house near by, belonging to the synagogue, sick Jews and Mohammedans are frequently housed, believing that miracles are performed there. The “Zeradel” Synagogue is the most prominent of the synagogues,. From the inscription on a stone in the wall it appears that the synagogue 15 a very old one. The inscription, which is in Hebrew it reads: “I, Judah, Son of R. Saul of Spain (unto whom be peace) hought thie cite and hiilt thie cyvnagnone
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custom. By a vigorous application of water and rubbing the day before, she had succeeded in making his long Sabbath coat seem more presentable.
Sarah did not offer to accompany him to the Synagogue nor did he insist that she should; for women may be exempted. Besides, although he may not himself have been actively conscious of it, he liked to have her home to greet him with the Sabbath greeting when he returned from Shool.
So Solomon went alone and Sarah only reminded him agitatedly to pray to God for a good week to come; to which Solomon said, with a click in his throat, that he would, and so, departed.
It was about twelve o'clock at noon when he returned. Sarah was not in the house but, no doubt, she would soon return. The house was as neat and orderly as a pin. The Sabbath white-bread, some fish and water were on the table.
Solomon waited. He had felt cheered when he had returned from the synagogue and he would have liked Sarah to have seen him so. But she was not here and he felt rather disappointed not to have seen her good face from the first. He felt unaccountably irritated. He noticed the things upon the table and it occurred to him that this might be the dinner which she had left for him. Still he sat. And as he waited, there seemed to be that in the flat, morose silence which was a portent that it would not soon be broken— that she was not coming!
Suddenly, a terrible thought darted through his mind. He ran, stooping al-
for the welfare of my soul and the souls of my family in the year 1311 after destruction." The remainder is obliterated; the lowest line reads, "these pillars and the hutel came from the door of the Sanctuary" . . . and this is the door" . "To support it upon their . . . for the memorial." Besides the above there are about half a dozen more Synagogues, and many Jewish benevolent institutions and religious and secular schools.
most from the very first, to the bed. He raised the overlapping sheet and felt underneath for the basket. He got down on both knees and felt for it. He put his head under—it was gone. His heart seemed to be on fire, for the basket was gone, it was gone, the basket was gone!
He sat on the bed with his head bowed between his hands. Then he rose and entered theother room again and sat down. For hours he remained thus, longer even than Sarah had, the week before. The picture of himself praying at the Synagogue danced mockingly before him. So this was the outcome! Who could have known it? He paced, muttering feverishly. He sat down. The time passed. He rose again. “Why does she not come!” he murmured irritably. He hung about a bit longer but suddenly, he made up his mind and hurried out.
What an overwhelming, shifting, mob! It was terrible!
He stopped; she did not see him. There she was happy, anxious, and wistful, by turns. Now she was surrounded by a little crowd where she could be heard, weak and eloquent—his poor, weak, fluttering Sarah, in every tremor of her voice.
When the approached, she recognized him with an expression of momentary terror, as though expecting a blow.
That look cut him to the heart. “Go home, Sarah,” he said in a strange, wheezed voice, “You must be hungry.” She did not attempt to parley, or even to meet his gaze, but dropping a little money in the basket for change, she obeyed.
Anyone passing by a certain diminished basket of candy that day, might have observed standing behind it, a tall grave-featured old Jew with a long beard, who wore a