"Remember!

"Si oblitus fuero tui Jerusalem, -- If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, --

"Oblivioni detur dextera mea, -- let my right hand forget her cunning --

"Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui, -- if I do
not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth --

"Si non proposuero Jerusalem, in principis laetitiae meae, -- If I
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

"I shall now send a prayer to Heaven," he said, "to keep you safe
in the strange foreign ways, to protect you against wind and tempest,
against pestilence and sudden death, against the powers of darkness,
and Him who goes up and down the world for the ruin of souls."

And he turned to the high altar again, and now you'd hear his voice
loud and powerful, and now low and secret, and the bell struck, and
the acolyte intoned the responses, and all of a sudden he turned
and spread forth his hands.

"Ite! Let you go now. Missa est."



CHAPTER VIII

And so they set forth with their great train of red, snarling camels
and little patient donkeys and slender, nervous horses toward the