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tantly when victory was assured, could it honestly be said that God was on the side of the Christians? You still wonder, Cullinane mused. wall, and the flange at the bot- tom would send the rocks careening through the massed troops, tearing away legsand arms. Ximeno haunted him; when he tried to ~e eyes of the counselor, but finally the iaded a through generations uncounted; the soldier loved Palestine as a refuge after years of fighting; a

Brooks continued, -you can hardly take a photograph anywhere that tells an audience clearly that you9re in the Holy Land. I can still hear him lecturing: 'Words are cheap, Jemail. He kissed Hacohen the man as he had once kissed Kagan the boy, and cried to the hills, You will gain your land, Shmuel, but in it you will find death. It would be a punishing cross-country ride, but they would come at last upon the Damascus road, down which they could make their final dash on horseback.