If he could not find
her either, then to her uncle Ithiel, or, failing him, to whoever was
president of the Essenes, with the same message, praying any or all of
them to succour her in her troubles, should that be possible. At the
least they were to let her have tidings at the house of Gallus, the
captain, in Rome, where he proposed to place her in charge of his wife
until the time came for her to be handed over to Titus and to walk in
the Triumph. Moreover, in case the brother should forget, she wrote
a letter that he might deliver to any of those for whom she gave the
message. In this letter Miriam set out briefly all that had befallen her
since that night of parting in the Old Tower, and by the help of Gallus,
whom she now recalled to the tent, the particulars of her rescue and of
the judgment of Caesar upon her person, ending it with these words:
"If it be the will of God and your will, O you who may read this letter,
haste, haste to help me, that I may escape the shame more sore than
death which awaits me yonder in Rome."
This letter she signed, "Miriam, of the house of Benoni," but she did
not write upon it the names of those to whom it was addressed, fearing
lest it should fall into other hands and bring trouble upon them.
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