The Knight of Saint Mary enslaved by a Hebrew beauty—The journey toward Bozrah—The Mameluke attack—The hand to hand fight—Sir Charleroy wounded and Ichabod slain—Rizpah’s heroism in peril—Espousal in the face of death—A wonderful vision. Page 170 CHAPTER XIII.—FROM RAMOTH GILEAD TO DAMASCUS. Teacher and pupil become patient and nurse—Perilous relations—Delights, assurances, fears and clouds—Harrimai’s discovery and his malediction—Love’s debate and decision—Elopement by night—the Knight and the Jewess wedded at Damascus. Page 182 CHAPTER XIV.—THE THEATER OF THE GIANTS. The death of Harrimai—A honey-moon in the “Eye of the East”—To Bashan with the Mecca chaplet-seekers—Nature, art and desolation—Lejah’s black lava-sea—The frenzies of Gerash’s passion-flower—Reaction after exaltation—“A camel voyage in-sea”—Rizpah’s challenge—Jealous of Sir Charleroy’s love for Mary—“Illusion”—The church of Saint George at Edrei—Recrimination—Ridicule costly to pride—Neither Christian, Jew nor Pagan—A woman with unsettled faith—A babe poisoned by its mother’s passion—The lamp and the palm-trees—The Knight’s appeals—Omens—A beacon needed—Fleeing the Lejah—To Bozrah. Page 195 CHAPTER XV.—THE REVELS OF MEN AND THE RITES OF THEIR GODDESSES. Kunawat at the City of Job—The Shrine of Astarte—The Cyclopean image—Questioning the Soul, Time and God—Hugeness, greatness; littleness, caricature—The naked worshipers of the golden calf—Sins exposed—Purity’s vision—Phallic mysteries—Khem—Female deities—Dualism—Immortality by progeny and by regeneration—The fire-worshiper’s mystic number eight, and the Jewish covenant number seven. Page 212 CHAPTER XVI.—A BATTLE OF GIANTS AT BOZRAH. Houses forty centuries old—The old stone-house of an ancient giant becomes the home of the knight and his wife—How circumstances change people—Recriminations and reconciliation—“The gall taken from animals offered to Juno, goddess of marriage”—Rizpah’s temper that seemed brilliant before wedlock, afterward seems to Sir Charleroy very like that of a virago—The charming nonsense of those for the first time parents—Shall she be named Davidah, Angela, Marah or Mary?—The Christian and Jewish faith battle about the cradle—The separation of husband and wife, in anger—The sick child and the desolated, deserted wife—Rizpah longs for a mother, such as Mary of Bethlehem. Page 224 CHAPTER XVII.—RIZPAH THE ANCIENT MOTHER OF SORROWS.