XVII.--A FAIR WASHERWOMAN, 160 XVIII.--HIGH PRIEST! HIGH DEVIL! 171 XIX.--THE RENEGADE, 179 XX.--A FEMALE SYMPOSIUM, 185 XXI.--BATTLE OF BETHHORON, 193 XXII.--A PRELUDE WITHOUT THE PLAY, 200 XXIII.--THE GREED OF GLAUCON, 205 XXIV.--LESSONS IN DIPLOMACY, 209 XXV.--A JEWESS TAKES NO ORDERS FROM THE ENEMY, 215 XXVI.--TO UNMASK THE PRINCESS, 221 XXVII.--THE QUEEN OF THE GROVE, 227 XXVIII.--A PRISONER, 234 XXIX.--A RAID, 243 XXX.--FOILED, 250 XXXI.--THE SHEIKHS, 258 XXXII.--THE CASTLE OF MASADA, 266 XXXIII.--WITH BEN AARON, 276 XXXIV.--QUICK LOVE: QUICK HATE! 282 XXXV.--WORSHIP BEFORE BATTLE, 289 XXXVI.--THE TEMPTRESS, 298 XXXVII.--"IF I WERE A JEW," 304 XXXVIII.--THE POISONER, 309 XXXIX.--BATTLE OF EMMAUS, 313 XL.--"A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM," 321 XLI.--A STRANGE VISITOR, 327 XLII.--A CLOSE CALL FOR DION, 332 XLIII.--BATTLE OF BETHZUR, 339 XLIV.--A WIFE? 346 XLV.--THE TRIAL, 354 XLVI.--DISENTANGLED THREADS, 363 XLVII.--A QUEEN OF ISRAEL? 367 XLVIII.--A BROKEN SENTENCE FINISHED, 377 XLIX.--THE HIDDEN HAND, 386 L.--THE VENGEANCE OF JUDAS, 392 LI.--A KING, INDEED, 401 AUTHOR'S NOTE, 407 DEBORAH I THE CITY OF PRIDE King Antiochus, self-styled Epiphanes, the Glorious, was in a humor that ill-suited that title. He cursed his scribe who had just read to him a letter, kicked away the cushions where his royal and gouty feet had been resting, and strode about the chamber declaring that, by all the gods! he would make such a show in Antioch that the whole world would be agog with amazement.