The Scapegoat

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Sir Hall Caine. The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

ISRAEL BEN OLIEL

CHAPTER II

THE BIRTH OF NAOMI

CHAPTER III

THE CHILDHOOD OF NAOMI

CHAPTER IV

THE DEATH OF RUTH

CHAPTER V

RUTH'S BURIAL

CHAPTER VI

THE SPIRIT-MAID

CHAPTER VII

THE ANGEL IN ISRAEL'S HOUSE

CHAPTER VIII

THE VISION OF THE SCAPEGOAT

CHAPTER IX

ISRAEL'S JOURNEY

CHAPTER X

THE WATCHWORD OF THE MAHDI

CHAPTER XI

ISRAEL'S HOME-COMING

CHAPTER XII

THE BAPTISM OF SOUND

CHAPTER XIII

NAOMI'S GREAT GIFT

CHAPTER XIV

ISRAEL AT SHAWAN

CHAPTER XV

THE MEETING ON THE SOK

CHAPTER XVI

NAOMI'S BLINDNESS

CHAPTER XVII

ISRAEL'S GREAT RESOLVE

CHAPTER XVIII

THE LIGHT-BORN MESSENGER

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

ISRAEL IN PRISON

CHAPTER XXII

HOW NAOMI TURNED MUSLIMA

CHAPTER XXIII

ISRAEL'S RETURN FROM PRISON

CHAPTER XXIV

THE ENTRY OF THE SULTAN

CHAPTER XXV

THE COMING OF THE MAHDI

CHAPTER XXVI

ALI'S RETURN TO TETUAN

CHAPTER XXVII

THE FALL OF BEN ABOO

CHAPTER XXVIII

“ALLAH-U-KABAR”

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Sir Hall Caine

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Israel was like a man beside himself with joy. He burst in upon the message of his wife, and caught her to his breast again and again, and kissed her. Long they stood together so, while he told her of the chances which had befallen him during his absence from her, and she told him of her solitude of six long months, unbroken save for the poor company of Fatimah and Habeebah, wherein she had been blind and deaf and dumb to all the world.

During the months thereafter until Ruth's time was full Israel sat with her constantly. He could scarce suffer himself to leave her company. He covered her chamber with fruits and flowers. There was no desire of her heart but he fulfilled it. And they talked together lovingly of how they would name the child when the time came to name it. Israel concluded that if it was a son it should be called David, and Ruth decided that if it was a daughter it should be called Naomi. And Ruth delighted to tell of how when it was weaned she should take it up to the synagogue and say, “O Lord: I am the woman that knelt before Thee praying. For this child I prayed, and Thou hast heard my prayer.” And Israel told of how his son should grow up to be a Rabbi to minister before God, and how in those days it should come to pass that the children of his father's enemies should crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread. Thus they built themselves castles in the air for the future of the child that was to come.

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