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ances in which young Jews had resisted the Byzantine tax collectors, whose demands had become indeed excessive. Knock them out. Take it down, Cullinane said. In his extremity he remembered his own parable about God and Rab Naaman: One shred of law administered with compassion is worth a hundred towns.

Obviously he must again implore the kaimakarn to release the land needed by the incoming Jews, but as he visualized the kaimakam he shook his head: I can't understand him at all. Isidore Gottesmann visibly stiffened. The next days Shmuel would not remember. He would take his son to Rome.