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thered they listened atten- tively to each detail of Gunter's disastrous engagement with the Turks. How dazzling the sea-girt city was that cold afternoon, gleaming in the late sun, its many towers pointing downward to the riches that awaited the conqueror. Israel ?9' Would you? Eliav evaded the question: The night my wife was killed on this tell our detachment was on its way to Akko. uld be only a matter of time until one of the great Mameluke engines was maneuvered against some door.

Abd Umar, adjusting his striped and many-colored r and tightening the cords of his headdress, sat easily upon hi and the entourage spurred their horses across the moat and down into the mud-walled town, past t hmuel Hacohen, eager to dis- cuss with the kaimakam the land which he had for the past four years been trying vainly to purchase. Who is your commander? To Yigal's astonishment, General Josephus stepped back into shadow and