VI THE CAVE OF ELIJAH 186 VII EL KÛDS 197 VIII AMID SACRED SCENES 205 IX MEMORABLE MOMENTS 213 X THE BLOW FALLS 223 XI FAREWELL 237 XII RAIE’S DILEMMA 244 XIII THE EMPTY HOUSE 254 XIV IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON 266 BOOK III THE LAST OF THE EDICT I ENGLAND ONCE MORE 279 II AN ANTI-SEMITE STILL 288 III THE MIND OF THE PREMIER 299 IV LADY PATRICIA’S CONQUEST 308 V “THE SKIRT OF A JEW” 317 _Period.—The Future_ BOOK I “_Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word amongst all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee._”—DEUT. xxviii. 37. A MODERN EXODUS CHAPTER I OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE It was the Day of Atonement—the Great White Fast. The principal synagogue in the West End of London was crowded from the doors to the Ark, and the heat was intense. Like a flock of frightened sheep, those Jews—and they were many—who ignored the claims of public worship for over eleven months at a stretch, rushed to the synagogue on this Holy Day in order to settle their accounts with an offended Deity, and obtain exemption from service for yet another year. This Day served as a test to prove whether a man of Hebrew birth clung to the Jewish faith or not; for if he retained the very smallest respect for the tenets of his religion, he would at least put in an appearance at the synagogue, and refrain from tasting food. However lax he might be throughout the year, on this Day he would try to make reparation, lest he should be struck off from the inheritance of Israel; for if he failed to observe _Yom Kippur_, he could no longer claim—amongst his own people—to be a Jew.