She learned also how it came about that
Marcus had been saved from death at his own hand by Cyril and entered
the company of the Christian brotherhood. Very glad were both of them to
think in the after years that he had done this believing her to be lost
to him in death. Now none could say that he had changed his faith to win
a woman, nor could their own consciences whisper to them that this was
possible, though even at the time he knew it not.
So they understood how through their many trials, dangers, and
temptations all things had worked together for good to them.
On the morrow, there in the ship _Luna_, Marcus and Miriam, whom the
Romans called Pearl-Maiden, were wedded by the bishop Cyril, the Captain
Gallus giving the bride in marriage, while the white-haired, fierce-eyed
Nehushta stood at their side and blessed them in the name of that dead
mother whose command had not been broken.
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