Then Gallus asked the man Samuel what money he needed for his journey
and as a reward for his service. He answered that it was against his
rule to take any money, who was bound to help those under the protection
of the order without reward or fee, whereat Gallus stared and said that
there were stranger folk in this land than in any others that he knew,
and they were many.
So Samuel, having bowed before Miriam and pressed her hand in a certain
fashion in token of brotherhood and fidelity, was led out of the camp
again, nor did she ever see him more. Yet, as it proved, he was a
faithful messenger, and she did well to trust him.
Next day, at the prayer of Miriam, Gallus also wrote a letter, which
gave him much trouble, to a friend of his, who was a brother officer
with the army at Jerusalem, enclosing one to be handed to Marcus if,
perchance, he should have rejoined the Standards.
"Now daughter," he said, "we have done all that can be done, and must
leave the rest to fate."
"Yes," she answered with a sigh, "we must leave the rest to fate, as you
Romans call God."
In the evening they set sail for Italy, and with them much of the
captured treasure, many sick and wounded men and a guard of soldiers.
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