A Tear for Judas

A Tear for Judas by LeGette Blythe, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. “Look at the tree, Shelomith. It has been buffetted by the winds—the burn­ing sirocco from the East, the blasts from the Great Sea, the hot desert winds from below Kirriot, the wet winds that rush down from the north. It has been buffetted, Shelomith, and it has bent beneath the fury of the tempest, but it has never yielded. It has always lived in danger. Danger presses upon its roots. It stands on the rim of the...