Why not ? This Elias refused to do , for he looked on the gold as his own . They quarrelled , and they wept at the evening meal , and late in the night came one Langton -- a priest , almost learned -- to borrow more money for the Barons . Elias and Adah went to their chamber . ' Kadmiel laughed scornfully in his beard . The shots across the valley stopped as the shooting party changed their ground for the last beat . ` So it was I , not Elias , ' he went on quietly , ` that made terms with Langton touching the fortieth of the New Laws . ' ` What terms ? ' said Puck quickly . ` The Fortieth of the Great Charter says : `` To none will we sell , refuse , or delay right or justice . '' ' ` True , but the Barons had written first : To no free man . It cost me two hundred broad pieces of gold to change those narrow words . Langton , the priest , understood . `` Jew though thou art , '' said he , `` the change is just , and if ever Christian and Jew came to be equal in England thy people may thank thee . '' Then he went out stealthily , as men do who deal with Israel by night . I think he spent my gift upon his altar . Why not ? I have spoken with Langton . He was such a man as I might have been if -- if we Jews had been a people . But yet , in many things , a child . '
I heard XXXXX and Adah abovestairs quarrel , and , knowing the woman was the stronger , I saw that Elias would tell the King of the gold and that the King would continue in his stubbornness .
Adah Christian Elias Jews Kadmiel Langton Puck first fortieth right