Tell her that although
it is true that mine has brought me shame and sorrow, still I give her
love for love, and that if I come living from my prison I will follow
her to Tyre and speak further of these matters. If I die, I pray that
good fortune may attend her and that from time to time she will make the
offering of an hour's thought to the spirit which once was Marcus."
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE LAMP
If Domitian at length slackened in his fruitless search for Miriam,
Caleb, whose whole heart was in the hunt, proved more diligent. Still,
he could find no trace of her. At first he made sure that if she was in
Rome she would return to visit her friends and protectors, Gallus
and his wife, and in the hope of thus discovering her, Caleb caused a
constant watch to be kept on their abode. But Miriam never came there,
nor, although their footsteps were dogged from day to day, did they lead
him to her, since in truth Julia and Miriam met only in the catacombs,
where he and his spies dared not venture. Soon, however, Gallus
discovered that his home was kept under observation and its inmates
tracked from place to place. It was this knowledge indeed which, more
than any other circumstance, brought him to make up his mind to depart
from Rome and dwell in Syria, since he said that he would no longer live
in a city where night by night he and his were hunted like jackals.
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