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Each man knew what was involved and was prepared for the consequences. Night fell and the shadows of Roman troops could be seen upon the walls, lit from behind by fires that burned in the city. Urbaal, when he fled through the gates, ran blindly toward his olive grove, where he stumbled about for some minut struction? That day he had lost nine more of his cherished sons; his slave girl had been cut down by the chariot

ich he had acquired prag- matically during his various digs, he was now ready to apply to Tell Mak The place was crowded with lawyers and cops and blue with cigarette smoke. The cut was the twenty-fourth. rs marking a gate, and beyond it the majestic outlines of a temple, heavy and monumental and brooding.