"
"You are not. That's well too; for want of money is a sore trouble
also." And then I paused before I came to the point. "I do not
suspect anything bad of you, Smith. Had I done so, I should not
have spoken as I have done. And if there be nothing bad--"
"There is nothing disgraceful," he said.
"That is just what I mean; and in that case I will do anything for
you that may be within my power. Now let us look for Joseph and the
mucherry-boy, for it is time that we were at Jericho."
I cannot describe at length the whole of our journey from thence to
our tents at Jericho, nor back to Jerusalem, nor even from Jerusalem
to Jaffa. At Jericho we did sleep in tents, paying so much per
night, according to the tariff. We wandered out at night, and drank
coffee with a family of Arabs in the desert, sitting in a ring round
their coffee-kettle. And we saw a Turkish soldier punished with the
bastinado,--a sight which did not do me any good, and which made
Smith very sick. Indeed after the first blow he walked away.
Jericho is a remarkable spot in that pilgrim week, and I wish I had
space to describe it. But I have not, for I must hurry on, back to
Jerusalem and thence to Jaffa.
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