Joseph in Potiphar’s House

Consternation mingled with grief takes hold of Joseph as they led him toward yonder waiting caravan; for the lad surmised the worst. They have lifted him out of the pit to deliver him to those heathen? In a voice choked with sobs, he beseeched them to have mercy. But they are not to be moved. The sale goes through and the lad is added to the wares of the wait­ing merchants. The latter perhaps would have refused to take him, had they not been overpowered by their lust for profit, incited by the...