THE CITY OF DELIGHT

A Love Drama of the Siege and Fallof Jerusalem

by

Elizabeth Miller

Author of

The Yoke and Saul of Tarsus

With Illustrations by

F.X. Leyendecker

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
1908
March
Frontispiece

To

My Elder Brother

Otto Miller

CONTENTS

  1. A Prince's Bride 1
  2. On the Road to Jerusalem 31
  3. The Shepherd of Pella 56
  4. The Travelers 85
  5. By the Wayside 108
  6. Dawn in the Hills 124
  7. Imperial Cæsar 148
  8. Greek and Jew 169
  9. The Young Titus 189
  10. The Story of a Divine Tragedy 212
  11. The House of Offense 233
  12. The Prince Returns 253
  13. A New Pretender 274
  14. The Pride of Amaryllis 284
  15. The Image of Jealousy 300
  16. The Spread Net 322
  17. The Tangled Web 337
  18. In the Sunless Crypt 358
  19. The False Prophet 374
  20. As the Foam upon Water 390
  21. The Faithful Servant 408
  22. Vanished Hopes 417
  23. The Fulfilment 427
  24. The Road to Pella 441

THE CITY OF DELIGHT

Chapter I

A PRINCE'S BRIDE

The chief merchant of Ascalon stood in the guest-chamberof his house.

Although it was a late winter day the old manwas clad in the free white garments of a midsummerafternoon, for to the sorrow of Philistia the coldseason of the year sixty-nine had been warm, wet andmiasmic. An old

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