The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-06-21

- am growing old" And shaking the reine
he waved a salute to Longinus, turned hi
pony round, and rode away again into the val
ley westward, while the centurion entered tn
city by the golden gate, and repaired unde
the walls of the Temple to Fort Antonio
where he was detailed as officer of Pilatei
guard that night.
Paulus, meanwhile, rode slowly on his way
between the Kedron Brook, and the walls O.
Jerusalem till he came to the Pool of Sloan
There, he turned south, Salloped to for
which was near, turned back again to the
right, or northward, followed the valley Of
Hinnom at walking pace, looking up at the
! white and dazzling buildings Mount Zion
AS he slowly passed them, he speculated
which could have been David's palace. He
saw Herod's plainly enough. Ga his right he
noticed the aqueduct from Solomon's Pool, and
followed it's course as far as the Tower of Hip
picus northward. There he entered the CITY
by the Gate of Gennath, and followed the val
| ley eff the Cheese mongers Cor Tyropaon hol-
| low until he came to Ophal.
| In the middle of q very narrow street in this
low and crowded quarter, where the Romans
afterwards, under. Titus were repulsed, he met
file of people, some mounted, some on foot,
leu Ny u IlCuIy UicoSCo duu g,
burly man, riding a mule.
So narrow was the street that either PauIus
would have bad to go back as far as the Tower
of Marianne, or the richly dressed and hau ghty-
looking man about one-quarter of the distance
to the bridge between the street of the Cheese
mongers and the court of the Gentiles Paulus,
always full of courtesy, amenity and sweet
ness, was in the very act of turning his small
Tauric horse, when the burly man in rich
dress, who led the opposing file, called out,
Back! low people Back, and let Caiaphas
go by!
And who is Caiaphas ?" demanded Paulus,
instantly facing round again and barring the
way.
"The high priest of jerusalem" was the an
swer, thundered forth in rude an minatory
tones"
81 respect" said Paulus, "and can revere
that holy appellation; but he who uses it at
this moment, for some present purpose, has
flung against me, who am Roman general,
the mandate of Back, low people! Where are
the low peoplef 1 do not believe that am a
low person. Where, then, are the low people ~
Come on" cried the imperious voice of
Caiaphas.
ZIG ulWSeli peluS Gue nle-leaCers began then
to move forward, till he came Immediately in
front of the traveller who had so cautiously
spoken to him.
I" If you want" said Paulus, {" to pass me at
once, must get into the ditch or throw you
into it; which do you preferf"
1 prefer" quoth Caiaphas, "that YOU should
throw me into the ditch, if You either dare or
cam,
"Sir," said Paulus, 81 am sorry for the senti
nent yon express, or at least imply. But
will stand up against your challenge of throw
ing You into the ditch, because both could
do it, and dare do it, as Roman soldier, only
that there is ONE among you who has come
to settle all cur disputes, and who has a divine
right to do For his sake would rather be
thrown into that drain by soldier, officer,
general, aud Roman as i am-than throw Won
into it,"
Let me pass" cried Caiaphas, purple with
rage.
Paulus, whose behavior at Lake Benacus
against the Germans, and previously at
Formise, and afterward in the terrible Calpur-
MAN House on the Viminal Hill, the reader
made no answer but, riding back
to the Tower of Marianne, allowed the high
priest and his followers there to pass him
which they did with every token of scorn and
act of contumely that the brief and sudden
allowed. Caiaphas thus passed
on to his couutry-house at the southwest
south of Jerusalem, where he usually spent tho
night.
PaulRs then put his pony into gailop, and
soon reacked the bridge across the Tyropaon
into the courtyard of the Temple, commonly
called the courtyard of the Gentiles Such
was the nervous excitement caused by his
recent act of purely voluntary, gratuitous, and
deliberate selfhumiliation, that he laughed
aloud as he rode through the Temple yard.
coasting the western "cloisters," and 80 reach
ing Fort Antonio.
There his servant, the Roman legionary,
who had before met him at the golden gate,
md whose name Marcus was awaiting
him.
CHAPTER XIV.
That night the palace of Herod the tetrarch