my voice.  It is his voice that is now calling me to Rome, and it is his voice that I shall hear when my life is over, saying:  Paul, I have long waited for thee; come unto me, faithful servant, and receive in me thy gain and the fruit of all thy labour.  He repeated the words so loudly that Timothy awoke, and at the sight of the young man’s face the present sank out of sight and he was again in Lystra, and on looking into the young man’s eyes he knew that Timothy would remind him always of the woman in Lystra whom he would never see again.  Of what art thou thinking, Paul?  The voice seemed to come from the ends of the earth, but it came from Timothy’s lips.  Of Lystra, Timothy, that we shall never see again nor any of the people we have ever known.  We are leaving our country and our kindred.  But remember, Timothy, that it is God that calls thee Homeward.  And they sat talking in the soft starlight of what had befallen them when they separated in the darkness.  Timothy told that he remembered the way he had come by sufficiently not to fall far out of it, and that at daybreak he had met shepherds who had directed him.  He had walked and he had rested and in that way managed to reach Caesarea the following evening.  A long journey on foot, but a poor adventure.  But thou hast been away three days, three days and three nights....  How earnest thou hither?  Thy eyes are full of story.  A fair adventure, Timothy, and he related his visit to the Essenes and their dwelling among the cliffs above the Brook Kerith.  A fair adventure truly, Timothy.  Would I’d been with thee to have seen and heard them.  Would indeed that we had not been separated——­ He was about to tell the shepherd’s story but was stopped by some power within himself.  But how didst thou come hither?  Timothy asked again, and Paul answered, the Essenes sent their shepherd with me.  Timothy begged Paul to tell him more about the Essenes, but the sailors begged them to cease talking, and next day the ship touched at Sidon, and Julius, in whose charge Paul had been placed, gave him the liberty to go unto his friends and to refresh himself.

The sea of Cilicia was beautifully calm, and they sailed on, hearing all the sailors, who were Greek, telling their country’s legends of the wars of Troy, and of Venus whose great temple was in Cyprus.  After passing Cyprus they came to Myra, a city of Cilicia, and were fortunate enough to find a ship there bound for Alexandria, sailing from thence to Italy.  Julius put them all on board it; but the wind was unfavourable, and as soon as they came within sight of the Cnidus the wind blew against them and they sailed to Crete and by Salome till they came to a coast known as the Fair Havens by the city of Lasea, where much time was spent to the great danger of the ship, and also to the lives of the passengers and the crew as Paul fully warned them, the season, he said, being too advanced for them to expect fair sailings.  I have fared much by land and sea, he said, and know