The Journey to Dan 193 CHAPTER II. The Nuptials 234 CHAPTER III. The Avenger of Blood 248 CHAPTER IV. The Water of Jealousy 267 CHAPTER V. The Day of Atonement 290 CHAPTER VI. The Feast of Tabernacles 312 CHAPTER VII. The Conclusion 339 HELON'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM. [Illustration] BOOK III. THE FEAST OF PENTECOST. CHAPTER I. THE SACERDOTAL OFFICE. The feast of the Passover was ended. The multitude had returned to their homes, or resumed their occupations in the city. The ashes on the altar of burnt-offering, whose gradual accumulation, during the week of the Passover, had raised them at last into a lofty pyramid, had been cleared away. The days of unleavened bread were past; the people had returned to their ordinary food, and all the glory of the festival seemed to have disappeared from the city. Helon stood on the roof, on the following morning, contemplating the rising sun. His eyes turned towards the temple, and he remembered, with a feeling of disappointment and regret, that on this as on the preceding day, only a single customary sacrifice would be presented there. He looked down upon the streets—the exhilarating commotion of the festival had vanished, and all was solitary and still, save where a Tyrian merchant was seen hastening through the gate with his empty sacks, or a Galilean dealer in cattle, driving before him the remnant of his herd, for which he had been unable to find a purchaser. No pilgrim from Hebron or Libna, no stranger of the Diaspora was to be seen.