would wander in, the smell of garlic +about him, and stare at Mary’s lips. His +name was Pappus; by Sephôrah he was +treated with great respect, and Mary +learned that he was rich and knew that +Sephôrah was poor. +</p> + +<p> +When the Passover had come and gone, +Sephôrah detected that Mary had ceased +to be a child; and of the gods and goddesses +with whose adventures she was +wont to entertain her, gradually she confined +herself to Mylitta; and in describing +the wonderlands which she knew so well, +she spoke now only of Babylon, where +the great tower was, and the gardens that +hung in the air. +</p> + +<p> +It was all very marvellous and beautiful, +and Sephôrah described it in fitting +terms. There was the Temple of the Seven +Spheres, where the priests offered incense +to the Houses of the Planets, to the +whole host of heaven, and to Bel, Lord +of the Sky. There was the Home of the +Height, a sheer flight of solid masonry +extending vertiginously, and surmounted +by turrets of copper capped with gold. +<pb n="78"/><anchor id="Pg078"/>In its utmost pinnacle were a sanctuary +and a dazzling couch. There the priests +said that sometimes Bel came and rested. +For the truth of that statement, however, +Sephôrah declined to vouch. She had +never seen him; but the hanging gardens +she had seen, long before they were demolished. +She had walked in them, and +she described their loveliness, and related +that they were erected to pleasure a Persian +princess whose eyes had wearied of +the monotony of the Babylonian plain. +</p> + +<p> +Once when Pappus was present—and +latterly he had been often there—she +passed from the gardens to the grove +where the temple of Mylitta stood. At +the steps of the shrine, she declared, were +white-winged lions, and immense bulls +with human heads. Within were dovecotes +and cisterns, the emblems of fecundity, +and a block of stone which she did +not describe. Without, among the terebinths +and evergreens, were little cabins +and an avenue bordered by cypress trees, +in which men with pointed hats and long +embroidered gowns passed slowly, for +<pb n="79"/><anchor id="Pg079"/>there the maidens of Babylon sat, chapleted +with cords, burning bran for perfume, +awaiting the will of the first who +should toss a coin in their lap and in +the name of Mylitta invite them to perform +the sacred rite. +</p> + +<p> +<q>That,</q> said Sephôrah, <q>is the worship +Mylitta exacts.</q> As she spoke she +drew herself up, her height increased, +an unnatural splendor filled her eyes. +<q>I,</q> she continued, <q>am her priestess. +I sacrificed at Byblus, but you may sacrifice +here. There is a dovecote, yonder +is a cistern, beyond are the cypress and +the evergreens that she loves. Mary, do +you wish to be immortal? Do you see +the way?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary smiled vaguely, and with the +serenity of one worshipping a divinity +she suffered the fat Jerusalemite to take +her in his arms. +</p> + +<p> +And now as she lay on her great couch +these things returned to her, and subsequent +episodes as well. There had +been the lamentable grief of Martha, the +added pathos in her brother’s eyes. The +<pb n="80"/><anchor id="Pg080"/>estate of her father had been divided, +and the castle of Magdala had fallen to +her share. Meanwhile she had been at +Jerusalem, and from there she had +journeyed to Antioch, where she had +heard the beasts roar in the arena. +She had looked on blood, on the honey-colored +moon that effaced the stars, +and everywhere she had encountered +love. +</p> + +<p> +Since then her hours had been grooved +in revolving circles of alternating delights, +and delights to which no shadow +of regret had come. To her, youth had +been a chalice of aromatic wine. She +had drained it and found no dregs. +Day had been interwoven with splendors, +and night with the rays of the sun. +Where she passed she conquered; when +she smiled there were slaves ready-made. +There had been hot brawls where she +trod, the gleam of white knives. Men +had killed each other because of her +eyes, and women had wept themselves +to death. For her a priest had gone +mad, and a betrothed had hid herself +<pb n="81"/><anchor id="Pg081"/>in the sea. In Hierapolis the galli had +fancied her Ashtaroth; and at Capri, +where Tiberius lounged, a villa awaited +her will. +</p> + +<p> +Her life had indeed been full, yet that +morning its nausea had mounted to her +heart. At the words of the rabbi the +horizon had expanded, the dream of immortality +returned. It had been forgot +long since and abandoned, but now, for +the first time since her childhood, something +there was which admonished her +that perhaps she still might stroll through +lands where dreams come true. The +path was not wholly clear as yet, and as +in her troubled mind she tried to disentangle +the past from the present the +sun went down behind the castle, the +crouching shadows elongated and possessed +the walls. +</p> + +<p> +An echo came to her, Repent, and the +prophecy continuing danced in her ears; +yet still the way was obscure. In the +echo she divined merely that the past +must be put from her like a garment +that is stained. The rest was vague. +<pb n="82"/><anchor id="Pg082"/>Then suddenly she was back again in +Machærus, and she heard the ringing +words of John. Could this be the Messiah +her nation awaited? was there a +kingdom coming, and immortality too? +</p> + +<p> +Her thoughts entangled and grew confused. +There was a murmur of harps in +the distance, and she wondered whence +it could come. Some one was speaking; +she tried to rouse herself and listen. +The room was filled with bats that +changed to butterflies. The murmur of +harps continued, and through the wall +before her issued a litter in which a +woman lay. +</p> + +<p> +A circle of slaves surrounded her. +She was pale, and her eyes closed languorously. +<q>I am Indolence,</q> she said. +<q>Sleep is not softer than my couch. +My lightest wish is law to kings. I live +on perfumes; my days are as shadows +on glass. Mary, come with me, and I will +teach you to forget.</q> +</p> + +<p> +She vanished, and where the litter +had been stood a eunuch. <q>I am Envy,</q> +he said, and his eyes drooped sullenly. +<pb n="83"/><anchor id="Pg083"/><q>I separate those that love; I dismantle +altars and dismember nations. I corrode +and corrupt; I destroy, and I never +rebuild. My joy is malice, and my creed +false-witnessing. Mary, come with me, +and you will learn to hate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He disappeared, and where his slime +had dripped stood a being with fingers +intertwisted and a back that bent. <q>I +am Greed,</q> it said. <q>I sap the veins of +youth; I drain the hearts of women; I +bring contention where peace should be. +I make fathers destroy their sons, and +daughters betray their mother. I never +forget, and I never release. I am the +master. Mary, come with me, and you +shall own the world.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The fetor of the presence went, and in +its place came one whose footsteps thundered. +<q>I am Anger,</q> he declared. <q>I +exterminate and rejoice. I batten on +blood. In my heart is suspicion, in my +hand is flame. It is I that am war and +disaster and regret. My breath consumes, +and my voice affrights. Mary, come with +me, and you will learn to quell.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="84"/><anchor id="Pg084"/> + +<p> +He dissolved, and in the shadows stood +one whose hands were ample, and whose +wide mouth laughed. <q>I am Gluttony,</q> +he announced, and as he spoke his voice +was thick. <q>I fatten and forsake. I offer +satrapies for one new dish. I invite and +alienate, I welcome and repel. It is I +that bring disease and disorders. I am +the harbinger of Death. Mary, come with +me, and you shall taste of Life.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He also disappeared, and two heralds +entered with trumpets on which they +blew, and one exclaimed, <q>Make way for +Assurbanipal, ruler of land and of sea.</q> +Then, with horsemen riding royally, +Sardanapalus advanced through the fissure +in the wall. On his head a high +and wonderful tiara shone with zebras +that had wings and horns. His hair was +long, and his beard curled in overlapping +rings. His robe dazzled, and the +close sleeves were fastened over his +knuckles with bracelets of precious stones. +In one hand he held a sceptre, in the +other a chart. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I,</q> he cried—<q>I am Assurbanipal; +<pb n="85"/><anchor id="Pg085"/>the progeny of Assur and of Baaltis, son +of the great king Riduti, whom the +lord of crowns, in days remote prophesying +in his name, raised to the kingdom, +and in the womb of his mother created +to rule. The man of war, the joy of Assur +and of Istar, the royal offspring, am I. +When the gods seated me on the throne +of the father my begetter, Bin poured +down his rain, Hea feasted the people. +My enemies I destroyed, and their gods +glorified me before my camp. The god +of their oracles, whose image no man had +seen, I took, and the goddesses whom +the kings worshipped I dishonored.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He paused and looked proudly about, +then he continued: +</p> + +<p> +<q>That which is in the storehouse of +heaven is kindled, and to the city of cities +my glory flies. The queens above and +below proclaim my glory. I am Glory, +and I am Pride. Mary, come with me, +and you shall disdain the sky.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But Mary gave no sign. The clattering +horses vanished, and two men dressed in +<pb n="86"/><anchor id="Pg086"/>women’s clothes appeared. They bowed +to the ground and chanted: +</p> + +<p> +<q>The holy goddess, our Lady Mylitta, +whose sacrificants we are.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then came a form so luminous that +Mary hid her face and listened merely. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I,</q> said a voice—<q>I am Desire. In +Greece I am revered, and there I am +Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in +Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in +Persia, Anâhita; Tanit in Carthage; +Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; +Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; +Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and Aschera +in the glades of Judæa. And everywhere +I am worshipped, and everywhere +I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight +and pain. I appease and appal. +It is I that create and undo. It is I that +make heaven and people hell. I am the +mistress of the world. Without me time +would cease to be. I am the germ of +stars, the essence of things. I am all +that is, will be, and has been, and my robe +no mortal has raised. I breathe, and nations +are; in my parturitions are planets; +<pb n="87"/><anchor id="Pg087"/>my home is space. My lips are blissfuller +than any bloom of bliss; my arms +the opening gates of life. The Infinite is +mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall +measure it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +When Mary ventured to look again the +vision had gone. They had all gone now. +She had made no effort to detain them. +They were tempters of which she was +freed, in which she believed, and which +were real to her. The wall through which +they had come and departed was vague +and in the darkness remote, but presently +it dissolved again, and afar in the beckoning +distance was one breathing a soul into +decrepit rites. <q>Come unto me, all ye that +sorrow and are heavy-laden,</q> she heard +him say; and, as with a great sob of joy +she rose to that gracious summons, night +seized her. When she awoke, a newer +dawn had come. +</p> + +<pb n="88"/><anchor id="Pg088"/> +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="89"/><anchor id="Pg089"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER IV.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg090"/> + +<pb n="91"/><anchor id="Pg091"/> +<head rend="page-break-before: right">IV.</head> + +<p> +In the gardens of the palace the tetrarch +mused. The green parasols of the +palms formed an avenue, and down that +avenue now and then he looked. Near +him a Syrian bear, quite tame, with a +sweet face and tufted silver fur, gambolled +prodigiously. Up and down a neighboring +tree two lemurs chased with that +grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting +animals alone possess. Ringed-horned +antelopes, the ankles slender as +the stylus, the eyes timid and trustful, +pastured just beyond; and there too a +black-faced ape, irritated perhaps by the +lemurs, turned indignant somersaults, the +tender coloring of his body glistening in +the sun. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is odd that Pahul does not return,</q> +the tetrarch reflected; and then, it may be +for consolation’s sake, he plunged his face +<pb n="92"/><anchor id="Pg092"/>in a jar of wine that had been drained, in +accordance with a recipe of Vitellius, +through cinnamon and calamus, and drank +abundantly. +</p> + +<p> +Long since he had deserted Machærus. +The legends that peopled its corridors +had beset him with a sense of reality +which before they had never possessed. +The leaves of the baaras glittered frenetically +in the basalt, and in their spectral +light a phantom with eyes that cursed +came and went. At night he had drunk, +and in the clear forenoons he paced the +terrace fancying always that there, beyond +in the desert, Aretas prowled like a +wolf. Machærus was unhealthy; men had +gone mad there, others had disappeared +entirely. It was a haunt of echoes, of +memories, of ghosts also, perhaps too of +reproach. And so, with his court, he returned +to his brand-new Tiberias, where +the air was serener, and nature laughed. +</p> + +<p> +And yet in the gardens that leaned to +the lake the tranquillity he had anticipated +eluded and declined to be detained. +Rumors that Herodias collected came to +<pb n="93"/><anchor id="Pg093"/>him with the stamp of Rome. One of his +brothers was plotting against him; another, +though in exile, was plotting too. +It was the Herod blood, his wife said; +and, with the intemperance of a woman +whose ambition has been deceived, she +taunted him with his plebeian descent. +<q>Your grandfather was a sweep at Ascalon, +a eunuch at that,</q> she had remarked; +and the tetrarch, by way of +reply, had been obliged to content himself +by asking how, in that case, he could +have been grandfather at all. +</p> + +<p> +But latterly a new source of inquietude +had come. At Magdala, Capharnahum, +Bethsaïda, there, within the throw of a +stone, was a Nazarene going about inciting +the peasants to revolt. It was very vexatious, +and he told himself that when an +annoyance fades another appears. Life, +it occurred to him, was a brier with renascent +thorns. And now, as he gargled +the wine that left a pink foam on his +lips, even that irritation lapsed in the +perplexing absence of Pahul. +</p> + +<p> +Pahul was a butler of his, a Greek +<pb n="94"/><anchor id="Pg094"/>whom he had picked up one adventurous +night in Rome, who had made himself +useful, whom he had attached to his +household, whom he consulted, and on +whom he relied. Early that day he had +sent him off with instructions to run the +demagogue to earth, to listen, to question +if need were, and to hurry back and report. +But as yet he had not returned. +The day was fading, and on the amphitheatre +which the hills made the sun seemed +to balance itself, the disk blood-red. The +lemurs had tired, perhaps; their yellow +eyes and circled tails had gone; the bear +had been led away; only the multicolored +ape remained, gnawing now with little +plaintive moans at a bit of fruit which he +held suspiciously in his wrinkled hand. +</p> + +<p> +Presently a star appeared and quivered, +then another came, and though overhead +were streaks of pink, and, where the +sun had been, a violence of red and orange, +the east retained its cobalt, night +still was remote—an echo of crotals from +the neighboring faubourg, the cry of +<pb n="95"/><anchor id="Pg095"/>elephants impatient for their fodder, +alone indicating that a day was dead. +</p> + +<p> +In the charm of the encroaching twilight +the irritation of the tetrarch waned and +decreased. He lost himself in memories +of the princess who had been his bride, +and he wondered were it possible that, +despite the irrevocable, he was never to +see, to speak, to hold her to him again. +Truly her grievance was unmeasurable, +the more so even that she had not deigned +to utter so much as a reproach. At the +rumor of his treachery she had betaken +herself to the solitudes, where Aretas her +father was king, and had there remained +girt in that unmurmuring silence which +nobility raises as a barrier between outrage +and itself, and which the desert is +alone competent to suggest. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is he!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The tetrarch started so abruptly that +he narrowly missed the jar at his side. +On noiseless sandals Pahul had approached, +and stood before him nodding +his head with an air of assured conviction. +<pb n="96"/><anchor id="Pg096"/>The ape had fled and a stork stepped +gingerly away. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is he,</q> the Greek repeated—<q>John +the Baptist.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas plucked at his beard. <q>But +he is dead,</q> he gasped; <q>I beheaded him. +What nonsense you talk!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is he, I tell you, only grown younger. +I found him in the synagogue.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where? what synagogue?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pahul made a gesture. <q>At Capharnahum,</q> +he answered, and gazed in +the tetrarch’s face. He was slight of form +and regular of feature. As a lad he had +crossed bare-handed from Cumæ to Rhegium, +and from there drifted to Rome, +where he started a commerce in Bœtican +girls which had so far prospered that he +bought two vessels to carry the freight. +Unfortunately the vessels met in a storm +and sank. Then he became a hanger-on +of the circus; in idle moments a tout. It +was in the latter capacity that Antipas +met him, and, pleased with his shrewdness +and perfect corruption, had attached him +to his house. This had occurred in years +<pb n="97"/><anchor id="Pg097"/>previous, and as yet Antipas had found +no cause to regret the trust imposed. He +was a useful braggart, idle, familiar, and +discreet; and he had acquired the dialect +of the country with surprising ease. +</p> + +<p> +<q>There were any number of people,</q> +Pahul continued. <q>Some said he was +the son of Joseph, the son of——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he, what did he say? How tiresome +you are!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah!</q> And Pahul swung his arms. +<q>Who is Mammon?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mammon? Mammon? How do I +know? Plutus, I suppose. What about +him?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And who is Satan?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Satan? Satan is a—He’s a Jew +god. Why? But what do you mean by +asking me questions?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pahul nodded absently. <q>I heard him +say,</q> he continued, <q>that no man could +serve God and Mammon. At first I +thought he meant you. It was this way. +I got into conversation with a friend of +his, a man named Judas. He told me any +<pb n="98"/><anchor id="Pg098"/>number of things about him, that he cured +the sick——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bah! Some Greek physician.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>That he walks on the sea——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nonsense!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>That he turns water into wine, feeds +the multitude, raises the dead——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Raises the dead!</q> And the tetrarch +added in the <hi rend="italic">sotto voce</hi> of thought, <q>So +did Elijah.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>That he had been in the desert——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>With Aretas?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>No; I questioned him on that point. +He had never heard of Aretas, but he said +that in the desert this Satan had come +and offered him—what do you suppose? +<hi rend="italic">The empire of the earth!</hi></q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas shook with fright. <q>It must +have been Aretas.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But that he had refused.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then it is John.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>There, you see.</q> And Pahul dandled +himself with the air of one who is master +of logic. <q>That’s what I said myself. I +said this: <q>If he can raise the dead, he +can raise himself.</q></q> +</p> + +<pb n="99"/><anchor id="Pg099"/> + +<p> +<q>It <hi rend="italic">is</hi> John,</q> the tetrarch repeated. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am sure of it,</q> the butler continued. +<q>But he did not say so. Judas didn’t +either. On the contrary, he declared he +was not. He said John was not good +enough to carry his shoes. I saw through +that, though,</q> and Pahul leered; <q>he knew +whom I was, and he lied to protect his +friend. I of course pretended to believe +him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Quite right,</q> said the tetrarch. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, I played the fool. H’m, where +was I? Oh, I asked Judas who then +his friend was, but he went over to where +a woman stood; he spoke to her; she +moved away. Some of the others seemed +to reprove him. I would have followed, +but at that moment his friend stood up; +a khazzan offered him a scroll, but he +waved it aside; then some one asked him +a question which I did not catch; another +spoke to him; a third interrupted; he +seemed to be arguing with them. I was +too far away to hear well, and I got nearer; +then I heard him say, <q>I am the bread of +life.</q> Now, what did he mean by that?</q> +</p> + +<pb n="100"/><anchor id="Pg100"/> + +<p> +Antipas had no explanation to offer. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then,</q> Pahul continued, <q>he said he +had come down from heaven. A man +near me exclaimed, <q>He is the Messiah;</q> +but others——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Messiah!</q> echoed the tetrarch. +For a moment his thoughts stammered, +then at once he was back in the citadel. +On one side was the procurator, on the +other the emir of Tadmor. In front of +him was a drunken rabble, wrangling +Pharisees, and one man dominating the +din with an announcement of the Messiah’s +approach. The murmur of lutes +threaded through it all; and now, as his +thoughts deviated, he wondered could that +announcement have been the truth. +</p> + +<p> +<q>But others,</q> Pahul continued, <q>objected +loudly. For a little I could not +catch a word. At last they became quieter, +and I heard him repeat that he was the +bread of life, adding, <q>Your fathers ate +manna and are dead, but this bread a +man may eat of and never die.</q> At this +there was new contention. A woman +fainted—the one to whom Judas had +<pb n="101"/><anchor id="Pg101"/>spoken. They carried her out. As she +passed I could see her face. It was +Mary of Magdala. Judas held her by +the waist, another her feet.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas drew a hand across his face. +<q>It is impossible,</q> he muttered. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not impossible at all. I saw her as +plainly as I see you. The man next to +me said that the Rabbi had cast from her +seven devils. Moreover, Johanna was +there—yes, yes, the wife of Khuza, your +steward; it was she, I remember now, who +had her by the feet. And there were +others that I recognized, and others that +the man next to me pointed out: Zabdia, +a well-to-do fisherman whom I have +seen time and again, and with him his +sons James and John, and Salomè his +wife. Then, too, there were Simon Barjona +and Andrew his brother. Simon +had his wife with him, his children, and +his mother-in-law. The man next to me +said that the Rabbi called James and +John the Sons of Thunder, and Simon a +stone. There was Mathias the tax-gatherer, +Philip of Bethsaïda, Joseph +Bar<pb n="102"/><anchor id="Pg102"/>saba, Mary Clopas, Susannah, Nathaniel +of Cana, Thomas, Thaddeus, Aristian the +custom-house officer, Ruth the tax-gatherer’s +wife, mechanics from Scythopolis, +and Scribes from Jerusalem.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The fingers of Antipas’ hand glittered +with jewels. He played with them nervously. +The sky seemed immeasurably +distant. For some little time it had been +hesitating between different shades of +blue, but now it chose a fathomless +indigo; Night unloosed her draperies, +and, with the prodigality of a queen who +reigns only when she falls, flung out upon +them uncounted stars. +</p> + +<p> +Pahul continued: <q>And many of them +seemed to be at odds with each other. +They wrangled so that often I could not +distinguish a word. Some of them left +the synagogue. The Rabbi himself must +have been vexed, for in a lull I heard him +say to those who were nearest, <q>Will you +also go away?</q> Judas came in at that +moment, and he turned to him: <q>Have I +not chosen twelve, and is not one of you a +devil?</q> Judas came forward at once and +<pb n="103"/><anchor id="Pg103"/>protested. I could see he was in earnest, +and meant what he said. The man next +told me that he was devoted to the Rabbi. +Then Simon Barjona, in answer to his +question, called out, <q>To whom should we +go? Thou art Christ, the Son of God.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas had ceased to listen. At the +mention of the Messiah the dream of +Israel had returned, and with it the pageants +of its faith unrolled. +</p> + +<p> +Behind the confines of history, in the +naked desert he saw a bedouin, austere +and grandiose, preparing the tenets of a +nation’s creed; in the remoter past a +shadow in which there was lightning, then +the splendor of that first dawn where the +future opened like a book, and in the +grammar of the Eternal the promise of an +age of gold. +</p> + +<p> +Through the echo of succeeding generations +came the rumor of that initial impulse +which drew the world in its flight. +The bedouin had put the desert behind +him, and stared at another. Where the +sand had been was the sea. As he passed, +the land leapt into life. There were +<pb n="104"/><anchor id="Pg104"/>tents and passions, clans not men, an aggregate +of forces in which the unit disappeared. +For chieftain there was Might; +and above, the subjects of impersonal +verbs, the Elohim from whom the thunder +came, the rain, light and darkness, death +and birth, dream too, and nightmare as +well. The clans migrated. Goshen +called. In its heart Chaldæa spoke. The +Elohim vanished, and there was El, the +one great god, and Isra-el, the great +god’s elect. From heights that lost themselves +in immensity the ineffable name, +incommunicable and never to be pronounced, +was seared by forked flames on +a tablet of stone. A nation learned that +El was Jehovah, that they were in his +charge, that he was omnipotent, and that +the world was theirs. +</p> + +<p> +They had a law, a covenant, a future, +and a god; and as they passed into the +lands of the well-beloved, leaving tombs +and altars to mark their passage, they had +battle-cries that frightened and hymns +that exalted the heart. Above were the +jealous eyes of Jehovah, and beyond +<pb n="105"/><anchor id="Pg105"/>was the resplendent to-morrow. They +ravaged the land like hailstones. They +had the whirlwind for ally; the moon was +their servant; and to aid them the sun +stood still. The terror of Sinai gleamed +from their breastplates; men could not +see their faces and live. They encroached +and conquered. They had a home, they +made a capitol, and there on a rock-bound +hill Antipas saw David founding a line of +kings, and Solomon the city of god. +</p> + +<p> +It was in their loins the Messiah was; +in them the apex of a nation’s prosperity; +in them glory at its apogee. And across +that tableau of might, of splendor, and +of submission for one second flitted the +silhouette of that dainty princess of +Utopia, the Queen of Sheba, bringing +riddles, romance, and riches to the wise +young king. +</p> + +<p> +She must have been very beautiful, +Antipas with melancholy retrospection +reflected; and he fancied her more luminous +than the twelve signs of the zodiac, +lounging nonchalantly in a palanquin that +a white elephant with swaying tail +bal<pb n="106"/><anchor id="Pg106"/>anced on his painted back. And even as +she returned, with a child perhaps, to the +griffons of the fabulous Yemen whence +she came, Antipas noted a speck on the +horizon that grew from minim into +mountain, and obscured the entire sky. +He saw the empire split in twain, and in +the twin halves that formed the perfect +whole, a concussion of armies, brothers +appealing against their kin, the flight of +the Ideal. +</p> + +<p> +Unsummoned before him paraded the +regicides, convulsions, and anarchies that +deified Hatred until Vengeance incarnate +talked Assyrian, and Nebuchadnezzar +loomed above the desert beyond. His +statue filled the perspective. With one +broad hand he overturned Jerusalem; with +another he swept a nation into captivity, +leaving in derision a pigmy for King of +Solitude behind, and, blowing the Jews +into Babylon, there retained them until +it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates’ +course. +</p> + +<p> +By the light of that legend Antipas saw +an immense hall, illuminated by the seven +<pb n="107"/><anchor id="Pg107"/>branches of countless candelabra, and +filled with revellers celebrating a monarch’s +feast. Beyond, through retreating +columns, were cyclopean arches and towers +whose summits were lost in clouds that +the lightning rent. At the royal table sat +Belsarazzur, laughing mightily at the enterprise +of the Persian king; about him +were the grandees of his court, the flower +of his concubines; at his side were the +sacred vases filled with wine. He raised +one to his lips, and there on the frieze +before him leapt out the flaming letters +of his doom, while to the trumpetings of +heralds Cyrus and his army beat down +the city’s gates. +</p> + +<p> +It passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem +repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace after +exile, the joy of bondage unloosed. For +a moment it lasted—a century or two at +most; and after Alexander, in chasing +kings hither and thither, had passed with +his huntsmen that way, Isis and Osiris +beckoned, and the descendants of the bedouin +belonged to Goshen again, and so remained +until Syria took them, lost them, +<pb n="108"/><anchor id="Pg108"/>reconquered them, and might have done +with them utterly had not Juda Maccabæus +flaunted his banner, and the Roman +eagles pounced upon their prey. Once +more the Temple was rebuilt, <anchor id="corr108"/><corr sic="surperber">superber</corr> +than ever, and from the throne of David, +Antipas saw the upstart that was his +father rule Judæa. +</p> + +<p> +With him the panorama and the kaleidoscope +of its details abruptly ceased. +But through it all the voices of the +prophets had rung more insistently with +each defeat. The covenant in the wilderness +was unforgetable; in the chained +links of slavery they saw the steps of a +throne, the triumph of truth over error, +peace over war, Israel pontiff and shepherd +of the nations of the world. +</p> + +<p> +The expectation of a liberator who +should free the bonds of a people and +definitively re-create the land of the elect +possessed them utterly; his advent had +been constantly awaited, obstinately proclaimed; +the faith in him was unshakeable. +Palestine was filled with believers +praying the Eternal not to let them die +<pb n="109"/><anchor id="Pg109"/>before the promise was fulfilled; the atmosphere +itself was charged with expectation. +</p> + +<p> +And as the visions rushed through his +mind, Antipas fell to wondering whether +that covenant was as meaningless as he +had thought, or whether by any chance +this rabbi who had been arguing at Capharnahum +could be the usher of Israel’s +hope. If he were, then indeed he might +say good-bye to his tetrarchy, to his +dream of a kingdom as well. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> Pahul repeated, <q>the Son of +God!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Antipas had been so far away that now +he started as one does whom the touch of +a hand awakes. To recover himself he +leaned over and plunged his face in the +jar. The wine brought him courage. +</p> + +<p> +He must be suppressed, he decided. +</p> + +<p> +<q>But,</q> the butler continued, <q>I——</q> +</p> + +<p> +The frontal of the palace was set with +lights. The parasols of the palms had +turned from green to black, the stars +seemed remoter, the sky more dark. +<pb n="110"/><anchor id="Pg110"/>From beyond came the call and answer of +the sentinels. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas stood up. A fringe of his tunic +was detained by a rivet of the bench on +which he had sat; he stooped to loose it; +something moist touched his fingers, and +as he moved to the palace the black-faced +ape sprang at his side and nibbled at the +jewels on his hand. +</p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="111"/><anchor id="Pg111"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER V.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg112"/> + +<pb n="113"/><anchor id="Pg113"/> +<head rend="page-break-before: right">V.</head> + +<p> +The house of Simon Barlevi was gray, +and in shape an oblong. It had a flat +roof laid with a plaster of lime, about +which was a fretwork of open tiles. Beneath, +for doorway, was a recess, surmounted +by an arch and covered with a +layer of mud. On each side was a room. +</p> + +<p> +In the recess, sheltered from the sun +and visited by the breeze, Simon stood. +His garments were white, and where they +were not they had been neatly chalked. +On the border of his skirt and sleeves +were the regulation fringes, and on his +forehead and about his left arm the phylacteries +which Pharisees affect. He was +not pleasant to the eye, but he was virtuous +and a strict observer of the Law. +</p> + +<p> +In the room at his left were mats and +painted stools, set in the manner customary +when guests are awaited. For on +<pb n="114"/><anchor id="Pg114"/>that day Simon Barlevi was to give a +little feast, to which he had bidden his +friends and also a rabbi whom he had +listened to in the synagogue, and with +whose ideas he did not at all agree. +Save for the mats and stools, and a lamp +of red clay, the room was bare. +</p> + +<p> +In front of the house was a bit of +ground enclosed by a hedge of stones; +and now as Simon stood in the recess a +guest appeared. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Reulah!</q> he exclaimed, <q>the Lord +be with you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And Reulah answering, as etiquette required, +<q>Unto you be peace, and to your +house be peace, and unto all you have be +peace,</q> the two friends clasped hands +raised them as though to kiss them, then +each withdrawing kissed his own hand, +and struck it on his forehead. +</p> + +<p> +Singularly enough, host and guest +looked much alike. Simon had the appearance +of one conscious of and strong +in his own rectitude, while Reulah seemed +humbler and more effaced. Otherwise +<pb n="115"/><anchor id="Pg115"/>there was not a pin to choose between +them. +</p> + +<p> +To Simon’s face had come an expression +of perplexity in which there was +zeal. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was thinking, Reulah,</q> he announced, +<q>of the rabbi who is to break +bread with us to-day. His teaching does +not comfort me.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Reulah was unlatching his shoes. <q>Nor +me,</q> he interjected. +</p> + +<p> +<q>On questions of purity and impurity +he seems unscrupulously negligent. I +have heard that he is a glutton and a +wine-bibber. I have heard that he despises +the washing of the hands.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso does,</q> Reulah threw back, +<q>will be rooted out of the world.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Simon nodded; a smile of protracted +amiability hovered in the corners of his +mouth. For a moment he played with +his beard. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I think,</q> he added, <q>that he will find +here food in plenty, and counsel as well.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and +Simon, in a falsetto which he affected +<pb n="116"/><anchor id="Pg116"/>when he desired to impress, continued in +gentle menace: +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I have certain questions to put to +him. Whether water from an unclean +vessel defiles that which is clean. +Whether the flesh of a dead body alone +defiles, or the skin and bones as well. I +want to see how he will answer that. +Then I may ask his opinion on points of +the ritual. Should the incense be lighted +before the high-priest appears or as he +does so. Is or is not the Sabbath broken +by the killing of the Paschal lamb? +Why is it lawful to take tithe of corn and +wine and oil, and not of anise, cummin, +and peppers? In swearing by the Temple, +should one not first swear by the +gold on the Temple? and in swearing by +the altar, should one or should one not +first swear by the sacrifices on it? These +things, since he preaches, he must know. +If he does not——</q> +</p> + +<p> +And Simon looked at his friend as who +should say: What is there wanting in me? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If I may be taught another duty I +will observe it,</q> said Reulah, sweetly. +</p> + +<pb n="117"/><anchor id="Pg117"/> + +<p> +At this evidence of meekness Simon +grunted. Two other guests were approaching. +On the edges of their tallîth +were tassels made of four threads which +had been drawn through an eyelet and +doubled to make eight. Seven of these +threads were of equal length, but the +eighth was longer, and, twisted into five +knots, represented the five books of the +Law. The right hand on the left breast, +they saluted their host, and placing in +turn a hand under his beard, they kissed +it. A buzz of inquiries followed, interrupted +by the coming and embracing of +newer guests, the unloosing of sandals, +the washing of feet. +</p> + +<p> +As they assembled, one drew Simon +aside and whispered importantly. Simon’s +eyes dilated, astonishment lifted +him, visibly, like a lash, and his hands +trembled above his head. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Have you heard,</q> he exclaimed to the +others—<q>have you heard that the Nazarene +whom I invited here, and who pretends +to be a prophet, allowed his followers +to pluck corn on the Sabbath, to +<pb n="118"/><anchor id="Pg118"/>thresh it even, and defended and approved +their violation of the Law? Have +you heard it? Is <anchor id="corr118"/><corr sic="is">it</corr> true?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Reulah quaked as one stricken by +palsy. <q>On the Sabbath!</q> he moaned. +<q>On the Sabbath! Why, I would not +send a message on Wednesday, lest perchance +it should be delivered on the +Sabbath day. Surely it cannot be.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But on that point the others were certain. +They were all aware of the scandal; +one had been an eye-witness, another had +heard the Nazarene assert that he was +<q>Lord of the Day.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is monstrous!</q> Simon cried. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He declared,</q> the eye-witness continued, +<q>that the Sabbath was made for +man, and not man for the Sabbath.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is monstrous!</q> Simon repeated. +<q>The command to do no manner of work +is absolute and emphatic. The killing +of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous as +the butchering of a bullock. The preservation +of life itself is inhibited. Moses +had the son of Shelomith stoned to death +for gathering sticks on it. Shammai +oc<pb n="119"/><anchor id="Pg119"/>cupied six days of the week in thinking +how he could best observe it. It is unlawful +to wear a false tooth on the Sabbath, +and if a tooth ache it is unlawful to +rinse the mouth with vinegar.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yet,</q> objected Reulah, <q>it is lawful +to hold the vinegar in the mouth provided +you swallow it afterward.</q> +</p> + +<p> +No one paid any attention to him. +Simon’s indignation increased. Of the +thirty-nine Abhôth he quoted twelve; he +showed that the Nazarene had violated +each one of these prohibitions against +labor; he showed, too, that by his subsequent +speech and bearing he had practically +scoffed at the Toldôth, at the +synagogue which had drawn it up as +well. +</p> + +<p> +<q>If the Sadducees were not in power, +Jerusalem should hear of this. As it +is——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Whatever resolution he may have intended +to express remained unuttered. A +silence fell upon his lips; his guests drew +back. At the step stood the Nazarene, behind +him his treasurer, Judas of Kerioth. +<pb n="120"/><anchor id="Pg120"/>For a second only Jesus hesitated. He +stooped, undid his shoes, and moved to +where Simon stood. The latter bowed +constrainedly. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Master,</q> he said, <q>we awaited you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +At this his friends retreated into the +little room. Reulah reached the middle +seat of the central mat first and held it, +his nostrils quivering at the envy of the +others. +</p> + +<p> +Preceded by their host, Jesus and +Judas found places near together, and, +the usual ablutions performed, the customary +prayers recited, lay, the upper +part of the body supported by the left +arm, the head raised, the limbs outstretched. +</p> + +<p> +On the stools were dishes of stewed +lentils, milk, and cakes of mashed locusts. +Reulah ate with the tips of his lips, +greedily, like a goat. Judas, too, ate +with an air of hunger. The Master +broke bread absently, his thoughts on +other things. These thoughts Simon interrupted. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rabbi</q>—and to his wide mouth came +<pb n="121"/><anchor id="Pg121"/>the sneer of one propounding a riddle +already solved—<q>it is not meet, is it, to +thresh on the Sabbath day? Yet since +you permit your followers to do so, how +are we to distinguish between what is +lawful and what is not?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Master raised his eyes. The dawn +was in them, high noon as well. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Show yourself a tried money-changer. +Choose that which is good metal, reject +that which is bad.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Simon blinked as at a sudden light. +</p> + +<p> +<q>But,</q> he persisted, <q>in seeking to +observe the Law, there is not a jot or +tittle in it that can be rejected.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With an acquiescence that was both +vague and melancholy, Jesus looked the +Pharisee in the face. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seek those things that are great, and +little things will be added unto you——</q> +</p> + +<p> +He would have said more, perhaps, but +a woman who had entered from the recess +approached circuitously, and kneeling +beside him let a tear, long as a pearl, +fall upon his unsandalled feet. +</p> + +<p> +Judas’ heart bounded; he glared at +<pb n="122"/><anchor id="Pg122"/>her, his eyes dilating like a leopard preparing +to spring. At once he was back +in the circus, gazing into the perils and +the splendors of a woman’s face, telling +himself with reiterated insistence that to +hold her to him would be the birthday +of his life; and here, within reach of his +hand, was she whom in the din of the +chariots he had recognized as the one +woman in all the world, and who for one +moment the day before had lain unconscious +in his arms. +</p> + +<p> +Reulah sat motionless, his mouth +agape, a finger extended. <q>The paramour +of Pandera,</q> he stammered at last; +and lowering his eyes, he looked at her +covetously from beneath the lids. +</p> + +<p> +Simon, too, sat motionless. There was +rage in his expression, hate even—that +hatred which the beautiful excites in the +base. Time and again he had seen her; +she was a byword with him; from the +height of her residence she looked down +on his mean gray walls; her luxury had +been an insult to his abstinence; and with +that zest which a small nature takes in +<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/>the humiliation of its superior, he determined, +in spite of her manifest abjection, +to humiliate her still more. +</p> + +<p> +<q>If this man,</q> he confided to his +neighbor, <q>has in him anything of that +which goes to the making of a prophet, +he will divine what manner of woman +she is. If he does not, I will denounce +them both.</q> And nourishing his hate he +waited yet a while. +</p> + +<p> +The Master seemed depressed. The +great secret which in all the world +he alone possessed may have weighed +with him. But he turned to Mary and +looked at her. As he looked she bent +yet lower. The marvel of her hair was +unconfined; it fell about her in tangling +streams of gold and flame, while on +his feet there fell from her tears such +as no woman ever shed before. In the +era of primitive hospitality the daughters +of kings had not disdained to unlatch +the sandals of their fathers’ guests; but +now, at the feet of Mercy, for the first +time Repentance knelt. And still the +tears continued, unstanched and +unde<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/>tained. Grief, something keener still +perhaps, had claimed her as its own. +She bent lower. Then Misery looked up +at Compassion. +</p> + +<p> +The Master stretched his hand. For +a moment it rested on her head. She +quivered and clutched at her throat; and +as he withdrew that hand, in which all +panaceas were, from her gown she took a +little box, opened it, and dropping the +contents where the tears had fallen, with +a sudden movement she caught her hair +and poured its lava on his feet. +</p> + +<p> +An aroma of beckoning oases filled the +small room, passed into the recess, mounted +to the roof, pervaded and penetrated +it, and escaped to the sky above. +</p> + +<p> +And still she wept. Judas no longer +saw her tears, he heard them. They fell +swiftly one after another, like the ripple +of the rain. A sob broke from her, but +in it was something which foretokened +peace, the sob which comes to those who +have conceived a despairing hope, and +suddenly intercept its fulfilment. Her +hands trembled; the little box fell from +<pb n="125"/><anchor id="Pg125"/>her and broke. The noise it made exorcised +the silence. +</p> + +<p> +The Master turned to his host. <q>I have +a word to say to you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Simon stroked his beard and bowed. +</p> + +<p> +<q>There was once a man who had two +debtors. One owed him five hundred +pence, the other fifty. Both were poor, +and because of their poverty the debt of +each he forgave.</q> +</p> + +<p> +For an instant Jesus paused and seemed +to muse; then, with that indulgence which +was to illuminate the world, <q>Tell me, +Simon,</q> he inquired, <q>which was the +more grateful?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Simon assumed an air of perplexity, +and glanced cunningly from one guest to +another. Presently he laughed outright. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why, the one who owed the most, of +course.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the +expression of the others it was patent that +to them also the jest appealed. Only +Judas did not seem to have heard; he sat +bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his +violent eyes. +</p> + +<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/> + +<p> +The Master made a gesture of assent, +and turned to where Mary crouched. She +was staring at him with that look which +the magnetized share with animals. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You see her?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Straightening himself, he leaned on his +elbow and scrutinized his host. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Simon, I am your guest. When I +entered here there was no kiss to greet +me, there was no oil for my head, no water +for my feet. But this woman whom you +despise has not ceased to embrace them. +She has washed them with her tears, +anointed them with nard, and dried them +with her hair. Her sins, it may be, are +many, but, Simon, they are forgiven——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Simon, Reulah, the others, muttered +querulously. To forgive sins was indeed +an attribute which no one, save the Eternal, +could arrogate to himself. +</p> + +<p> +<q>—for she has loved much.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And turning again to Mary, who still +crouched at his side, he added: +</p> + +<p> +<q>Your sins are forgiven. Go now, and +in peace.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But the fierce surprise of the Pharisees +<pb n="127"/><anchor id="Pg127"/>was not to be shocked into silence. +Reulah showed his teeth; they were +pointed and treacherous as a jackal’s. +Simon loudly asserted disapproval and +wonder too. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am amazed——</q> he began. +</p> + +<p> +The Master checked him: +</p> + +<p> +<q>The beginning of truth is amazement. +Wonder, then, at what you see; for he that +wonders shall reign, and he that reigns +shall rest.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The music of his voice heightened the +beauty of the speech. On Mary it fell +and rested as had the touch of his hand. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Messiah, my Lord!</q> she cried. <q>In +your breast is the future, in your heart +the confidence of God. Let me but tell +you. There are those that live whose +lives are passed; the tombs do not hold +all of those that are dead. I was dead; +you brought me to life. I had no conscience; +you gave me one, for I was dead,</q> +she insisted. <q>And yet,</q> she added, with +a little moan, so human, so sincere, that it +might have stirred a Cæsar, let alone a +<pb n="128"/><anchor id="Pg128"/>Christ, <q>not wholly dead. No, no, dear +Lord, not wholly dead.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Again her tears gushed forth, profuser +and more abundant than before; her frail +body shook with sobs, her fingers intertwined. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not wholly dead,</q> she kept repeating. +<q>No, no, not wholly dead.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Jesus touched his treasurer. +</p> + +<p> +<q>She is not herself. Lead her away; +see her to her home.</q> And that the +others might hear, and profit as well, he +added, in a higher key, <q>Deference to a +woman is always due.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And to those words, which were to found +chivalry and banish the boor, Judas led +Mary from the room. +</p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER VI.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg130"/> + +<pb n="131"/><anchor id="Pg131"/> + +<head rend="page-break-before: right">VI.</head> + +<p> +<q>Are you better?</q> +</p> + +<p> +The road that skirted the lake had +branched to the left, and there an easy +ascent led to the hill beyond. On both +sides were carpets of flowers and of green, +and slender larches that held their arms +and hid the sky. Above, an eagle circled, +and on the lake a sail flapped idly. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, I am better,</q> Mary answered. +</p> + +<p> +From her eyes the perils had passed, +but the splendors remained, accentuated +now by vistas visible only to herself. +The antimony, too, with which she darkened +them had gone, and with it the +alkanet she had used on her cheeks. +Her dress was olive, and, contrary to +custom, her head uncovered. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You are not strong, perhaps?</q> +</p> + +<p> +As Judas spoke, he thought of the +<pb n="132"/><anchor id="Pg132"/>episode in the synagogue, and wished her +again unconscious in his arms. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have been so weak,</q> she murmured. +And after a moment she added: <q>I am +tired; let me sit awhile.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The carpet of flowers and of green invited, +and presently Judas dropped at +her side. About his waist a linen girdle +had been wound many times; from it a +bag of lynx-skin hung. The white garments, +the ample turban that he wore, +were those of ordinary life, but in his +bearing was just that evanescent charm +which now and then the Oriental possesses—the +subtlety that subjugates and +does not last. +</p> + +<p> +<q>But you must be strong; we need +your strength.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary turned to him wonderingly. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> he repeated, <q>we need your +strength. Johanna has joined us, as you +know. Susannah too. They do what +they can; but we need others—we need +you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do you mean——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Something had tapped at her heart, +<pb n="133"/><anchor id="Pg133"/>something which was both joy and dread, +and she hesitated, fearing that the possibility +which Judas suggested was unreal, +that she had not heard his words aright. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do you mean that he would let me?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He would love you for it. But then +he loves everyone, yet best, I think, his +enemies.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>They need it most,</q> Mary answered; +but her thoughts had wandered. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I,</q> Judas added—<q>I loved you +long ago.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then he too hesitated, as though uncertain +what next to say, and glanced at +her covertly. She was looking across the +lake, over the country of the Gadarenes, +beyond even that, perhaps, into some +infinite veiled to him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I remember,</q> he continued, tentatively, +<q>it was there at Tiberias I saw +you first. You were entering the palace. +I waited. The sentries ordered me off; +one threw a stone. I went to where the +garden is; I thought you might be among +the flowers. The wall was so high I +could not see. The guards drove me +<pb n="134"/><anchor id="Pg134"/>away. I ran up the hill through the +white and red terraces of the grape. +From there I could see the gardens, the +elephants with their ears painted, and +the oxen with the twisted horns. The +wind sung about me like a flute; the +sky was a tent of different hues. Something +within me had sprung into life. It +was love, I knew. It had come before, +yes, often, but never as then. For,</q> he +added, and the gleam of his eyes was as +a fanfare to the thought he was about to +express, <q>love returns to the heart as +the leaf returns to the tree.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary looked at him vacantly. <q>What +was he saying?</q> she wondered. From a +sea of grief she seemed to be passing onto +an archipelago of dream. +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The next day I loitered in the neighborhood +of the palace. You did not +appear. Toward evening I questioned a +gardener. He said your name was Mary, +but he would tell me nothing else. On +the morrow was the circus. I made sure +you would be there—with the tetrarch, I +thought; and, that I might be near the +<pb n="135"/><anchor id="Pg135"/>tribune, before the sun had set I was at +the circus gate. There were others that +came and waited, but I was first. I remember +that night as never any since. I +lay outstretched, and watched the moon; +your face was in it: it was a dream, of +course. Yes, the night passed quickly, +but the morning lagged. When the gate +was open, I sprang like a zemer from tier +to tier until I reached the tribune. +There, close by, I sat and waited. At +last you came, and with you new perfumes +and poisons. Did you feel my +eyes? they must have burned into you. +But no, you gave no heed to me. They +told me afterward that Scarlet won three +times. I did not know. I saw but you. +Once merely an abyss in which lightning +was.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Before the last race was done I got +down and tried to be near the exit +through which I knew you must pass. +The guards would not let me. The next +day I made friends with a sentry. He +told me that you were Mirjam of Magdala; +<pb n="136"/><anchor id="Pg136"/>that Tiberius wished you at Rome, and +that you had gone with Antipas to his +citadel. In the wine-shops that night +men slunk from me afraid. A week followed +of which I knew nothing, then +chance disentangled its threads. I found +myself in a crowd at the base of a hill; +a prophet was preaching. I had heard +prophets before; they were as torches +in the night: he was the Day. I listened +and forgot you. He called me; I followed. +Until Sunday I had not thought +of you again. But when you appeared in +the synagogue I started; and when you +fainted, when I held you in my arms and +your eyes opened as flowers do, I looked +into them and it all returned. Mary, kiss +me and kill me, but kiss me first.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, he is the Day.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Of the entire speech she had heard +but that. It had entered perhaps into +thoughts of her own with which it was +in unison, and she repeated the phrase +mechanically, as a child might do. But +now as he ceased to speak, perplexed, +<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/>annoyed too at the inappositeness of her +reply, she came back from the infinite in +which she had roamed, and for a moment +both were silent. +</p> + +<p> +At the turning of the road a man appeared. +At the sight of Judas he halted, +then called him excitedly by name. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is Mathias,</q> Judas muttered, and +got to his feet. The man hurried to +them. He was broad of shoulder and of +girth, the jaw lank and earnest. His +eyes were small, and the lids twitched +nervously. He was out of breath, and +his garments were dust-covered. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where is the Master?</q> he asked; and +at once, without waiting a reply, he added: +<q>I have just seen Johanna. Her husband +told her that the tetrarch is seeking +him; he thinks him John, and would do +him harm. We must go from here.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Judas assented. <q>Yes, we must all +go. Mary, it may be a penance, but it is +his will.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mathias gazed inquiringly at them +both. +</p> + +<pb n="138"/><anchor id="Pg138"/> + +<p> +<q>It is his will,</q> Judas repeated, authoritatively. +</p> + +<p> +Mary turned away and caught her +forehead in her hands. <q>If this is a +penance,</q> she murmured, <q>what then are +his rewards?</q> +</p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="139"/><anchor id="Pg139"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER VII.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg140"/> + +<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/> + +<head rend="page-break-before: right">VII.</head> + +<p> +On the floor of a little room Mary lay, +her face to the ground. In her ears was +the hideousness of a threat that had +fastened on her abruptly like a cheetah +in the dark. From below came the +sound of banqueting. Beyond was the +Bitter Sea, the stars dancing in its ripples; +and there in the shadow of the evergreens +was the hut in which that Sephôrah +lived to whom long ago Martha had +forbidden her to speak. Through the +lattice came the scent of olive-trees, and +with it the irresistible breath of spring. +</p> + +<p> +In its caress the threat which had +made her its own presently was lifted, +and mingling with other things fused into +them. The kaleidoscope of time and +events which visits those that drown +<pb n="142"/><anchor id="Pg142"/>possessed her, and for a second Mary relived +a year. +</p> + +<p> +There had been the sudden flight from +Magdala, the first days with the Master, +the gorges of the Jordan, the journey to +the coast, the glittering green scales of +that hydra the sea. Then the loiterings +on the banks of the sacred Leontes, the +journey back to Galilee, the momentary +halt at Magdala, the sail past Bethsaïda, +Capharnahum, Chorazin, the fording of +the river, the trip to Cæsarea Philippi, +the snow and gold of Hermon, the visit +to Gennesareth, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, +and the return to Bethany. +</p> + +<p> +Her recollections intercrossed, scenes +that were trivial ousted others that were +grave; the purple limpets of Sidon, the +shrine of Ashtaroth, the invective at +Bethsaïda, the transfiguration on the +mountain height, the cure of lepers, and +the presence that coerced. Yet through +them all certain things remained immutable, +and of these, primarily her contact +with the Christ. +</p> + +<p> +To her, Jesus was not the Son of man +<pb n="143"/><anchor id="Pg143"/>alone, he was the light of this world, the +usher of the next. When he spoke, there +came to her a sense of frightened joy so +acute that the hypostatical union which +left even the disciples perplexed was by +her realized and understood. She had +the faith of a little child. And on the +hills and through the intervales over +which they journeyed, in the glare of +the eager sun or beneath the wattled +boughs, the emanations of the Divine +filled her with transports so contagious +that they affected even Thomas, who was +skeptical by birth; and when, after the +descent from Hermon, two or three of the +disciples mused together over the spectacle +which they had seen, the rhyme of her +lips parted ineffably. She too had seen +him aureoled with the sun, dazzling as +the snow-fields on the heights. To her +it was ever in that aspect he appeared, +with a radiance so intense even that there +had been moments in which she had +veiled her eyes as from a light that only +eagles could support. To her, marvels +were as natural as the escape of night. +<pb n="144"/><anchor id="Pg144"/>At Beth-Seân she had heard him speak +to dumb beasts, and never doubted but +that they answered him. At Dan she +had seen a short-eared hare rush to him +for refuge, and follow him afterwards as +a dog might do. At Kinnereth he had +called to a lark that from a tree-top was +pouring its heart out to the morning, and +the lark had fluttered down and nestled +in his hand. At Gadara he had tamed +wild doves, and a swarm of bees had +stopped and glistened in his hair. At +Cæsarea, when he began to speak, the +thrushes that had been singing ceased; +and when the parables were delivered, +began anew, louder, more jubilant than +before, and continued to sing until he +blessed them, when they mounted in one +long ascending line straight to the zenith +above. At his approach the little gold-bellied +fish of the Leontes had leaped +from the stream. In the suburbs of +Sidon the jackals had fawned at his feet. +The underbrush had parted to let him +pass, and where he passed white roses +came and the tenderness of anemones. +<pb n="145"/><anchor id="Pg145"/>At times he seemed to her immaterial as +a shadow in a dream, at others appalling +as the desert; and once when, in prayer, +she entered with him into the intimacy of +the infinite, she caught the shiver of an +invisible harp whose notes seemed to fall +from the night. And as she journeyed, her +love expanded with the horizon. She +loved with a love no woman’s heart has +transcended. In its prodigality and ascending +gammes there was place for +nothing save the Ideal. +</p> + +<p> +The little band meanwhile lived as +strangers on earth. Out of her abundant +means their simple wants were supplied. +She was less a burden than a sustenance; +her faith bridged many a doubtful hour; +and when, as often occurred, they disputed +among themselves concerning their +future rank and precedence, Mary +dreamed of a paradise more pure. +</p> + +<p> +One evening, near the rushes of Lake +Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew to +the light, a Greek merchant who had refused +them shelter at Seleucia ambled +that way on an ass, and would have +<pb n="146"/><anchor id="Pg146"/>stopped, perhaps, but one of the band +scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared +in the haze of the hills. +</p> + +<p> +Unobserved, the Master had seen and +heard; presently he called them to where +he stood. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do not think,</q> he admonished—<q>do +not think that because you imitate the +Pharisees you are perfecting your lives. +They fast, they pray, they weep, and they +mortify the flesh; but to them one thing +is impossible, charity to the failings of +others. Whoso then shall come to you, +be he friend or foe, penitent or thief, receive +him kindly. Aid the helpless, console +the unfortunate, forgive your enemy, +and forget yourselves—that is charity. +Without it the kingdom of heaven is lost +to you. There, there is neither Greek +nor Jew, male nor female; nor can it come +to you until the garment of shame is +trampled under foot, until two are as +one, and the body which is without is as +the soul within.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Thereat, with a gesture of exquisite +in<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/>dulgence, he turned and left them to the +stars. +</p> + +<p> +Mary had heard, and in the palingenesis +disclosed she saw space wrapped in +a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied +lay behind the sun. There, instead +of the thrones and diadems of the elect, +was an immutable realm in which there +was neither death nor life, clear ether +merely, charged with beatitudes. And so, +when the disciples disputed among themselves, +Mary dreamed of diaphanous +hours and immaculate days that knew +no night, and in this wise lived until +from the terrace of Jerusalem’s Temple +the Master bade her return to Bethany +and wait him there. +</p> + +<p> +Obedience to that command was bitter +to her. She did not murmur, however. +<q>Rabboni,</q> she cried, <q>let me but do +your will on earth, and afterwards save +me or destroy me as your pleasure is.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With that she had gone to her sister’s +house, and to the bewildered Martha +poured out her heart anew. There could +be no question of forgiveness now, of +<pb n="148"/><anchor id="Pg148"/>penitence even; her sins, such as they +were, had been remitted by one to whom +pardon was an attribute. And this doubtless +Martha understood, for she took her +in her arms unreproachfully and mingled +her tears with hers. +</p> + +<p> +Where all is marvel the marvellous disappears. +To the accounts which Mary +gave of her journeys with the little +band that followed the Master, Martha +listened with an attention which nothing +could distract. With her she sailed +on the lovely lake; with her she visited +cities smothering in the scent of cassia +and of sugar-cane; with her she passed +through glens where panthers prowled, +and bandits crueller than they. With +her eyes she saw the listening multitudes, +with her ears she heard again the +words of divine forgiveness; and, the lulab +and the citron in her hands, she assisted +at the Feast of the Tabernacles, and +watched the vain attempt to charm the +recalcitrant Temple and captivate the +inimical town. +</p> + +<p> +For in Jerusalem, in place of the +re<pb n="149"/><anchor id="Pg149"/>assuring confidence of peasants, was the +irritable incredulity of priests; instead +of meadows, courts. Besides, was not this +prophet from Galilee, and what good had +ever come from there? Then, too, he +was not an authorized teacher. He belonged +to no school. The followers of +Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not +recognize him. He was merely a fractious +Nazarene trained in the shop of a +carpenter; one who, by repeating that +it was easier for a camel to pass through +a needle’s eye than for a rich man to +enter the kingdom of heaven, flattered +basely the mob of mendicants that surrounded +him. The rabble admired, but +the clergy stood aloof. When he was not +ignored he was disdained. Save the pleb, +no one listened. +</p> + +<p> +Presently he spoke louder. Into the +grave music of the Syro-Chaldaic tongue +he put the mutterings of thunder. Where +he had preached, he upbraided; in place +of exquisite parables came sonorous +threats. He blessed but rarely, sometimes +he cursed. That mosaic, the Law, +<pb n="150"/><anchor id="Pg150"/>he treated like a cobweb; and to the arrogant +clergy a rumor filtered that this +vagabond, who had not where to lay his +head, declared his ability to destroy the +Temple, and to rebuild it, in three days, +anew. +</p> + +<p> +A rumor such as that was incredible. +Inquiries were made. The rumor was +substantiated. It was learned that he +healed the sick, cured the blind; that he +was in league, perhaps, with the Pharisees. +</p> + +<p> +The Sanhedrim took counsel. They +were Sadducees every one. The Pharisees +were their hereditary foes. Both were +militant, directing men and things as best +they could. The Sadducees held strictly to +the letter of the Law; the Pharisees held +to the Law, and to tradition as well. But +the Sadducees were in power, the Pharisees +were not. The former endeavored +in every way to maintain their authority +over the people; and against that authority, +against the aristocracy, the priesthood, +and the accomplices of foreign dominion, +the Pharisees ceaselessly excited +<pb n="151"/><anchor id="Pg151"/>the mob. In their inability to overthrow +the pontificate, they undermined it. With +microscopic attention they examined and +criticised every act of the clergy; and, +with a view of showing the incompetence +of the priests, they affected rigid theories +in regard to ritualistic points. Every +detail of the ceremonial office was watched +by them with eyes that were never pleased. +They asserted that the rolls of the Law +from which the priests read the Pentateuch +were made of impure matter, and, +having handled them, the priests had +become impure as well. The manner in +which the incense was made and offered, +the minutiæ governing the sacrifices, the +legality of hierarchal decisions—on each +and every possible subject they exerted +themselves to show the unworthiness of +the officiants, insinuating even that the +names of the fathers of many of the +priests were not inscribed at Zipporim +in the archives of Jeshana. As a consequence, +many of those whose rights the +Pharisees affected to uphold saw in the +hierarchy little more than a body of men +<pb n="152"/><anchor id="Pg152"/>unworthy to approach the altar, a group +of Herodians who in religion lacked every +requisite for the service of God, and who +in public and in private were bankrupts in +patriotism, morality, and shame. +</p> + +<p> +The possibility, therefore, that this +fractious demagogue had found favor +with the Pharisees was grave. He was +becoming a force. He threatened many +a prerogative. Moreover, Jerusalem had +had enough of agitators. People were +drawn by their promises into the solitudes, +and there incited to revolt. Rome +did not look upon these things leniently. +If they continued, Tiberius was quite capable +of putting Judæa in a yoke which +it would not be easy to carry. Clearly +the Nazarene was seditious, and as such +to be abolished. The difficulty was to +abolish him and yet conciliate the mob. +</p> + +<p> +It was then that the Sanhedrim took +counsel. As a result, and with the hope +of entrapping him into some blasphemous +utterance on which a charge would lie, +they sent meek-eyed Scribes to question +him concerning the authority that he +<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/>claimed. He routed the meek-eyed +Scribes. Then, fancying that he might +be seduced into some expression which +could be construed as treason, they sent +young and earnest men to learn from him +their duty to Rome. The young and +earnest men returned crestfallen and +abashed. +</p> + +<p> +The elders, nonplussed, debated. A +levite suspected that the casuistry and +marvellous cures of the Nazarene must +be due to a knowledge of the incommunicable +name, Shemhammephorash, seared +on stone in the thunders of Sinai, and +which to utter was to summon life or +beckon death. Another had heard that +while in Galilee he was believed to be in +league with Baal-Zebub, Lord of Flies. +</p> + +<p> +To this gossip no attention was paid. +Annas, merely—the old high-priest, +father-in-law of Caiaphas, who officiated +in his stead—laughed to himself. There +was no such stone, there was no such god. +Another idea had been welcomed. A +festival was in progress; there was gayety +in the neighborhood, drinking too; and +<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/>as over a million of pilgrims were herded +together, now and then an offence occurred. +The previous night, for instance, +a woman had been arrested for illicit commerce. +</p> + +<p> +Annas tapped on his chin. He had the +pompous air of a chameleon, the same +long, thin lips, the large, protruding eyes. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take her before the Galilean,</q> he +said. <q>He claims to be a rabbi; he must +know the Law. If he acquit her, it is +heresy, and for that a charge will lie. +Does he condemn her he is at our mercy, +for he will have alienated the mob.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A smile of perfect understanding passed +like a vagrant breeze across the faces of +the elders, and the levites were ordered +to lead the prisoner to the Christ. +</p> + +<p> +They found him in the Woman’s Court. +From a lateral chamber a priest, unfit for +other than menial services because of a +carbuncle on his lip, dropped the wood +he was sorting for the altar and gazed +curiously at the advancing throng, in +which the prisoner was. +</p> + +<p> +She must have been very fair, but now +<pb n="155"/><anchor id="Pg155"/>her features were distorted with anguish, +veiled with shame. The blue robe she +wore was torn, and a sleeve rent to the +shoulder disclosed a bare white arm. +She was a wife, a mother too. Her name +was Ahulah; her husband was a shoemaker. +At the Gannath Gate, where her +home was, were two little children. She +worshipped them, and her husband she +adored. Some hallucination, a tremor of +the flesh, the flush of wine, and there, circled +by a leering crowd, she crouched, her +life disgraced, irrecoverable for evermore. +</p> + +<p> +The charge was made, the usual question +propounded. The Master had +glanced at her but once. He seemed to +be looking afar, beyond the Temple and +its terraces, beyond the horizon itself. +But the accusers were impatient. He bent +forward and with a finger wrote on the +ground. The letters were illegible, perhaps, +yet the symbol of obliteration was +in that dust which the morrow would disperse. +Again he wrote, but the charge +was repeated, louder, more impatiently +than before. +</p> + +<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/> + +<p> +Jesus straightened himself. With the +weary indulgence of one to whom hearts +are as books, he looked about him, then +to the dome above. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoever is without sin among you,</q> +he declared, <q>may cast the first stone.</q> +</p> + +<p> +When he looked again the crowd had +slunk away. Only Ahulah remained, her +head bowed on her bare white arm. +From the lateral chamber the priest still +peered, the carbuncle glistening on his +lip. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Did none condemn you?</q> the Master +asked. +</p> + +<p> +And as she sobbed merely, he added: +<q>Neither do I condemn you. Go, and +sin no more.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To the elders this was very discomforting. +They had failed to unmask him as +a traitor to God, to Rome even, or yet as +a demagogue defying the Law. They did +not care to question again. He had +worsted them three times. Nor could +they without due cause arrest him, for +there were the Pharisees. Besides, a religious +trial was full of risk, and the +<pb n="157"/><anchor id="Pg157"/>coöperation of the procurator not readily +to be relied on. It was that coöperation +they needed most, for with it such feeling +as might be aroused would fall on Rome +and not on them. As for Pilate, he could +put a sword in front of what he said. +</p> + +<p> +In their enforced inaction they got +behind that wall of prejudice where they +and their kin feel most secure, and there +waited, prepared at the first opportunity +to invoke the laws of their ancestors, +laws so cumbersome and complex that +the Romans, accustomed to the clearest +pandects, had laughed and left them, +erasing only the right to kill. +</p> + +<p> +At last chance smiled. Into Jerusalem +a rumor filtered that the Nazarene they +hated so had raised the dead, that the +suburbs hailed him as the Messiah, and +that he proclaimed himself the Son of +God. At once the Sanhedrim reassembled. +A political deliverer they might +have welcomed, but in a Messiah they +had little faith. The very fact of his +Messiahship constituted him a claimant +to the Jewish throne, and as such a +pre<pb n="158"/><anchor id="Pg158"/>tender with whom Pilate could deal. +Moreover—and here was the point—to +claim divinity was to attack the unity of +God. Of impious blasphemy there was +no higher form. +</p> + +<p> +It were better, Annas suggested, that +a man should die than that a nation +should perish—a truism, surely, not to +be gainsaid. +</p> + +<p> +That night it was decided that Jesus +and Judaism could not live together; a +price was placed upon his head, and to +the blare of four hundred trumpets excommunication +was pronounced. +</p> + +<p> +Of all of these incidents save the +last Mary had been necessarily aware. +In company with Johanna, the wife of +Herod’s steward, Mary, wife of Clopas, +and Salomè, mother of Zebedee’s children, +she had heard him reiterate the burning +words of Jeremiah, and seen him purge +the Temple of its traffickers; she had +heard, too, the esoteric proclamation, +<q>Before Abraham was, I am;</q> and she +had seen him lash the Sadducees with +invective. She had been present when a +<pb n="159"/><anchor id="Pg159"/>letter was brought from Abgar Uchomo, +King of Edessa, to Jesus, <q>the good +Redeemer,</q> in which the potentate prayed +the prophet to come and heal him of a +sickness which he had, offering him a +refuge from the Jews, and quaintly setting +forth the writer’s belief that Jesus was +God or else His Son. She had been +present, also, when the charge was made +against Ahulah, and had comforted that +unfortunate in womanly ways. <q>Surely,</q> +she had said, <q>if the Master who does +not love you can forgive, how much more +readily must your husband who does!</q> +Whereupon Ahulah had become her +slave, tending her thereafter with almost +bestial devotion. +</p> + +<p> +These episodes, one after another, +she related to Martha; to Eleazer, her +brother; to Simon, Martha’s husband; to +anyone that chanced that way. For it +was then that the Master had bade her +go to Bethany. For a little space he +too had forsaken Jerusalem. Now and +then with some of his followers he would +venture in the neighborhood, yet only to +<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/>be off again through the scorched hollows +of the Ghôr before the sun was up. +</p> + +<p> +These things it was that paraded before +her as she lay on the floor of the +little room, felled by the hideousness +of a threat that had sprung upon her, +abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark. To +Martha and to the others on one subject +alone had she been silent, and now at the +moment it dominated all else. +</p> + +<p> +From the day on which she joined the +little band to whom the future was to +give half of this world and all of the +next, Judas had been ever at her ear. +As a door that opens and shuts at the +will of a hand, his presence and absence +had barred the vistas or left them clear. +At first he had affected her as a scarabæus +affects the rose. She knew of him, +and that was all. When he spoke, she +thought of other things. And as the +blind remain unawakened by the day, he +never saw that where the wanton had +been the saint had come. To him she +was a book of ivory bound in gold, whose +contents he longed to possess; she was a +<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/>book, but one from which whole chapters +had been torn, the preface destroyed; +and when his increasing insistence forced +itself upon her, demanding, obviously, +countenance or rebuke, she walked serenely +on her way, disdaining either, occupied +with higher things. It was of the +Master only that she appeared to think. +When he spoke, it was to her as though +God really lived on earth; her eyes +lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was +instantly forgot. At that time her life +was a dream into whose charmed precincts +a bat had flown. +</p> + +<p> +These things, gradually, Judas must +have understood. In Mary’s eyes he +may have caught the intimation that to +her now only the ideal was real; or the +idea may have visited him that in the +infinite of her faith he disappeared and +ceased to be. In any event he must have +taken counsel with himself, for one day +he approached her with a newer theme. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have knocked on the tombs; they +are dumb.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary, with that grace with which a +<pb n="162"/><anchor id="Pg162"/>woman gathers a flower when thinking +of him whom she loves, bent a little and +turned away. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Have you heard of the Buddha?</q> he +asked. <q>Babylon is peopled with his +disciples. One of them met Jesus in the +desert, and taught him his belief. It is +that he preaches now, only the Buddha +did not know of a heaven, for there is +none.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And he added, after a pause: <q>I tell +you I have knocked on the tombs; there +is no answer there.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With that, as a panther falls asleep, his +claw blood-red, Judas nodded and left +her to her thoughts. +</p> + +<p> +<q>In Eternity there is room for everything,</q> +she said, when he came to her +again. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Eternity is an abyss which the tomb +uses for a sewer,</q> he answered. <q>Its +flood is corruption. The day only exists, +but in it is that freedom which waves +possess. Mary, if you would but taste it +with me! Oh, to mix with you as light +with day, as stream with sea, I would +<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/>suck the flame that flickers on the walls +of sepulchres.</q> +</p> + +<p> +She shuddered, and he saw it. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You have taught me to love,</q> he +hissed; <q>do not teach me now to hate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary mastered her revolt. <q>Judas, +the day will come when you will cease +to speak as you do.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>You believe, then, still?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, surely; and so do you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The day will come,</q> he muttered, +<q>when you will cease to believe.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And you too,</q> she answered. <q>For +then you will <hi rend="italic">know</hi>.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The dialogue with its variations continued, +at intervals, for months. There +were times, weeks even, when he avoided +all speech with her. Then, abruptly, +when she expected it least, he would +return more volcanic than before. These +attacks she accustomed herself to regard +as necessary, perhaps, to the training of +patience, of charity too, and so bore with +them, until at last Jerusalem was reached. +Meanwhile she held to her trust as to a +fringe of the mantle of Christ. To her +<pb n="164"/><anchor id="Pg164"/>the past was a grammar, its name—To-morrow. +And in the service of the +Master, in the future which he had evoked, +she journeyed and dreamed. +</p> + +<p> +But in Jerusalem Judas grew acrider. +He had fits of unnecessary laughter, and +spells of the deepest melancholy. He +quarrelled with anyone who would let +him, and then for the irritation he had +displayed he would make amends that +were wholly slavish. His companions +distrusted him. He had been seen talking +amicably with the corrupt levites, the +police of the Temple, and once he had +been detected in a wine-shop of low repute. +The Master, apparently, noticed +nothing of this; nor did Mary, whose +thoughts were on other things. +</p> + +<p> +At Bethany one evening Judas came to +her. The sun, sinking through clouds, +placed in the west the tableau of a duel +to the death between a titan and a god. +There was the glitter of gigantic swords, +and the red of immortal blood. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mary,</q> he began, and as he spoke +there was a new note in his voice—<q>Mary, +<pb n="165"/><anchor id="Pg165"/>I have watched and waited, and to +those that watch how many lamps +burn out! One after another those that +I tended went. There was a flicker, a +little smoke, and they had gone. I tried +to relight them, but perhaps the oil was +spent; perhaps, too, I was like the blind +that hold a torch. My way has not been +clear. The faith I had, and which, I do +not know, but which, it may be, would +have been strengthened, evaporated when +you came. The rays of the sun I had +revered became as the threads of shadows, +interconnecting life and death. In +them I could see but you. In the jaw of +night, in the teeth of day, always I have +seen you. Mary, love is a net which +woman throws. In casting yours—there! +unintentionally, I know—you caught my +soul. It is yours now wholly until time +shall cease to be. Will you take it, +Mary, or will you put it aside, a thing +forever dead?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary made no answer. It may be she +had not heard. In the west both titan +and god had disappeared. Above, in a field +<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/>of stars, the moon hung, a scythe of gold. +The air was still, the hush of locusts accentuating +the silence and bidding it be +at rest. In a house near by there were +lights shining. A woman looked out +and called into the night. +</p> + +<p> +Then, as though moved by some jealousy +of the impalpable, Judas leaned forward +and peered into her face. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is the Master who keeps you from +me, is it not?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is my belief,</q> she answered, simply. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It was he that gave it to you. Mary, +do you know that there is a price upon +his head? Do you know that if I cannot +slake my love, at least I can gorge my +hate? Do you know that, Mary? Do +you know it? Now choose between your +belief and me; if you prefer the former, +the Sanhedrim will have him to-morrow. +There, your sister is calling; go—and +choose.</q> +</p> + +<p> +It was with the hideousness of this +threat in her ears that Mary escaped to +the little room where her childhood had +<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/>been passed and flung herself on the +floor. From beyond came the sound of +banqueting. Martha was entertaining +the Lord, his disciples as well; and Mary +knew that her aid was needed. But the +threat pinioned and held her down. To +accede was death, not of the body alone, +but of the soul as well. There was no +clear pool in which she might cleanse the +stain; there could be no forgiveness, no +obliteration, nothing in fact save the loss +never to be recovered of life in the diaphanous +hours and immaculate days of +which she had dreamed so long. +</p> + +<p> +For a little space she tried to comfort +herself. Perhaps Judas was not in earnest; +perhaps even he had lied. And if he +had not, was there not time in plenty? +The desert was neighborly. She could +follow the Master there, and minister to +him till the sky opened and the kingdom +was prepared. And the threat, +coupled with that perspective, charmed, +and for the moment had for her that +enticement which the quarrels and kisses +of children equally possess. She would +<pb n="168"/><anchor id="Pg168"/>warn him secretly, she decided, for surely +as yet he did not know; she would warn +him, and before the sun was up he could +be beyond the Sanhedrim’s reach, and +she preparing to follow. For a moment +she lost herself in anticipation; then, +the threat loosening its hold, she stood +up, her face very white in the starlight, +her eyes brave and alert. Already her +plan was formed; and, taking a vase that +she had brought with her from Magdala, +she hurried to the room below. +</p> + +<p> +The Master; the disciples; Eleazer, +her brother; Simon, her sister’s husband, +were all at meat. Martha was serving, +and as Mary entered Judas stood up. +She moved to where the Master was, and +on him poured the contents of the vase. +Thomas sniffed delightedly, for now the +room was full of fragrance. The Master +turned to her and smiled; the homage +evidently was grateful. Mary bent nearer. +Thomas and Bartholomew joined in loud +praises of the aroma of the nard, and +under cover of their voices she whispered, +<pb n="169"/><anchor id="Pg169"/><q>Rabboni, the Sanhedrim has placed a +price on——</q> +</p> + +<p> +The whisper was drowned and interrupted. +Judas had shoved her away. +<q>To what end is this waste?</q> he asked; +and as Mary looked in his face she saw +by the expression in it that her purpose +had been divined and her warning overheard. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is absurd,</q> he continued, with affected +anger. <q>Ointment such as that has +a value. It might better have been saved +for the poor.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Thomas chimed in approvingly; placed +in that light it was indeed an extravagance, +unnecessary too, and he looked +about to his comrades for support. Eleazer +and Peter seemed inclined to view the +matter differently. A discussion would +have arisen, but the Master checked it +gently, as was his wont. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The poor are always with you, but me +you cannot always have.</q> +</p> + +<p> +As he spoke he turned to Judas with that +indulgence which was to be a heritage. +</p> + +<p> +Could he <hi rend="italic">know</hi>? Judas wondered. +<pb n="170"/><anchor id="Pg170"/>Had he heard what Mary said? And, the +Master’s speech continuing, he glanced at +her and left the room. +</p> + +<p> +The moon had mowed the stars, but the +sky was visibly blue. Behind the shoulder +of Olivet he divined the silence of Jerusalem, +the welcome of the Sadducees, the +joy of hate assuaged. There was but one +thing now that might deter; and as his +thoughts groped through that possibility, +Mary stood at his side. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judas——</q> +</p> + +<p> +He wheeled, and, catching her by the +wrists, stared into her eyes. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is it yes?</q> +</p> + +<p> +A shudder seized her. There was dread +in it, anguish too, and both were mortal. +He had not lied, she saw, and the threat +was real. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is it yes?</q> he repeated. +</p> + +<p> +There may be moments that prolong, +but there are others in which time no +longer is; and as Mary shrank in the +blight of Judas’ stare, both felt that the +culmination of life was reached. +</p> + +<p> +<q>No!</q> +</p> + +<pb n="171"/><anchor id="Pg171"/> + +<p> +The monosyllable dropped from her +lips like a stone, yet even as it fell the +banner of Maccabæus unfurled and +flaunted in her face; the voice of Esther +murmured, and a vision of Judith saving +a nation visited her, and, continuing, +made spots on the night. +</p> + +<p> +Judas had flung her from him. She +reeled; the violence roused her. Who +was she to consider herself when the security +of the Master was at stake? How +should it matter though she died, if he +were safe? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is my soul you ask,</q> she cried. +<q>Take it. If I had a thousand souls, I +would give each one for Him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +But she cried to the unanswering night. +Where the road curved about the shoulder +of the Mount of Olives, for one second +she saw a white robe glisten. Agonized, +she called again, but there was no one +now to hear. +</p> + +<p> +A little later, when the followers of the +Lord issued from the house, Mary lay before +the door, her eyes closed, her head +in the dust. They touched her. She had +fainted. +</p> +<pb n="172"/><anchor id="Pg172"/> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> + +<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER VIII.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg174"/> + +<pb n="175"/><anchor id="Pg175"/> + +<head rend="page-break-before: right">VIII.</head> + +<p> +<q>They have him, they are taking him +to Pilate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +It was Eleazer calling to his sister from +the turn of the road. In a moment he +was at her side, dust-covered, his sandals +torn, his pathetic eyes dilated. He was +breathless too, and, in default of words, +with a gesture that swept the Mount of +Olives, he pointed to where the holy city +lay. +</p> + +<p> +To Mary the morrow succeeding her +swoon was a pall. Love, it may be, is a +forgetfulness of all things else, but despair +is very actual. It takes a hold on +memory, inhabits it, and makes it its own. +And during the day that followed, Mary +lay preyed upon by the acutest agony +that ever tortured woman yet. Early +in the night, before her senses returned, +the Master had gone without mentioning +<pb n="176"/><anchor id="Pg176"/>whither. His destination may have been +Ephraïm, Jericho even, or further yet, beyond +the hollows of the Ghôr. Then, again, +he might have loitered in the neighborhood, +on the hill perhaps, in that open-air +solitude he loved so well, and for which +so often he forsook the narrowness of +roofs and towns. But yet, in view of the +Passover, he might have gone to Jerusalem, +and it was that idea that tortured +most. +</p> + +<p> +It was there the keen police, the levites, +were, and their masters the Sadducees, +who had placed a price on his head. Did +he get within the walls, then surely he +was lost. At the possibilities which that +idea evoked her thoughts sank like the +roots of a tree and grappled with the under-earth. +To her despair, regret brought +its burden. A moment of self-forgetfulness, +and, however horrible that forgetfulness +might have been, in it danger to him +whom she revered would have been averted, +and, for the time being at least, dispersed +utterly as last year’s leaves. It +had been cowardice on her part to let +<pb n="177"/><anchor id="Pg177"/>Judas go; she should have been strong +when strength was needed. There were +glaives to be had; the head of Holofernes +could have greeted his. The legend +of Judith still echoed its reproach, and +recurring, pointed a slender finger of disdain. +</p> + +<p> +To the heart that is sinking, hope throws +a straw. Immaterial and caressing as a +shadow, came to her the fancy that if the +Master were in the neighborhood, at any +moment he might appear. In that event +it was needful that she should be prepared +to aid him at once beyond the confines +of Judæa. Were he already beyond +them, presently she must learn it, and +then could warn him of the danger of +return. But meanwhile, for security’s +sake, had he gone by any chance to Jerusalem, +some one must be there to warn +him of the plot. She thought of her sister, +and dismissed her. Martha was too +feather-headed for an errand such as that. +She thought of Ahulah, but some of those +well-intentioned friends that everyone +possesses had told of the misadventure +<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/>to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a +woman, had spat upon her, and now +through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, +incompetent to aid. Her brother +occurred to her. It was on him she could +rely. His devotion was surpassed only +by her own. Thereupon she sought him +out, instructed him in his duty, and sent +him forth to watch and warn. +</p> + +<p> +The green afternoon faded in the hemorrhages +of the setting sun. Twilight +approached like a wolf. Night unfurled +her great black fan; the moon came, +fumbling the shadows, checkering the +underbrush with silver spots. Once a +caravan passed, and once from the hillside +came the bark of a dog, caught up and +repeated in some farm beyond; otherwise +the night was unstirred; and as Mary +stared into the immensities where lightning +wearies and subsides, a lethargy +beset her, her body was imprisoned; but +her soul was free, and in a moment it +mounted sheerly to a fringe of the heavens +and bathed in space. +</p> + +<p> +When it descended, another day had +<pb n="179"/><anchor id="Pg179"/>come, and Eleazer was calling to her from +the turn of the road. At once she was on +earth and on her feet, and as the brother +gasped for breath the sister’s strength +returned. There must be no more weakness +now, she knew; it was time to act. +She got drink, water for the feet; then +Eleazer, refreshed, continued: +</p> + +<p> +<q>I ran through the ridge and up to +where the two cedars are. I looked among +the cypresses beyond, in the pines +where the descent begins, through the +olive groves below and the booths and +tents beneath. There was no trace of +him anywhere. I crossed the brook and +sat awhile at the Shushan gate, watching +those that entered. The crowd became +so dense that it was impossible to distinguish. +I thought I might hear of him +in the Temple. The porch was thronged. +I roamed through the Mountain of the +House into the Woman’s Court, and out +of it on the Chel. But they were all so +filled with pilgrims that had he been +there only accident could have brought +me to him. It was on that I counted, and +<pb n="180"/><anchor id="Pg180"/>I went out on Zion and Acra, where the +crowd was less. It was getting late. +Beth-horon was dim. I could see lights +in Herod’s palace. Some one said that +the tetrarch of Galilee was there, the +guest of the procurator. I went back by +way of Antonia to Birket Israil and the +Red Heifer Bridge. I had given up; +it seemed to me useless to make further +attempt. Suddenly I saw Judas in the +angle of the porch. With him was a levite. +I got behind a pillar, near where +they stood, and listened. The only thing +I distinctly heard was the name of Joseph +of Haramathaïm. I fancied, though I was +not certain, that Judas spoke as though +he had just left his house. They must +have moved away then, for when I looked +they had gone. I knew that Joseph was +a friend of the Master’s, and it struck me +that he might be at his house. It is in +the sook of the Perfumers, back of Ophel. +I ran there as fast as I could. It was unlighted. +I beat on the door: there was +no answer. I felt that I had been mistaken, +anyway that I could do no more. +<pb n="181"/><anchor id="Pg181"/>I went down again into the valley, crossed +the Kedron, and would have returned +here at once perhaps, but I was tired, and +so, on the slope where the olive-presses +are, I lay down and must have fallen +asleep, for I remembered nothing till +there came a tramping of men. I +crouched in the underbrush. They passed +very close; some had torches, some had +spears. Judas was leading, and as an ape +munches a flower he was muttering the +Master’s name.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Eleazer paused and looked at his sister. +She was standing erect, her face +wan, the brow contracted, the rhymes of +her lips tight-pressed. Then, with a glance +at Olivet, he continued: +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">For a little space I waited. They had +ascended the slope and halted. There +was a shout, the waving of torches, then +a silence. In it I heard the Master’s +voice, followed by a cry of pain. I hurried +to where they were. They had him +bound when I got there. I saw a soldier +raising a hand to his ear and looking at +the palm; it was red. Peter was running +<pb n="182"/><anchor id="Pg182"/>one way, Thomas another. I got nearer. +Some one, a levite I think, caught me by +the coat. I freed myself from it and escaped +up the hill.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">From there I looked down. They +were going away. When they had gone, +I went back and found my cloak. While +I was putting it on, John appeared. +<q>They are taking him to Caiaphas,</q> he +said; <q>I shall follow. Come with me if +you wish.</q> I went with him. On the way +we met Peter; he joined us. We walked +single-file, John leading. Beyond I could +see the lights of the torches, the glint of +steel. No one spoke. Peter whimpered +a little. We crossed the Kedron and got +up into the city. The soldiers went directly +to where Annas lives; they entered +in a body, and the door closed. John +rapped: it was opened. He said something +to the doorkeeper, who admitted him. +The door closed again. Peter and I +waited a little, not knowing where to turn. +Presently the door reopened, and John +motioned us to come in. In the court +was a fire; about it were servants and +<pb n="183"/><anchor id="Pg183"/>khazzans. I stopped a moment to warm +my hands; Peter did the same. John +had disappeared. I heard one of the +khazzans say that they had taken the +Master to Annas, and the others discuss +what he would probably do. While I +stood there listening, and wondering what +had become of John, I saw the Master +being led across the court to the Lishcath +ha-Gazith. I left Peter, and followed. +In the hall were the elders, ranged in a +semicircle about Caiaphas. They must +have been prepared beforehand, for the +clerks of acquittal and of condemnation +were there, the crier too, and a group of +levites and Scribes. In a corner were +some of Annas’ servants. I got among +them and stood unnoticed.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The Master’s hands were bound. On +either side of him was a soldier. Caiaphas +was livid. He looked him from head +to foot.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>You are accused,</q> he said, <q>of inciting +sedition, of defying the Law, of blasphemy, +and of breaking the Sabbath day. +What have you to answer?</q></q> +</p> + +<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The Master made no reply.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Caiaphas pointed to the levites. +<q>Here,</q> he continued, <q>are witnesses.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">He motioned; one of them stepped +forward and spoke.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>I testify that this man has incited +to sedition by denouncing the members +of this reverend council as hypocrites, +wolves in sheep’s clothing, blind leaders +of the blind; and I further testify that he +has declared no one should follow them.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>What have you to say to that?</q> +Caiaphas snarled. But the Master said +nothing.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The first levite moved back, and at +a gesture from the high-priest another +stepped forward.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>I testify that I have seen that man +eat, in defiance of the Law, with unwashed +hands, and consort with publicans and +people of low repute.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>And what have you to say to that?</q> +Caiaphas asked again. But still the +Master said nothing.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The second levite moved back, and a +third advanced.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="185"/><anchor id="Pg185"/> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>I testify that I have heard that man +blaspheme in calling God his father, and +in declaring himself to be one with Him.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>Is that blasphemy or is it not?</q> +Caiaphas bawled. But the Master’s lips +never moved.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The third levite gave way to a fourth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>I testify that that man has broken +the Sabbath in healing the sick on that +day, and further that he has seduced +others to break it. On the Sabbath I +have heard him order a cripple to take +up his bed and carry it to his home. I +have heard him also declare that he could +destroy the Temple and rebuild it, in +three days, anew.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Caiaphas turned to the Master. <q>Do +you still refuse to answer?</q> he asked. +<q>Do you think that silence can save you? +Have you heard these witnesses?</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">And as the Master still made no reply, +Caiaphas lifted his hand and cried, +<q>I adjure you by the Eternal to answer, +Are you the Messiah, the Son of God?</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">In the breathless silence Jesus raised +his eyes. He looked at the high-priest, +<pb n="186"/><anchor id="Pg186"/>at the levites, the Scribes. <q>You have +said it,</q> he murmured, and smiled with +that air he has.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Caiaphas grew purple. He caught his +gown at the throat and ripped it from neck +to hem. The elders started. I heard +them mutter, <q><hi rend="italic">Ish maveth</hi>.</q> The high-priest +glanced toward them. <q>You have +heard this ragged blasphemy?</q> he exclaimed; +and, turning to where the Scribes +stood, <q>What,</q> he asked, <q>does the Law +decree concerning the Sabbath-breaker?</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">One of them, the book unrolled in his +hand, advanced and read:</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>Ye shall keep the Sabbath holy. +Whoso does any work thereon shall be +cut off from his people.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none"><q>And what of blasphemy?</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">The Scribe glanced at the roll and +repeated from memory: <q>He that blasphemeth +the name of the Lord shall be +put to death. The congregation shall +stone him, as well the stranger as he that +was born in the land.</q></q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend="post: none">Caiaphas closed the fingers on the +palm of his left hand, and, raising it, +<pb n="187"/><anchor id="Pg187"/>turned again to the elders. <q><hi rend="italic">Ish maveth</hi>,</q> +they repeated, closing their fingers as he +had done.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I knew then that he was condemned. +After all</q>—and Eleazer looked wearily to +the ground—<q>it was legal enough. Each +moment I expected him to give some +sign, but, save to affirm the charge of blasphemy, +during the entire time he kept +silent. Yes, it was legal enough. From +where I stood I heard the Scribes say +that he would be sentenced at sunrise, +and then Pilate would have a word with +him. I could do nothing. Caiaphas +still fumed. I went out in the court +again. In the corridor was Judas. Peter +was wrangling with the servants. I +did not wait for more. I got away and +into the valley and up again on the hill. +A cock was crowing, and I saw the dawn. +O Mary, the pity of it!</q> +</p> + +<p> +He looked at his sister. There was no +weakness now in her face, nor beauty +either. Age must have passed her in the +night. +</p> + +<pb n="188"/><anchor id="Pg188"/> + +<p> +<q>And I will have a word with Pilate +too,</q> she said. +</p> + +<p> +As a somnambulist might, she drew her +mantle closer, and, moving to the wayside, +ascended the hill. The silver and green +of the olives closed around her, and with +them the branching dates. Above, a star +left by the morning glimmered feebly. +In a myrtle a bird began to sing, and a +lizard that had come out to intercept the +sun scurried as she passed. Upward +and onward still she went, and, the summit +reached, for a moment she stopped +and rested. +</p> + +<p> +To the east the Dead Sea lay, a stretch +of silk. At its edge was the flutter of +ospreys feasting on the barbels and +breams of the Jordan, which as they enter, +die. Beyond was a glitter of white +and gold, the scarp of Moriah and its +breast of stone, the Tyrian bevel of Solomon, +the porphyry of Nehemiah, the marble +that Herod gave; ascending terraces, +engulfing porticoes, the splendor of Jerusalem +at dawn. Between the houses +nearest was the dimness that shadows +<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/>cast; those further away had a scatter of +pink; about it all was a wall surmounted +by turrets; beneath was a ravine in which +was a brook, and a city of booths and +tents, grazing camels and fat-tailed sheep. +</p> + +<p> +Through the pines and cypresses Mary +passed down to where the olives were. +The brook sent a message to her; the +blood that had flowed from the sacrifices +was in it, and in the fresh morning it +reeked a little, as such brooks do. It was +here, she thought, the Master had been +taken, and for a second she stopped again. +The sun now was rising behind her; the +color of the sky shifted. Beyond Jerusalem +a mountain was melting in excesses +of vermilion, and the ravine that had been +gray was assuming the tenderest green. +The star had disappeared, but from each +tree broke the greeting of a bird. +</p> + +<p> +A rustle of the leaves near by startled +her, and she looked about, fearful, as +women are, of some beast of prey. A +white robe was there, a white turban, and +beneath it the swart face of one whom +she had known. +</p> + +<pb n="190"/><anchor id="Pg190"/> + +<p> +To her eyes came massacres. <q>Judas!</q> +she exclaimed, and looked up in that roof +of her world where day puts its blue and +night puts its black. <q>Judas!</q> she repeated. +Her small hands clenched, and +the rhymes of her mouth grew venomous. +</p> + +<p> +Then the woman spoke in her. <q>Why +did you not kill me first?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Judas swayed like an ox hit on the +forehead. The motion distracted and irritated +her. <q>Can’t you speak,</q> she +cried, <q>or does hell hold you, tongue and +all?</q> +</p> + +<p> +He raised a hand as though he feared +another blow. The gesture was so human +and yet so humble that Mary looked +into his face. Time, which turns the +sweet-eyed girl into a withered spectre, +must have touched him with its thumb. +His eyes were ringed and cavernous, his +cheeks empty. +</p> + +<p> +<q>You have heard, then?</q> he said; but +he evinced no curiosity. He spoke with +the apathy of one who takes everything +for granted, one with whom fate is to +have its will. <q>I have just come from +<pb n="191"/><anchor id="Pg191"/>there,</q> he added, with a backward gesture. +<q>I never thought that such a thing could +be. No, I swear it, I never did.</q> Then, +in answer perhaps to some inner twinge, +perhaps also because of the expression +of Mary’s lips, he continued: <q>If there +is a new oath, one that has never been +used before, prompt me, and I will swear +again, I never did. I thought——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary interrupted him savagely: +<q>There are ten kinds of hypocrisy. You +have nine of them; you will develop the +tenth and invent a new one besides.</q> +</p> + +<p> +At this Judas made a pass with his +hands and stared absently at the ground. +<q>Mary,</q> he said, <q>life is a book which +man reads when he dies. During the last +hour I have been unrolling it. In its scroll +I found existence a wine-shop where the +guest fares so badly that he would go at +once were it not that he fears to call for +the reckoning. The reckoning, Mary, is +death. I have called for it. I am about +to pay. Let me tell you. I have no excuse +to offer, no forgiveness now to await. My +heart was a meadow: you made it stone. +<pb n="192"/><anchor id="Pg192"/>There were well-springs in it: you dried +them, Mary. When I first saw you, you +were a dream fulfilled. Others had brought +echoes of life; you brought its song. It +was then that I heard the Master speak. +I followed him, and tried to forget. It +must be that I failed, for when I saw you +in Capharnahum my blood danced, and +when you spoke I trembled. It was love, +Mary; and love, when it is not death, is +life. It was that I sought at your side. +You would not listen. Innocence is a +garment. You seemed to have wrapped +it about you. I tried to tear it away. +There was my fault, and this my punishment. +Your right was inflexible as a +prison-door, and yet always behind it was +the murmur of a mysterious Perhaps. +The others turned to me; I turned to you. +I forgot again, but this time it was my +duty, my allegiance, and my faith. Mary, +I loved the Master more wholly even than +I loved you. He was the Spirit; you +were the flesh. In him was the future; in +you the tomb. I thought to conquer both. +While I mixed my darkness with his light, +<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/>I pursued you as night pursues the day. +On the light I have cast a shadow, and to +you I have brought a blight. But, Mary, +both will disappear. The one consolation +I cling to now is that belief. When +I delivered him up, it was myself I betrayed, +not him. I am forever dead, and +he forever living. While I bargained +with the priests and pretended that my +aim was coin, when I led the levites and +the Temple-guard just here to where he +stood, during all the hours since I left +you, I tried to escape from that cage we +call Fate. Mary, there is something about +us higher than our will. The revenge I +sought on you forsook me before I reached +the city’s gate. It is the intangible that +has brought me where I am. I have +sworn to you I never thought this thing +could be. I swear it now again. In +carrying out the threat I made, I thought +to make you fear my hate and make him +greater than he was. His enemies, I had +seen, were many. Those that had believed +in him grew daily less. In Jerusalem his +miracles had ceased, and I thought that, +<pb n="194"/><anchor id="Pg194"/>when the levites and the Temple-guard +approached, he would speak with Samuel’s +thunder, answer with Elijah’s flame. +I thought the stars would shake, the moon +grow red; that he would produce the lost +Urim, the vanished Ark, and so forever +silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he +was right. Belief is in the heart, not in +the senses; the visible contradicts, but +faith is not to be confuted. No, Mary, +the tombs are not dumb. I said so once, +I know, but they answer, and mine will +speak. On it perhaps a caricature may +be daubed, and about it prejudice will uncoil. +I deserve it. Yet though you think +me wholly base, remember no man is that. +Since I met you my life has been a battle-field +in which I have fought with conscience. +It has conquered. I am its +slave; it commands, and I obey.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He drew a breath as though he had +more to add, and turned to where she +stood. There was no one there. From +an olive-branch a red-start piped to the +morning; over the buds of a pomegranate +a bee buzzed its delight; across the leaves +<pb n="195"/><anchor id="Pg195"/>of a myrtle a blue spider was busy with +its web, but Mary was no longer there. +He peered through the underbrush, and +wandered to the grove beyond. There +was no one. He looked to the hill-top: +there was the advancing sun. He looked +in the valley: there were the pilgrims’ +booths, the grazing camels and fat-tailed +sheep. +</p> + +<p> +<q>She has gone,</q> he told himself. <q>She +would not even listen.</q> +</p> + +<p> +He bent his head. For the first time +since boyhood the tears rolled down his +face. +</p> + +<p> +<q>She might at least have heard me,</q> he +thought, and brushed the tears away. +Others came and replaced them. When +they had fallen, there were more. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, she might at least have listened. +If I had no excuse to offer, at least I had +regret.</q> For a moment he fancied her, +cruel as only woman is, hurrying to some +unknown goal. The tears he had tried +to stanch ceased now abruptly. <q>She is +right,</q> he mused. <q>She has left me to +conscience and to death.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="196"/><anchor id="Pg196"/> + +<p> +He turned again and went back to +where he had stood before. As he crossed +the intervening space he unloosed the +long girdle which he wore, and from which +still hung the treasury of the twelve. +The bag that held it fell where the bee +was buzzing. One end of the girdle +he tossed over a branch; the red-start +spread its wings and fled. He +looked about. There was a stone near by; +he got it and with a little labor rolled it +beneath the branch. Then he made a +noose, very carefully, that it might not +come undone, and settling it well under +the chin, he tied the other end of the +girdle to it and swung himself from the +stone. +</p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="197"/><anchor id="Pg197"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER IX.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg198"/> + +<pb n="199"/><anchor id="Pg199"/> + +<head rend="page-break-before: right">IX.</head> + +<p> +In the apartment of Claudia Procula, +Mary and the wife of the procurator +stood face to face. +</p> + +<p> +The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem. +Beneath was an open space tiled +with little oblong stones, red, yellow, and +blue; the blue predominating. On either +side the colossal white wings of the palace +stretched to a park, very green in the +sunlight, cut by colonnades in which +fountains were, and surrounded by a marble +wall that was starred with turrets and +fluttered with doves. The Temple, which, +from its cressets, radiated to the hills +beyond a glare of gold, was not as fair +nor yet as vast as this. Within its gates +an army could manœuvre; in its banquet-hall +a cohort could have supped. It was +Herod’s triumph, built subsequent to the +Temple, to show the world, perhaps, that +<pb n="200"/><anchor id="Pg200"/>to surpass a masterpiece he had only to +conceive another. +</p> + +<p> +To it now and then, for a week or more, +the procurator descended from his residence +by the sea. He preferred the +latter; the day was freer there, life less +cramped. But during festival times, when +the fanatic Jews were apt to be excited +and need the chill of a curb, it was well +for him and his soldiery to be on hand. +And so on this occasion he had come, and +with him his wife, Claudia Procula, and +the tetrarch Antipas, who had joined +them on the way. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas and his retinue occupied the +Ægrippeum, the north wing of the palace, +while in the Cæsareum, the wing that +leaned to the south, was Pilate, his wife +and body-guard. +</p> + +<p> +And now on this clear morning the +sweet-faced patrician, Claudia Procula, +with perfectly feminine curiosity was +looking into the drawn features of the +Magdalen, and wondering whence her +rumored charm could come. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will do my best,</q> she said, at last, in +<pb n="201"/><anchor id="Pg201"/>answer to an anterior request. And calling +a servant, she wrote on a tablet a +word for Pilate’s eye. +</p> + +<p> +Mary moved to the portico. The variegated +tiles of the quadrangle were nearly +covered now. A flight of wide, low +steps led to the main entrance of the palace, +and there a high seat of enamelled +ebony had been placed. In it Pilate sat, +in his hand the staff of office. Beside +him were his assessors, members of his +suite, and Calcol, a centurion. On one of +the steps Caiaphas stood, near him the +elders of the college. Below was the +Christ, bound and guarded. Across the +quadrangle was a line of soldiery, behind +it a mob. +</p> + +<p> +The helmets, glancing mail, short +skirts, and bare legs of the Romans contrasted +refreshingly with the blossoming +garments, effeminate girdles, frontlets, and +horned blue bonnets of the priesthood. +And in the riot of color and glint of steel +the Christ, bound as he was, looked, in +the simplicity of his seamless robe, the +descendant of a larger sphere. Above, +<pb n="202"/><anchor id="Pg202"/>to the left, Antipas, aroused by the clamor, +leaned from a portico. Opposite +where the sunlight fell Mary held her +cloak about her. +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas, a hand indicating Jesus, his +head turned to Pilate, was formulating a +complaint. Not indeed that the prisoner +had declared himself a divinity. There +were far too many gods in the menagerie +of the Pantheon for a procurator to be +the least disturbed at the rumor of a new +one. It was the right to rule, that attribute +of the Messiah, on which he intended +the gravamen of the charge should rest. +But he began circuitously, feeling the +way, in Greek at that, with an accent +which might have been improved. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And so,</q> he concluded, <q>in many +ways he has transgressed the Law.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why don’t you judge him by it, +then?</q> asked Pilate, grimly. +</p> + +<p> +A servant approached with a tablet. +The procurator glanced at it, looked up +at the man, and motioned him away. +</p> + +<p> +<q>My lord governor, we have. The +Sanhedrim, having found him guilty, has +<pb n="203"/><anchor id="Pg203"/>sentenced him to death. But the Sanhedrim, +as you know, may not execute the +sentence. The Senate has deprived us of +that right. It is for you, as its legate, to +order it done.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate sneered. <q>I can’t very well, +until I know of what he is guilty. What +crime has he committed—written a letter +on the Sabbath, or has he been caught +without his phylacteries?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He has declared himself Israel’s +king!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah!</q> And Pilate smiled wearily. +<q>You are always expecting one; why not +take him?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why not, my lord? Because it is +treason to do so.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate nodded with affected approval. +<q>I admire your zeal.</q> And with a glance +at the prisoner, he added: <q>You have +heard the accusation; defend yourself. +What!</q> he continued, after a moment, +<q>have you nothing to say?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas exulted openly. The corners +of his mouth had the width and cruelty, +and his nostrils the dilation, of a wolf. +</p> + +<pb n="204"/><anchor id="Pg204"/> + +<p> +<q>My lord,</q> he cried, <q>his silence is an +admission.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hold your tongue! It is for me to +question.</q> And therewith Pilate gave +the high-priest a look which was tantamount +to a knee pressed on the midriff. +He glanced again at the tablet, then at +the prisoner. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Tell me, do you really claim to be +king?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is it your idea of me?</q> the Christ +asked; and in his bearing was a dignity +which did not clash with the charge; +<q>or have others prompted you?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I am not a Jew,</q> Pilate retorted. +<q>The matter only interests me officially. +It is your hierarchy that bring the +charge. Why have they? What have +you done? Tell me,</q> he continued, in +Latin, <q>do you think yourself King?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend="italic">Tu dixisti</hi>,</q> Jesus answered, and smiled +as he had before, very gravely. <q>But my +royalty is not of the earth.</q> And with +a glance at his bonds, one which was so +significant that it annulled the charge, he +<pb n="205"/><anchor id="Pg205"/>added, still in Latin, <q>I am Truth, and I +preach it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate with skeptical indulgence shook +his head. Truth to him was an elenchicism, +an abstraction of the Platonists, +whom in Rome he had respected for their +wisdom and avoided with care. He turned +to Caiaphas. The latter had been regretting +the absence of an interpreter. +This amicable conversation, which he did +not understand, was not in the least to +his liking, and as Pilate turned to him +he frowned in his beard. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am unable to find him guilty,</q> the +procurator announced. <q>He may call +himself king, but every philosopher does +the same. You might yourself, for that +matter.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A philosopher, this mesîth!</q> Caiaphas +gnashed back. <q>Why, he seduces the +people; he incites to sedition; he is a +rebel to Rome. It is for you, my lord, +to see the empire upheld. Would it be +well to have another complaint laid before +the Cæsar? Ask yourself, is this +Galilean worth it?</q> +</p> + +<pb n="206"/><anchor id="Pg206"/> + +<p> +The thrust was as keen and as venomous +as the tooth of a rat. Pilate had +been rebuked by the emperor already; +he had no wish to incur further displeasure. +Sejanus, the emperor’s favorite, +to whom he owed his procuratorship, +had for suspected treason been strangled +in a dumb dungeon only a little before. +Under Tiberius there was quiet, a future +historian was to note; and Pilate was +aware that, should a disturbance occur, +the disturbance would be quelled, but at +his expense. +</p> + +<p> +An idea presented itself. <q>Did I understand +you to say he is a Galilean?</q> he +asked. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes,</q> Caiaphas answered, expecting, +perhaps, the usual jibe that was flung at +those who came from there. <q>Yes, he is +a Nazarene.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hm. In that case I have no jurisdiction. +The tetrarch is my guest; take +your prisoner to him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My lord,</q> the high-priest objected, +<q>our law is such that if we enter the +<pb n="207"/><anchor id="Pg207"/>palace we cannot officiate at the Passover +to-night.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate appeared to reflect. <q>I suppose,</q> +he said at last, <q>I might ask him +whether he would care to come here. In +which case,</q> he added, with a gesture of +elaborate courtesy, <q>you may remain uncontaminated +where you are. Ressala!</q> +</p> + +<p> +An official stepped forward; an order +was given; he disappeared. Presently a +massive throne of sandalwood and gold +was trundled out. Caiaphas had seen it +before, and in it—Herod. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The justice that comes from there,</q> +he muttered, <q>is as a snake that issues +from a tomb.</q> +</p> + +<p> +His words were drowned in the clamors +of the crowd. The sun had crossed the +zenith; in its rays the waters that gushed +from the fountain-mouths of bronze lions +fell in rainbows and glistened in great +basins that glistened too. There was +sunlight everywhere, a sky of untroubled +blue, and from the Temple beyond came +a glare that radiated from Olivet to Bethlehem. +</p> + +<pb n="208"/><anchor id="Pg208"/> + +<p> +Pilate was bored. The mantle which +Mary wore caught his eye, and he looked +at her, wondering how she came in his +wife’s apartment, and where he had seen +her before. Her face was familiar, but +the setting vague. Then at once he remembered. +It was at Machærus he had +seen her, gambling with the emir, while +Salomè danced. She was with Antipas, +of course. He looked again; she had +gone. +</p> + +<p> +The Sanhedrim consulted nervously. +The new turn of affairs was not at all to +their liking. The clamors of the mob +continued. Once a fanatic pushed against +a soldier. There was a thud, a howl, and +a mouth masked with liquid red gasped +to the sun and was seen no more. +</p> + +<p> +Behind the procurator came a movement. +The officials massed about the +entrance parted in uneven ranks, and +in the great vestibule beyond, Antipas +appeared. Pilate rose to greet him. The +elders made obeisance. The tetrarch +moved forward and seated himself in his +father’s throne. At his side was Pahul, +<pb n="209"/><anchor id="Pg209"/>the butler, balancing himself flamingowise +on one leg, his bold eyes foraging +the priests. +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas formulated the complaint +anew, very majestically this time, and, +thinking perhaps to overawe the tetrarch, +his voice assumed the authority of a +guardian of the keys of heaven, a chamberlain +of the sceptres of the earth. +</p> + +<p> +Antipas ignored him utterly. He +plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and +stared at the Christ. He could see now +he bore no resemblance to Iohanan. +There was nothing of the hyena about +him, nor of the prophet either. Evidently +he was but a harmless vagabond, skilled +in simples, if report were true; perhaps +a thaumaturge. And it was he whom he +had feared and fancied might be that Son +of David for whom a star was created, +whom the magi had visited, whom his +father had sought to destroy, and whom +now from his father’s own throne he himself +was called upon to judge! He shook +his head, and in the sunlight the indigo +<pb n="210"/><anchor id="Pg210"/>with which his hair was powdered made +bright blue motes. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I say——</q> +</p> + +<p> +Just beyond, where the assessors stood, +Mary suddenly appeared. He stopped +abruptly; for more than a year he had +not seen her. Pahul had told him +she had gone to Rome. If she had, he +reflected, the journey had not improved +her appearance. Then for the moment +he dismissed her, and returned to the +Christ. +</p> + +<p> +<q>See here: somebody the other day +told me you worked miracles. I have +wanted to see one all my life. Gratify +me, won’t you? Oh, something very easy +to begin with. Send one of the guards up +in the air, or turn your bonds into bracelets.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Christ did not seem to hear. Pahul +laughed and held to the throne for +support. Antipas shrugged his shoulders. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He looks harmless enough,</q> he said. +<q>Why not let him go?</q> +</p> + +<pb n="211"/><anchor id="Pg211"/> + +<p> +Caiaphas glowered, and his fingers +twitched. <q>He claims to be king!</q> +</p> + +<p> +At this statement the tetrarch laughed +too. He gave an order to Pahul, who +vanished with a grin. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He has jeered at the Temple your +father built,</q> Caiaphas continued. <q>He +has declared he could destroy it and +rebuild a better one, in three days at +that.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is king, then, but of fools.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he has called you a fox,</q> Caiaphas +added, significantly. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He doesn’t claim to be one himself, +does he?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is guilty of treason, and it is for +you, his ruler, to sentence him.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not I. The blood of kings is sacred. +Pahul, make haste!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The butler, reappearing, held in his +hand the glittering white vestment of a +candidate. The tetrarch took it and held +it in air. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here, put this on him, and let his +subjects admire him to their hearts’ +content.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/> + +<p> +<q>Antipas, you disgrace your purple!</q> +</p> + +<p> +At the exclamation, the Sanhedrim, the +guards, the assessors, the officials, Pilate +himself, everyone save the prisoner, +turned and looked. On the colored pavement +Mary stood, her face very pale. +</p> + +<p> +The tetrarch flushed mightily; anger +mounted into his shifting eyes. For a +moment the sky was blood-red; then he +recovered himself and answered lightly: +</p> + +<p> +<q>It seems to me, my dear, that you +take things with a high hand. It may be +that you forget yourself.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I take them from where I am,</q> she +cried. <q>As for forgetfulness, remember +that my grandfather was satrap of Syria, +my father after him, while yours——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, yes, I dare say. He is not in +power now; I am.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not here, Antipas, nor in Rome. I +appeal to Pilate.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The tetrarch rose from the throne. +The elders whispered together. Pilate +visibly was perplexed. Remembering +Mary as he did, he looked upon the incident +as a family quarrel, one in which it +<pb n="213"/><anchor id="Pg213"/>would be unseemly for him to interfere, +and which none the less disturbed the +decorum of his court. +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but +the latter brushed him aside. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The hetaira is right,</q> he exclaimed. +<q>I am not in power here. If I were, she +should be lapidated.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And, preceded by the butler, Antipas +passed through the parting ranks to the +vestibule beyond. +</p> + +<p> +The perplexity of the procurator increased. +He did not in the least understand. +To him Mary stood in the same +relation to Antipas that Cleopatra had to +Herod. There had been a feud between +the tetrarch and himself, one recently +mended, and which he had no wish to +renew. Yet manifestly Antipas was aggrieved, +and his own path in the matter +by no means clear. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bah!</q> he muttered, in the consoling +undertone of thought, <q>what are their +beastly barbarian manners to me?</q> +</p> + +<p> +These reflections Caiaphas interrupted. +</p> + +<pb n="214"/><anchor id="Pg214"/> + +<p> +<q>We are waiting, my lord, for the sentence +to be pronounced.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The tone he used was not, however, +indicative of patience, and in conjunction +with the incident that had just occurred +it irritated and jarred. Besides, Pilate +did not care to be prompted. It was for +him to speak first. He strangled an oath, +and, gathering some fringe of the majesty +of Rome, he announced very measuredly: +</p> + +<p> +<q>You have brought this man before +me as a rebel. I have examined him and +find no ground for the charge. His ruler, +the tetrarch, has also examined him, and +by him too he has been acquitted. But +in view of the fact that he appears to have +contravened some one or another of your +laws I order him to be scourged and to +be liberated.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With that he turned to the prisoner. +During the entire proceedings the attitude +of Jesus had not altered. He stood as a +disinterested spectator might—one whom +chance had brought that way and there +hemmed in—his eyes on remote, +inacces<pb n="215"/><anchor id="Pg215"/>sible horizons, the tongue silent, the head +a little raised. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Scourging, my lord,</q> Caiaphas interjected, +<q>is fit and proper, but,</q> he continued, +one silk-gloved hand uplifted, +<q>our law prescribes death. Only an +enemy to Tiberius would prevent it.</q> +</p> + +<p> +At the veiled menace Pilate gnawed +his under lip. He had no faith at all in +the loyalty of the hierarch; at any other +time the affection the latter manifested +for the chains he bore would have been +ludicrous and nothing else. But at the +moment he felt insecure. There were +Galileans whom he had sacrificed, Judæans +whom he had slaughtered, Samaritans +whom he had oppressed, an embassy +might even now be on its way to +Rome; he thought again of Sejanus, and, +with cause, he hesitated. Yet of the inward +perturbation he gave no outward +sign. +</p> + +<p> +<q>On this day,</q> he said at last, <q>it is +customary that in commemoration of +your nation’s delivery out of Egypt I +should release a prisoner to you. There +<pb n="216"/><anchor id="Pg216"/>are three others here, among them Jesus +Barabba.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Then, for support perhaps, he looked +over at the clamoring mob. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will leave the choice to the people.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A wind seemed to raise the elders; +they scattered through the court like +leaves. <q>Have done with the Nazarene,</q> +cried one. <q>He would lead you astray,</q> +insinuated another. <q>He has violated +the Law,</q> exclaimed a third. +</p> + +<p> +And, filtering through the soldiery into +the mob without, they exhorted and +prayed and coerced. <q>Ask for Barabba; +denounce the blasphemer. Trust to the +Sanhedrim. We are your guides. Let +him atone for his crimes. The God of +your fathers commands that you condemn. +Demand Barabba; uphold your +nation. To the cross with the Nazarene!</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whom do you choose?</q> shouted +Pilate. +</p> + +<p> +And the pleb of Jerusalem shouted +back as one man, <q>Barabba!</q> +</p> + +<p> +At the moment Pilate fancied himself +in an amphitheatre, the arena filled with +<pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/>beasts. There were the satin and stripes +of the panther, the yellow of treacherous +eyes, the gnash of fangs, the guttural +rumble, the deafening yell, the scent of +blood, and above, the same blue tender +sky. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What of the prisoner?</q> he called. +</p> + +<p> +A roar leapt back. <q>Sekaph! Sekaph! +Let him be crucified.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate had fronted a rabble before, and +in two minutes had turned that rabble +into so many dead flies, the legs in the +air. He shook his head, and told himself +he was not there to be coerced. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Release Barabba,</q> he ordered. <q>And +as for the prisoner, take him to the barracks +and have him scourged.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Brute!</q> cried a voice that lifted him +as a blow might from his ebony chair. +<q>Pilate, though you are a plebeian, why +show yourself a slave?</q> +</p> + +<p> +And Mary, with the strength of anger, +brushed through the encircling officials +and towered before him, robed in wrath. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah, permit me,</q> he answered; <q>you +are singularly unjust.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="218"/><anchor id="Pg218"/> + +<p> +<q>Prove me so, and countermand the +order that you gave.</q> +</p> + +<p> +As she spoke she adjusted her mantle, +which had become disarranged, and looked +him from head to foot, measuring him as it +were, and finding him, visibly, very small. +</p> + +<p> +Already the prisoner had been led +away, and beyond, in the barracks, was +the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, +rebounded, and lacerated again. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will not,</q> he answered. <q>What I +have ordered, I have ordered. As for +you——</q> +</p> + +<p> +There had come to her that look which +sibyls have. <q>Pilate,</q> she interrupted, +<q>you are powerful here, I know, but</q>—and +her hand shot out like an arrow +from a bow—<q>over there vultures are +circling; in your power is a corpse. +What the vultures scent, I see.</q> +</p> + +<p> +So abrupt and earnest was the gesture +that unconsciously Pilate found himself +looking to where she seemed to point. +He lowered his eyes in vexation. +Wrangling with a woman was not to +his taste. +</p> + +<pb n="219"/><anchor id="Pg219"/> + +<p> +<q>There, there,</q> he said, much as one +might to a fretful child; <q>don’t throw +stones.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have but one; it is Justice, and that +I keep to hurl at you.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The procurator’s mouth twitched ominously. +<q>My dear,</q> he said, <q>you are +too pretty to talk that way; it spoils the +looks. Besides, I have no time to listen.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Tiberius has and will.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Pilate nodded; it was the third time +he had heard the threat that day. +</p> + +<p> +<q>There are many rooms in his palace,</q> +he answered, with covert significance. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, I know it. There are many, as +you say. But there is one I will enter. +On the door stands written The Future, +and behind it, Pilate, is your death.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The Roman, goaded to exasperation, +sprang to his feet. An expression which +Antipas had used occurred to him. +<q>Away with the hetaira,</q> he cried; and +he was about, it may be, to order her to +be tossed to the fierce wild swine in the +paddocks of the park when the prisoner +and his guards reappeared on the +tessel<pb n="220"/><anchor id="Pg220"/>lated pavement, and Mary, already +dragged from him, was instantly forgot. +</p> + +<p> +A tattered sagum, which had once been +scarlet, but which had faded since, hung, +detained at the shoulder by a rusty +buckle, and bordered by a laticlave, loosely +about his form. In his hand a bulrush +swayed; on his head was a twisted coil of +bear’s-breech, in which, among the ruffled +leaves, one bud remained; it was white, +the opening edges flecked with pink, +perhaps with blood, for from the temples +and about the ear a rill ran down and +mixed with the purple of the laticlave +below. And in this red parody of kingship +the Christ stood, unmoved as a +phantom, but in his face and eyes there +was a projecting light so luminous, so +intangible, and yet so real, that the skeptical +procurator started, the staff of office +pendent in his grasp. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ecce homo!</q> he exclaimed. Instinctively +he drew back, and, wonderingly, +half to himself, half to the Christ, <q>Who +are you?</q> he asked. +</p> + +<p> +<q>A flame below, a soul above,</q> Jesus +<pb n="221"/><anchor id="Pg221"/>answered, yet so inaudibly that the guards +beside him did not catch the words. +</p> + +<p> +To Pilate his lips had barely moved, +and his wonderment increased. <q>Why +do you not answer?</q> he said. <q>You +must know that I have the power to condemn +and to acquit.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With that gentleness that was the flower +of his parables Jesus raised his voice. +<q>No,</q> he replied, <q>you can have no power +against me unless it come from above.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Again Pilate drew back. Unsummoned +to his lips had sprung the words, <q>Behold +the man!</q> and now he exclaimed, <q>Behold +the king!</q> +</p> + +<p> +But to the mob the vision he intercepted +was lost. They saw the jest merely, +and with it the stains that torture leaves. +The sight of blood is heady; it inebriates +more surely than wine. The mob, trained +by the elders, and used by them as a +body-guard, fanatic before, were intoxicated +now. With one accord they shrieked +the liturgy again. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="222"/><anchor id="Pg222"/> + +<p> +In that gust of hatred Pilate recovered. +He turned to Caiaphas: +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have released one prisoner; I will +release another too.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>My lord, be warned by one who is +your elder.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>One whom I can remove.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>No doubt, my lord; but suffer him +while he may to warn you not to cause a +revolution on the day of the Paschal feast. +You hear that multitude. Then be +warned.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>But your feast is one of mercy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The high-priest gazed curiously at his +silk-gloved hands. You would have said +they were objects he had never seen before. +Then he returned the procurator’s +stare. +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know of no such god.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah!</q> And the procurator drew a +long breath of understanding. <q>It is that, +I believe, he preaches.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it is for that,</q> Caiaphas echoed, +<q>that he must die. Yes, Pilate, it is for +that. There is no such doctrine in the +Pentateuch. We have done our duty. +<pb n="223"/><anchor id="Pg223"/>We have convicted a rebel of his guilt. +We have brought him to you, and we demand +his sentence. Pilate, it is not so +very long ago you had hundreds massacred +without judgment, without trial +either, and for what?—for one rebellious +cry. You must have a reason for the +favor you show this man. It would interest +me to learn it; it would interest +Tiberius as well. Listen to that multitude. +If you pay no heed to our accusation nor +yet to their demand, on you the consequences +rest. We are absolved.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is your king,</q> the procurator objected, +meditatively. +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas wheeled like a feather a breeze +has caught. One hand outstretched he +held to the mob, with the other he pointed +to the Christ. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Our king!</q> he cried. <q>The procurator +says he is our king!</q> +</p> + +<p> +As the thunder peals, a roar surged +back: +</p> + +<p> +<q>We have no other king than Cæsar.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think of Sejanus,</q> the high-priest +<pb n="224"/><anchor id="Pg224"/>suggested. The thrust was so well timed +it told. +</p> + +<p> +Pilate looked sullenly about. <q>Fetch +me water,</q> he ordered. +</p> + +<p> +A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing +a custom from the Jews he loathed, he +dipped his fingers in it. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I wash my hands of it all,</q> he muttered. +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas looked at the elders and +sighed with infinite relief. He had conquered. +For the first time that day he +smiled. He became gracious also, and he +bowed. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The blood be upon us, my lord, and +on our children. Will you give the +order?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Calcol!</q> +</p> + +<p> +The centurion approached. An order +was given him in an undertone, and as he +turned to the guards, Pilate drew the staff +of office across his knee, snapped it in +two, tossed the pieces to the ground, and +through the ranks of his servitors passed +on into the great blue vestibule beyond. +</p> + +</div><div rend="page-break-before: right"> +<pb n="225"/><anchor id="Pg225"/> +<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/> +<head>CHAPTER X.</head> + +<pb/><anchor id="Pg226"/> + +<pb n="227"/><anchor id="Pg227"/> + +<head rend="page-break-before: right">X.</head> + +<p> +In a sook near the Gannath Gate Mary +stood. In the distance the palace of +Herod defied the sun. Beyond the gate +lay the Hennom Valley, the Geia Hennom, +contracted by the people into Ge’ +Hennom, or Gehenna, and converted by +them into a sewer, a place where carrion +was thrown, and the filth of a great city. +In earlier days children had been immolated +to Moloch there, human victims had +been burned; it was a place accursed, and +to purify the air, as a safeguard against +pestilence, the offal was consumed by +bonfires that were constantly renewed +and never extinguished. At its extremity +was an elevation, a hilly contour which +to the popular fancy suggested a skull. +To the west it fell steeply away. It was +called Gülgolta. +</p> + +<p> +The sook in which Mary stood was +<pb n="228"/><anchor id="Pg228"/>affected by shoemakers. Against the +dwelling of one of them she leaned. The +mantle was gone from her now, and the +olive robe had a rent, but the splendor of +her hair fell unconfined, the perils of her +eyes had increased; yet in their depths +where love had been was hate. One arm +lay along the resisting stone, the other +hung at her side; her face was turned to +the palace, her thin nostrils quivering, her +breath coming and going with that spasmodic +irregularity which the consciousness +of outrage brings. She laid it all to +Judas; he must have returned to Kerioth, +she thought. The sook itself was silent, +stirred merely by some echo of the uproar +in the palace beyond. +</p> + +<p> +From a grilled lattice near by an old +man peered out. He had the restless +eyes of a ferret, and a white beard that +was very long. He too was looking toward +the palace. Now and then he muttered +inaudibly in Aramaic to himself. +In the shadow of a neighboring house a +woman appeared; he shook at the lattice +as an ape does at the bars of a cage, and +<pb n="229"/><anchor id="Pg229"/>spat a bestial insult at her. The woman +shrank back. Instinctively Mary turned. +In the retreating figure she recognized +Ahulah, and at once, without conscious +effort, she divined that the dwelling +against which she leaned was that of Baba +Barbulah, the husband of the woman +whom the Master had declined to condemn. +</p> + +<p> +But other things possessed her—the +outrage to the Christ, perplexity as to +how the trial would result, more remotely +the indignity to herself, the slurs of the +tetrarch and of the procurator; and with +them, sapping her heart as fever might, +was that thirst for reparation, unquenchable +in its intensity, which comes to those +who have seen their own life wrecked and +its ideals dispersed. +</p> + +<p> +Already Ahulah was forgot. On the +wings of vagabond fancy she was in Rome, +demanding vengeance of Tiberius, wresting +it from him by the sheer force of entreaty, +and with it exulting in the death-throes +of the procurator. Oh, to see his +nails pulled out, his outer skin removed, +<pb n="230"/><anchor id="Pg230"/>his tongue severed, his eyes seared with +irons, his wrists slowly twisted till they +snapped! to hear him cry for mercy! to +promise it and not fulfil!—dear God, what +joy was there! +</p> + +<p> +From the alley into which Ahulah had +shrunk a man issued. He was sturdy as +a bludgeon, and he had a growth of thick +black hair that curled about an honest +face. In his hand was a basket. At the +sight of Mary his steps hesitated, and his +eyes followed hers to where the palace +lay. Then he crossed the zigzag of the +intervening space, but he had to touch +her outstretched arm before she noticed +him. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Simon!</q> she exclaimed, with that +start one has when suddenly awaked. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yes, Simon indeed;</q> and through the +silence of the sook his clear laugh rang. +<q>I frightened you, did I not?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Mary interrupted him. <q>Haven’t you +heard? Has not Eleazer told you——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>When I left Bethany he was sleeping +with both fists closed. Martha——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Master is arrested. Last night +<pb n="231"/><anchor id="Pg231"/>he was before the Sanhedrim; he is before +the procurator now.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Hurriedly Mary gave an account of +what had occurred. As the recital continued, +Simon’s expression grew darker +than his curling hair, he clutched at the +basket which he held, so tightly that the +handle severed, the basket fell, and fruit +that imprisoned the sunlight rolled on +the ground. +</p> + +<p> +<q>They were for the Master,</q> he said. +<q>I thought he would sup with us to-night.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He may do so yet,</q> she answered. +<q>Perhaps——</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Never!</q> cried a voice from the lattice. +<q>They are leading him to Gülgolta now.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Beyond, through the palace gate, a +mass undulated, the body elongated, expanding +as it moved. It was black, but +at the sides was the glisten that cobras +have. About it dust circled, and from it +came the rumble of thunder heard afar. +As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; +the black lessened into varying +hues. To the glisten came the glint of +<pb n="232"/><anchor id="Pg232"/>steel; the cobra changed into a multitude, +the escort of a squad of soldiery, +fronted by a centurion and led by the +banner of Imperial Rome. +</p> + +<p> +Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his +faded sagum, staggered, overweighted +by the burden of a cross. Two comrades +in misery were at his side, but +they moved with steadier step, bearing +their crosses with the brawn of muscular +and untired arms. The soldiers marched +impassibly, preceding the executioners—four +stalwart Cypriotes, distinguishable +by the fatness of their calves—while +behind was the Sanhedrim, and, extending +indefinitely to the rear, the rabble of +yelling Jews. +</p> + +<p> +In a cobra’s coils is death, its eyes +transfix. Neither Mary nor Simon had +spoken, and now, as the soldiery was +upon them, they leaned yet nearer the +wall. For a moment Mary hid her face. +At her feet the Christ had fallen, and +from her came one wail, choked down at +once. She stooped to aid him, but he +<pb n="233"/><anchor id="Pg233"/>stood up unassisted and reached to the +wall for support. +</p> + +<p> +The bars of the lattice shook; the old +man peered out. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Don’t touch my house, you vagabond! +Move on!</q> he cried. +</p> + +<p> +Calcol had turned to Simon, who was +raising the cross. <q>Carry it for him,</q> he +commanded. +</p> + +<p> +Baba Barbulah still shook at the lattice. +<q>Move on!</q> he repeated. <q>Seducer +of the people, remitter of sins, upholder +of adultery, move on; don’t touch my +house, it will fall down on you! Move +on, I say!</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calcol’s command Simon had anticipated. +He shouldered the cross. It was +heavier to him than to the Christ, not in +weight, perhaps, but in purpose. In the +narrowness of the sook the crowd was +impeded, but from the rear they pushed, +surprised at the halt. +</p> + +<p> +Mary sprang at the lattice. <q>It is you +that shall move on,</q> she cried; <q>yes, +you; and forever. The desert will call +to you, <q>March;</q> and the sea will snarl, +<pb n="234"/><anchor id="Pg234"/><q>Further yet.</q> The gates of cities will +deny you, and the doors of hamlets be +closed. The eagles may return to their +eyrie, the panthers retreat to their lair, +but you will have no home, no rest, and, +till time dies, no tomb.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The old man gnashed back at her an +insult more bestial than he used before, +and spat at her through the bars. But +Mary had turned to the Christ. He was +surrounded now by some women who +had filtered through the alley above. +Johanna, Mary Clopas, the wife of Zebdia, +and Bernice, a fragile girl newly enrolled. +The latter was wiping from his +face the stains of blood and dust. The +others were beating their breasts, crying +aloud. +</p> + +<p> +Of the disciples there was no trace, nor +yet of any of those who had greeted him +as the Messiah. It may be that the admiring +throngs that had gathered about +him had faded before a superior force. +It may be they had lost heart, belief +perhaps as well. Invective never propitiates. +Recently he had omitted to +<pb n="235"/><anchor id="Pg235"/>prophesy, he argued. The exquisite +parables with which he had been wont +to charm even the recalcitrant seemed to +have been put aside, and with them those +wonders which rumor held him to have +worked. But now that pathos and grace +which endeared, that perfection of sentiment +and expression which exalted the +heart, returned to him, accentuated perhaps +by the agonies he had endured. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Weep for me no more,</q> he entreated. +<q>But weep for yourselves and for your +children. The days are coming,</q> he +added, with a gesture at the impatient +mob—<q>the days are coming in which +they shall say to the mountains, Fall on +us; to the hills, Cover us. For if these +things are done in the green tree, what +will be done in the dry?</q> +</p> + +<p> +And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted +them to view disaster otherwise +than from the external and evanescent +aspect, the voice of the prophet rang +once more. +</p> + +<p> +Mary as yet had not realized the full +portent of the soldiery and the mob. +<pb n="236"/><anchor id="Pg236"/>When it was approaching it had occurred +to her that it might be another triumphal +escort, such as she had once seen surround +him on his way to a feast. As it +advanced, the roar bewildered, and she +had ceased to conjecture; then the Master +had fallen, and the old Jew had vomited +his slime. At the moment it was that, and +that only, which had impressed her, and +she had answered with the force of that +new strength which suddenly she had +found. But now at the sight of the +women beating their breasts, and the +blood-stained face of the Master, an inkling +came to her; she stared open-mouthed +at the cross, at Calcol, and at +the executioners that were there. +</p> + +<p> +Then immediately that horrible longing +to know the worst beset her, and she +darted to where the centurion stood. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What is it?</q> she gasped. <q>What are +you to do with him?</q> +</p> + +<p> +By way of answer Calcol extended his +arms straight out from either side, his +head thrown back. He was a good-natured +ruffian, with clear and pleasant eyes. +</p> + +<pb n="237"/><anchor id="Pg237"/> + +<p> +<q>Not crucify?</q> she cried. <q>Tell me, it +is not that?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calcol nodded. To him one Jew more, +one Jew less, was immaterial, provided +he had his pay, and the prospect of a return +to Rome was not too long delayed. +Yet none the less in some misty way he +wondered why this woman, with her +splendid hair and scorching eyes, should +have upbraided the tetrarch and abused +the procurator because of the friendless +Galilean whom he was leading to the +cross. Woman to him, however, was, as +she has been to others wiser than he, an +enigma he failed to solve. And so he +nodded merely, not unkindly, and smiled +in Mary’s face. +</p> + +<p> +The horrible longing now was stilled. +She knew the worst; yet as the knowledge +of it penetrated her being, it seemed to +her as though it could not be true, that +she was the plaything of some hallucination, +her mind inhabited by a nightmare +from which she must presently awake. +The howl of the impatient mob undeceived +her. It was real; it was actual; +<pb n="238"/><anchor id="Pg238"/>it was life. She stared at Calcol, her fair +mouth agape. There were many things +she wanted to say; her thoughts teemed +with arguments, her mind with persuasions; +but she could utter nothing; she +was as one struck dumb; and it was not +until the centurion smiled that the spell +dissolved and the power of speech returned. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ah, <hi rend="italic">that</hi> never; you shall kill me +first!</q> she cried. And already she saw +herself circumventing the centurion, blinding +the soldiery, defying the mob, and +leading the Master through byways and +underground passages out of the accursed +city into the fresh glades of Gethsemane, +over the hill, down the hollows +to the Jordan, and into the desert beyond. +There was one spot she knew +very well; one that only a bird could +find; one that she would mention to no +one, but to which she could take him and +keep him hidden there in the brakes till +night came, and the fording of the river +was safe. +</p> + +<p> +<q>That never!</q> she cried. And +brush<pb n="239"/><anchor id="Pg239"/>ing Bernice off, she caught the Master by +the cloak. <q>Come with me,</q> she murmured. +<q>I know a way——</q> +</p> + +<p> +And she would have dragged him perhaps, +regardless of the others, but the +centurion had her by the arm. +</p> + +<p> +<q>See here, my pretty friend, your place +is not here.</q> +</p> + +<p> +With a twist he sent her spinning back +to Baba Barbulah’s wall. +</p> + +<p> +<q>March!</q> he ordered. +</p> + +<p> +The soldiery, disarranged, fell in line. +The two robbers picked up their burden. +The Master turned to Mary, to the others +as well, with that expression which he +alone possessed, that look which both +promised and assuaged, and, it may be, +would have said some word of encouragement, +but Mary was at his side again, +her hand upon his cloak. +</p> + +<p> +<q>It shall never be,</q> she repeated. +<q>They must kill me first.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calcol wheeled. His short sword +glistened, reversed, and her cheek was +laid open by the hilt. She staggered +back. The soldiery moved on. The +<pb n="240"/><anchor id="Pg240"/>women surrounded her and stanched the +wound. To her the blow held the difference +between a cut and a cancer; she +knew that it could never heal; and, as the +blood poured down her face, for the first +time she divined the uselessness of revolt. +</p> + +<p> +Presently a wave of the mob caught +her, separating her from the other women, +and carrying her in its eddy through +the gate, into the valley and on to the +hillock beyond. On one side were the +glimmer of fires, the smell of smoke, of +offal too. On the infrequent trees vultures +perched. To the right was a nest +of gardens and of tombs. +</p> + +<p> +In the eddies Mary lost foothold and +lagged a little to the rear. When she +reached Gülgolta the soldiery had formed +three sides of a square. In it were the +executioners, the prisoners, and the centurion. +At the place where a fourth side +might have been a steep decline began. +</p> + +<p> +Within the square three crosses lay; +before them the prisoners stood, stripped +of their clothing now, and naked. +</p> + +<p> +The Sanhedrim was grouped about +<pb n="241"/><anchor id="Pg241"/>that side of the square which leaned to +the south, the horned bonnet of Caiaphas +towering its lacework above the others. +To the wide and cruel corners of his +mouth had come the calm of a cheetah +devouring its prey. At the outer angle, +to the right, the standard of the empire +swayed; and from an oak two vultures +soared with a scream into the air, their +eyes fixed on the vision of bare white +flesh. +</p> + +<p> +Through the ranks an elder passed. In +his hand was a gourd, which he offered to +one of the thieves. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Drink of it, Dysmas,</q> he invited. +<q>In it grains of frankincense have been +dissolved.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To the rear Annas nodded his approval. +His lean, lank jaws parted. <q>Give strong +drink,</q> he announced, authoritatively; +<q>give strong and heady drink to those +about to die, and wine to those that sorrow.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Dysmas drank abundantly of the soporific, +and held the gourd to his comrade. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take it, Stegas.</q> +</p> + +<pb n="242"/><anchor id="Pg242"/> + +<p> +As the second thief raised it to his lips, +with a motion of arm and knee an executioner +caught Dysmas beneath the chin, +behind the leg, and the thief lay on a +cross. In a second his wrists were bound, +his feet as well. There was the blow of +a hammer on a nail, a spurt of blood from +the open hand; another blow, another +spurt; and the cross, upraised, settled in +a cavity already prepared, a beam behind +it for support. +</p> + +<p> +Stegas, his thirst slaked, fell as Dysmas +had, and the elder caught the gourd and +offered it to the Christ. If he had been +tempted in the desert, as rumor alleged, +the temptation could have been as nothing +in comparison to the enticements of +that cup. It held relief from thought, +from the acutest pain that flesh can know, +from life, from death. +</p> + +<p> +He waved it aside. The executioner +started with surprise; but he had his +duty to perform, and, recovering himself, +he caught the Christ, and in a moment he +too was down, his hands transfixed, the +cross upraised. The blood dripped +lei<pb n="243"/><anchor id="Pg243"/>surely on the sand beneath. Across his +features a shadow passed and vanished. +His lips moved. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Father,</q> he murmured, <q>forgive +them; they know not what they do.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calcol gave an order. Over the heads +of Dysmas and of Stegas the sanis were +affixed, wooden tablets smeared with +gypsum, bearing the name of the crucified +and with it the offence. They were +simple and terse; but above the Christ +appeared a legend in three tongues, in +Aramaic, in Greek, and in Latin: +</p> +<pgIf output="txt"><then><p rend="center">[Aramaic: Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje]</p></then> +<else><pgIf output="pdf"><then><p rend="center"><figure url="images/titulus.png"><figDesc>Aramaic: Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje</figDesc></figure></p></then> +<else><p rend="center"><figure url="images/titulus.png"><figDesc>Aramaic: Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje</figDesc></figure></p></else> +</pgIf></else></pgIf> + <p rend="center"><foreign rend="Greek" lang="el">Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων.</foreign></p> + <p rend="center">Rex Judæorum.</p> +<p> +Caiaphas sprang back as from the +point of a sword. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje!</q> he bellowed. +<q>King of the Jews! It is a blasphemy, +an iniquity, and an outrage. Centurion, +tear it down.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and +pointed to the palace. <q>What the procurator +has written he has written,</q> he +answered. +</p> + +<pb n="244"/><anchor id="Pg244"/> + +<p> +In the tone, in the gesture that preceded +it, and in its impertinence Caiaphas +read Pilate’s one yet supreme revenge, +the expression of his absolute contempt +for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation +that it ruled. +</p> + +<p> +From the rear the mob jumped at the +title as at a catchword. To them the +irony of the procurator presumably was +lost. +</p> + +<p> +<q>King of the Jews!</q> they shouted. +<q>Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje, come down from +your cross!</q> +</p> + +<p> +It was a great festival, and as they +jeered at Jesus they enjoyed themselves +hugely. +</p> + +<p> +In their vast delight the voice of Stegas +was drowned. +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am a Roman citizen,</q> he kept repeating, +his head swaying, and indicating +with his eyes the wounds in his hands, +the torture he endured. <q>Kill me,</q> he +implored. And finding entreaty idle, he +reviled the centurion, cursed the soldiery, +and would have spat at them, but to his +burning throat no spittle came. +</p> + +<pb n="245"/><anchor id="Pg245"/> + +<p> +The tongue of Dysmas lolled from his +mouth. He had not the ability to speak, +even if in speech relief could come. +Flame licked at his flesh, his joints were +severing, each artery was a nerve exposed, +and something was crunching his brain. +He could no longer groan; he could +suffer merely, such suffering as hell perhaps +has failed to contrive, that apogee +of agony which it was left for man to +devise. +</p> + +<p> +Stegas, catching the refrain the mob +repeated, turned his eyes from the soldiery +to the adjacent cross. +</p> + +<p> +<q>If you are as they say,</q> he cried, +<q>save yourself and us.</q> +</p> + +<p> +As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, +<q>Behold your king!</q> and raising a stalk +of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he +had dipped in the posca, the thin wine +the soldiers drink, he offered it to the +Christ. +</p> + +<p> +The sun was nearing the horizon. +Caiaphas gathered his ample folds about +him. He had seen enough. The feast, +wretchedly embittered, was nearly done. +<pb n="246"/><anchor id="Pg246"/>There was another at which he must officiate: +the shofa presently would sound; +the skewering of the Paschal lamb it was +needful for him to superintend. It was +time, he knew, to return to the Temple; +and as he gave a last indignant look at +the placard, the lips of the Christ parted +to one despairing cry: +</p> + +<p> +<q>Elî, Elî, lemâh shebâktanî?</q> +</p> + +<p> +Caiaphas, nodding to the elders, smiled +with satisfaction. +</p> + +<p> +At last the false pretender was forced +to acknowledge the invalidity of his +claims. The Father whose son he vaunted +himself to be had disowned him when +his recognition was needed, if ever it had +been needed at all. And so, with the +smile of one whose labor has had its +recompense, Caiaphas patted his skirt, +and the elders about him strolled back +through the Gannath Gate to the Temple +that awaited him. +</p> + +<p> +The multitude meanwhile had decreased. +To the crowd also the Temple +had its attractions, its duties, and its +offices. Moreover, the spectacle was at +<pb n="247"/><anchor id="Pg247"/>an end. With a blow of the mallet the +legs of the thieves had been broken. +They had died without a shriek, a thing +to be regretted. The Galilean too, +pierced by the level stroke of a spear, +had succumbed without a word. Sundown +was approaching. Clearly it was +best to be within the walls where other +gayeties were. The mob dispersed, leaving +behind but the dead, the circling +vultures, a group of soldiers throwing dice +for the garments of the crucified, and, +remotely, a group of women huddled +beneath a protecting oak. +</p> + +<p> +During the hour or two that intervened, +the force which had visited Mary evaporated +in strength overtaxed. She was +conscious only that she suffocated. The +words of the women that had drawn her +to them were empty as blanks in a dream; +the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty +bier. To but one thing was she alive, +the fact that death could be. Little by +little, as the impossible merged into the +actual, the understanding came to her +that the worst that could be had been +<pb n="248"/><anchor id="Pg248"/>done, and she ceased to suffer. The departing +hierarchy, the dispersing mob, +retreating before encroaching night, left +her unimpressed. To her the setting sun +was Christ. +</p> + +<p> +The soldiers passed. She did not see +them. Calcol called to her. She did +not hear. The women had gone from +her; she did not notice it. She stood as +a cataleptic might, her eyes on the cross. +Once only, when the Christ had uttered +his despairing cry, she too had cried in +her despair. In the roar of the mob the +cry was lost as a stone tossed in the sea. +Since then she had been dumb, sightless +also, existing, if at all, unconsciously, her +life-springs nourished by death. +</p> + +<p> +Though she gazed at the cross, she had +ceased to distinguish it. A little group +that had reached it before the soldiery +left had been unmarked by her. On the +platform of her dream a serpent had +emerged. In its coils were her immortal +hopes. It was that she saw, and that +alone. Those moments of agony in +which the imagination oscillates between +<pb n="249"/><anchor id="Pg249"/>the past and the future, devouring the +one, fumbling the other, had been endured, +and resignation failed to bring its +balm. She had believed with a faith so +firm that now in its demolition there was +nothing left—an abyss merely, where +light was not. +</p> + +<p> +A hand touched her, and she quivered +as a leaf does at the wing of a bird. +<q>Mary, come with us,</q> some one was +saying; <q>we are taking him to a tomb.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Just beyond were men and women +whom she knew. Joseph of Haramathaïm, +a close follower of the Master; +Nikodemon, the richest man in all Judæa; +Johanna, Mary Clopas, Salomè, Bernice, +and the servants of the opulent Jew. It +was Ahulah who had touched her; and as +Mary started she saw before her a coffin +which the others bore. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come with us,</q> Ahulah repeated; and +Mary crossed the intervening ridge to +where the gardens were and the tombs +she had already passed. +</p> + +<p> +At the door of a sepulchre the brief +procession halted. Within was a room, +<pb n="250"/><anchor id="Pg250"/>a little grotto furnished with a stone slab +and a lamp that flickered, surmounted by +an arch. The coffin, placed on the slab, +routed a bat that flew to the arch, and a +lizard that scurried to a crevice. In the +coffin the Christ lay, his head wrapped in +a napkin, the body wound about by +broad bands of linen that were secured +with gum and impregnated with spices +and with myrrh. The odor of aromatics +filled the tomb. The bat escaped to the +night. A stone was rolled before the +opening, the brief procession withdrew, +and Mary was left with the dead. +</p> + +<p> +The momentary exertion, the bier, the +sepulchre, the sight of the Christ in his +cerements, the brooding quiet—these +things had roused her. Her mind was +nimbler, and thought more active. One +by one the stars appeared. They would +vanish, she told herself, as her hopes had +done. Only they would reappear, and +belief could not. It had come as a rainbow +does, and disappeared as vaporously, +little by little, before the full glare of +might. For a minute, hours perhaps, she +<pb n="251"/><anchor id="Pg251"/>stood quite still, interrogating the past +in which so much had been, gauging the +future in which so much was to be. The +one retreated, the other fled. Thoughts +came to her evanescently, and faded before +they were wholly formed. At one +moment she was beckoning the unicorns +from the desert, the winged lions from the +yonderland, commanding them to bear +her to the home of some immense revenge. +At others she was asking her way of +griffins, propounding the problem to the +Sphinx. But the unicorns and lions took +flight, the griffins spread their wings, the +Sphinx fell asleep. There was no answer +to her appeal. +</p> + +<p> +Behind the sepulchre the moon rose; it +dropped a beam near by. There is light +somewhere, it seemed to say; and in that +telegram from Above, she thought of +Rome. She remembered now, in Rome +was Tiberius, and in him Revenge. She +smiled at her own forgetfulness. Yes, it +was there. She would go to him, she +would exact reparation; there should be +another crucifixion. Pilate should be +<pb n="252"/><anchor id="Pg252"/>nailed to the cross, Judas on one side, +Caiaphas on the other. Only it would be +at Rome where there was no Passover to +interfere with the torture they endured. +Things were done better there. Men were +crucified, not with the head up, but with +the feet; and so remained, not for hours, +but for days; and died, not of their wounds +alone, but of hunger too. +</p> + +<p> +A chariot of dream caught her, and, +borne across the intervening space, she saw +herself in a palace where there were gods +and monsters, columns of transparent +quartz, floors of malachite, roofs of gold. +And there, on a dais, the Cæsar lay. +Behind him a fan, luminous as a peacock’s +tail, oscillated to the tinkling of +mysterious keys. In his crown was the +lividity of uncolored dawns, in his sceptre +the dominion of the world. An ulcer devoured +his face, and in his ear a boy repeated +the maxims of Elephantis. Mary +threw herself at his feet, her tears fell on +them as rain on leaves. <q>Vengeance,</q> +she implored; but he listened merely to +the boy at his side. <q>Death is your +ser<pb n="253"/><anchor id="Pg253"/>vant,</q> she cried. <q>You command, it +obeys.</q> The ulcer oozed, the face grew +vague, he gave no answer. She stood up +and menaced him. <q>Behind you spectres +crouch; you may not see them. I do; their +name is To-morrow.</q> The murmurs of +the boy were her sole reply. The roof +crumbled, the flooring disappeared, the +emperor faded, and Mary stared into +space. +</p> + +<p> +The moon that had struck aslant the +tomb had gone, but where its beams had +fallen the message remained. There is +light somewhere, it repeated. Across the +heavens a meteor shot like a bee. In the +air voices whispered confusedly. It is +not in Rome, one seemed to say. It is +not on earth, another called. +</p> + +<p> +Mary clutched at her beating breast. +The sky now was an opening rose. What +the sunset had sown the dawn would reap. +In the night that had enveloped, day +raised a lattice, and through it came a +gust of higher thought. It is not in revenge, +a voice whispered. It is not in +regret, another called. +</p> + +<pb n="254"/><anchor id="Pg254"/> + +<p> +<q>I know it,</q> Mary gasped. <q>Yes, yes, +I know it now. It is in faith.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in abnegation of self.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The stone which stood before the sepulchre +had rolled away. At her side the +Christ stood. In his eyes were golden +parables, in his face Truth shone revealed. +She stared, dumb with the unexpected +joy of belief confirmed, blinded by the +sudden light, while he who had rent the +bonds of death passed on into the budding +day. +</p> + +<p> +When the brief procession of the night +before returned to the tomb, it was empty. +At the door Mary lay, her arms outstretched +and vacant. +</p> + +<p rend="margin-top:2; center"> +<hi rend="font-size: small">FINIS MARIÆ.</hi> +</p> + </div></body> + <back rend="page-break-before: right"> + <div rend="x-class: boxed"> + <index index="toc"/><index index="pdf" level1="Transcriber's note"/> + <head>Transcriber’s note</head> + <p>The table of contents has been added in the electronic version.</p> + <p>The following changes have been made to the text:</p> + <list> + <item><ref target="corr036">page 36</ref>, <q>forget</q> changed to <q>forgot</q>, <q>Hew</q> changed to <q>Her</q></item> + <item><ref target="corr038">page 38</ref>, <q>a</q> added before <q>sword</q></item> + <item><ref target="corr046">page 46</ref>, period added following <q>roof</q></item> + <item><ref target="corr108">page 108</ref>, <q>surperber</q> changed to <q>superber</q></item> + <item><ref target="corr118">page 118</ref>, <q>is</q> changed to <q>it</q></item> + </list> + </div> + <div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <divGen type="pgfooter"/> + </div> + </back> + </text> +</TEI.2> diff --git a/31510-tei/images/titulus.png b/31510-tei/images/titulus.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5f4284 --- /dev/null +++ b/31510-tei/images/titulus.png diff --git a/31510.txt b/31510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..441d8dc --- /dev/null +++ b/31510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4501 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: Mary Magdalen + +Author: Edgar Saltus + +Release Date: March 5, 2010 [Ebook #31510] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY MAGDALEN*** + + + + + + By Mr. Saltus + + HISTORIA AMORIS + THE POMPS OF SATAN + IMPERIAL PURPLE + THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION + VANITY SQUARE + THE PERFUME OF EROS + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + _A Chronicle_ + + + _By_ + + EDGAR SALTUS + + + +NEW YORK +BRENTANO'S +MCMXIX + + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1891, + BY EDGAR SALTUS. + + + + + + CONTENTS + + +CHAPTER I. +CHAPTER II. +CHAPTER III. +CHAPTER IV. +CHAPTER V. +CHAPTER VI. +CHAPTER VII. +CHAPTER VIII. +CHAPTER IX. +CHAPTER X. +Transcriber's note + + + + + + MARY MAGDALEN + + + + + + + CHAPTER I. + + + I. + + +"Three to one on Scarlet!" + +Throughout the brand-new circus were the eagerness, the gesticulations, +shouts, and murmurs of an impatient throng. On a ledge above the entrance +a man stood, a strip of silk extended in his finger-tips. Beneath, on +either side, were gates. About him were series of ascending tiers, +close-packed, and brilliant with multicolored robes and parasols. The sand +of the track was very white: where the sunlight fell it had the glitter of +broken glass. In the centre was a low wall; at one end were pillars and +seven great balls of wood; at the other, seven dolphins, their tails in +the air. The uproar mounted in unequal vibrations, and stirred the pulse. +The air was heavy with odors, with the emanations of the crowd, the cloy +of myrrh. Through the exits whiffs of garlic filtered from the kitchens +below, and with them, from the exterior arcades, came the beat of +timbrels, the click of castanets. Overhead was a sky of troubled blue; +beyond, a lake. + +"They are off!" + +The strip of silk had fluttered and fallen, the gates flew open, there was +a rumble of wheels, a whirlwind of sand, a yell that deafened, and four +tornadoes burst upon the track. + +They were shell-shaped, and before each six horses tore abreast. Between +the horses' ears were swaying feathers; their manes had been dyed clear +pink, the forelocks puffed; and as they bounded, the drivers, standing +upright, had the skill to guide but not the strength to curb. About their +waists the reins were tied; at the side a knife hung; from the forehead +the hair was shaven; and everything they wore, the waistcoat, the short +skirt, the ribbons, was of one color, scarlet, yellow, emerald, or blue: +and this color, repeated on the car and on the harness, distinguished them +from those with whom they raced. + +Already the cars had circled the hippodrome four times. There were but +three more rounds, and Scarlet, which in the beginning had trailed +applause behind it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now a little to the +rear. Green was leading. Its leadership did not seem to please; it was +cursed at and abused, threatened with naked fist; yet when for the sixth +time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout that held the thunder of Atlas +leaped abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued by the blue, had been, was +now a mass of sickening agitation--twelve fallen horses kicking each other +into pulp, the drivers brained already; and down upon that barrier of +blood and death swept the scarlet car. In a second it veered and passed; +in that second a flash of steel had out the reins, and, as the car swung +round, the driver, released, was tossed to the track. What then befell him +no one cared. Stable-men were busy there; the car itself, unguided, +continued vertiginously on its course. If it had lagged before, there was +no lagging now. The hoofs that beat upon the ring plunged with it through +the din down upon Emerald, and beyond it to the goal. And as the last +dolphin vanished and the seventh ball was removed, the palm was granted, +and the spectators shouted a salutation to the giver of the games--Herod +Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. + +He was superb, this Antipas. His beard was like a lady's fan. On his +cheeks was a touch of alkanet; his hair, powdered blue, was encircled by a +diadem set with gems. About his shoulders was a mantle that had a broad +purple border; beneath it was a tunic of yellow silk. Between the railing +of the tribune in which he sat one foot was visible, shod with badger's +skin, dyed blood-red. He was superb, but his eyelids drooped. He had a +straight nose and a retreating forehead, a physiognomy that was at once +weak and vicious. He looked melancholy; it may be that he was bored. At +the salutation, however, he affected a smile, and motioned that the games +should continue. And as the signals, the dolphins and the seven balls, +appeared again, his thoughts, forsaking the circus, went back to Rome. + +Insecure in the hearts of his people, uncertain even of the continued +favor of the volatile monster who was lounging then in his Caprian +retreat, it was with the idea of pleasing the one, of flattering the +other, that he had instituted the games. For here in his brand-new +Tiberias, a city which he had built in a minute, whose colonnades and +porticoes he had bought ready-made in Rome, and had erected by means of +that magic which only the Romans possessed--in this capital of a parvenu +was a mongrel rabble of Greeks, Cypriotes, Egyptians, Cappadocians, +Syrians, and Jews, whose temper was uncertain, and whose rebellion to be +feared. + +_Annona et spectaculis_ indeed! Antipas knew the dictum well; and with an +uprising in the yonderland, and a sedition under his feet, what more could +he do than quell the first with his mercenaries, and disarm the second +with his games? Tiberius, whom he emulated, never deigned to appear at the +hippodrome; it was a way he had of showing his contempt for a nation. +Antipas might have imitated his sovereign in that, only he was not sure +that Tiberius would take the compliment as it was meant. He might view +such abstention as the airs of a trumpery tetrarch, and depose him there +and then. He was irascible, and when displeased there were dungeons at his +command which reopened with difficulty, and where existence was not +secure. Ah, that sausage of blood and mud, how he feared and envied him! +An emperor now, a god hereafter, truly the dominion of this world and a +part of the next was a matter concerning which fear and envy well might +be. + +And as Antipas' vagabond fancy roamed in and out through the possibilities +of the Caesar's sway, unconsciously he thought of another monster, the son +of a priest of Ascalon, who had defied the Sanhedrim, won Cleopatra, +murdered the woman he loved the most, conquered Judaea and found it too +small for his magnificence--of that Herod in fact, his own father, who gave +to Jerusalem her masterpiece of marble and gold, and meanwhile, drunk with +the dream of empire, had made himself successor of Solomon, Sultan of +Israel, King of the Jews, and who, even as he died, had vomited death and +crowns, diadems and crucifixions. + +It was through his legacy that Antipas ruled. The kingdom had been sliced +into three parts, of one of which Augustus had made a province; over +another a brother whom he hated ruled; and he had but this third part, the +smallest yet surely the most fair. Its unparalleled garden surrounded him, +and its eye, the lake, was just beyond. In the amphitheatre the hills +formed was a city of pink and blue marble, of cupolas, porticoes, volutes, +bronze doors, and copper roofs. Along the fringe of the shore were +Choraizin and Bethsaida, purple with pomegranates, Capharnahum, beloved +for its honey, and Magdala, scented with spice. The slopes and intervales +were very green where they were not yellow, and there were terraces of +grape, glittering cliffs, and a sky of troubled blue, wadded with little +gold-edged clouds. + +Yes, it was paradise, but it was not monarchy. It was to that he aspired. +As he mused, a rancid-faced woman decked with paint and ostrich-plumes +snarled in his ear: + +"What have you heard of Iohanan?" + +And as with a gesture he signified that he had heard nothing, she snarled +again. + +Antipas turned to her reflectively, but it was of another that he +thought--the brown-eyed bride that Arabia had given him, the lithe-limbed +princess of the desert whose heart had beaten on his own, whom he had +loved with all the strength of youth and weakness, and whom he had +deserted while at Rome for his brother's wife, his own niece, Herodias, +who snarled at his side. + +Behind her were her women, and among them was one who, as the cars swept +by, turned her head with that movement a flower has which a breeze has +stirred. Her eyes were sultry, darkened with stibium; on her cheek was the +pink of the sea-shell, and her lips made one vermilion rhyme. The face was +oval and rather small; and though it was beautiful as victory, the wonder +of her eyes, which looked the haunts of hope fulfilled, the wonder of her +mouth, which seemed to promise more than any mortal mouth could give, were +forgotten in her hair, which was not orange nor flame, but a blending of +both. And now, as the cars passed, her thin nostrils quivered, her hand +rose as a bird does and fluttered with delight. + +On the adjacent tiers were Greeks, fat-calved Cypriotes, Cappadocians with +flowers painted on their skin, red Egyptians, Thracian mercenaries, +Galilean fishermen, and a group of Lydians in women's clothes. + +On the tier just beyond was a man gazing wistfully at the woman that sat +behind Herodias. He was tall and sinewy, handsome with the comeliness of +the East. His beard was full, unmarred at the corners; his name was Judas. +Now and then he moistened his under lip, and a Thracian who sat at his +side heard him murmur "Mary" and some words of Syro-Chaldaic which the +Thracian did not understand. + +To him Mary paid no attention. She had turned from the track. An officer +had entered the tetrarch's tribune and addressed the prince. Antipas +started; Herodias colored through her paint. The latter evidently was +pleased. + +"Iohanan!" she exclaimed. "To Machaerus with him! You may believe in fate +and mathematics; I believe in the axe." + +And questioningly Herodias looked at her husband, who avoided her look, +yet signified his assent to the command she had given. + +The din continued. From the tier beyond, Judas still gazed into the perils +of Mary's eyes. + +"Dear God," he muttered, in answer to an anterior thought, "it would be +the birthday of my life." + + + + + + CHAPTER II. + + + II. + + +"O Prophet Iohanan, how fair you are!" + +Iohanan was hideous. His ankles were in stocks, a chain about his waist +was looped in a ring that hung from the wall. About his body were tattered +furs, his hair was tangled, the face drawn and yellow. Vermin were visible +on his person. His lips twitched, and his gums, discolored, were as those +of a camel that has journeyed too far. A tooth projected, green as a fresh +almond is; the chin projected too, and from it on one side a rill of +saliva dripped upon the naked breast. On the terrace he was a blur, a +nightmare in a garden. + +"Ah, how fair!" + +Tantalizing as temptation, Mary stood just beyond his reach. Her eyes were +full of compliments, her body was bent, and, the folds of her gown held +back, she swayed a little, in the attitude of one cajoling a tiger. She +was quite at home and at her ease, and yet prepared for instant flight. + +Iohanan, or John--surnamed, because of practices of his, the +Baptist--beckoned her to approach. In his eyes was the innocence that oxen +have. + +"My body is chained, but my soul is free!" + +Mary made a pirouette, and through the terrace of the citadel the rattles +on her ankles rang. + +It was appalling, this citadel; it dominated the entire land. Perched on a +peak of basalt, it overhung an abyss in which Asphalitis, the Bitter Sea, +lay, a stretch of sapphire to the sun. In the distance were the heights of +Abraham, the crests of Gilead. Before it was the infinite, behind it the +desert. At its base a hamlet crouched, and a path hewn in the rock crawled +in zigzags to its gates. Irregular walls surrounded it, in some places a +hundred cubits high, and in each of the many angles was a turret. Seen +from below it was a threat in stone, but within was a caress, one of those +rapturous palaces that only the Orientals build. It was called Machaerus. +Peopled with slaves and legends, it was a haunt of ghosts and fierce +delights. + +And now as Mary tripped before the prophet the walls alone repelled. The +terrace was a garden in which were lilies and sentries. For entrance there +was a portal of red porphyry, above which was a balcony hemmed by a +balustrade of yellow Numidian stone. + +Against it Antipas leaned. He had been eyeing the desert in tremulous +surmise. The day before, he had caught the glitter of lances, therewith +spirals of distant smoke, and he had become fearful lest Aretas, that king +of Arabia Petraea whose daughter he had deserted, might be meditating +attack. But now there was nothing, at most a triangular mass speeding +westwards, of which only the edges moved, and which he knew to be a flight +of cranes. + +He took heart again and gazed in the valley below. It was the anniversary +of his birth. To celebrate it he had invited the stewards of his lands, +the notables of Galilee, the elect of Jerusalem, the procurator of Judaea, +the emir of Tadmor, mountaineers and Pharisees, Scribes and herdsmen. + +But in the valley only a few shepherds were visible. Along the ramparts +soldiers paced. At the further end of the terrace a group of domestics was +busy with hampers and luggage. The day was solemnly still, exquisitely +clear; and between two hills came a glare of gold projected from the +Temple of Jerusalem. + +Through the silence rang the tinkle of the rattles that Mary wore. The +prophet was beckoning her. + +"And Martha?" the tetrarch heard him ask. + +The pirouette ceased awkwardly. Mary's eyes forgot their compliments. Her +brows contracted, and, as though perplexed, she held her head a little to +one side. + +"There," he added, "there, I know you well. It was at Bethany I saw you +first. Yes, yes, I remember perfectly; you were leaving, and Martha was in +tears. Only a little since I had speech with her. She spoke of you; she +knew you were called the Magdalen. No," he continued, for Mary had shrunk +back, "no, I will not curse. There is another by whom you will be +blessed." + +Mary laughed. "I am going to Rome. Tiberius will give me a palace. I shall +sleep on the down the Teutons bring. I shall drink pearls dissolved in +falernian. I shall sup on peacocks' tongues." + +"No, Mary, Rome you will never see. The Eternal has you in His charge. +Your shame will be washed away." + +"Shame to you," she interrupted. "Shame and starvation too." She made as +though she were about to pirouette again. "Whom are you talking of?" + +"One whose shoes I am unworthy to bear." + +For a moment he seemed to meditate; then, with the melancholy of one +renounceing some immense ambition, he murmured, half to himself, half to +the sky, "For him to increase I must diminish." + +"As for that, you are not much to look at now. I must go. I must braid my +hair; the emir's eyes are eager." + +"Mary," he hissed, and the sudden asperity of his voice coerced her as a +bit might do, "you will go to Capharnahum, you will seek him, you will say +Iohanan is descended into the tombs to announce the Son of David." + +Through the lateral entrance to the terrace a number of guests had +entered. From the balcony above, Antipas leaned and listened. Some one +touched him; it was Herodias. + +"The procurator is coming," she announced. "You should be at the gate." + +"Ah!" + +He seemed indifferent. What Iohanan had said concerning the Son of David +stirred him like the point of a sword. He felt that there could be no such +person; his father had put a stop to all that. And yet, if there were! + +His indifference surprised Herodias. + +"What are you staring at?" she asked; and to assure herself she looked +over the balustrade. "That carrion? You should----" + +Her hand drawn across her throat completed the sentence. + +The tetrarch shook his head. There was no hurry. Then, too, the prophet +was useful. He reviled Jerusalem, and that flattered Galilee. But there +was another reason, which he kept to himself. Iohanan affected him as no +one had done before. + +He feared him, chained though he was, and into that fear something akin to +admiration entered. In his heart he wished he had let him alone. No, there +was no hurry. As he assured her of that the prophet looked up. + +"Jezebel!" + +The guests approached. Their number had increased. There were Greek +merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes +from Jerusalem. Herodias clapped her hands. A negro, naked to the waist, +appeared. + +"Take him below." + +But the guests surrounded Iohanan. The Pharisees recognized him at once. +He was the terror of the hierarchs. + +As he cried out at Herodias he seemed as though he would rise and wrench +his bonds and mount to where she was. His eyes had lost their pathos; they +blazed. + +"Woe unto you!" he shouted, "and woe unto your barren bed! Though you hid +in the bowels of the earth, in the uttermost depths of a jungle, the +stench of your incest would betray you. Woe unto you, I say; the swine +will turn from you, the Eternal will rend you, and the heart of hell will +vomit you back!" + +Herodias shook with anger. She was livid. Murmurs circulated through the +increasing throng. + +The Pharisees edged nearer. On their foreheads were slips of vellum on +which passages of the Law had been inscribed. About their left arms other +slips extended spiralwise from the elbow to the end of the third finger. +They were in white; where their garments had become soiled, the spots had +been chalked. + +To them the prophet showed his teeth. "And woe unto you too, race of +vipers, bladders of wind! As the fire devours the stubble, and the flame +consumes the chaff, so your root will be rottenness and your seed go up as +dust. Fear will engulf you like a torrent. The high peaks will be broken, +the mountains will sever, and night be upon all. The valleys and hills +will be strewn with your corpses, the rocks will run with your blood, the +plain will drink it, and the vultures feast on your flesh. Woe unto you +all, I say, that call good evil, and evil good!" + +The invective continued. It enveloped the world. Everything was to be +destroyed. Presently it subsided; the voice of the prophet sank lower; his +eyes sought the sky, the pupils dilated; and the dream of his nation, the +triumphant future, the sanctification of the faithful, the magnificence +that was to be, poured rapturously from his lips. + +"The whole land will glow with glory. The sky will be a rose in bloom. The +meadows will rejoice, and the earth will be filled with men and maidens +singing and kneeling to Thee, Immanuel, whom I await." + +The vision would have expanded, perhaps, but the chain that bound him was +loosed, sinewy arms were dragging him away. As he went, he glared up again +at Herodias. His face had lost its beatitude. + +"You will be stripped of your purple, Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden +under foot. The pains of a woman in travail will be as joys unto yours. +There will be not enough stones to throw at you, and the abomination of +your lust will bellow, Accursed, even beyond the tomb." + +The anathema fainted in the distance. The Scribes consulted between their +teeth. By the Pharisees Antipas was blamed. A merchant from Hippos did not +understand, and the Law was explained. That a man should marry his +brother's wife was a duty, only in this instance it had not occurred to +the brother to die beforehand. Then, again, by her first husband Herodias +had a child, and in that was the abomination. + +The merchant did not wholly grasp the distinction, but he nodded as though +he had. + +"There was a child, was there?" + +A captain of the garrison answered: "A girl, Salome." + +He said nothing further, but the merchant could see that his mouth watered +at the thought of her. + +The crowd had become very dense. Suddenly a trumpet blared. At the gate +was Pontius Pilate. On his head was a high and dazzling helmet. His tunic +was short, open at the neck. His legs were bare. He was shod with shoes +that left the toes exposed. From his cuirass a gorgon's head had, in +deference to local prejudice, been effaced; in its stead were scrolls and +thunderbolts. From the belt rows of straps, embroidered and fringed, fell +nearly to the knee. He held his head in the air. His features were +excellent, and his beard hung in rows of short overlapping curls. + +Behind him was his body-guard. Before him Antipas stood, welcoming the +Roman in Greek. + +In the sky now were the advancing steps of night; in crevices of the +basalt the leaves of the baaras weed had begun to flicker. It was time for +the festival to begin; and, preceding the guests, Antipas passed into a +hall beyond. + +It was oblong, curved at the ends, and so vast that the roof was vague. On +the walls were slabs of different colors, marble spotted like the skin of +serpents, and onyx flecked with violet. On two sides were galleries +supported by columns of sandstone. A third gallery formed a semicircle. +Opposite, at the further end, on a dais, was the table of the tetrarch. + +Antipas faced the assemblage. At his left was the procurator, at his right +the emir of Tadmor. Curtains were looped on either side. Above were +panels; they separated, and flowers fell. On a little stool next to the +couch on which the emir lay was a beautiful boy with curly hair. The couch +of the procurator was covered with a dim Babylonian shawl. That of the +tetrarch was of ivory incrusted with gold. All three were cushioned. + +As the guests entered they were sprinkled with perfume. Throughout the +length of the hall other tables extended, and at these they found seats +and food: Syrian radishes, melons from the oases near the Oxus, white +olives from Bethany, honey from Capharnahum, and the little onions of +Ascalon. There were candelabra everywhere, liquids cooled with snow, +cheeses big as millstones, chunks of fat in wooden bowls, and behind the +tables, slaves with copper platters. On the platters were quarters of red +beef, breams swimming in grease, and sunbirds with their plumage on. In +the semicircular gallery musicians played, three notes, constantly +repeated. + +The tetrarch's table was spread with a cloth of byssus striped with +Laconian green. On it were jars of murrha filled with balsam, Sidonian +goblets of colored glass, jasper amphorae, and water-melons from Egypt. +Before the procurator was a dish of oysters, lampreys, and boned barbels, +mixed well together, flavored with cinnamon and assafoetida; mashed +grasshoppers baked in saffron; and a roasted boar, the legs curled inward, +the eyes half-closed. The emir ate abundantly of heron's eggs whipped with +wine into an amber foam. When his fingers were soiled, he wiped them in +the curls of the beautiful boy who sat near by. + +The smell of food filled the hall, mounted to the roof. The atmosphere was +that of a bath, and the wines were heady. Already discussions had arisen. +A mountaineer and a Galilean skiffsman had been dragged away, the one +senseless, the other with features indistinguishable and masked in blood. +It was a great festival, and the tetrarch was entertaining, as only he +could, his friends, his enemies, and whoever chanced that way. + +"As a child he rubbed his body with the leaves of the cnyza, which is a +preservative of chastity." It was a little man with restless eyes and a +very long white beard detailing the virtues of Iohanan. "But," he added, +"he must have found cold water better." + +His neighbors laughed. One pounded the table. + +"Jeshua--" he began, but everyone was talking at once. + +"Jeshua--" he continued; yet, as no one would listen, he turned to a +passing eunuch and caught him by the arm--"Jeshua does more; he works +miracles, and not with the cnyza either." + +The eunuch eluded him and escaped. However, he would not be balked; he +stood up and, through the din, he shouted at the little man: + +"Baba Barbulah, I tell you he is the Messiah!" + +His voice was so loud it dominated the hubbub, and suddenly the hubbub +ceased. + +From the dais Pontius Pilate listened indifferently. Antipas held his +hands behind his ears that he might hear the better. The emir paid no +attention at all. On his head was a conical turban; about it were loops of +sapphire and coils of pearl. He wore a vest with scant sleeves that +reached to the knuckles, and trousers that overhung the instep and fell in +wide wrinkles on his feet; both were of leopard-skin. Over the vest was a +sleeveless tunic, clasped at the shoulders and girt at the waist. His hair +was long, plentifully oiled; his beard was bushy, blue-black, and specked +with silver. + +Mary had approached. From the lessening waist to the slender feet her +dress opened at either side. Beneath was a chemise of transparent +Bactrianian tissue. From girdle to armpits were little clasps; on her +ankles, bands; and above the elbow, on her bare white arm, two circlets of +emeralds from the mines of Djebel Zabur. + +The emir spoke to her. She listened with a glimpse of the most beautiful +teeth in the world. He put out a hand tentatively and touched her: the +tissue of her garment crackled and emitted sparks. He raised a goblet to +her. The wine it held was yellower than the marigold. She brushed it with +her lips; he drank it off, then, refreshed, he looked her up and down. + +In one hand she held a cup of horn, narrower at the top than at the end; +in it were dice made of the knee-joints of gazelles, and these she rattled +in his beard. + +"That beautiful Sultan, will he play?" + +With an ochre-tipped finger she pointed at the turban on his head. The +eyes of the emir vacillated. He undid a string of gems and placed them on +the table's edge. Mary unclasped a coil of emeralds and rattled the dice +again. She held the cup high up, then spilled the contents out. + +"Ashtaroth!" the emir cried. He had won. + +Mary leaned forward, fawned upon his breast, and gazed into his face. Her +breath had the fragrance of his own oasis, her lips were moist as the +pomegranate's pulp, her teeth as keen as his own desire. + +"No, beautiful Sultan, it is I." With the back of her hand she disturbed +the dice. "I am Ashtaroth, am I not?" + +Questioningly the emir explored the unfathomable eyes that gazed into his. + +On their surface floated an acquiescence to the tacit offer of his own. +Then he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered the jewels from the cloth of +byssus where they lay. + +"I tell you he is the Messiah!" It was the angry disputant shouting at the +little man. + +"Who is? What are you talking about?" + +Though the hubbub had ceased, throughout the hall were the mutterings of +dogs disturbed. + +"Jeshua," the disputant answered; "Jeshua the Nazarene." + +A Pharisee, very vexed, his bonnet tottering, gnashed back: "The Messiah +will uphold the law; this Nazarene attacks it." + +A Scribe interrupted: "Many things are to distinguish his advent. The +light of the sun will be increased a hundredfold, the orchards will bear +fruit a thousand times more abundantly. Death will be forgotten, joy will +be universal, Elijah will return." + +"But he has!" + +Antipas started. The Scribe trembled with rage. But the throng had caught +the name of Elijah, and knew to whom the disputant referred--a man in +tattered furs whom a few hours before they had seen dragged away by a +negro naked to the waist, and some one shouted: + +"Iohanan is Elijah." + +Baba Barbulah stood up and turned to whence the voice had come: + +"In the footprints of the Anointed impudence shall increase, and the face +of the generation shall be as the face of a dog. It may be," he added, +significantly--"it may be that you speak the truth." + +The sarcasm was lost. The musicians in the gallery, who had been playing +on flute and timbrel, began now on the psalteron and the native sambuca. +Behind was a row of lute-players; but most in view was a trignon, an +immense Egyptian harp, at which with nimble fingers a fair girl plucked. + +In the shadow Herodias leaned. At a signal from her the musicians attacked +the prelude of a Syrian dance, and in the midst of the assemblage a figure +veiled from head to foot suddenly appeared. For a moment it stood very +still; then the veil fell of itself, and from the garrison a shout went +up: + +"Salome! Salome!" + +Her hair, after an archaic Chanaanite fashion, was arranged in the form of +a tower. Her high bosom was wound about with protecting bands. Her waist +was bare. She wore long pink drawers of silk, and for girdle she had the +blue buds of the lotus, which are symbols of virginity. She was young and +exquisitely formed. In her face you read strange records, and on her lips +were promises as rare. Her eyes were tortoise-shell, her hair was black as +guilt. + +The prelude had ceased, the movement quickened. With a gesture of +abandonment the girl threw her head back, and, her arms extended, she +fluttered like a butterfly on a rose. She ran forward. The sambuca rang +quicker, the harp quicker yet. She threw herself to one side, then to the +other, her hips swaying as she moved. The buds at her girdle fell one by +one; she was dancing on flowers, her hips still swaying, her waist +advancing and retreating to the shiver of the harp. She was elusive as +dream, subtle as love; she intoxicated and entranced; and finally, as she +threw herself on her hands, her feet, first in the air and then slowly +descending, touched the ground, while her body straightened like a reed, +there was a long growl of unsatisfied content. + +She was kneeling now before the dais. Pilate compared her to Bathylle, a +mime whom he had applauded at Rome. The tetrarch was purple; he gnawed his +under lip. For the moment he forgot everything he should have +remembered--the presence of his guests, the stains of his household, his +wife even, whose daughter this girl was--and in a gust of passion he half +rose from his couch. + +"Come to me," he cried. "But come to me, and ask whatever you will." + +Salome hesitated and pouted, the point of her tongue protruding between +her lips. + +"Come to me," he pleaded; "you shall have slaves and palaces and cities; +you shall have hills and intervales. I will give you anything; half my +kingdom if you wish." + +There was a tinkle of feet; the girl had gone. In a moment she returned, +and balancing herself on one foot, she lisped very sweetly: "I should like +by and by to have you give me the head of Iohanan--" she looked about; in +the distance a eunuch was passing, a dish in his hand, and she added, "on +a platter." + +Antipas jumped as though a hound under the table had bitten him on the +leg. He turned to the procurator, who regarded him indifferently, and to +the emir, who was toying with Mary's agate-nailed hand. He had given his +word, however; the people had heard. About his ears the perspiration +started; from purple he had grown very gray. + +Salome still stood, balancing herself on one foot, the point of her tongue +just visible, while from the gallery beyond, in whose shadows he divined +the instigating presence of Herodias, came the grave music of an Hebraic +hymn. + +"So be it," he groaned. + +The order was given, and a tear trickled down through the paint and +furrows of his cheek. On the hall a silence had descended. The guests were +waiting, and the throb of the harp accentuated the suspense. Presently +there was the clatter of men-at-arms, and a negro, naked to the waist, +appeared, an axe in one hand, the head of the prophet in the other. + +He presented it deferentially to Antipas, who motioned it away, his face +averted. Salome smiled. She took it, and then, while she resumed her veil, +she put it down before the emir, who eyed it with the air of one that has +seen many another object such as that. + +But in a moment the veil was adjusted, and with the trophy the girl +disappeared. + +The harp meanwhile had ceased to sob, the guests were departing; already +the procurator had gone. The emir looked about for Mary, but she also had +departed; and, with the expectation, perhaps, of finding her without, he +too got up and left the hall. + +Antipas was alone. Through the lattice at his side he could see the baaras +in the basalt emitting its firefly sparks of flame. From an adjacent +corridor came the discreet click-clack of a sandal, and in a moment the +head of the prophet was placed on the table at which he lay. The tetrarch +leaned over and gazed into the unclosed eyes. They were haggard and +dilated, and they seemed to curse. + +He put his hand to his face and tried to think--to forget rather, and not +to remember; but his ears were charged with rustlings that extended +indefinitely and lost themselves in the future; his mind peopled itself +with phantoms of the past. Perhaps he dozed a little. When he looked up +again the head was no longer there, and he told himself that Herodias had +thrown it to the swine. + + + + + + CHAPTER III. + + + III. + + +In the distance the white and yellow limestone of the mountains rose. Near +by was a laughter of flowers, a tumult of green. Just beyond, in a border +of sedge and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the sky. In the background +were the blue and white terraces of Magdala, and about a speaker were +clustered a handful of people, a group of laborers and of fishermen. + +He was dressed as a rabbi, but he looked like a seer. In his face was the +youth of the world, in his eyes the infinite. As he spoke, his words +thrilled and his presence allured. "Repent," he was saying; "the kingdom +of heaven is at hand." And as the resplendent prophecy continued, you +would have said that a bird in his heart had burst into song. + +A little to one side, in an attitude of amused contempt, a few of the +tetrarch's courtiers stood; they were dressed in the Roman fashion, and +one, Pandera, a captain of the guard, wore a cuirass that glittered as he +laughed. He was young and very handsome. He had white teeth, red lips, a +fair skin, a dark beard, and, as he happened to be stationed in the +provinces, an acquired sneer. Dear old Rome, how vague it was! And as he +jested with his comrades he thought of its delights, and wished himself +either back again in the haunts he loved, or else, if he must be separated +from them, then, instead of vegetating in a tiresome tetrarchy, he felt +that it would be pleasant to be far off somewhere, where the uncouth +Britons were, a land which it took a year of adventures to reach; on the +banks of the Betis, whence the girls came that charmed the lupanars; in +Numidia, where the hunting was good; or in Thrace, where there was blood +in plenty--anywhere, in fact, save on the borders of the beautiful lake +where he happened to be. + +It was but the restlessness of youth, perhaps, that disturbed him so, for +in Galilee there were oafs as awkward as any that Britannia could show; +there was game in abundance; blood, too, was not as infrequent as it might +have been; and as for women, there at his side stood one as appetizing as +Rome, Spain even, had produced. He turned to her now, and plucked at his +dark beard and showed his white teeth; he had caught a phrase of the rabbi +in which the latter had mentioned the kingdoms of the earth, and the +phrase amused him. + +"I like that," he said. "What does he know about the kingdoms of the +earth? Mary, I wager what you will that he has never been two leagues from +where he stands. Let's ask and see." + +But Mary did not seem to hear. She was engrossed in the rabbi, and Pandera +had to tug at her sleeve before she consented to return to a life in which +he seemingly had a part. + +"What do you say?" he asked. + +Mary shook her head. She had the air of one whose mind is elsewhere. Into +her face a vacancy had come; she seemed incapable of reply; and as the +guardsman scrutinized her it occurred to him that she might be on the +point of having an attack of that catalepsy to which he knew her to be +subject. But immediately she reassured him. + +"Come, let us go." + +And, the guardsman at her side, the others in her train, she ascended the +little hill on which her castle was, and where the midday meal awaited. + +It was a charming residence. Built quadrangularwise, the court held a +fountain which was serviceable to those that wished to bathe. The roof was +a garden. The interior facade was of teak wood, carved and colored; the +frontal was of stone. Seen from the exterior it looked the fortress of +some umbrageous prince, but in the courtyard reigned the seduction of a +woman in love. From without it menaced, within it soothed. + +Her title to it was a matter of doubt. According to Pandera, who at the +mess-table at Tiberias had boasted his possession of her confidence, it +was a heritage from her father. Others declared that it had been given her +by her earliest lover, an old man who since had passed away. Yet, after +all, no one cared. She kept open house; the tetrarch held her in high +esteem; she was attached to the person of the tetrarch's wife; only a +little before, the emir of Tadmor had made a circuitous journey to visit +her; Vitellius, the governor of the province, had stopped time and again +beneath her roof; and--and here was the point--to see her was to acquire a +new conception of beauty. Of human flowers she was the most fair. + +Yet now, during the meal that followed, Mary, the toast of the tetrarchy, +she whose wit and brilliance had been echoed even in Rome, wrapped herself +in a mantle of silence. The guardsman jested in vain. To the others she +paid as much attention as the sun does to a torch; and when at last +Pandera, annoyed, perhaps, at her disregard of a quip of his, attempted to +whisper in her ear, she left the room. + +The nausea of the hour may have affected her, for presently, as she threw +herself on her great couch, her thoughts forsook the present and went back +into the past, her childhood returned, and faces that she had loved +reappeared and smiled. Her father, for instance, Theudas, who had been +satrap of Syria, and her mother, Eucharia, a descendant of former kings. + +But of these her memories were slight--they had died when she was still +very young--and in their place came her sister, Martha, kind of heart and +quick of temper, obdurate, indulgent, and continually perplexed; Simon, +Martha's husband, a Libyan, born in Cyrene, called by many the Leper +because of a former whiteness of his skin, a whiteness which had long +since vanished, for he was brown as a date; Eleazer, her brother, younger +than herself, a delicate boy with blue pathetic eyes; and with them came +the delight of Bethany, that lovely village on the oriental slope of the +Mount of Olives, where the rich of Jerusalem had their villas, and where +her girlhood had been passed. + +From the lattice at which she used to sit she could see the wide white +road begin its descent to the Jordan, a stretch of almond trees and +oleanders; and just beyond, in a woody hollow, a little house in which +Sephorah lived--a woman who came from no one knew where, and to whom Martha +had forbidden her to speak. + +She could see her still, a gaunt, gray creature, with projecting +cheek-bones, a skin of brick, and a low, insinuating voice. The +fascination which she had exercised over her partook both of wonder and of +fear, for it was rumored that she was a sorceress, and as old as the +world. To Mary, who was then barely nubile, and inquisitive as only +fanciful children are, she manifested a great affection, enticing her to +her dwelling with little cakes that were sweet to the tooth and fabulous +tales that stirred the heart: the story of Stratonice and Combabus, for +instance, which Mary did not in the least understand, but which seemed to +her intensely sad. + +"And then what?" she would ask when the tale was done; and the woman would +tell her of Ninus and Semiramis, of Sennachereb, of Sardanapalus, +Belsarazzur, of Dagon, the fish-god of Philistia, by whom Goliath swore +and in whose temple Samson died, or of Sargon, who, placed by his mother +in an ark of rushes, was set adrift in the Euphrates, yet, happily +discovered by a water-carrier, afterwards became a leader of men. + +"Why, that was Moses!" the child would exclaim. + +"No, no," the woman invariably answered, "it was Sargon." + +But that which pleasured Mary more highly even than these tales were the +legends of Hither Asia, the wonderlands of Babylon, and particularly the +story of the creation, for always the human mind has wished to read the +book of God. + +"Where did they say the world came from?" she would ask. + +And Sephorah, drawing a long breath, would answer: "Once all was darkness +and water. In this chaos lived strange animals, and men with two wings, +and others with four wings and two faces. Some had the thighs of goats, +some had horns, and some had horses' feet, or were formed behind like a +horse and in front like a man; there were bulls with human faces, and men +with the heads of dogs, and other animals of human shape with fins like +fishes, and fishes like sirens, and dragons, and creeping things, and +serpents, and fierce creatures, the images of which are preserved in the +temple of Bel. + +"Over all these ruled the great mother, Um Uruk. But Bel, whom your people +call Baal, divided the darkness and clove the woman asunder. Of one part +he made the earth, and of the other the sun, the moon, the planets. He +drew off the water, apportioned it to the land, and prepared and arranged +the world. The creatures on it could not endure the light of day and +became extinct. + +"Now when Bel saw the land fruitful yet uninhabited, he cut off his head +and made one of the gods mingle the blood which flowed from it with earth +and form therewith men and animals that could endure the sun. Presently +Chaldaea was plentifully populated, but the inhabitants lived like animals, +without order or rule. Then there appeared to them from the sea a monster +of the name of Yan. Its body was that of a fish, but under its head +another head was attached, and on its fins were feet, and its voice was +that of a man. Its image is still preserved. It came at morning, passed +the day, and taught language and science, the harvesting of seeds and of +fruits, the rules for the boundaries of land, the mode of building cities +and temples, arts and writing and all that pertains to civilized life, and +for four hundred and thirty-two thousand years the world went very well. + +"Then in a dream Bel revealed to Xisuthrus that there would be a great +storm, and men would be destroyed. He bade him bury in Sepharvaim, the +city of the sun, all the ancient, mediaeval, and modern records, and build +a ship and embark in it with his kindred and his nearest friends. He was +also to take food and drink into the ship, and pairs of all creatures +winged and four-footed. + +"Xisuthrus did as he was bidden, and from the ends of heaven the storm +began to blow. Bin thundered; Nebo, the Revealer, came forth; Nergal, the +Destroyer, overthrew; and Adar, the Sublime, swept in his brightness +across the earth. The storm devoured the nations, it lapped the sky, +turned the land into an ocean, and destroyed everything that lived. Even +the gods were afraid. They sought refuge in the heaven of Anu, sovereign +of the upper realms. As hounds draw in their tails, they seated themselves +on their thrones, and to them Mylitta, the great goddess, spake: 'The +world has turned from me, and ruin I have proclaimed.' She wept, and the +gods on their thrones wept with her. + +"On the seventh day Xisuthrus perceived that the storm had abated and that +the sea had begun to fall. He sent out a dove, it returned; next, a +swallow, which also returned, but with mud on its feet; and again, a +raven, which saw the corpses in the water and ate them, and returned no +more. Then the boat was stayed and settled upon Mount Nasir. Xisuthrus +went out and worshipped the recovered earth. When his companions went in +search of him he had disappeared, but his voice called to them saying that +for his piety he had been carried away; that he was dwelling among the +gods; and that they were to return to Sepharvaim and dig up the books and +give them to mankind. Which they did, and erected many cities and temples, +and rebuilt Babylon and Mylitta's shrine." + +"It is simpler in Genesis," Mary said, the first time she heard this +marvellous tale. For to her, as to Martha and Eleazer, the khazzan, the +teacher of the synagogue, had read from the great square letters in which +the Pentateuch was written another account of the commingling of Chaos and +of Light. + +At the mention of the sacred canon, Sephorah would smile with that +indulgence which wisdom brings, and smooth her scanty plaits, and draw the +back of her hand across her mouth. + +"Burned on tiles in the land of the magi are the records of a million +years. In the unpolluted tombs of Osorapi the history of life and of time +is written on the cerements of kings. Where the bells ring at the neck of +the camels of Iran is a stretch of columns on which are inscribed the +words of those that lived in Paradise. On a wall of the temple of Bel are +the chronicles of creation; in the palace of Assurbanipal, the narrative +of the flood. It is from these lands and monuments the Thorah comes; its +verses are made of their memories; it gathered whatever it found, and +overlooked the essential, immortal life." + +And Sephorah added in a whisper, "For we are descended from gods, and +immortal as they." + +The khazzan had disclosed to Mary no such prospect as that. To him as to +all orthodox expounders of the Law man was essentially evanescent; he +lived his little day and disappeared forever. God alone was immortal, and +an immortal being would be God. The contrary beliefs of the Egyptians and +the Aryans were to them abominations, and the spiritualistic doctrine +inaugurated by Juda Maccabaeus and accepted by the Pharisees, an impiety. +The Pentateuch had not a word on the subject. Moses had expressly declared +that secret things belong to the Lord, and only visible things to man. The +prophets had indeed foretold a terrestrial immortality, but that +immortality was the immortality of a nation; and the realization of their +prophecy the entire people awaited. Apart from that there was only Sheol, +a sombre region of the under-earth, to which the dead descended, and there +remained without consciousness, abandoned by God. + +"Immortal!" Mary, with great wondering eyes, would echo. "Immortal!" + +"Yes; but to become so," Sephorah replied, "you must worship at another +shrine." + +"Where is it?" + +Sephorah answered evasively. Mary would find it in time--when the spring +came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had a word or two to say of Baal to such +effect even that Mary questioned the khazzan. + +"However great the god of the Gentiles has been imagined," the khazzan +announced, "he is bounded by the earth and the sky. His feet may touch the +one, his head the other, but of nature he is a part, and, to the Eternal, +nature is not even a garment, it is a substance He made, and which He can +remould at will. It is not in nature, it is in light, He is: in the +burning bush in which He revealed Himself; in the stake at which Isaac +would have died; in the lightning in which the Law was declared, the +column of fire, the flame of the sacrifices, and the gleaming throne in +which Isaiah saw Him sit--it is there that He is, and His shadow is the +sun." + +Of this Mary repeated the substance to her friend, and Sephorah mused. + +"No," she said at last--"no, he is not in light, but in the desert where +nature is absent, and where the world has ceased to be. The threats of a +land that never smiled are reflected in his face. The sight of him is +death. No, Baal is the sun-god. His eyes fecundate." + +And during the succeeding months Sephorah entertained Mary with Assyrian +annals and Egyptian lore. She told her more of Baal, whose temple was in +Babylon, and of Baaltis, who reigned at Ascalon. She told her of the women +who wept for Tammuz, and explained the reason of their tears. She told her +of the union of Ptah, the unbegotten begetter of the first beginning, and +of Neith, mother of the sun; of the holy incest of Isis and Osiris; and of +Luz, called by the patriarchs Bethel, the House of God, the foothold of a +straight stairway which messengers ceaselessly ascended and descended, and +at whose summit the Elohim sat. + +She told her of these things, of others as well; and now and then in the +telling of them a fat little man with beady eyes would wander in, the +smell of garlic about him, and stare at Mary's lips. His name was Pappus; +by Sephorah he was treated with great respect, and Mary learned that he +was rich and knew that Sephorah was poor. + +When the Passover had come and gone, Sephorah detected that Mary had +ceased to be a child; and of the gods and goddesses with whose adventures +she was wont to entertain her, gradually she confined herself to Mylitta; +and in describing the wonderlands which she knew so well, she spoke now +only of Babylon, where the great tower was, and the gardens that hung in +the air. + +It was all very marvellous and beautiful, and Sephorah described it in +fitting terms. There was the Temple of the Seven Spheres, where the +priests offered incense to the Houses of the Planets, to the whole host of +heaven, and to Bel, Lord of the Sky. There was the Home of the Height, a +sheer flight of solid masonry extending vertiginously, and surmounted by +turrets of copper capped with gold. In its utmost pinnacle were a +sanctuary and a dazzling couch. There the priests said that sometimes Bel +came and rested. For the truth of that statement, however, Sephorah +declined to vouch. She had never seen him; but the hanging gardens she had +seen, long before they were demolished. She had walked in them, and she +described their loveliness, and related that they were erected to pleasure +a Persian princess whose eyes had wearied of the monotony of the +Babylonian plain. + +Once when Pappus was present--and latterly he had been often there--she +passed from the gardens to the grove where the temple of Mylitta stood. At +the steps of the shrine, she declared, were white-winged lions, and +immense bulls with human heads. Within were dovecotes and cisterns, the +emblems of fecundity, and a block of stone which she did not describe. +Without, among the terebinths and evergreens, were little cabins and an +avenue bordered by cypress trees, in which men with pointed hats and long +embroidered gowns passed slowly, for there the maidens of Babylon sat, +chapleted with cords, burning bran for perfume, awaiting the will of the +first who should toss a coin in their lap and in the name of Mylitta +invite them to perform the sacred rite. + +"That," said Sephorah, "is the worship Mylitta exacts." As she spoke she +drew herself up, her height increased, an unnatural splendor filled her +eyes. "I," she continued, "am her priestess. I sacrificed at Byblus, but +you may sacrifice here. There is a dovecote, yonder is a cistern, beyond +are the cypress and the evergreens that she loves. Mary, do you wish to be +immortal? Do you see the way?" + +Mary smiled vaguely, and with the serenity of one worshipping a divinity +she suffered the fat Jerusalemite to take her in his arms. + +And now as she lay on her great couch these things returned to her, and +subsequent episodes as well. There had been the lamentable grief of +Martha, the added pathos in her brother's eyes. The estate of her father +had been divided, and the castle of Magdala had fallen to her share. +Meanwhile she had been at Jerusalem, and from there she had journeyed to +Antioch, where she had heard the beasts roar in the arena. She had looked +on blood, on the honey-colored moon that effaced the stars, and everywhere +she had encountered love. + +Since then her hours had been grooved in revolving circles of alternating +delights, and delights to which no shadow of regret had come. To her, +youth had been a chalice of aromatic wine. She had drained it and found no +dregs. Day had been interwoven with splendors, and night with the rays of +the sun. Where she passed she conquered; when she smiled there were slaves +ready-made. There had been hot brawls where she trod, the gleam of white +knives. Men had killed each other because of her eyes, and women had wept +themselves to death. For her a priest had gone mad, and a betrothed had +hid herself in the sea. In Hierapolis the galli had fancied her Ashtaroth; +and at Capri, where Tiberius lounged, a villa awaited her will. + +Her life had indeed been full, yet that morning its nausea had mounted to +her heart. At the words of the rabbi the horizon had expanded, the dream +of immortality returned. It had been forgot long since and abandoned, but +now, for the first time since her childhood, something there was which +admonished her that perhaps she still might stroll through lands where +dreams come true. The path was not wholly clear as yet, and as in her +troubled mind she tried to disentangle the past from the present the sun +went down behind the castle, the crouching shadows elongated and possessed +the walls. + +An echo came to her, Repent, and the prophecy continuing danced in her +ears; yet still the way was obscure. In the echo she divined merely that +the past must be put from her like a garment that is stained. The rest was +vague. Then suddenly she was back again in Machaerus, and she heard the +ringing words of John. Could this be the Messiah her nation awaited? was +there a kingdom coming, and immortality too? + +Her thoughts entangled and grew confused. There was a murmur of harps in +the distance, and she wondered whence it could come. Some one was +speaking; she tried to rouse herself and listen. The room was filled with +bats that changed to butterflies. The murmur of harps continued, and +through the wall before her issued a litter in which a woman lay. + +A circle of slaves surrounded her. She was pale, and her eyes closed +languorously. "I am Indolence," she said. "Sleep is not softer than my +couch. My lightest wish is law to kings. I live on perfumes; my days are +as shadows on glass. Mary, come with me, and I will teach you to forget." + +She vanished, and where the litter had been stood a eunuch. "I am Envy," +he said, and his eyes drooped sullenly. "I separate those that love; I +dismantle altars and dismember nations. I corrode and corrupt; I destroy, +and I never rebuild. My joy is malice, and my creed false-witnessing. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to hate." + +He disappeared, and where his slime had dripped stood a being with fingers +intertwisted and a back that bent. "I am Greed," it said. "I sap the veins +of youth; I drain the hearts of women; I bring contention where peace +should be. I make fathers destroy their sons, and daughters betray their +mother. I never forget, and I never release. I am the master. Mary, come +with me, and you shall own the world." + +The fetor of the presence went, and in its place came one whose footsteps +thundered. "I am Anger," he declared. "I exterminate and rejoice. I batten +on blood. In my heart is suspicion, in my hand is flame. It is I that am +war and disaster and regret. My breath consumes, and my voice affrights. +Mary, come with me, and you will learn to quell." + +He dissolved, and in the shadows stood one whose hands were ample, and +whose wide mouth laughed. "I am Gluttony," he announced, and as he spoke +his voice was thick. "I fatten and forsake. I offer satrapies for one new +dish. I invite and alienate, I welcome and repel. It is I that bring +disease and disorders. I am the harbinger of Death. Mary, come with me, +and you shall taste of Life." + +He also disappeared, and two heralds entered with trumpets on which they +blew, and one exclaimed, "Make way for Assurbanipal, ruler of land and of +sea." Then, with horsemen riding royally, Sardanapalus advanced through +the fissure in the wall. On his head a high and wonderful tiara shone with +zebras that had wings and horns. His hair was long, and his beard curled +in overlapping rings. His robe dazzled, and the close sleeves were +fastened over his knuckles with bracelets of precious stones. In one hand +he held a sceptre, in the other a chart. + +"I," he cried--"I am Assurbanipal; the progeny of Assur and of Baaltis, son +of the great king Riduti, whom the lord of crowns, in days remote +prophesying in his name, raised to the kingdom, and in the womb of his +mother created to rule. The man of war, the joy of Assur and of Istar, the +royal offspring, am I. When the gods seated me on the throne of the father +my begetter, Bin poured down his rain, Hea feasted the people. My enemies +I destroyed, and their gods glorified me before my camp. The god of their +oracles, whose image no man had seen, I took, and the goddesses whom the +kings worshipped I dishonored." + +He paused and looked proudly about, then he continued: + +"That which is in the storehouse of heaven is kindled, and to the city of +cities my glory flies. The queens above and below proclaim my glory. I am +Glory, and I am Pride. Mary, come with me, and you shall disdain the sky." + +But Mary gave no sign. The clattering horses vanished, and two men dressed +in women's clothes appeared. They bowed to the ground and chanted: + +"The holy goddess, our Lady Mylitta, whose sacrificants we are." + +Then came a form so luminous that Mary hid her face and listened merely. + +"I," said a voice--"I am Desire. In Greece I am revered, and there I am +Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in +Persia, Anahita; Tanit in Carthage; Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; +Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and +Aschera in the glades of Judaea. And everywhere I am worshipped, and +everywhere I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight and pain. I appease +and appal. It is I that create and undo. It is I that make heaven and +people hell. I am the mistress of the world. Without me time would cease +to be. I am the germ of stars, the essence of things. I am all that is, +will be, and has been, and my robe no mortal has raised. I breathe, and +nations are; in my parturitions are planets; my home is space. My lips are +blissfuller than any bloom of bliss; my arms the opening gates of life. +The Infinite is mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall measure it." + +When Mary ventured to look again the vision had gone. They had all gone +now. She had made no effort to detain them. They were tempters of which +she was freed, in which she believed, and which were real to her. The wall +through which they had come and departed was vague and in the darkness +remote, but presently it dissolved again, and afar in the beckoning +distance was one breathing a soul into decrepit rites. "Come unto me, all +ye that sorrow and are heavy-laden," she heard him say; and, as with a +great sob of joy she rose to that gracious summons, night seized her. When +she awoke, a newer dawn had come. + + + + + + CHAPTER IV. + + + IV. + + +In the gardens of the palace the tetrarch mused. The green parasols of the +palms formed an avenue, and down that avenue now and then he looked. Near +him a Syrian bear, quite tame, with a sweet face and tufted silver fur, +gambolled prodigiously. Up and down a neighboring tree two lemurs chased +with that grace and diabolic vivacity which those enchanting animals alone +possess. Ringed-horned antelopes, the ankles slender as the stylus, the +eyes timid and trustful, pastured just beyond; and there too a black-faced +ape, irritated perhaps by the lemurs, turned indignant somersaults, the +tender coloring of his body glistening in the sun. + +"It is odd that Pahul does not return," the tetrarch reflected; and then, +it may be for consolation's sake, he plunged his face in a jar of wine +that had been drained, in accordance with a recipe of Vitellius, through +cinnamon and calamus, and drank abundantly. + +Long since he had deserted Machaerus. The legends that peopled its +corridors had beset him with a sense of reality which before they had +never possessed. The leaves of the baaras glittered frenetically in the +basalt, and in their spectral light a phantom with eyes that cursed came +and went. At night he had drunk, and in the clear forenoons he paced the +terrace fancying always that there, beyond in the desert, Aretas prowled +like a wolf. Machaerus was unhealthy; men had gone mad there, others had +disappeared entirely. It was a haunt of echoes, of memories, of ghosts +also, perhaps too of reproach. And so, with his court, he returned to his +brand-new Tiberias, where the air was serener, and nature laughed. + +And yet in the gardens that leaned to the lake the tranquillity he had +anticipated eluded and declined to be detained. Rumors that Herodias +collected came to him with the stamp of Rome. One of his brothers was +plotting against him; another, though in exile, was plotting too. It was +the Herod blood, his wife said; and, with the intemperance of a woman +whose ambition has been deceived, she taunted him with his plebeian +descent. "Your grandfather was a sweep at Ascalon, a eunuch at that," she +had remarked; and the tetrarch, by way of reply, had been obliged to +content himself by asking how, in that case, he could have been +grandfather at all. + +But latterly a new source of inquietude had come. At Magdala, Capharnahum, +Bethsaida, there, within the throw of a stone, was a Nazarene going about +inciting the peasants to revolt. It was very vexatious, and he told +himself that when an annoyance fades another appears. Life, it occurred to +him, was a brier with renascent thorns. And now, as he gargled the wine +that left a pink foam on his lips, even that irritation lapsed in the +perplexing absence of Pahul. + +Pahul was a butler of his, a Greek whom he had picked up one adventurous +night in Rome, who had made himself useful, whom he had attached to his +household, whom he consulted, and on whom he relied. Early that day he had +sent him off with instructions to run the demagogue to earth, to listen, +to question if need were, and to hurry back and report. But as yet he had +not returned. The day was fading, and on the amphitheatre which the hills +made the sun seemed to balance itself, the disk blood-red. The lemurs had +tired, perhaps; their yellow eyes and circled tails had gone; the bear had +been led away; only the multicolored ape remained, gnawing now with little +plaintive moans at a bit of fruit which he held suspiciously in his +wrinkled hand. + +Presently a star appeared and quivered, then another came, and though +overhead were streaks of pink, and, where the sun had been, a violence of +red and orange, the east retained its cobalt, night still was remote--an +echo of crotals from the neighboring faubourg, the cry of elephants +impatient for their fodder, alone indicating that a day was dead. + +In the charm of the encroaching twilight the irritation of the tetrarch +waned and decreased. He lost himself in memories of the princess who had +been his bride, and he wondered were it possible that, despite the +irrevocable, he was never to see, to speak, to hold her to him again. +Truly her grievance was unmeasurable, the more so even that she had not +deigned to utter so much as a reproach. At the rumor of his treachery she +had betaken herself to the solitudes, where Aretas her father was king, +and had there remained girt in that unmurmuring silence which nobility +raises as a barrier between outrage and itself, and which the desert is +alone competent to suggest. + +"It is he!" + +The tetrarch started so abruptly that he narrowly missed the jar at his +side. On noiseless sandals Pahul had approached, and stood before him +nodding his head with an air of assured conviction. The ape had fled and a +stork stepped gingerly away. + +"It is he," the Greek repeated--"John the Baptist." + +Antipas plucked at his beard. "But he is dead," he gasped; "I beheaded +him. What nonsense you talk!" + +"It is he, I tell you, only grown younger. I found him in the synagogue." + +"Where? what synagogue?" + +Pahul made a gesture. "At Capharnahum," he answered, and gazed in the +tetrarch's face. He was slight of form and regular of feature. As a lad he +had crossed bare-handed from Cumae to Rhegium, and from there drifted to +Rome, where he started a commerce in Boetican girls which had so far +prospered that he bought two vessels to carry the freight. Unfortunately +the vessels met in a storm and sank. Then he became a hanger-on of the +circus; in idle moments a tout. It was in the latter capacity that Antipas +met him, and, pleased with his shrewdness and perfect corruption, had +attached him to his house. This had occurred in years previous, and as yet +Antipas had found no cause to regret the trust imposed. He was a useful +braggart, idle, familiar, and discreet; and he had acquired the dialect of +the country with surprising ease. + +"There were any number of people," Pahul continued. "Some said he was the +son of Joseph, the son of----" + +"But he, what did he say? How tiresome you are!" + +"Ah!" And Pahul swung his arms. "Who is Mammon?" + +"Mammon? Mammon? How do I know? Plutus, I suppose. What about him?" + +"And who is Satan?" + +"Satan? Satan is a--He's a Jew god. Why? But what do you mean by asking me +questions?" + +Pahul nodded absently. "I heard him say," he continued, "that no man could +serve God and Mammon. At first I thought he meant you. It was this way. I +got into conversation with a friend of his, a man named Judas. He told me +any number of things about him, that he cured the sick----" + +"Bah! Some Greek physician." + +"That he walks on the sea----" + +"Nonsense!" + +"That he turns water into wine, feeds the multitude, raises the dead----" + +"Raises the dead!" And the tetrarch added in the _sotto voce_ of thought, +"So did Elijah." + +"That he had been in the desert----" + +"With Aretas?" + +"No; I questioned him on that point. He had never heard of Aretas, but he +said that in the desert this Satan had come and offered him--what do you +suppose? _The empire of the earth!_" + +Antipas shook with fright. "It must have been Aretas." + +"But that he had refused." + +"Then it is John." + +"There, you see." And Pahul dandled himself with the air of one who is +master of logic. "That's what I said myself. I said this: 'If he can raise +the dead, he can raise himself.' " + +"It _is_ John," the tetrarch repeated. + +"I am sure of it," the butler continued. "But he did not say so. Judas +didn't either. On the contrary, he declared he was not. He said John was +not good enough to carry his shoes. I saw through that, though," and Pahul +leered; "he knew whom I was, and he lied to protect his friend. I of +course pretended to believe him." + +"Quite right," said the tetrarch. + +"Yes, I played the fool. H'm, where was I? Oh, I asked Judas who then his +friend was, but he went over to where a woman stood; he spoke to her; she +moved away. Some of the others seemed to reprove him. I would have +followed, but at that moment his friend stood up; a khazzan offered him a +scroll, but he waved it aside; then some one asked him a question which I +did not catch; another spoke to him; a third interrupted; he seemed to be +arguing with them. I was too far away to hear well, and I got nearer; then +I heard him say, 'I am the bread of life.' Now, what did he mean by that?" + +Antipas had no explanation to offer. + +"Then," Pahul continued, "he said he had come down from heaven. A man near +me exclaimed, 'He is the Messiah;' but others----" + +"The Messiah!" echoed the tetrarch. For a moment his thoughts stammered, +then at once he was back in the citadel. On one side was the procurator, +on the other the emir of Tadmor. In front of him was a drunken rabble, +wrangling Pharisees, and one man dominating the din with an announcement +of the Messiah's approach. The murmur of lutes threaded through it all; +and now, as his thoughts deviated, he wondered could that announcement +have been the truth. + +"But others," Pahul continued, "objected loudly. For a little I could not +catch a word. At last they became quieter, and I heard him repeat that he +was the bread of life, adding, 'Your fathers ate manna and are dead, but +this bread a man may eat of and never die.' At this there was new +contention. A woman fainted--the one to whom Judas had spoken. They carried +her out. As she passed I could see her face. It was Mary of Magdala. Judas +held her by the waist, another her feet." + +Antipas drew a hand across his face. "It is impossible," he muttered. + +"Not impossible at all. I saw her as plainly as I see you. The man next to +me said that the Rabbi had cast from her seven devils. Moreover, Johanna +was there--yes, yes, the wife of Khuza, your steward; it was she, I +remember now, who had her by the feet. And there were others that I +recognized, and others that the man next to me pointed out: Zabdia, a +well-to-do fisherman whom I have seen time and again, and with him his +sons James and John, and Salome his wife. Then, too, there were Simon +Barjona and Andrew his brother. Simon had his wife with him, his children, +and his mother-in-law. The man next to me said that the Rabbi called James +and John the Sons of Thunder, and Simon a stone. There was Mathias the +tax-gatherer, Philip of Bethsaida, Joseph Barsaba, Mary Clopas, Susannah, +Nathaniel of Cana, Thomas, Thaddeus, Aristian the custom-house officer, +Ruth the tax-gatherer's wife, mechanics from Scythopolis, and Scribes from +Jerusalem." + +The fingers of Antipas' hand glittered with jewels. He played with them +nervously. The sky seemed immeasurably distant. For some little time it +had been hesitating between different shades of blue, but now it chose a +fathomless indigo; Night unloosed her draperies, and, with the prodigality +of a queen who reigns only when she falls, flung out upon them uncounted +stars. + +Pahul continued: "And many of them seemed to be at odds with each other. +They wrangled so that often I could not distinguish a word. Some of them +left the synagogue. The Rabbi himself must have been vexed, for in a lull +I heard him say to those who were nearest, 'Will you also go away?' Judas +came in at that moment, and he turned to him: 'Have I not chosen twelve, +and is not one of you a devil?' Judas came forward at once and protested. +I could see he was in earnest, and meant what he said. The man next told +me that he was devoted to the Rabbi. Then Simon Barjona, in answer to his +question, called out, 'To whom should we go? Thou art Christ, the Son of +God.' " + +Antipas had ceased to listen. At the mention of the Messiah the dream of +Israel had returned, and with it the pageants of its faith unrolled. + +Behind the confines of history, in the naked desert he saw a bedouin, +austere and grandiose, preparing the tenets of a nation's creed; in the +remoter past a shadow in which there was lightning, then the splendor of +that first dawn where the future opened like a book, and in the grammar of +the Eternal the promise of an age of gold. + +Through the echo of succeeding generations came the rumor of that initial +impulse which drew the world in its flight. The bedouin had put the desert +behind him, and stared at another. Where the sand had been was the sea. As +he passed, the land leapt into life. There were tents and passions, clans +not men, an aggregate of forces in which the unit disappeared. For +chieftain there was Might; and above, the subjects of impersonal verbs, +the Elohim from whom the thunder came, the rain, light and darkness, death +and birth, dream too, and nightmare as well. The clans migrated. Goshen +called. In its heart Chaldaea spoke. The Elohim vanished, and there was El, +the one great god, and Isra-el, the great god's elect. From heights that +lost themselves in immensity the ineffable name, incommunicable and never +to be pronounced, was seared by forked flames on a tablet of stone. A +nation learned that El was Jehovah, that they were in his charge, that he +was omnipotent, and that the world was theirs. + +They had a law, a covenant, a future, and a god; and as they passed into +the lands of the well-beloved, leaving tombs and altars to mark their +passage, they had battle-cries that frightened and hymns that exalted the +heart. Above were the jealous eyes of Jehovah, and beyond was the +resplendent to-morrow. They ravaged the land like hailstones. They had the +whirlwind for ally; the moon was their servant; and to aid them the sun +stood still. The terror of Sinai gleamed from their breastplates; men +could not see their faces and live. They encroached and conquered. They +had a home, they made a capitol, and there on a rock-bound hill Antipas +saw David founding a line of kings, and Solomon the city of god. + +It was in their loins the Messiah was; in them the apex of a nation's +prosperity; in them glory at its apogee. And across that tableau of might, +of splendor, and of submission for one second flitted the silhouette of +that dainty princess of Utopia, the Queen of Sheba, bringing riddles, +romance, and riches to the wise young king. + +She must have been very beautiful, Antipas with melancholy retrospection +reflected; and he fancied her more luminous than the twelve signs of the +zodiac, lounging nonchalantly in a palanquin that a white elephant with +swaying tail balanced on his painted back. And even as she returned, with +a child perhaps, to the griffons of the fabulous Yemen whence she came, +Antipas noted a speck on the horizon that grew from minim into mountain, +and obscured the entire sky. He saw the empire split in twain, and in the +twin halves that formed the perfect whole, a concussion of armies, +brothers appealing against their kin, the flight of the Ideal. + +Unsummoned before him paraded the regicides, convulsions, and anarchies +that deified Hatred until Vengeance incarnate talked Assyrian, and +Nebuchadnezzar loomed above the desert beyond. His statue filled the +perspective. With one broad hand he overturned Jerusalem; with another he +swept a nation into captivity, leaving in derision a pigmy for King of +Solitude behind, and, blowing the Jews into Babylon, there retained them +until it occurred to Cyrus to change the Euphrates' course. + +By the light of that legend Antipas saw an immense hall, illuminated by +the seven branches of countless candelabra, and filled with revellers +celebrating a monarch's feast. Beyond, through retreating columns, were +cyclopean arches and towers whose summits were lost in clouds that the +lightning rent. At the royal table sat Belsarazzur, laughing mightily at +the enterprise of the Persian king; about him were the grandees of his +court, the flower of his concubines; at his side were the sacred vases +filled with wine. He raised one to his lips, and there on the frieze +before him leapt out the flaming letters of his doom, while to the +trumpetings of heralds Cyrus and his army beat down the city's gates. + +It passed, and Antipas saw Jerusalem repeopled, the Temple rebuilt, peace +after exile, the joy of bondage unloosed. For a moment it lasted--a century +or two at most; and after Alexander, in chasing kings hither and thither, +had passed with his huntsmen that way, Isis and Osiris beckoned, and the +descendants of the bedouin belonged to Goshen again, and so remained until +Syria took them, lost them, reconquered them, and might have done with +them utterly had not Juda Maccabaeus flaunted his banner, and the Roman +eagles pounced upon their prey. Once more the Temple was rebuilt, superber +than ever, and from the throne of David, Antipas saw the upstart that was +his father rule Judaea. + +With him the panorama and the kaleidoscope of its details abruptly ceased. +But through it all the voices of the prophets had rung more insistently +with each defeat. The covenant in the wilderness was unforgetable; in the +chained links of slavery they saw the steps of a throne, the triumph of +truth over error, peace over war, Israel pontiff and shepherd of the +nations of the world. + +The expectation of a liberator who should free the bonds of a people and +definitively re-create the land of the elect possessed them utterly; his +advent had been constantly awaited, obstinately proclaimed; the faith in +him was unshakeable. Palestine was filled with believers praying the +Eternal not to let them die before the promise was fulfilled; the +atmosphere itself was charged with expectation. + +And as the visions rushed through his mind, Antipas fell to wondering +whether that covenant was as meaningless as he had thought, or whether by +any chance this rabbi who had been arguing at Capharnahum could be the +usher of Israel's hope. If he were, then indeed he might say good-bye to +his tetrarchy, to his dream of a kingdom as well. + +"Yes," Pahul repeated, "the Son of God!" + +Antipas had been so far away that now he started as one does whom the +touch of a hand awakes. To recover himself he leaned over and plunged his +face in the jar. The wine brought him courage. + +He must be suppressed, he decided. + +"But," the butler continued, "I----" + +The frontal of the palace was set with lights. The parasols of the palms +had turned from green to black, the stars seemed remoter, the sky more +dark. From beyond came the call and answer of the sentinels. + +Antipas stood up. A fringe of his tunic was detained by a rivet of the +bench on which he had sat; he stooped to loose it; something moist touched +his fingers, and as he moved to the palace the black-faced ape sprang at +his side and nibbled at the jewels on his hand. + + + + + + CHAPTER V. + + + V. + + +The house of Simon Barlevi was gray, and in shape an oblong. It had a flat +roof laid with a plaster of lime, about which was a fretwork of open +tiles. Beneath, for doorway, was a recess, surmounted by an arch and +covered with a layer of mud. On each side was a room. + +In the recess, sheltered from the sun and visited by the breeze, Simon +stood. His garments were white, and where they were not they had been +neatly chalked. On the border of his skirt and sleeves were the regulation +fringes, and on his forehead and about his left arm the phylacteries which +Pharisees affect. He was not pleasant to the eye, but he was virtuous and +a strict observer of the Law. + +In the room at his left were mats and painted stools, set in the manner +customary when guests are awaited. For on that day Simon Barlevi was to +give a little feast, to which he had bidden his friends and also a rabbi +whom he had listened to in the synagogue, and with whose ideas he did not +at all agree. Save for the mats and stools, and a lamp of red clay, the +room was bare. + +In front of the house was a bit of ground enclosed by a hedge of stones; +and now as Simon stood in the recess a guest appeared. + +"Reulah!" he exclaimed, "the Lord be with you." + +And Reulah answering, as etiquette required, "Unto you be peace, and to +your house be peace, and unto all you have be peace," the two friends +clasped hands raised them as though to kiss them, then each withdrawing +kissed his own hand, and struck it on his forehead. + +Singularly enough, host and guest looked much alike. Simon had the +appearance of one conscious of and strong in his own rectitude, while +Reulah seemed humbler and more effaced. Otherwise there was not a pin to +choose between them. + +To Simon's face had come an expression of perplexity in which there was +zeal. + +"I was thinking, Reulah," he announced, "of the rabbi who is to break +bread with us to-day. His teaching does not comfort me." + +Reulah was unlatching his shoes. "Nor me," he interjected. + +"On questions of purity and impurity he seems unscrupulously negligent. I +have heard that he is a glutton and a wine-bibber. I have heard that he +despises the washing of the hands." + +"Whoso does," Reulah threw back, "will be rooted out of the world." + +Simon nodded; a smile of protracted amiability hovered in the corners of +his mouth. For a moment he played with his beard. + +"I think," he added, "that he will find here food in plenty, and counsel +as well." + +Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and Simon, in a falsetto which he +affected when he desired to impress, continued in gentle menace: + +"But I have certain questions to put to him. Whether water from an unclean +vessel defiles that which is clean. Whether the flesh of a dead body alone +defiles, or the skin and bones as well. I want to see how he will answer +that. Then I may ask his opinion on points of the ritual. Should the +incense be lighted before the high-priest appears or as he does so. Is or +is not the Sabbath broken by the killing of the Paschal lamb? Why is it +lawful to take tithe of corn and wine and oil, and not of anise, cummin, +and peppers? In swearing by the Temple, should one not first swear by the +gold on the Temple? and in swearing by the altar, should one or should one +not first swear by the sacrifices on it? These things, since he preaches, +he must know. If he does not----" + +And Simon looked at his friend as who should say: What is there wanting in +me? + +"If I may be taught another duty I will observe it," said Reulah, sweetly. + +At this evidence of meekness Simon grunted. Two other guests were +approaching. On the edges of their tallith were tassels made of four +threads which had been drawn through an eyelet and doubled to make eight. +Seven of these threads were of equal length, but the eighth was longer, +and, twisted into five knots, represented the five books of the Law. The +right hand on the left breast, they saluted their host, and placing in +turn a hand under his beard, they kissed it. A buzz of inquiries followed, +interrupted by the coming and embracing of newer guests, the unloosing of +sandals, the washing of feet. + +As they assembled, one drew Simon aside and whispered importantly. Simon's +eyes dilated, astonishment lifted him, visibly, like a lash, and his hands +trembled above his head. + +"Have you heard," he exclaimed to the others--"have you heard that the +Nazarene whom I invited here, and who pretends to be a prophet, allowed +his followers to pluck corn on the Sabbath, to thresh it even, and +defended and approved their violation of the Law? Have you heard it? Is it +true?" + +Reulah quaked as one stricken by palsy. "On the Sabbath!" he moaned. "On +the Sabbath! Why, I would not send a message on Wednesday, lest perchance +it should be delivered on the Sabbath day. Surely it cannot be." + +But on that point the others were certain. They were all aware of the +scandal; one had been an eye-witness, another had heard the Nazarene +assert that he was "Lord of the Day." + +"This is monstrous!" Simon cried. + +"He declared," the eye-witness continued, "that the Sabbath was made for +man, and not man for the Sabbath." + +"It is monstrous!" Simon repeated. "The command to do no manner of work is +absolute and emphatic. The killing of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous +as the butchering of a bullock. The preservation of life itself is +inhibited. Moses had the son of Shelomith stoned to death for gathering +sticks on it. Shammai occupied six days of the week in thinking how he +could best observe it. It is unlawful to wear a false tooth on the +Sabbath, and if a tooth ache it is unlawful to rinse the mouth with +vinegar." + +"Yet," objected Reulah, "it is lawful to hold the vinegar in the mouth +provided you swallow it afterward." + +No one paid any attention to him. Simon's indignation increased. Of the +thirty-nine Abhoth he quoted twelve; he showed that the Nazarene had +violated each one of these prohibitions against labor; he showed, too, +that by his subsequent speech and bearing he had practically scoffed at +the Toldoth, at the synagogue which had drawn it up as well. + +"If the Sadducees were not in power, Jerusalem should hear of this. As it +is----" + +Whatever resolution he may have intended to express remained unuttered. A +silence fell upon his lips; his guests drew back. At the step stood the +Nazarene, behind him his treasurer, Judas of Kerioth. For a second only +Jesus hesitated. He stooped, undid his shoes, and moved to where Simon +stood. The latter bowed constrainedly. + +"Master," he said, "we awaited you." + +At this his friends retreated into the little room. Reulah reached the +middle seat of the central mat first and held it, his nostrils quivering +at the envy of the others. + +Preceded by their host, Jesus and Judas found places near together, and, +the usual ablutions performed, the customary prayers recited, lay, the +upper part of the body supported by the left arm, the head raised, the +limbs outstretched. + +On the stools were dishes of stewed lentils, milk, and cakes of mashed +locusts. Reulah ate with the tips of his lips, greedily, like a goat. +Judas, too, ate with an air of hunger. The Master broke bread absently, +his thoughts on other things. These thoughts Simon interrupted. + +"Rabbi"--and to his wide mouth came the sneer of one propounding a riddle +already solved--"it is not meet, is it, to thresh on the Sabbath day? Yet +since you permit your followers to do so, how are we to distinguish +between what is lawful and what is not?" + +The Master raised his eyes. The dawn was in them, high noon as well. + +"Show yourself a tried money-changer. Choose that which is good metal, +reject that which is bad." + +Simon blinked as at a sudden light. + +"But," he persisted, "in seeking to observe the Law, there is not a jot or +tittle in it that can be rejected." + +With an acquiescence that was both vague and melancholy, Jesus looked the +Pharisee in the face. + +"Seek those things that are great, and little things will be added unto +you----" + +He would have said more, perhaps, but a woman who had entered from the +recess approached circuitously, and kneeling beside him let a tear, long +as a pearl, fall upon his unsandalled feet. + +Judas' heart bounded; he glared at her, his eyes dilating like a leopard +preparing to spring. At once he was back in the circus, gazing into the +perils and the splendors of a woman's face, telling himself with +reiterated insistence that to hold her to him would be the birthday of his +life; and here, within reach of his hand, was she whom in the din of the +chariots he had recognized as the one woman in all the world, and who for +one moment the day before had lain unconscious in his arms. + +Reulah sat motionless, his mouth agape, a finger extended. "The paramour +of Pandera," he stammered at last; and lowering his eyes, he looked at her +covetously from beneath the lids. + +Simon, too, sat motionless. There was rage in his expression, hate +even--that hatred which the beautiful excites in the base. Time and again +he had seen her; she was a byword with him; from the height of her +residence she looked down on his mean gray walls; her luxury had been an +insult to his abstinence; and with that zest which a small nature takes in +the humiliation of its superior, he determined, in spite of her manifest +abjection, to humiliate her still more. + +"If this man," he confided to his neighbor, "has in him anything of that +which goes to the making of a prophet, he will divine what manner of woman +she is. If he does not, I will denounce them both." And nourishing his +hate he waited yet a while. + +The Master seemed depressed. The great secret which in all the world he +alone possessed may have weighed with him. But he turned to Mary and +looked at her. As he looked she bent yet lower. The marvel of her hair was +unconfined; it fell about her in tangling streams of gold and flame, while +on his feet there fell from her tears such as no woman ever shed before. +In the era of primitive hospitality the daughters of kings had not +disdained to unlatch the sandals of their fathers' guests; but now, at the +feet of Mercy, for the first time Repentance knelt. And still the tears +continued, unstanched and undetained. Grief, something keener still +perhaps, had claimed her as its own. She bent lower. Then Misery looked up +at Compassion. + +The Master stretched his hand. For a moment it rested on her head. She +quivered and clutched at her throat; and as he withdrew that hand, in +which all panaceas were, from her gown she took a little box, opened it, +and dropping the contents where the tears had fallen, with a sudden +movement she caught her hair and poured its lava on his feet. + +An aroma of beckoning oases filled the small room, passed into the recess, +mounted to the roof, pervaded and penetrated it, and escaped to the sky +above. + +And still she wept. Judas no longer saw her tears, he heard them. They +fell swiftly one after another, like the ripple of the rain. A sob broke +from her, but in it was something which foretokened peace, the sob which +comes to those who have conceived a despairing hope, and suddenly +intercept its fulfilment. Her hands trembled; the little box fell from her +and broke. The noise it made exorcised the silence. + +The Master turned to his host. "I have a word to say to you." + +Simon stroked his beard and bowed. + +"There was once a man who had two debtors. One owed him five hundred +pence, the other fifty. Both were poor, and because of their poverty the +debt of each he forgave." + +For an instant Jesus paused and seemed to muse; then, with that indulgence +which was to illuminate the world, "Tell me, Simon," he inquired, "which +was the more grateful?" + +Simon assumed an air of perplexity, and glanced cunningly from one guest +to another. Presently he laughed outright. + +"Why, the one who owed the most, of course." + +Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the expression of the others it was patent +that to them also the jest appealed. Only Judas did not seem to have +heard; he sat bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his violent eyes. + +The Master made a gesture of assent, and turned to where Mary crouched. +She was staring at him with that look which the magnetized share with +animals. + +"You see her?" + +Straightening himself, he leaned on his elbow and scrutinized his host. + +"Simon, I am your guest. When I entered here there was no kiss to greet +me, there was no oil for my head, no water for my feet. But this woman +whom you despise has not ceased to embrace them. She has washed them with +her tears, anointed them with nard, and dried them with her hair. Her +sins, it may be, are many, but, Simon, they are forgiven----" + +Simon, Reulah, the others, muttered querulously. To forgive sins was +indeed an attribute which no one, save the Eternal, could arrogate to +himself. + +"--for she has loved much." + +And turning again to Mary, who still crouched at his side, he added: + +"Your sins are forgiven. Go now, and in peace." + +But the fierce surprise of the Pharisees was not to be shocked into +silence. Reulah showed his teeth; they were pointed and treacherous as a +jackal's. Simon loudly asserted disapproval and wonder too. + +"I am amazed----" he began. + +The Master checked him: + +"The beginning of truth is amazement. Wonder, then, at what you see; for +he that wonders shall reign, and he that reigns shall rest." + +The music of his voice heightened the beauty of the speech. On Mary it +fell and rested as had the touch of his hand. + +"Messiah, my Lord!" she cried. "In your breast is the future, in your +heart the confidence of God. Let me but tell you. There are those that +live whose lives are passed; the tombs do not hold all of those that are +dead. I was dead; you brought me to life. I had no conscience; you gave me +one, for I was dead," she insisted. "And yet," she added, with a little +moan, so human, so sincere, that it might have stirred a Caesar, let alone +a Christ, "not wholly dead. No, no, dear Lord, not wholly dead." + +Again her tears gushed forth, profuser and more abundant than before; her +frail body shook with sobs, her fingers intertwined. + +"Not wholly dead," she kept repeating. "No, no, not wholly dead." + +Jesus touched his treasurer. + +"She is not herself. Lead her away; see her to her home." And that the +others might hear, and profit as well, he added, in a higher key, +"Deference to a woman is always due." + +And to those words, which were to found chivalry and banish the boor, +Judas led Mary from the room. + + + + + + CHAPTER VI. + + + VI. + + +"Are you better?" + +The road that skirted the lake had branched to the left, and there an easy +ascent led to the hill beyond. On both sides were carpets of flowers and +of green, and slender larches that held their arms and hid the sky. Above, +an eagle circled, and on the lake a sail flapped idly. + +"Yes, I am better," Mary answered. + +From her eyes the perils had passed, but the splendors remained, +accentuated now by vistas visible only to herself. The antimony, too, with +which she darkened them had gone, and with it the alkanet she had used on +her cheeks. Her dress was olive, and, contrary to custom, her head +uncovered. + +"You are not strong, perhaps?" + +As Judas spoke, he thought of the episode in the synagogue, and wished her +again unconscious in his arms. + +"I have been so weak," she murmured. And after a moment she added: "I am +tired; let me sit awhile." + +The carpet of flowers and of green invited, and presently Judas dropped at +her side. About his waist a linen girdle had been wound many times; from +it a bag of lynx-skin hung. The white garments, the ample turban that he +wore, were those of ordinary life, but in his bearing was just that +evanescent charm which now and then the Oriental possesses--the subtlety +that subjugates and does not last. + +"But you must be strong; we need your strength." + +Mary turned to him wonderingly. + +"Yes," he repeated, "we need your strength. Johanna has joined us, as you +know. Susannah too. They do what they can; but we need others--we need +you." + +"Do you mean----" + +Something had tapped at her heart, something which was both joy and dread, +and she hesitated, fearing that the possibility which Judas suggested was +unreal, that she had not heard his words aright. + +"Do you mean that he would let me?" + +"He would love you for it. But then he loves everyone, yet best, I think, +his enemies." + +"They need it most," Mary answered; but her thoughts had wandered. + +"And I," Judas added--"I loved you long ago." + +Then he too hesitated, as though uncertain what next to say, and glanced +at her covertly. She was looking across the lake, over the country of the +Gadarenes, beyond even that, perhaps, into some infinite veiled to him. + +"I remember," he continued, tentatively, "it was there at Tiberias I saw +you first. You were entering the palace. I waited. The sentries ordered me +off; one threw a stone. I went to where the garden is; I thought you might +be among the flowers. The wall was so high I could not see. The guards +drove me away. I ran up the hill through the white and red terraces of the +grape. From there I could see the gardens, the elephants with their ears +painted, and the oxen with the twisted horns. The wind sung about me like +a flute; the sky was a tent of different hues. Something within me had +sprung into life. It was love, I knew. It had come before, yes, often, but +never as then. For," he added, and the gleam of his eyes was as a fanfare +to the thought he was about to express, "love returns to the heart as the +leaf returns to the tree." + +Mary looked at him vacantly. "What was he saying?" she wondered. From a +sea of grief she seemed to be passing onto an archipelago of dream. + +"The next day I loitered in the neighborhood of the palace. You did not +appear. Toward evening I questioned a gardener. He said your name was +Mary, but he would tell me nothing else. On the morrow was the circus. I +made sure you would be there--with the tetrarch, I thought; and, that I +might be near the tribune, before the sun had set I was at the circus +gate. There were others that came and waited, but I was first. I remember +that night as never any since. I lay outstretched, and watched the moon; +your face was in it: it was a dream, of course. Yes, the night passed +quickly, but the morning lagged. When the gate was open, I sprang like a +zemer from tier to tier until I reached the tribune. There, close by, I +sat and waited. At last you came, and with you new perfumes and poisons. +Did you feel my eyes? they must have burned into you. But no, you gave no +heed to me. They told me afterward that Scarlet won three times. I did not +know. I saw but you. Once merely an abyss in which lightning was. + +"Before the last race was done I got down and tried to be near the exit +through which I knew you must pass. The guards would not let me. The next +day I made friends with a sentry. He told me that you were Mirjam of +Magdala; that Tiberius wished you at Rome, and that you had gone with +Antipas to his citadel. In the wine-shops that night men slunk from me +afraid. A week followed of which I knew nothing, then chance disentangled +its threads. I found myself in a crowd at the base of a hill; a prophet +was preaching. I had heard prophets before; they were as torches in the +night: he was the Day. I listened and forgot you. He called me; I +followed. Until Sunday I had not thought of you again. But when you +appeared in the synagogue I started; and when you fainted, when I held you +in my arms and your eyes opened as flowers do, I looked into them and it +all returned. Mary, kiss me and kill me, but kiss me first." + +"Yes, he is the Day." + +Of the entire speech she had heard but that. It had entered perhaps into +thoughts of her own with which it was in unison, and she repeated the +phrase mechanically, as a child might do. But now as he ceased to speak, +perplexed, annoyed too at the inappositeness of her reply, she came back +from the infinite in which she had roamed, and for a moment both were +silent. + +At the turning of the road a man appeared. At the sight of Judas he +halted, then called him excitedly by name. + +"It is Mathias," Judas muttered, and got to his feet. The man hurried to +them. He was broad of shoulder and of girth, the jaw lank and earnest. His +eyes were small, and the lids twitched nervously. He was out of breath, +and his garments were dust-covered. + +"Where is the Master?" he asked; and at once, without waiting a reply, he +added: "I have just seen Johanna. Her husband told her that the tetrarch +is seeking him; he thinks him John, and would do him harm. We must go from +here." + +Judas assented. "Yes, we must all go. Mary, it may be a penance, but it is +his will." + +Mathias gazed inquiringly at them both. + +"It is his will," Judas repeated, authoritatively. + +Mary turned away and caught her forehead in her hands. "If this is a +penance," she murmured, "what then are his rewards?" + + + + + + CHAPTER VII. + + + VII. + + +On the floor of a little room Mary lay, her face to the ground. In her +ears was the hideousness of a threat that had fastened on her abruptly +like a cheetah in the dark. From below came the sound of banqueting. +Beyond was the Bitter Sea, the stars dancing in its ripples; and there in +the shadow of the evergreens was the hut in which that Sephorah lived to +whom long ago Martha had forbidden her to speak. Through the lattice came +the scent of olive-trees, and with it the irresistible breath of spring. + +In its caress the threat which had made her its own presently was lifted, +and mingling with other things fused into them. The kaleidoscope of time +and events which visits those that drown possessed her, and for a second +Mary relived a year. + +There had been the sudden flight from Magdala, the first days with the +Master, the gorges of the Jordan, the journey to the coast, the glittering +green scales of that hydra the sea. Then the loiterings on the banks of +the sacred Leontes, the journey back to Galilee, the momentary halt at +Magdala, the sail past Bethsaida, Capharnahum, Chorazin, the fording of +the river, the trip to Caesarea Philippi, the snow and gold of Hermon, the +visit to Gennesareth, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and the return to +Bethany. + +Her recollections intercrossed, scenes that were trivial ousted others +that were grave; the purple limpets of Sidon, the shrine of Ashtaroth, the +invective at Bethsaida, the transfiguration on the mountain height, the +cure of lepers, and the presence that coerced. Yet through them all +certain things remained immutable, and of these, primarily her contact +with the Christ. + +To her, Jesus was not the Son of man alone, he was the light of this +world, the usher of the next. When he spoke, there came to her a sense of +frightened joy so acute that the hypostatical union which left even the +disciples perplexed was by her realized and understood. She had the faith +of a little child. And on the hills and through the intervales over which +they journeyed, in the glare of the eager sun or beneath the wattled +boughs, the emanations of the Divine filled her with transports so +contagious that they affected even Thomas, who was skeptical by birth; and +when, after the descent from Hermon, two or three of the disciples mused +together over the spectacle which they had seen, the rhyme of her lips +parted ineffably. She too had seen him aureoled with the sun, dazzling as +the snow-fields on the heights. To her it was ever in that aspect he +appeared, with a radiance so intense even that there had been moments in +which she had veiled her eyes as from a light that only eagles could +support. To her, marvels were as natural as the escape of night. At +Beth-Sean she had heard him speak to dumb beasts, and never doubted but +that they answered him. At Dan she had seen a short-eared hare rush to him +for refuge, and follow him afterwards as a dog might do. At Kinnereth he +had called to a lark that from a tree-top was pouring its heart out to the +morning, and the lark had fluttered down and nestled in his hand. At +Gadara he had tamed wild doves, and a swarm of bees had stopped and +glistened in his hair. At Caesarea, when he began to speak, the thrushes +that had been singing ceased; and when the parables were delivered, began +anew, louder, more jubilant than before, and continued to sing until he +blessed them, when they mounted in one long ascending line straight to the +zenith above. At his approach the little gold-bellied fish of the Leontes +had leaped from the stream. In the suburbs of Sidon the jackals had fawned +at his feet. The underbrush had parted to let him pass, and where he +passed white roses came and the tenderness of anemones. At times he seemed +to her immaterial as a shadow in a dream, at others appalling as the +desert; and once when, in prayer, she entered with him into the intimacy +of the infinite, she caught the shiver of an invisible harp whose notes +seemed to fall from the night. And as she journeyed, her love expanded +with the horizon. She loved with a love no woman's heart has transcended. +In its prodigality and ascending gammes there was place for nothing save +the Ideal. + +The little band meanwhile lived as strangers on earth. Out of her abundant +means their simple wants were supplied. She was less a burden than a +sustenance; her faith bridged many a doubtful hour; and when, as often +occurred, they disputed among themselves concerning their future rank and +precedence, Mary dreamed of a paradise more pure. + +One evening, near the rushes of Lake Phiala, where the Jordan leaps anew +to the light, a Greek merchant who had refused them shelter at Seleucia +ambled that way on an ass, and would have stopped, perhaps, but one of the +band scoffed him, and he rode on, and disappeared in the haze of the +hills. + +Unobserved, the Master had seen and heard; presently he called them to +where he stood. + +"Do not think," he admonished--"do not think that because you imitate the +Pharisees you are perfecting your lives. They fast, they pray, they weep, +and they mortify the flesh; but to them one thing is impossible, charity +to the failings of others. Whoso then shall come to you, be he friend or +foe, penitent or thief, receive him kindly. Aid the helpless, console the +unfortunate, forgive your enemy, and forget yourselves--that is charity. +Without it the kingdom of heaven is lost to you. There, there is neither +Greek nor Jew, male nor female; nor can it come to you until the garment +of shame is trampled under foot, until two are as one, and the body which +is without is as the soul within." + +Thereat, with a gesture of exquisite indulgence, he turned and left them +to the stars. + +Mary had heard, and in the palingenesis disclosed she saw space wrapped in +a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied lay behind the sun. There, +instead of the thrones and diadems of the elect, was an immutable realm in +which there was neither death nor life, clear ether merely, charged with +beatitudes. And so, when the disciples disputed among themselves, Mary +dreamed of diaphanous hours and immaculate days that knew no night, and in +this wise lived until from the terrace of Jerusalem's Temple the Master +bade her return to Bethany and wait him there. + +Obedience to that command was bitter to her. She did not murmur, however. +"Rabboni," she cried, "let me but do your will on earth, and afterwards +save me or destroy me as your pleasure is." + +With that she had gone to her sister's house, and to the bewildered Martha +poured out her heart anew. There could be no question of forgiveness now, +of penitence even; her sins, such as they were, had been remitted by one +to whom pardon was an attribute. And this doubtless Martha understood, for +she took her in her arms unreproachfully and mingled her tears with hers. + +Where all is marvel the marvellous disappears. To the accounts which Mary +gave of her journeys with the little band that followed the Master, Martha +listened with an attention which nothing could distract. With her she +sailed on the lovely lake; with her she visited cities smothering in the +scent of cassia and of sugar-cane; with her she passed through glens where +panthers prowled, and bandits crueller than they. With her eyes she saw +the listening multitudes, with her ears she heard again the words of +divine forgiveness; and, the lulab and the citron in her hands, she +assisted at the Feast of the Tabernacles, and watched the vain attempt to +charm the recalcitrant Temple and captivate the inimical town. + +For in Jerusalem, in place of the reassuring confidence of peasants, was +the irritable incredulity of priests; instead of meadows, courts. Besides, +was not this prophet from Galilee, and what good had ever come from there? +Then, too, he was not an authorized teacher. He belonged to no school. The +followers of Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not recognize him. He +was merely a fractious Nazarene trained in the shop of a carpenter; one +who, by repeating that it was easier for a camel to pass through a +needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, flattered +basely the mob of mendicants that surrounded him. The rabble admired, but +the clergy stood aloof. When he was not ignored he was disdained. Save the +pleb, no one listened. + +Presently he spoke louder. Into the grave music of the Syro-Chaldaic +tongue he put the mutterings of thunder. Where he had preached, he +upbraided; in place of exquisite parables came sonorous threats. He +blessed but rarely, sometimes he cursed. That mosaic, the Law, he treated +like a cobweb; and to the arrogant clergy a rumor filtered that this +vagabond, who had not where to lay his head, declared his ability to +destroy the Temple, and to rebuild it, in three days, anew. + +A rumor such as that was incredible. Inquiries were made. The rumor was +substantiated. It was learned that he healed the sick, cured the blind; +that he was in league, perhaps, with the Pharisees. + +The Sanhedrim took counsel. They were Sadducees every one. The Pharisees +were their hereditary foes. Both were militant, directing men and things +as best they could. The Sadducees held strictly to the letter of the Law; +the Pharisees held to the Law, and to tradition as well. But the Sadducees +were in power, the Pharisees were not. The former endeavored in every way +to maintain their authority over the people; and against that authority, +against the aristocracy, the priesthood, and the accomplices of foreign +dominion, the Pharisees ceaselessly excited the mob. In their inability to +overthrow the pontificate, they undermined it. With microscopic attention +they examined and criticised every act of the clergy; and, with a view of +showing the incompetence of the priests, they affected rigid theories in +regard to ritualistic points. Every detail of the ceremonial office was +watched by them with eyes that were never pleased. They asserted that the +rolls of the Law from which the priests read the Pentateuch were made of +impure matter, and, having handled them, the priests had become impure as +well. The manner in which the incense was made and offered, the minutiae +governing the sacrifices, the legality of hierarchal decisions--on each and +every possible subject they exerted themselves to show the unworthiness of +the officiants, insinuating even that the names of the fathers of many of +the priests were not inscribed at Zipporim in the archives of Jeshana. As +a consequence, many of those whose rights the Pharisees affected to uphold +saw in the hierarchy little more than a body of men unworthy to approach +the altar, a group of Herodians who in religion lacked every requisite for +the service of God, and who in public and in private were bankrupts in +patriotism, morality, and shame. + +The possibility, therefore, that this fractious demagogue had found favor +with the Pharisees was grave. He was becoming a force. He threatened many +a prerogative. Moreover, Jerusalem had had enough of agitators. People +were drawn by their promises into the solitudes, and there incited to +revolt. Rome did not look upon these things leniently. If they continued, +Tiberius was quite capable of putting Judaea in a yoke which it would not +be easy to carry. Clearly the Nazarene was seditious, and as such to be +abolished. The difficulty was to abolish him and yet conciliate the mob. + +It was then that the Sanhedrim took counsel. As a result, and with the +hope of entrapping him into some blasphemous utterance on which a charge +would lie, they sent meek-eyed Scribes to question him concerning the +authority that he claimed. He routed the meek-eyed Scribes. Then, fancying +that he might be seduced into some expression which could be construed as +treason, they sent young and earnest men to learn from him their duty to +Rome. The young and earnest men returned crestfallen and abashed. + +The elders, nonplussed, debated. A levite suspected that the casuistry and +marvellous cures of the Nazarene must be due to a knowledge of the +incommunicable name, Shemhammephorash, seared on stone in the thunders of +Sinai, and which to utter was to summon life or beckon death. Another had +heard that while in Galilee he was believed to be in league with +Baal-Zebub, Lord of Flies. + +To this gossip no attention was paid. Annas, merely--the old high-priest, +father-in-law of Caiaphas, who officiated in his stead--laughed to himself. +There was no such stone, there was no such god. Another idea had been +welcomed. A festival was in progress; there was gayety in the +neighborhood, drinking too; and as over a million of pilgrims were herded +together, now and then an offence occurred. The previous night, for +instance, a woman had been arrested for illicit commerce. + +Annas tapped on his chin. He had the pompous air of a chameleon, the same +long, thin lips, the large, protruding eyes. + +"Take her before the Galilean," he said. "He claims to be a rabbi; he must +know the Law. If he acquit her, it is heresy, and for that a charge will +lie. Does he condemn her he is at our mercy, for he will have alienated +the mob." + +A smile of perfect understanding passed like a vagrant breeze across the +faces of the elders, and the levites were ordered to lead the prisoner to +the Christ. + +They found him in the Woman's Court. From a lateral chamber a priest, +unfit for other than menial services because of a carbuncle on his lip, +dropped the wood he was sorting for the altar and gazed curiously at the +advancing throng, in which the prisoner was. + +She must have been very fair, but now her features were distorted with +anguish, veiled with shame. The blue robe she wore was torn, and a sleeve +rent to the shoulder disclosed a bare white arm. She was a wife, a mother +too. Her name was Ahulah; her husband was a shoemaker. At the Gannath +Gate, where her home was, were two little children. She worshipped them, +and her husband she adored. Some hallucination, a tremor of the flesh, the +flush of wine, and there, circled by a leering crowd, she crouched, her +life disgraced, irrecoverable for evermore. + +The charge was made, the usual question propounded. The Master had glanced +at her but once. He seemed to be looking afar, beyond the Temple and its +terraces, beyond the horizon itself. But the accusers were impatient. He +bent forward and with a finger wrote on the ground. The letters were +illegible, perhaps, yet the symbol of obliteration was in that dust which +the morrow would disperse. Again he wrote, but the charge was repeated, +louder, more impatiently than before. + +Jesus straightened himself. With the weary indulgence of one to whom +hearts are as books, he looked about him, then to the dome above. + +"Whoever is without sin among you," he declared, "may cast the first +stone." + +When he looked again the crowd had slunk away. Only Ahulah remained, her +head bowed on her bare white arm. From the lateral chamber the priest +still peered, the carbuncle glistening on his lip. + +"Did none condemn you?" the Master asked. + +And as she sobbed merely, he added: "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin +no more." + +To the elders this was very discomforting. They had failed to unmask him +as a traitor to God, to Rome even, or yet as a demagogue defying the Law. +They did not care to question again. He had worsted them three times. Nor +could they without due cause arrest him, for there were the Pharisees. +Besides, a religious trial was full of risk, and the cooeperation of the +procurator not readily to be relied on. It was that cooeperation they +needed most, for with it such feeling as might be aroused would fall on +Rome and not on them. As for Pilate, he could put a sword in front of what +he said. + +In their enforced inaction they got behind that wall of prejudice where +they and their kin feel most secure, and there waited, prepared at the +first opportunity to invoke the laws of their ancestors, laws so +cumbersome and complex that the Romans, accustomed to the clearest +pandects, had laughed and left them, erasing only the right to kill. + +At last chance smiled. Into Jerusalem a rumor filtered that the Nazarene +they hated so had raised the dead, that the suburbs hailed him as the +Messiah, and that he proclaimed himself the Son of God. At once the +Sanhedrim reassembled. A political deliverer they might have welcomed, but +in a Messiah they had little faith. The very fact of his Messiahship +constituted him a claimant to the Jewish throne, and as such a pretender +with whom Pilate could deal. Moreover--and here was the point--to claim +divinity was to attack the unity of God. Of impious blasphemy there was no +higher form. + +It were better, Annas suggested, that a man should die than that a nation +should perish--a truism, surely, not to be gainsaid. + +That night it was decided that Jesus and Judaism could not live together; +a price was placed upon his head, and to the blare of four hundred +trumpets excommunication was pronounced. + +Of all of these incidents save the last Mary had been necessarily aware. +In company with Johanna, the wife of Herod's steward, Mary, wife of +Clopas, and Salome, mother of Zebedee's children, she had heard him +reiterate the burning words of Jeremiah, and seen him purge the Temple of +its traffickers; she had heard, too, the esoteric proclamation, "Before +Abraham was, I am;" and she had seen him lash the Sadducees with +invective. She had been present when a letter was brought from Abgar +Uchomo, King of Edessa, to Jesus, "the good Redeemer," in which the +potentate prayed the prophet to come and heal him of a sickness which he +had, offering him a refuge from the Jews, and quaintly setting forth the +writer's belief that Jesus was God or else His Son. She had been present, +also, when the charge was made against Ahulah, and had comforted that +unfortunate in womanly ways. "Surely," she had said, "if the Master who +does not love you can forgive, how much more readily must your husband who +does!" Whereupon Ahulah had become her slave, tending her thereafter with +almost bestial devotion. + +These episodes, one after another, she related to Martha; to Eleazer, her +brother; to Simon, Martha's husband; to anyone that chanced that way. For +it was then that the Master had bade her go to Bethany. For a little space +he too had forsaken Jerusalem. Now and then with some of his followers he +would venture in the neighborhood, yet only to be off again through the +scorched hollows of the Ghor before the sun was up. + +These things it was that paraded before her as she lay on the floor of the +little room, felled by the hideousness of a threat that had sprung upon +her, abruptly, like a cheetah in the dark. To Martha and to the others on +one subject alone had she been silent, and now at the moment it dominated +all else. + +From the day on which she joined the little band to whom the future was to +give half of this world and all of the next, Judas had been ever at her +ear. As a door that opens and shuts at the will of a hand, his presence +and absence had barred the vistas or left them clear. At first he had +affected her as a scarabaeus affects the rose. She knew of him, and that +was all. When he spoke, she thought of other things. And as the blind +remain unawakened by the day, he never saw that where the wanton had been +the saint had come. To him she was a book of ivory bound in gold, whose +contents he longed to possess; she was a book, but one from which whole +chapters had been torn, the preface destroyed; and when his increasing +insistence forced itself upon her, demanding, obviously, countenance or +rebuke, she walked serenely on her way, disdaining either, occupied with +higher things. It was of the Master only that she appeared to think. When +he spoke, it was to her as though God really lived on earth; her eyes +lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was instantly forgot. At that time +her life was a dream into whose charmed precincts a bat had flown. + +These things, gradually, Judas must have understood. In Mary's eyes he may +have caught the intimation that to her now only the ideal was real; or the +idea may have visited him that in the infinite of her faith he disappeared +and ceased to be. In any event he must have taken counsel with himself, +for one day he approached her with a newer theme. + +"I have knocked on the tombs; they are dumb." + +Mary, with that grace with which a woman gathers a flower when thinking of +him whom she loves, bent a little and turned away. + +"Have you heard of the Buddha?" he asked. "Babylon is peopled with his +disciples. One of them met Jesus in the desert, and taught him his belief. +It is that he preaches now, only the Buddha did not know of a heaven, for +there is none." + +And he added, after a pause: "I tell you I have knocked on the tombs; +there is no answer there." + +With that, as a panther falls asleep, his claw blood-red, Judas nodded and +left her to her thoughts. + +"In Eternity there is room for everything," she said, when he came to her +again. + +"Eternity is an abyss which the tomb uses for a sewer," he answered. "Its +flood is corruption. The day only exists, but in it is that freedom which +waves possess. Mary, if you would but taste it with me! Oh, to mix with +you as light with day, as stream with sea, I would suck the flame that +flickers on the walls of sepulchres." + +She shuddered, and he saw it. + +"You have taught me to love," he hissed; "do not teach me now to hate." + +Mary mastered her revolt. "Judas, the day will come when you will cease to +speak as you do." + +"You believe, then, still?" + +"Yes, surely; and so do you." + +"The day will come," he muttered, "when you will cease to believe." + +"And you too," she answered. "For then you will _know_." + +The dialogue with its variations continued, at intervals, for months. +There were times, weeks even, when he avoided all speech with her. Then, +abruptly, when she expected it least, he would return more volcanic than +before. These attacks she accustomed herself to regard as necessary, +perhaps, to the training of patience, of charity too, and so bore with +them, until at last Jerusalem was reached. Meanwhile she held to her trust +as to a fringe of the mantle of Christ. To her the past was a grammar, its +name--To-morrow. And in the service of the Master, in the future which he +had evoked, she journeyed and dreamed. + +But in Jerusalem Judas grew acrider. He had fits of unnecessary laughter, +and spells of the deepest melancholy. He quarrelled with anyone who would +let him, and then for the irritation he had displayed he would make amends +that were wholly slavish. His companions distrusted him. He had been seen +talking amicably with the corrupt levites, the police of the Temple, and +once he had been detected in a wine-shop of low repute. The Master, +apparently, noticed nothing of this; nor did Mary, whose thoughts were on +other things. + +At Bethany one evening Judas came to her. The sun, sinking through clouds, +placed in the west the tableau of a duel to the death between a titan and +a god. There was the glitter of gigantic swords, and the red of immortal +blood. + +"Mary," he began, and as he spoke there was a new note in his voice--"Mary, +I have watched and waited, and to those that watch how many lamps burn +out! One after another those that I tended went. There was a flicker, a +little smoke, and they had gone. I tried to relight them, but perhaps the +oil was spent; perhaps, too, I was like the blind that hold a torch. My +way has not been clear. The faith I had, and which, I do not know, but +which, it may be, would have been strengthened, evaporated when you came. +The rays of the sun I had revered became as the threads of shadows, +interconnecting life and death. In them I could see but you. In the jaw of +night, in the teeth of day, always I have seen you. Mary, love is a net +which woman throws. In casting yours--there! unintentionally, I know--you +caught my soul. It is yours now wholly until time shall cease to be. Will +you take it, Mary, or will you put it aside, a thing forever dead?" + +Mary made no answer. It may be she had not heard. In the west both titan +and god had disappeared. Above, in a field of stars, the moon hung, a +scythe of gold. The air was still, the hush of locusts accentuating the +silence and bidding it be at rest. In a house near by there were lights +shining. A woman looked out and called into the night. + +Then, as though moved by some jealousy of the impalpable, Judas leaned +forward and peered into her face. + +"It is the Master who keeps you from me, is it not?" + +"It is my belief," she answered, simply. + +"It was he that gave it to you. Mary, do you know that there is a price +upon his head? Do you know that if I cannot slake my love, at least I can +gorge my hate? Do you know that, Mary? Do you know it? Now choose between +your belief and me; if you prefer the former, the Sanhedrim will have him +to-morrow. There, your sister is calling; go--and choose." + +It was with the hideousness of this threat in her ears that Mary escaped +to the little room where her childhood had been passed and flung herself +on the floor. From beyond came the sound of banqueting. Martha was +entertaining the Lord, his disciples as well; and Mary knew that her aid +was needed. But the threat pinioned and held her down. To accede was +death, not of the body alone, but of the soul as well. There was no clear +pool in which she might cleanse the stain; there could be no forgiveness, +no obliteration, nothing in fact save the loss never to be recovered of +life in the diaphanous hours and immaculate days of which she had dreamed +so long. + +For a little space she tried to comfort herself. Perhaps Judas was not in +earnest; perhaps even he had lied. And if he had not, was there not time +in plenty? The desert was neighborly. She could follow the Master there, +and minister to him till the sky opened and the kingdom was prepared. And +the threat, coupled with that perspective, charmed, and for the moment had +for her that enticement which the quarrels and kisses of children equally +possess. She would warn him secretly, she decided, for surely as yet he +did not know; she would warn him, and before the sun was up he could be +beyond the Sanhedrim's reach, and she preparing to follow. For a moment +she lost herself in anticipation; then, the threat loosening its hold, she +stood up, her face very white in the starlight, her eyes brave and alert. +Already her plan was formed; and, taking a vase that she had brought with +her from Magdala, she hurried to the room below. + +The Master; the disciples; Eleazer, her brother; Simon, her sister's +husband, were all at meat. Martha was serving, and as Mary entered Judas +stood up. She moved to where the Master was, and on him poured the +contents of the vase. Thomas sniffed delightedly, for now the room was +full of fragrance. The Master turned to her and smiled; the homage +evidently was grateful. Mary bent nearer. Thomas and Bartholomew joined in +loud praises of the aroma of the nard, and under cover of their voices she +whispered, "Rabboni, the Sanhedrim has placed a price on----" + +The whisper was drowned and interrupted. Judas had shoved her away. "To +what end is this waste?" he asked; and as Mary looked in his face she saw +by the expression in it that her purpose had been divined and her warning +overheard. + +"It is absurd," he continued, with affected anger. "Ointment such as that +has a value. It might better have been saved for the poor." + +Thomas chimed in approvingly; placed in that light it was indeed an +extravagance, unnecessary too, and he looked about to his comrades for +support. Eleazer and Peter seemed inclined to view the matter differently. +A discussion would have arisen, but the Master checked it gently, as was +his wont. + +"The poor are always with you, but me you cannot always have." + +As he spoke he turned to Judas with that indulgence which was to be a +heritage. + +Could he _know_? Judas wondered. Had he heard what Mary said? And, the +Master's speech continuing, he glanced at her and left the room. + +The moon had mowed the stars, but the sky was visibly blue. Behind the +shoulder of Olivet he divined the silence of Jerusalem, the welcome of the +Sadducees, the joy of hate assuaged. There was but one thing now that +might deter; and as his thoughts groped through that possibility, Mary +stood at his side. + +"Judas----" + +He wheeled, and, catching her by the wrists, stared into her eyes. + +"Is it yes?" + +A shudder seized her. There was dread in it, anguish too, and both were +mortal. He had not lied, she saw, and the threat was real. + +"Is it yes?" he repeated. + +There may be moments that prolong, but there are others in which time no +longer is; and as Mary shrank in the blight of Judas' stare, both felt +that the culmination of life was reached. + +"No!" + +The monosyllable dropped from her lips like a stone, yet even as it fell +the banner of Maccabaeus unfurled and flaunted in her face; the voice of +Esther murmured, and a vision of Judith saving a nation visited her, and, +continuing, made spots on the night. + +Judas had flung her from him. She reeled; the violence roused her. Who was +she to consider herself when the security of the Master was at stake? How +should it matter though she died, if he were safe? + +"It is my soul you ask," she cried. "Take it. If I had a thousand souls, I +would give each one for Him." + +But she cried to the unanswering night. Where the road curved about the +shoulder of the Mount of Olives, for one second she saw a white robe +glisten. Agonized, she called again, but there was no one now to hear. + +A little later, when the followers of the Lord issued from the house, Mary +lay before the door, her eyes closed, her head in the dust. They touched +her. She had fainted. + + + + + + CHAPTER VIII. + + + VIII. + + +"They have him, they are taking him to Pilate." + +It was Eleazer calling to his sister from the turn of the road. In a +moment he was at her side, dust-covered, his sandals torn, his pathetic +eyes dilated. He was breathless too, and, in default of words, with a +gesture that swept the Mount of Olives, he pointed to where the holy city +lay. + +To Mary the morrow succeeding her swoon was a pall. Love, it may be, is a +forgetfulness of all things else, but despair is very actual. It takes a +hold on memory, inhabits it, and makes it its own. And during the day that +followed, Mary lay preyed upon by the acutest agony that ever tortured +woman yet. Early in the night, before her senses returned, the Master had +gone without mentioning whither. His destination may have been Ephraim, +Jericho even, or further yet, beyond the hollows of the Ghor. Then, again, +he might have loitered in the neighborhood, on the hill perhaps, in that +open-air solitude he loved so well, and for which so often he forsook the +narrowness of roofs and towns. But yet, in view of the Passover, he might +have gone to Jerusalem, and it was that idea that tortured most. + +It was there the keen police, the levites, were, and their masters the +Sadducees, who had placed a price on his head. Did he get within the +walls, then surely he was lost. At the possibilities which that idea +evoked her thoughts sank like the roots of a tree and grappled with the +under-earth. To her despair, regret brought its burden. A moment of +self-forgetfulness, and, however horrible that forgetfulness might have +been, in it danger to him whom she revered would have been averted, and, +for the time being at least, dispersed utterly as last year's leaves. It +had been cowardice on her part to let Judas go; she should have been +strong when strength was needed. There were glaives to be had; the head of +Holofernes could have greeted his. The legend of Judith still echoed its +reproach, and recurring, pointed a slender finger of disdain. + +To the heart that is sinking, hope throws a straw. Immaterial and +caressing as a shadow, came to her the fancy that if the Master were in +the neighborhood, at any moment he might appear. In that event it was +needful that she should be prepared to aid him at once beyond the confines +of Judaea. Were he already beyond them, presently she must learn it, and +then could warn him of the danger of return. But meanwhile, for security's +sake, had he gone by any chance to Jerusalem, some one must be there to +warn him of the plot. She thought of her sister, and dismissed her. Martha +was too feather-headed for an errand such as that. She thought of Ahulah, +but some of those well-intentioned friends that everyone possesses had +told of the misadventure to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a woman, +had spat upon her, and now through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, +incompetent to aid. Her brother occurred to her. It was on him she could +rely. His devotion was surpassed only by her own. Thereupon she sought him +out, instructed him in his duty, and sent him forth to watch and warn. + +The green afternoon faded in the hemorrhages of the setting sun. Twilight +approached like a wolf. Night unfurled her great black fan; the moon came, +fumbling the shadows, checkering the underbrush with silver spots. Once a +caravan passed, and once from the hillside came the bark of a dog, caught +up and repeated in some farm beyond; otherwise the night was unstirred; +and as Mary stared into the immensities where lightning wearies and +subsides, a lethargy beset her, her body was imprisoned; but her soul was +free, and in a moment it mounted sheerly to a fringe of the heavens and +bathed in space. + +When it descended, another day had come, and Eleazer was calling to her +from the turn of the road. At once she was on earth and on her feet, and +as the brother gasped for breath the sister's strength returned. There +must be no more weakness now, she knew; it was time to act. She got drink, +water for the feet; then Eleazer, refreshed, continued: + +"I ran through the ridge and up to where the two cedars are. I looked +among the cypresses beyond, in the pines where the descent begins, through +the olive groves below and the booths and tents beneath. There was no +trace of him anywhere. I crossed the brook and sat awhile at the Shushan +gate, watching those that entered. The crowd became so dense that it was +impossible to distinguish. I thought I might hear of him in the Temple. +The porch was thronged. I roamed through the Mountain of the House into +the Woman's Court, and out of it on the Chel. But they were all so filled +with pilgrims that had he been there only accident could have brought me +to him. It was on that I counted, and I went out on Zion and Acra, where +the crowd was less. It was getting late. Beth-horon was dim. I could see +lights in Herod's palace. Some one said that the tetrarch of Galilee was +there, the guest of the procurator. I went back by way of Antonia to +Birket Israil and the Red Heifer Bridge. I had given up; it seemed to me +useless to make further attempt. Suddenly I saw Judas in the angle of the +porch. With him was a levite. I got behind a pillar, near where they +stood, and listened. The only thing I distinctly heard was the name of +Joseph of Haramathaim. I fancied, though I was not certain, that Judas +spoke as though he had just left his house. They must have moved away +then, for when I looked they had gone. I knew that Joseph was a friend of +the Master's, and it struck me that he might be at his house. It is in the +sook of the Perfumers, back of Ophel. I ran there as fast as I could. It +was unlighted. I beat on the door: there was no answer. I felt that I had +been mistaken, anyway that I could do no more. I went down again into the +valley, crossed the Kedron, and would have returned here at once perhaps, +but I was tired, and so, on the slope where the olive-presses are, I lay +down and must have fallen asleep, for I remembered nothing till there came +a tramping of men. I crouched in the underbrush. They passed very close; +some had torches, some had spears. Judas was leading, and as an ape +munches a flower he was muttering the Master's name." + +Eleazer paused and looked at his sister. She was standing erect, her face +wan, the brow contracted, the rhymes of her lips tight-pressed. Then, with +a glance at Olivet, he continued: + +"For a little space I waited. They had ascended the slope and halted. +There was a shout, the waving of torches, then a silence. In it I heard +the Master's voice, followed by a cry of pain. I hurried to where they +were. They had him bound when I got there. I saw a soldier raising a hand +to his ear and looking at the palm; it was red. Peter was running one way, +Thomas another. I got nearer. Some one, a levite I think, caught me by the +coat. I freed myself from it and escaped up the hill. + +"From there I looked down. They were going away. When they had gone, I +went back and found my cloak. While I was putting it on, John appeared. +'They are taking him to Caiaphas,' he said; 'I shall follow. Come with me +if you wish.' I went with him. On the way we met Peter; he joined us. We +walked single-file, John leading. Beyond I could see the lights of the +torches, the glint of steel. No one spoke. Peter whimpered a little. We +crossed the Kedron and got up into the city. The soldiers went directly to +where Annas lives; they entered in a body, and the door closed. John +rapped: it was opened. He said something to the doorkeeper, who admitted +him. The door closed again. Peter and I waited a little, not knowing where +to turn. Presently the door reopened, and John motioned us to come in. In +the court was a fire; about it were servants and khazzans. I stopped a +moment to warm my hands; Peter did the same. John had disappeared. I heard +one of the khazzans say that they had taken the Master to Annas, and the +others discuss what he would probably do. While I stood there listening, +and wondering what had become of John, I saw the Master being led across +the court to the Lishcath ha-Gazith. I left Peter, and followed. In the +hall were the elders, ranged in a semicircle about Caiaphas. They must +have been prepared beforehand, for the clerks of acquittal and of +condemnation were there, the crier too, and a group of levites and +Scribes. In a corner were some of Annas' servants. I got among them and +stood unnoticed. + +"The Master's hands were bound. On either side of him was a soldier. +Caiaphas was livid. He looked him from head to foot. + +" 'You are accused,' he said, 'of inciting sedition, of defying the Law, +of blasphemy, and of breaking the Sabbath day. What have you to answer?' + +"The Master made no reply. + +"Caiaphas pointed to the levites. 'Here,' he continued, 'are witnesses.' + +"He motioned; one of them stepped forward and spoke. + +" 'I testify that this man has incited to sedition by denouncing the +members of this reverend council as hypocrites, wolves in sheep's +clothing, blind leaders of the blind; and I further testify that he has +declared no one should follow them.' + +" 'What have you to say to that?' Caiaphas snarled. But the Master said +nothing. + +"The first levite moved back, and at a gesture from the high-priest +another stepped forward. + +" 'I testify that I have seen that man eat, in defiance of the Law, with +unwashed hands, and consort with publicans and people of low repute.' + +" 'And what have you to say to that?' Caiaphas asked again. But still the +Master said nothing. + +"The second levite moved back, and a third advanced. + +" 'I testify that I have heard that man blaspheme in calling God his +father, and in declaring himself to be one with Him.' + +" 'Is that blasphemy or is it not?' Caiaphas bawled. But the Master's lips +never moved. + +"The third levite gave way to a fourth. + +" 'I testify that that man has broken the Sabbath in healing the sick on +that day, and further that he has seduced others to break it. On the +Sabbath I have heard him order a cripple to take up his bed and carry it +to his home. I have heard him also declare that he could destroy the +Temple and rebuild it, in three days, anew.' + +"Caiaphas turned to the Master. 'Do you still refuse to answer?' he asked. +'Do you think that silence can save you? Have you heard these witnesses?' + +"And as the Master still made no reply, Caiaphas lifted his hand and +cried, 'I adjure you by the Eternal to answer, Are you the Messiah, the +Son of God?' + +"In the breathless silence Jesus raised his eyes. He looked at the +high-priest, at the levites, the Scribes. 'You have said it,' he murmured, +and smiled with that air he has. + +"Caiaphas grew purple. He caught his gown at the throat and ripped it from +neck to hem. The elders started. I heard them mutter, '_Ish maveth_.' The +high-priest glanced toward them. 'You have heard this ragged blasphemy?' +he exclaimed; and, turning to where the Scribes stood, 'What,' he asked, +'does the Law decree concerning the Sabbath-breaker?' + +"One of them, the book unrolled in his hand, advanced and read: + +" 'Ye shall keep the Sabbath holy. Whoso does any work thereon shall be +cut off from his people.' + +" 'And what of blasphemy?' + +"The Scribe glanced at the roll and repeated from memory: 'He that +blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death. The congregation +shall stone him, as well the stranger as he that was born in the land.' + +"Caiaphas closed the fingers on the palm of his left hand, and, raising +it, turned again to the elders. '_Ish maveth_,' they repeated, closing +their fingers as he had done. + +"I knew then that he was condemned. After all"--and Eleazer looked wearily +to the ground--"it was legal enough. Each moment I expected him to give +some sign, but, save to affirm the charge of blasphemy, during the entire +time he kept silent. Yes, it was legal enough. From where I stood I heard +the Scribes say that he would be sentenced at sunrise, and then Pilate +would have a word with him. I could do nothing. Caiaphas still fumed. I +went out in the court again. In the corridor was Judas. Peter was +wrangling with the servants. I did not wait for more. I got away and into +the valley and up again on the hill. A cock was crowing, and I saw the +dawn. O Mary, the pity of it!" + +He looked at his sister. There was no weakness now in her face, nor beauty +either. Age must have passed her in the night. + +"And I will have a word with Pilate too," she said. + +As a somnambulist might, she drew her mantle closer, and, moving to the +wayside, ascended the hill. The silver and green of the olives closed +around her, and with them the branching dates. Above, a star left by the +morning glimmered feebly. In a myrtle a bird began to sing, and a lizard +that had come out to intercept the sun scurried as she passed. Upward and +onward still she went, and, the summit reached, for a moment she stopped +and rested. + +To the east the Dead Sea lay, a stretch of silk. At its edge was the +flutter of ospreys feasting on the barbels and breams of the Jordan, which +as they enter, die. Beyond was a glitter of white and gold, the scarp of +Moriah and its breast of stone, the Tyrian bevel of Solomon, the porphyry +of Nehemiah, the marble that Herod gave; ascending terraces, engulfing +porticoes, the splendor of Jerusalem at dawn. Between the houses nearest +was the dimness that shadows cast; those further away had a scatter of +pink; about it all was a wall surmounted by turrets; beneath was a ravine +in which was a brook, and a city of booths and tents, grazing camels and +fat-tailed sheep. + +Through the pines and cypresses Mary passed down to where the olives were. +The brook sent a message to her; the blood that had flowed from the +sacrifices was in it, and in the fresh morning it reeked a little, as such +brooks do. It was here, she thought, the Master had been taken, and for a +second she stopped again. The sun now was rising behind her; the color of +the sky shifted. Beyond Jerusalem a mountain was melting in excesses of +vermilion, and the ravine that had been gray was assuming the tenderest +green. The star had disappeared, but from each tree broke the greeting of +a bird. + +A rustle of the leaves near by startled her, and she looked about, +fearful, as women are, of some beast of prey. A white robe was there, a +white turban, and beneath it the swart face of one whom she had known. + +To her eyes came massacres. "Judas!" she exclaimed, and looked up in that +roof of her world where day puts its blue and night puts its black. +"Judas!" she repeated. Her small hands clenched, and the rhymes of her +mouth grew venomous. + +Then the woman spoke in her. "Why did you not kill me first?" + +Judas swayed like an ox hit on the forehead. The motion distracted and +irritated her. "Can't you speak," she cried, "or does hell hold you, +tongue and all?" + +He raised a hand as though he feared another blow. The gesture was so +human and yet so humble that Mary looked into his face. Time, which turns +the sweet-eyed girl into a withered spectre, must have touched him with +its thumb. His eyes were ringed and cavernous, his cheeks empty. + +"You have heard, then?" he said; but he evinced no curiosity. He spoke +with the apathy of one who takes everything for granted, one with whom +fate is to have its will. "I have just come from there," he added, with a +backward gesture. "I never thought that such a thing could be. No, I swear +it, I never did." Then, in answer perhaps to some inner twinge, perhaps +also because of the expression of Mary's lips, he continued: "If there is +a new oath, one that has never been used before, prompt me, and I will +swear again, I never did. I thought----" + +Mary interrupted him savagely: "There are ten kinds of hypocrisy. You have +nine of them; you will develop the tenth and invent a new one besides." + +At this Judas made a pass with his hands and stared absently at the +ground. "Mary," he said, "life is a book which man reads when he dies. +During the last hour I have been unrolling it. In its scroll I found +existence a wine-shop where the guest fares so badly that he would go at +once were it not that he fears to call for the reckoning. The reckoning, +Mary, is death. I have called for it. I am about to pay. Let me tell you. +I have no excuse to offer, no forgiveness now to await. My heart was a +meadow: you made it stone. There were well-springs in it: you dried them, +Mary. When I first saw you, you were a dream fulfilled. Others had brought +echoes of life; you brought its song. It was then that I heard the Master +speak. I followed him, and tried to forget. It must be that I failed, for +when I saw you in Capharnahum my blood danced, and when you spoke I +trembled. It was love, Mary; and love, when it is not death, is life. It +was that I sought at your side. You would not listen. Innocence is a +garment. You seemed to have wrapped it about you. I tried to tear it away. +There was my fault, and this my punishment. Your right was inflexible as a +prison-door, and yet always behind it was the murmur of a mysterious +Perhaps. The others turned to me; I turned to you. I forgot again, but +this time it was my duty, my allegiance, and my faith. Mary, I loved the +Master more wholly even than I loved you. He was the Spirit; you were the +flesh. In him was the future; in you the tomb. I thought to conquer both. +While I mixed my darkness with his light, I pursued you as night pursues +the day. On the light I have cast a shadow, and to you I have brought a +blight. But, Mary, both will disappear. The one consolation I cling to now +is that belief. When I delivered him up, it was myself I betrayed, not +him. I am forever dead, and he forever living. While I bargained with the +priests and pretended that my aim was coin, when I led the levites and the +Temple-guard just here to where he stood, during all the hours since I +left you, I tried to escape from that cage we call Fate. Mary, there is +something about us higher than our will. The revenge I sought on you +forsook me before I reached the city's gate. It is the intangible that has +brought me where I am. I have sworn to you I never thought this thing +could be. I swear it now again. In carrying out the threat I made, I +thought to make you fear my hate and make him greater than he was. His +enemies, I had seen, were many. Those that had believed in him grew daily +less. In Jerusalem his miracles had ceased, and I thought that, when the +levites and the Temple-guard approached, he would speak with Samuel's +thunder, answer with Elijah's flame. I thought the stars would shake, the +moon grow red; that he would produce the lost Urim, the vanished Ark, and +so forever silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he was right. Belief is in +the heart, not in the senses; the visible contradicts, but faith is not to +be confuted. No, Mary, the tombs are not dumb. I said so once, I know, but +they answer, and mine will speak. On it perhaps a caricature may be +daubed, and about it prejudice will uncoil. I deserve it. Yet though you +think me wholly base, remember no man is that. Since I met you my life has +been a battle-field in which I have fought with conscience. It has +conquered. I am its slave; it commands, and I obey." + +He drew a breath as though he had more to add, and turned to where she +stood. There was no one there. From an olive-branch a red-start piped to +the morning; over the buds of a pomegranate a bee buzzed its delight; +across the leaves of a myrtle a blue spider was busy with its web, but +Mary was no longer there. He peered through the underbrush, and wandered +to the grove beyond. There was no one. He looked to the hill-top: there +was the advancing sun. He looked in the valley: there were the pilgrims' +booths, the grazing camels and fat-tailed sheep. + +"She has gone," he told himself. "She would not even listen." + +He bent his head. For the first time since boyhood the tears rolled down +his face. + +"She might at least have heard me," he thought, and brushed the tears +away. Others came and replaced them. When they had fallen, there were +more. + +"Yes, she might at least have listened. If I had no excuse to offer, at +least I had regret." For a moment he fancied her, cruel as only woman is, +hurrying to some unknown goal. The tears he had tried to stanch ceased now +abruptly. "She is right," he mused. "She has left me to conscience and to +death." + +He turned again and went back to where he had stood before. As he crossed +the intervening space he unloosed the long girdle which he wore, and from +which still hung the treasury of the twelve. The bag that held it fell +where the bee was buzzing. One end of the girdle he tossed over a branch; +the red-start spread its wings and fled. He looked about. There was a +stone near by; he got it and with a little labor rolled it beneath the +branch. Then he made a noose, very carefully, that it might not come +undone, and settling it well under the chin, he tied the other end of the +girdle to it and swung himself from the stone. + + + + + + CHAPTER IX. + + + IX. + + +In the apartment of Claudia Procula, Mary and the wife of the procurator +stood face to face. + +The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem. Beneath was an open space tiled +with little oblong stones, red, yellow, and blue; the blue predominating. +On either side the colossal white wings of the palace stretched to a park, +very green in the sunlight, cut by colonnades in which fountains were, and +surrounded by a marble wall that was starred with turrets and fluttered +with doves. The Temple, which, from its cressets, radiated to the hills +beyond a glare of gold, was not as fair nor yet as vast as this. Within +its gates an army could manoeuvre; in its banquet-hall a cohort could have +supped. It was Herod's triumph, built subsequent to the Temple, to show +the world, perhaps, that to surpass a masterpiece he had only to conceive +another. + +To it now and then, for a week or more, the procurator descended from his +residence by the sea. He preferred the latter; the day was freer there, +life less cramped. But during festival times, when the fanatic Jews were +apt to be excited and need the chill of a curb, it was well for him and +his soldiery to be on hand. And so on this occasion he had come, and with +him his wife, Claudia Procula, and the tetrarch Antipas, who had joined +them on the way. + +Antipas and his retinue occupied the AEgrippeum, the north wing of the +palace, while in the Caesareum, the wing that leaned to the south, was +Pilate, his wife and body-guard. + +And now on this clear morning the sweet-faced patrician, Claudia Procula, +with perfectly feminine curiosity was looking into the drawn features of +the Magdalen, and wondering whence her rumored charm could come. + +"I will do my best," she said, at last, in answer to an anterior request. +And calling a servant, she wrote on a tablet a word for Pilate's eye. + +Mary moved to the portico. The variegated tiles of the quadrangle were +nearly covered now. A flight of wide, low steps led to the main entrance +of the palace, and there a high seat of enamelled ebony had been placed. +In it Pilate sat, in his hand the staff of office. Beside him were his +assessors, members of his suite, and Calcol, a centurion. On one of the +steps Caiaphas stood, near him the elders of the college. Below was the +Christ, bound and guarded. Across the quadrangle was a line of soldiery, +behind it a mob. + +The helmets, glancing mail, short skirts, and bare legs of the Romans +contrasted refreshingly with the blossoming garments, effeminate girdles, +frontlets, and horned blue bonnets of the priesthood. And in the riot of +color and glint of steel the Christ, bound as he was, looked, in the +simplicity of his seamless robe, the descendant of a larger sphere. Above, +to the left, Antipas, aroused by the clamor, leaned from a portico. +Opposite where the sunlight fell Mary held her cloak about her. + +Caiaphas, a hand indicating Jesus, his head turned to Pilate, was +formulating a complaint. Not indeed that the prisoner had declared himself +a divinity. There were far too many gods in the menagerie of the Pantheon +for a procurator to be the least disturbed at the rumor of a new one. It +was the right to rule, that attribute of the Messiah, on which he intended +the gravamen of the charge should rest. But he began circuitously, feeling +the way, in Greek at that, with an accent which might have been improved. + +"And so," he concluded, "in many ways he has transgressed the Law." + +"Why don't you judge him by it, then?" asked Pilate, grimly. + +A servant approached with a tablet. The procurator glanced at it, looked +up at the man, and motioned him away. + +"My lord governor, we have. The Sanhedrim, having found him guilty, has +sentenced him to death. But the Sanhedrim, as you know, may not execute +the sentence. The Senate has deprived us of that right. It is for you, as +its legate, to order it done." + +Pilate sneered. "I can't very well, until I know of what he is guilty. +What crime has he committed--written a letter on the Sabbath, or has he +been caught without his phylacteries?" + +"He has declared himself Israel's king!" + +"Ah!" And Pilate smiled wearily. "You are always expecting one; why not +take him?" + +"Why not, my lord? Because it is treason to do so." + +Pilate nodded with affected approval. "I admire your zeal." And with a +glance at the prisoner, he added: "You have heard the accusation; defend +yourself. What!" he continued, after a moment, "have you nothing to say?" + +Caiaphas exulted openly. The corners of his mouth had the width and +cruelty, and his nostrils the dilation, of a wolf. + +"My lord," he cried, "his silence is an admission." + +"Hold your tongue! It is for me to question." And therewith Pilate gave +the high-priest a look which was tantamount to a knee pressed on the +midriff. He glanced again at the tablet, then at the prisoner. + +"Tell me, do you really claim to be king?" + +"Is it your idea of me?" the Christ asked; and in his bearing was a +dignity which did not clash with the charge; "or have others prompted +you?" + +"But I am not a Jew," Pilate retorted. "The matter only interests me +officially. It is your hierarchy that bring the charge. Why have they? +What have you done? Tell me," he continued, in Latin, "do you think +yourself King?" + +"_Tu dixisti_," Jesus answered, and smiled as he had before, very gravely. +"But my royalty is not of the earth." And with a glance at his bonds, one +which was so significant that it annulled the charge, he added, still in +Latin, "I am Truth, and I preach it." + +Pilate with skeptical indulgence shook his head. Truth to him was an +elenchicism, an abstraction of the Platonists, whom in Rome he had +respected for their wisdom and avoided with care. He turned to Caiaphas. +The latter had been regretting the absence of an interpreter. This +amicable conversation, which he did not understand, was not in the least +to his liking, and as Pilate turned to him he frowned in his beard. + +"I am unable to find him guilty," the procurator announced. "He may call +himself king, but every philosopher does the same. You might yourself, for +that matter." + +"A philosopher, this mesith!" Caiaphas gnashed back. "Why, he seduces the +people; he incites to sedition; he is a rebel to Rome. It is for you, my +lord, to see the empire upheld. Would it be well to have another complaint +laid before the Caesar? Ask yourself, is this Galilean worth it?" + +The thrust was as keen and as venomous as the tooth of a rat. Pilate had +been rebuked by the emperor already; he had no wish to incur further +displeasure. Sejanus, the emperor's favorite, to whom he owed his +procuratorship, had for suspected treason been strangled in a dumb dungeon +only a little before. Under Tiberius there was quiet, a future historian +was to note; and Pilate was aware that, should a disturbance occur, the +disturbance would be quelled, but at his expense. + +An idea presented itself. "Did I understand you to say he is a Galilean?" +he asked. + +"Yes," Caiaphas answered, expecting, perhaps, the usual jibe that was +flung at those who came from there. "Yes, he is a Nazarene." + +"Hm. In that case I have no jurisdiction. The tetrarch is my guest; take +your prisoner to him." + +"My lord," the high-priest objected, "our law is such that if we enter the +palace we cannot officiate at the Passover to-night." + +Pilate appeared to reflect. "I suppose," he said at last, "I might ask him +whether he would care to come here. In which case," he added, with a +gesture of elaborate courtesy, "you may remain uncontaminated where you +are. Ressala!" + +An official stepped forward; an order was given; he disappeared. Presently +a massive throne of sandalwood and gold was trundled out. Caiaphas had +seen it before, and in it--Herod. + +"The justice that comes from there," he muttered, "is as a snake that +issues from a tomb." + +His words were drowned in the clamors of the crowd. The sun had crossed +the zenith; in its rays the waters that gushed from the fountain-mouths of +bronze lions fell in rainbows and glistened in great basins that glistened +too. There was sunlight everywhere, a sky of untroubled blue, and from the +Temple beyond came a glare that radiated from Olivet to Bethlehem. + +Pilate was bored. The mantle which Mary wore caught his eye, and he looked +at her, wondering how she came in his wife's apartment, and where he had +seen her before. Her face was familiar, but the setting vague. Then at +once he remembered. It was at Machaerus he had seen her, gambling with the +emir, while Salome danced. She was with Antipas, of course. He looked +again; she had gone. + +The Sanhedrim consulted nervously. The new turn of affairs was not at all +to their liking. The clamors of the mob continued. Once a fanatic pushed +against a soldier. There was a thud, a howl, and a mouth masked with +liquid red gasped to the sun and was seen no more. + +Behind the procurator came a movement. The officials massed about the +entrance parted in uneven ranks, and in the great vestibule beyond, +Antipas appeared. Pilate rose to greet him. The elders made obeisance. The +tetrarch moved forward and seated himself in his father's throne. At his +side was Pahul, the butler, balancing himself flamingowise on one leg, his +bold eyes foraging the priests. + +Caiaphas formulated the complaint anew, very majestically this time, and, +thinking perhaps to overawe the tetrarch, his voice assumed the authority +of a guardian of the keys of heaven, a chamberlain of the sceptres of the +earth. + +Antipas ignored him utterly. He plucked at his fan-shaped beard, and +stared at the Christ. He could see now he bore no resemblance to Iohanan. +There was nothing of the hyena about him, nor of the prophet either. +Evidently he was but a harmless vagabond, skilled in simples, if report +were true; perhaps a thaumaturge. And it was he whom he had feared and +fancied might be that Son of David for whom a star was created, whom the +magi had visited, whom his father had sought to destroy, and whom now from +his father's own throne he himself was called upon to judge! He shook his +head, and in the sunlight the indigo with which his hair was powdered made +bright blue motes. + +"I say----" + +Just beyond, where the assessors stood, Mary suddenly appeared. He stopped +abruptly; for more than a year he had not seen her. Pahul had told him she +had gone to Rome. If she had, he reflected, the journey had not improved +her appearance. Then for the moment he dismissed her, and returned to the +Christ. + +"See here: somebody the other day told me you worked miracles. I have +wanted to see one all my life. Gratify me, won't you? Oh, something very +easy to begin with. Send one of the guards up in the air, or turn your +bonds into bracelets." + +The Christ did not seem to hear. Pahul laughed and held to the throne for +support. Antipas shrugged his shoulders. + +"He looks harmless enough," he said. "Why not let him go?" + +Caiaphas glowered, and his fingers twitched. "He claims to be king!" + +At this statement the tetrarch laughed too. He gave an order to Pahul, who +vanished with a grin. + +"He has jeered at the Temple your father built," Caiaphas continued. "He +has declared he could destroy it and rebuild a better one, in three days +at that." + +"He is king, then, but of fools." + +"And he has called you a fox," Caiaphas added, significantly. + +"He doesn't claim to be one himself, does he?" + +"He is guilty of treason, and it is for you, his ruler, to sentence him." + +"Not I. The blood of kings is sacred. Pahul, make haste!" + +The butler, reappearing, held in his hand the glittering white vestment of +a candidate. The tetrarch took it and held it in air. + +"Here, put this on him, and let his subjects admire him to their hearts' +content." + +"Antipas, you disgrace your purple!" + +At the exclamation, the Sanhedrim, the guards, the assessors, the +officials, Pilate himself, everyone save the prisoner, turned and looked. +On the colored pavement Mary stood, her face very pale. + +The tetrarch flushed mightily; anger mounted into his shifting eyes. For a +moment the sky was blood-red; then he recovered himself and answered +lightly: + +"It seems to me, my dear, that you take things with a high hand. It may be +that you forget yourself." + +"I take them from where I am," she cried. "As for forgetfulness, remember +that my grandfather was satrap of Syria, my father after him, while +yours----" + +"Yes, yes, I dare say. He is not in power now; I am." + +"Not here, Antipas, nor in Rome. I appeal to Pilate." + +The tetrarch rose from the throne. The elders whispered together. Pilate +visibly was perplexed. Remembering Mary as he did, he looked upon the +incident as a family quarrel, one in which it would be unseemly for him to +interfere, and which none the less disturbed the decorum of his court. + +Caiaphas edged up to the tetrarch, but the latter brushed him aside. + +"The hetaira is right," he exclaimed. "I am not in power here. If I were, +she should be lapidated." + +And, preceded by the butler, Antipas passed through the parting ranks to +the vestibule beyond. + +The perplexity of the procurator increased. He did not in the least +understand. To him Mary stood in the same relation to Antipas that +Cleopatra had to Herod. There had been a feud between the tetrarch and +himself, one recently mended, and which he had no wish to renew. Yet +manifestly Antipas was aggrieved, and his own path in the matter by no +means clear. + +"Bah!" he muttered, in the consoling undertone of thought, "what are their +beastly barbarian manners to me?" + +These reflections Caiaphas interrupted. + +"We are waiting, my lord, for the sentence to be pronounced." + +The tone he used was not, however, indicative of patience, and in +conjunction with the incident that had just occurred it irritated and +jarred. Besides, Pilate did not care to be prompted. It was for him to +speak first. He strangled an oath, and, gathering some fringe of the +majesty of Rome, he announced very measuredly: + +"You have brought this man before me as a rebel. I have examined him and +find no ground for the charge. His ruler, the tetrarch, has also examined +him, and by him too he has been acquitted. But in view of the fact that he +appears to have contravened some one or another of your laws I order him +to be scourged and to be liberated." + +With that he turned to the prisoner. During the entire proceedings the +attitude of Jesus had not altered. He stood as a disinterested spectator +might--one whom chance had brought that way and there hemmed in--his eyes on +remote, inaccessible horizons, the tongue silent, the head a little +raised. + +"Scourging, my lord," Caiaphas interjected, "is fit and proper, but," he +continued, one silk-gloved hand uplifted, "our law prescribes death. Only +an enemy to Tiberius would prevent it." + +At the veiled menace Pilate gnawed his under lip. He had no faith at all +in the loyalty of the hierarch; at any other time the affection the latter +manifested for the chains he bore would have been ludicrous and nothing +else. But at the moment he felt insecure. There were Galileans whom he had +sacrificed, Judaeans whom he had slaughtered, Samaritans whom he had +oppressed, an embassy might even now be on its way to Rome; he thought +again of Sejanus, and, with cause, he hesitated. Yet of the inward +perturbation he gave no outward sign. + +"On this day," he said at last, "it is customary that in commemoration of +your nation's delivery out of Egypt I should release a prisoner to you. +There are three others here, among them Jesus Barabba." + +Then, for support perhaps, he looked over at the clamoring mob. + +"I will leave the choice to the people." + +A wind seemed to raise the elders; they scattered through the court like +leaves. "Have done with the Nazarene," cried one. "He would lead you +astray," insinuated another. "He has violated the Law," exclaimed a third. + +And, filtering through the soldiery into the mob without, they exhorted +and prayed and coerced. "Ask for Barabba; denounce the blasphemer. Trust +to the Sanhedrim. We are your guides. Let him atone for his crimes. The +God of your fathers commands that you condemn. Demand Barabba; uphold your +nation. To the cross with the Nazarene!" + +"Whom do you choose?" shouted Pilate. + +And the pleb of Jerusalem shouted back as one man, "Barabba!" + +At the moment Pilate fancied himself in an amphitheatre, the arena filled +with beasts. There were the satin and stripes of the panther, the yellow +of treacherous eyes, the gnash of fangs, the guttural rumble, the +deafening yell, the scent of blood, and above, the same blue tender sky. + +"What of the prisoner?" he called. + +A roar leapt back. "Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified." + +Pilate had fronted a rabble before, and in two minutes had turned that +rabble into so many dead flies, the legs in the air. He shook his head, +and told himself he was not there to be coerced. + +"Release Barabba," he ordered. "And as for the prisoner, take him to the +barracks and have him scourged." + +"Brute!" cried a voice that lifted him as a blow might from his ebony +chair. "Pilate, though you are a plebeian, why show yourself a slave?" + +And Mary, with the strength of anger, brushed through the encircling +officials and towered before him, robed in wrath. + +"Ah, permit me," he answered; "you are singularly unjust." + +"Prove me so, and countermand the order that you gave." + +As she spoke she adjusted her mantle, which had become disarranged, and +looked him from head to foot, measuring him as it were, and finding him, +visibly, very small. + +Already the prisoner had been led away, and beyond, in the barracks, was +the whiz of jagged leather that lacerated, rebounded, and lacerated again. + +"I will not," he answered. "What I have ordered, I have ordered. As for +you----" + +There had come to her that look which sibyls have. "Pilate," she +interrupted, "you are powerful here, I know, but"--and her hand shot out +like an arrow from a bow--"over there vultures are circling; in your power +is a corpse. What the vultures scent, I see." + +So abrupt and earnest was the gesture that unconsciously Pilate found +himself looking to where she seemed to point. He lowered his eyes in +vexation. Wrangling with a woman was not to his taste. + +"There, there," he said, much as one might to a fretful child; "don't +throw stones." + +"I have but one; it is Justice, and that I keep to hurl at you." + +The procurator's mouth twitched ominously. "My dear," he said, "you are +too pretty to talk that way; it spoils the looks. Besides, I have no time +to listen." + +"Tiberius has and will." + +Pilate nodded; it was the third time he had heard the threat that day. + +"There are many rooms in his palace," he answered, with covert +significance. + +"Yes, I know it. There are many, as you say. But there is one I will +enter. On the door stands written The Future, and behind it, Pilate, is +your death." + +The Roman, goaded to exasperation, sprang to his feet. An expression which +Antipas had used occurred to him. "Away with the hetaira," he cried; and +he was about, it may be, to order her to be tossed to the fierce wild +swine in the paddocks of the park when the prisoner and his guards +reappeared on the tessellated pavement, and Mary, already dragged from +him, was instantly forgot. + +A tattered sagum, which had once been scarlet, but which had faded since, +hung, detained at the shoulder by a rusty buckle, and bordered by a +laticlave, loosely about his form. In his hand a bulrush swayed; on his +head was a twisted coil of bear's-breech, in which, among the ruffled +leaves, one bud remained; it was white, the opening edges flecked with +pink, perhaps with blood, for from the temples and about the ear a rill +ran down and mixed with the purple of the laticlave below. And in this red +parody of kingship the Christ stood, unmoved as a phantom, but in his face +and eyes there was a projecting light so luminous, so intangible, and yet +so real, that the skeptical procurator started, the staff of office +pendent in his grasp. + +"Ecce homo!" he exclaimed. Instinctively he drew back, and, wonderingly, +half to himself, half to the Christ, "Who are you?" he asked. + +"A flame below, a soul above," Jesus answered, yet so inaudibly that the +guards beside him did not catch the words. + +To Pilate his lips had barely moved, and his wonderment increased. "Why do +you not answer?" he said. "You must know that I have the power to condemn +and to acquit." + +With that gentleness that was the flower of his parables Jesus raised his +voice. "No," he replied, "you can have no power against me unless it come +from above." + +Again Pilate drew back. Unsummoned to his lips had sprung the words, +"Behold the man!" and now he exclaimed, "Behold the king!" + +But to the mob the vision he intercepted was lost. They saw the jest +merely, and with it the stains that torture leaves. The sight of blood is +heady; it inebriates more surely than wine. The mob, trained by the +elders, and used by them as a body-guard, fanatic before, were intoxicated +now. With one accord they shrieked the liturgy again. + +"Sekaph! Sekaph! Let him be crucified." + +In that gust of hatred Pilate recovered. He turned to Caiaphas: + +"I have released one prisoner; I will release another too." + +"My lord, be warned by one who is your elder." + +"One whom I can remove." + +"No doubt, my lord; but suffer him while he may to warn you not to cause a +revolution on the day of the Paschal feast. You hear that multitude. Then +be warned." + +"But your feast is one of mercy." + +The high-priest gazed curiously at his silk-gloved hands. You would have +said they were objects he had never seen before. Then he returned the +procurator's stare. + +"We know of no such god." + +"Ah!" And the procurator drew a long breath of understanding. "It is that, +I believe, he preaches." + +"And it is for that," Caiaphas echoed, "that he must die. Yes, Pilate, it +is for that. There is no such doctrine in the Pentateuch. We have done our +duty. We have convicted a rebel of his guilt. We have brought him to you, +and we demand his sentence. Pilate, it is not so very long ago you had +hundreds massacred without judgment, without trial either, and for +what?--for one rebellious cry. You must have a reason for the favor you +show this man. It would interest me to learn it; it would interest +Tiberius as well. Listen to that multitude. If you pay no heed to our +accusation nor yet to their demand, on you the consequences rest. We are +absolved." + +"He is your king," the procurator objected, meditatively. + +Caiaphas wheeled like a feather a breeze has caught. One hand outstretched +he held to the mob, with the other he pointed to the Christ. + +"Our king!" he cried. "The procurator says he is our king!" + +As the thunder peals, a roar surged back: + +"We have no other king than Caesar." + +"Think of Sejanus," the high-priest suggested. The thrust was so well +timed it told. + +Pilate looked sullenly about. "Fetch me water," he ordered. + +A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing a custom from the Jews he +loathed, he dipped his fingers in it. + +"I wash my hands of it all," he muttered. + +Caiaphas looked at the elders and sighed with infinite relief. He had +conquered. For the first time that day he smiled. He became gracious also, +and he bowed. + +"The blood be upon us, my lord, and on our children. Will you give the +order?" + +"Calcol!" + +The centurion approached. An order was given him in an undertone, and as +he turned to the guards, Pilate drew the staff of office across his knee, +snapped it in two, tossed the pieces to the ground, and through the ranks +of his servitors passed on into the great blue vestibule beyond. + + + + + + CHAPTER X. + + + X. + + +In a sook near the Gannath Gate Mary stood. In the distance the palace of +Herod defied the sun. Beyond the gate lay the Hennom Valley, the Geia +Hennom, contracted by the people into Ge' Hennom, or Gehenna, and +converted by them into a sewer, a place where carrion was thrown, and the +filth of a great city. In earlier days children had been immolated to +Moloch there, human victims had been burned; it was a place accursed, and +to purify the air, as a safeguard against pestilence, the offal was +consumed by bonfires that were constantly renewed and never extinguished. +At its extremity was an elevation, a hilly contour which to the popular +fancy suggested a skull. To the west it fell steeply away. It was called +Guelgolta. + +The sook in which Mary stood was affected by shoemakers. Against the +dwelling of one of them she leaned. The mantle was gone from her now, and +the olive robe had a rent, but the splendor of her hair fell unconfined, +the perils of her eyes had increased; yet in their depths where love had +been was hate. One arm lay along the resisting stone, the other hung at +her side; her face was turned to the palace, her thin nostrils quivering, +her breath coming and going with that spasmodic irregularity which the +consciousness of outrage brings. She laid it all to Judas; he must have +returned to Kerioth, she thought. The sook itself was silent, stirred +merely by some echo of the uproar in the palace beyond. + +From a grilled lattice near by an old man peered out. He had the restless +eyes of a ferret, and a white beard that was very long. He too was looking +toward the palace. Now and then he muttered inaudibly in Aramaic to +himself. In the shadow of a neighboring house a woman appeared; he shook +at the lattice as an ape does at the bars of a cage, and spat a bestial +insult at her. The woman shrank back. Instinctively Mary turned. In the +retreating figure she recognized Ahulah, and at once, without conscious +effort, she divined that the dwelling against which she leaned was that of +Baba Barbulah, the husband of the woman whom the Master had declined to +condemn. + +But other things possessed her--the outrage to the Christ, perplexity as to +how the trial would result, more remotely the indignity to herself, the +slurs of the tetrarch and of the procurator; and with them, sapping her +heart as fever might, was that thirst for reparation, unquenchable in its +intensity, which comes to those who have seen their own life wrecked and +its ideals dispersed. + +Already Ahulah was forgot. On the wings of vagabond fancy she was in Rome, +demanding vengeance of Tiberius, wresting it from him by the sheer force +of entreaty, and with it exulting in the death-throes of the procurator. +Oh, to see his nails pulled out, his outer skin removed, his tongue +severed, his eyes seared with irons, his wrists slowly twisted till they +snapped! to hear him cry for mercy! to promise it and not fulfil!--dear +God, what joy was there! + +From the alley into which Ahulah had shrunk a man issued. He was sturdy as +a bludgeon, and he had a growth of thick black hair that curled about an +honest face. In his hand was a basket. At the sight of Mary his steps +hesitated, and his eyes followed hers to where the palace lay. Then he +crossed the zigzag of the intervening space, but he had to touch her +outstretched arm before she noticed him. + +"Simon!" she exclaimed, with that start one has when suddenly awaked. + +"Yes, Simon indeed;" and through the silence of the sook his clear laugh +rang. "I frightened you, did I not?" + +Mary interrupted him. "Haven't you heard? Has not Eleazer told you----" + +"When I left Bethany he was sleeping with both fists closed. Martha----" + +"The Master is arrested. Last night he was before the Sanhedrim; he is +before the procurator now." + +Hurriedly Mary gave an account of what had occurred. As the recital +continued, Simon's expression grew darker than his curling hair, he +clutched at the basket which he held, so tightly that the handle severed, +the basket fell, and fruit that imprisoned the sunlight rolled on the +ground. + +"They were for the Master," he said. "I thought he would sup with us +to-night." + +"He may do so yet," she answered. "Perhaps----" + +"Never!" cried a voice from the lattice. "They are leading him to Guelgolta +now." + +Beyond, through the palace gate, a mass undulated, the body elongated, +expanding as it moved. It was black, but at the sides was the glisten that +cobras have. About it dust circled, and from it came the rumble of thunder +heard afar. As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; the black lessened +into varying hues. To the glisten came the glint of steel; the cobra +changed into a multitude, the escort of a squad of soldiery, fronted by a +centurion and led by the banner of Imperial Rome. + +Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his faded sagum, staggered, overweighted +by the burden of a cross. Two comrades in misery were at his side, but +they moved with steadier step, bearing their crosses with the brawn of +muscular and untired arms. The soldiers marched impassibly, preceding the +executioners--four stalwart Cypriotes, distinguishable by the fatness of +their calves--while behind was the Sanhedrim, and, extending indefinitely +to the rear, the rabble of yelling Jews. + +In a cobra's coils is death, its eyes transfix. Neither Mary nor Simon had +spoken, and now, as the soldiery was upon them, they leaned yet nearer the +wall. For a moment Mary hid her face. At her feet the Christ had fallen, +and from her came one wail, choked down at once. She stooped to aid him, +but he stood up unassisted and reached to the wall for support. + +The bars of the lattice shook; the old man peered out. + +"Don't touch my house, you vagabond! Move on!" he cried. + +Calcol had turned to Simon, who was raising the cross. "Carry it for him," +he commanded. + +Baba Barbulah still shook at the lattice. "Move on!" he repeated. "Seducer +of the people, remitter of sins, upholder of adultery, move on; don't +touch my house, it will fall down on you! Move on, I say!" + +Calcol's command Simon had anticipated. He shouldered the cross. It was +heavier to him than to the Christ, not in weight, perhaps, but in purpose. +In the narrowness of the sook the crowd was impeded, but from the rear +they pushed, surprised at the halt. + +Mary sprang at the lattice. "It is you that shall move on," she cried; +"yes, you; and forever. The desert will call to you, 'March;' and the sea +will snarl, 'Further yet.' The gates of cities will deny you, and the +doors of hamlets be closed. The eagles may return to their eyrie, the +panthers retreat to their lair, but you will have no home, no rest, and, +till time dies, no tomb." + +The old man gnashed back at her an insult more bestial than he used +before, and spat at her through the bars. But Mary had turned to the +Christ. He was surrounded now by some women who had filtered through the +alley above. Johanna, Mary Clopas, the wife of Zebdia, and Bernice, a +fragile girl newly enrolled. The latter was wiping from his face the +stains of blood and dust. The others were beating their breasts, crying +aloud. + +Of the disciples there was no trace, nor yet of any of those who had +greeted him as the Messiah. It may be that the admiring throngs that had +gathered about him had faded before a superior force. It may be they had +lost heart, belief perhaps as well. Invective never propitiates. Recently +he had omitted to prophesy, he argued. The exquisite parables with which +he had been wont to charm even the recalcitrant seemed to have been put +aside, and with them those wonders which rumor held him to have worked. +But now that pathos and grace which endeared, that perfection of sentiment +and expression which exalted the heart, returned to him, accentuated +perhaps by the agonies he had endured. + +"Weep for me no more," he entreated. "But weep for yourselves and for your +children. The days are coming," he added, with a gesture at the impatient +mob--"the days are coming in which they shall say to the mountains, Fall on +us; to the hills, Cover us. For if these things are done in the green +tree, what will be done in the dry?" + +And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted them to view disaster otherwise +than from the external and evanescent aspect, the voice of the prophet +rang once more. + +Mary as yet had not realized the full portent of the soldiery and the mob. +When it was approaching it had occurred to her that it might be another +triumphal escort, such as she had once seen surround him on his way to a +feast. As it advanced, the roar bewildered, and she had ceased to +conjecture; then the Master had fallen, and the old Jew had vomited his +slime. At the moment it was that, and that only, which had impressed her, +and she had answered with the force of that new strength which suddenly +she had found. But now at the sight of the women beating their breasts, +and the blood-stained face of the Master, an inkling came to her; she +stared open-mouthed at the cross, at Calcol, and at the executioners that +were there. + +Then immediately that horrible longing to know the worst beset her, and +she darted to where the centurion stood. + +"What is it?" she gasped. "What are you to do with him?" + +By way of answer Calcol extended his arms straight out from either side, +his head thrown back. He was a good-natured ruffian, with clear and +pleasant eyes. + +"Not crucify?" she cried. "Tell me, it is not that?" + +Calcol nodded. To him one Jew more, one Jew less, was immaterial, provided +he had his pay, and the prospect of a return to Rome was not too long +delayed. Yet none the less in some misty way he wondered why this woman, +with her splendid hair and scorching eyes, should have upbraided the +tetrarch and abused the procurator because of the friendless Galilean whom +he was leading to the cross. Woman to him, however, was, as she has been +to others wiser than he, an enigma he failed to solve. And so he nodded +merely, not unkindly, and smiled in Mary's face. + +The horrible longing now was stilled. She knew the worst; yet as the +knowledge of it penetrated her being, it seemed to her as though it could +not be true, that she was the plaything of some hallucination, her mind +inhabited by a nightmare from which she must presently awake. The howl of +the impatient mob undeceived her. It was real; it was actual; it was life. +She stared at Calcol, her fair mouth agape. There were many things she +wanted to say; her thoughts teemed with arguments, her mind with +persuasions; but she could utter nothing; she was as one struck dumb; and +it was not until the centurion smiled that the spell dissolved and the +power of speech returned. + +"Ah, _that_ never; you shall kill me first!" she cried. And already she +saw herself circumventing the centurion, blinding the soldiery, defying +the mob, and leading the Master through byways and underground passages +out of the accursed city into the fresh glades of Gethsemane, over the +hill, down the hollows to the Jordan, and into the desert beyond. There +was one spot she knew very well; one that only a bird could find; one that +she would mention to no one, but to which she could take him and keep him +hidden there in the brakes till night came, and the fording of the river +was safe. + +"That never!" she cried. And brushing Bernice off, she caught the Master +by the cloak. "Come with me," she murmured. "I know a way----" + +And she would have dragged him perhaps, regardless of the others, but the +centurion had her by the arm. + +"See here, my pretty friend, your place is not here." + +With a twist he sent her spinning back to Baba Barbulah's wall. + +"March!" he ordered. + +The soldiery, disarranged, fell in line. The two robbers picked up their +burden. The Master turned to Mary, to the others as well, with that +expression which he alone possessed, that look which both promised and +assuaged, and, it may be, would have said some word of encouragement, but +Mary was at his side again, her hand upon his cloak. + +"It shall never be," she repeated. "They must kill me first." + +Calcol wheeled. His short sword glistened, reversed, and her cheek was +laid open by the hilt. She staggered back. The soldiery moved on. The +women surrounded her and stanched the wound. To her the blow held the +difference between a cut and a cancer; she knew that it could never heal; +and, as the blood poured down her face, for the first time she divined the +uselessness of revolt. + +Presently a wave of the mob caught her, separating her from the other +women, and carrying her in its eddy through the gate, into the valley and +on to the hillock beyond. On one side were the glimmer of fires, the smell +of smoke, of offal too. On the infrequent trees vultures perched. To the +right was a nest of gardens and of tombs. + +In the eddies Mary lost foothold and lagged a little to the rear. When she +reached Guelgolta the soldiery had formed three sides of a square. In it +were the executioners, the prisoners, and the centurion. At the place +where a fourth side might have been a steep decline began. + +Within the square three crosses lay; before them the prisoners stood, +stripped of their clothing now, and naked. + +The Sanhedrim was grouped about that side of the square which leaned to +the south, the horned bonnet of Caiaphas towering its lacework above the +others. To the wide and cruel corners of his mouth had come the calm of a +cheetah devouring its prey. At the outer angle, to the right, the standard +of the empire swayed; and from an oak two vultures soared with a scream +into the air, their eyes fixed on the vision of bare white flesh. + +Through the ranks an elder passed. In his hand was a gourd, which he +offered to one of the thieves. + +"Drink of it, Dysmas," he invited. "In it grains of frankincense have been +dissolved." + +To the rear Annas nodded his approval. His lean, lank jaws parted. "Give +strong drink," he announced, authoritatively; "give strong and heady drink +to those about to die, and wine to those that sorrow." + +Dysmas drank abundantly of the soporific, and held the gourd to his +comrade. + +"Take it, Stegas." + +As the second thief raised it to his lips, with a motion of arm and knee +an executioner caught Dysmas beneath the chin, behind the leg, and the +thief lay on a cross. In a second his wrists were bound, his feet as well. +There was the blow of a hammer on a nail, a spurt of blood from the open +hand; another blow, another spurt; and the cross, upraised, settled in a +cavity already prepared, a beam behind it for support. + +Stegas, his thirst slaked, fell as Dysmas had, and the elder caught the +gourd and offered it to the Christ. If he had been tempted in the desert, +as rumor alleged, the temptation could have been as nothing in comparison +to the enticements of that cup. It held relief from thought, from the +acutest pain that flesh can know, from life, from death. + +He waved it aside. The executioner started with surprise; but he had his +duty to perform, and, recovering himself, he caught the Christ, and in a +moment he too was down, his hands transfixed, the cross upraised. The +blood dripped leisurely on the sand beneath. Across his features a shadow +passed and vanished. His lips moved. + +"Father," he murmured, "forgive them; they know not what they do." + +Calcol gave an order. Over the heads of Dysmas and of Stegas the sanis +were affixed, wooden tablets smeared with gypsum, bearing the name of the +crucified and with it the offence. They were simple and terse; but above +the Christ appeared a legend in three tongues, in Aramaic, in Greek, and +in Latin: + + [Aramaic: Malka di Jehudaje] + + _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}._ + + Rex Judaeorum. + +Caiaphas sprang back as from the point of a sword. + +"Malka di Jehudaje!" he bellowed. "King of the Jews! It is a blasphemy, an +iniquity, and an outrage. Centurion, tear it down." + +Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and pointed to the palace. "What the +procurator has written he has written," he answered. + +In the tone, in the gesture that preceded it, and in its impertinence +Caiaphas read Pilate's one yet supreme revenge, the expression of his +absolute contempt for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation that it ruled. + +From the rear the mob jumped at the title as at a catchword. To them the +irony of the procurator presumably was lost. + +"King of the Jews!" they shouted. "Malka di Jehudaje, come down from your +cross!" + +It was a great festival, and as they jeered at Jesus they enjoyed +themselves hugely. + +In their vast delight the voice of Stegas was drowned. + +"I am a Roman citizen," he kept repeating, his head swaying, and +indicating with his eyes the wounds in his hands, the torture he endured. +"Kill me," he implored. And finding entreaty idle, he reviled the +centurion, cursed the soldiery, and would have spat at them, but to his +burning throat no spittle came. + +The tongue of Dysmas lolled from his mouth. He had not the ability to +speak, even if in speech relief could come. Flame licked at his flesh, his +joints were severing, each artery was a nerve exposed, and something was +crunching his brain. He could no longer groan; he could suffer merely, +such suffering as hell perhaps has failed to contrive, that apogee of +agony which it was left for man to devise. + +Stegas, catching the refrain the mob repeated, turned his eyes from the +soldiery to the adjacent cross. + +"If you are as they say," he cried, "save yourself and us." + +As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, "Behold your king!" and raising a +stalk of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he had dipped in the posca, +the thin wine the soldiers drink, he offered it to the Christ. + +The sun was nearing the horizon. Caiaphas gathered his ample folds about +him. He had seen enough. The feast, wretchedly embittered, was nearly +done. There was another at which he must officiate: the shofa presently +would sound; the skewering of the Paschal lamb it was needful for him to +superintend. It was time, he knew, to return to the Temple; and as he gave +a last indignant look at the placard, the lips of the Christ parted to one +despairing cry: + +"Eli, Eli, lemah shebaktani?" + +Caiaphas, nodding to the elders, smiled with satisfaction. + +At last the false pretender was forced to acknowledge the invalidity of +his claims. The Father whose son he vaunted himself to be had disowned him +when his recognition was needed, if ever it had been needed at all. And +so, with the smile of one whose labor has had its recompense, Caiaphas +patted his skirt, and the elders about him strolled back through the +Gannath Gate to the Temple that awaited him. + +The multitude meanwhile had decreased. To the crowd also the Temple had +its attractions, its duties, and its offices. Moreover, the spectacle was +at an end. With a blow of the mallet the legs of the thieves had been +broken. They had died without a shriek, a thing to be regretted. The +Galilean too, pierced by the level stroke of a spear, had succumbed +without a word. Sundown was approaching. Clearly it was best to be within +the walls where other gayeties were. The mob dispersed, leaving behind but +the dead, the circling vultures, a group of soldiers throwing dice for the +garments of the crucified, and, remotely, a group of women huddled beneath +a protecting oak. + +During the hour or two that intervened, the force which had visited Mary +evaporated in strength overtaxed. She was conscious only that she +suffocated. The words of the women that had drawn her to them were empty +as blanks in a dream; the jeers of the mob vacant as an empty bier. To but +one thing was she alive, the fact that death could be. Little by little, +as the impossible merged into the actual, the understanding came to her +that the worst that could be had been done, and she ceased to suffer. The +departing hierarchy, the dispersing mob, retreating before encroaching +night, left her unimpressed. To her the setting sun was Christ. + +The soldiers passed. She did not see them. Calcol called to her. She did +not hear. The women had gone from her; she did not notice it. She stood as +a cataleptic might, her eyes on the cross. Once only, when the Christ had +uttered his despairing cry, she too had cried in her despair. In the roar +of the mob the cry was lost as a stone tossed in the sea. Since then she +had been dumb, sightless also, existing, if at all, unconsciously, her +life-springs nourished by death. + +Though she gazed at the cross, she had ceased to distinguish it. A little +group that had reached it before the soldiery left had been unmarked by +her. On the platform of her dream a serpent had emerged. In its coils were +her immortal hopes. It was that she saw, and that alone. Those moments of +agony in which the imagination oscillates between the past and the future, +devouring the one, fumbling the other, had been endured, and resignation +failed to bring its balm. She had believed with a faith so firm that now +in its demolition there was nothing left--an abyss merely, where light was +not. + +A hand touched her, and she quivered as a leaf does at the wing of a bird. +"Mary, come with us," some one was saying; "we are taking him to a tomb." + +Just beyond were men and women whom she knew. Joseph of Haramathaim, a +close follower of the Master; Nikodemon, the richest man in all Judaea; +Johanna, Mary Clopas, Salome, Bernice, and the servants of the opulent +Jew. It was Ahulah who had touched her; and as Mary started she saw before +her a coffin which the others bore. + +"Come with us," Ahulah repeated; and Mary crossed the intervening ridge to +where the gardens were and the tombs she had already passed. + +At the door of a sepulchre the brief procession halted. Within was a room, +a little grotto furnished with a stone slab and a lamp that flickered, +surmounted by an arch. The coffin, placed on the slab, routed a bat that +flew to the arch, and a lizard that scurried to a crevice. In the coffin +the Christ lay, his head wrapped in a napkin, the body wound about by +broad bands of linen that were secured with gum and impregnated with +spices and with myrrh. The odor of aromatics filled the tomb. The bat +escaped to the night. A stone was rolled before the opening, the brief +procession withdrew, and Mary was left with the dead. + +The momentary exertion, the bier, the sepulchre, the sight of the Christ +in his cerements, the brooding quiet--these things had roused her. Her mind +was nimbler, and thought more active. One by one the stars appeared. They +would vanish, she told herself, as her hopes had done. Only they would +reappear, and belief could not. It had come as a rainbow does, and +disappeared as vaporously, little by little, before the full glare of +might. For a minute, hours perhaps, she stood quite still, interrogating +the past in which so much had been, gauging the future in which so much +was to be. The one retreated, the other fled. Thoughts came to her +evanescently, and faded before they were wholly formed. At one moment she +was beckoning the unicorns from the desert, the winged lions from the +yonderland, commanding them to bear her to the home of some immense +revenge. At others she was asking her way of griffins, propounding the +problem to the Sphinx. But the unicorns and lions took flight, the +griffins spread their wings, the Sphinx fell asleep. There was no answer +to her appeal. + +Behind the sepulchre the moon rose; it dropped a beam near by. There is +light somewhere, it seemed to say; and in that telegram from Above, she +thought of Rome. She remembered now, in Rome was Tiberius, and in him +Revenge. She smiled at her own forgetfulness. Yes, it was there. She would +go to him, she would exact reparation; there should be another +crucifixion. Pilate should be nailed to the cross, Judas on one side, +Caiaphas on the other. Only it would be at Rome where there was no +Passover to interfere with the torture they endured. Things were done +better there. Men were crucified, not with the head up, but with the feet; +and so remained, not for hours, but for days; and died, not of their +wounds alone, but of hunger too. + +A chariot of dream caught her, and, borne across the intervening space, +she saw herself in a palace where there were gods and monsters, columns of +transparent quartz, floors of malachite, roofs of gold. And there, on a +dais, the Caesar lay. Behind him a fan, luminous as a peacock's tail, +oscillated to the tinkling of mysterious keys. In his crown was the +lividity of uncolored dawns, in his sceptre the dominion of the world. An +ulcer devoured his face, and in his ear a boy repeated the maxims of +Elephantis. Mary threw herself at his feet, her tears fell on them as rain +on leaves. "Vengeance," she implored; but he listened merely to the boy at +his side. "Death is your servant," she cried. "You command, it obeys." The +ulcer oozed, the face grew vague, he gave no answer. She stood up and +menaced him. "Behind you spectres crouch; you may not see them. I do; +their name is To-morrow." The murmurs of the boy were her sole reply. The +roof crumbled, the flooring disappeared, the emperor faded, and Mary +stared into space. + +The moon that had struck aslant the tomb had gone, but where its beams had +fallen the message remained. There is light somewhere, it repeated. Across +the heavens a meteor shot like a bee. In the air voices whispered +confusedly. It is not in Rome, one seemed to say. It is not on earth, +another called. + +Mary clutched at her beating breast. The sky now was an opening rose. What +the sunset had sown the dawn would reap. In the night that had enveloped, +day raised a lattice, and through it came a gust of higher thought. It is +not in revenge, a voice whispered. It is not in regret, another called. + +"I know it," Mary gasped. "Yes, yes, I know it now. It is in faith." + +"And in abnegation of self." + +The stone which stood before the sepulchre had rolled away. At her side +the Christ stood. In his eyes were golden parables, in his face Truth +shone revealed. She stared, dumb with the unexpected joy of belief +confirmed, blinded by the sudden light, while he who had rent the bonds of +death passed on into the budding day. + +When the brief procession of the night before returned to the tomb, it was +empty. 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