GLADYS CHRISTIAN
A DWELLER IN THE EAST
THIS EASTERN TALE IS DEDICATED
BY HER OWN AND HER FATHER'S FRIEND
THE AUTHOR
Ditchingham:
September 14, 1902.
PEARL-MAIDEN
CHAPTER I
THE PRISON AT CÆSAREA
It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Cæsarea
on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine--by grace of
the Romans--now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival