Further expostulation was vain. Yusuf retired to his own apartment, and
prayed long and fervently, in his own simple way, offering thanks for
the light which was breaking so radiantly on his own soul, and
beseeching the loving Jesus to touch the heart of Amzi, who, he knew,
though less enthusiastic than he, also desired to know truth.

And before he lay down for a short rest, he said:

"Grant, O Jesus, thou who art ever present, that I may know thee better,
and that Amzi, too, may learn to know thee. Reveal thyself to him as
thou art revealing thyself to me, that we may know thee as we should."

The priest's face grew radiant with happiness as he concluded.

And yet, in that same city, vice held sway; for, even as the priest
prayed, a dark figure emerged from an unused upper attic in the house of
Nathan the Jew, and, escaping by a window, descended a garden stair and
disappeared in the darkness. Even in that dim light, had one looked he
might have noted that the mysterious prowler wore the dress of a
dervish.




CHAPTER VI.

YUSUF'S FIRST MEETING WITH MOHAMMED.

"A person with abnormal auditory sensations often comes to