. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . o X w A H THE BAFFLED KING. 175 The mason, soon after finishing the royal treasure-house, was stricken downwith a mortal sickness. He called his two sons to him, and confided to themthe secret of the movable stone. The king visited his treasure-house often, to see that the seals were day he discovered that though the seals were secure, a considerable sumof money in one of the vaults was THE SACKS OF WINE LEAKING. A few days passed, and he dis
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . o X w A H THE BAFFLED KING. 175 The mason, soon after finishing the royal treasure-house, was stricken downwith a mortal sickness. He called his two sons to him, and confided to themthe secret of the movable stone. The king visited his treasure-house often, to see that the seals were day he discovered that though the seals were secure, a considerable sumof money in one of the vaults was THE SACKS OF WINE LEAKING. A few days passed, and he discovered a further loss ; and again and was a great mystery to him. How could money be taken from the vaultsby human hands while the seals were secure .- He set a man-trap, and so arranged it that if any one entered the vault hewould be secured. 176 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. At night the two sons of the mason came to rob the vault again, and one ofthem was caught. My brother, said the captive, I am a prisoner. Cut off my head, orboth of us will be ruined. The loss of my head will save you. The brother did as advised. When the king came to visit the vault, hewas astonished to find in it a man without a head. The king left the body in the vault, but set a guard. The body, in Egypt,was held to be the future home of the soul. Its loss or destruction was re-garded as the greatest possible calamity. The friends of the thief will try to recover the body, thought the king. When they come for it, I will arrest them. When the
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