The Devil Gets the Best

A Short History of the times: it was a time, Arabs could travel from Tripoli to Tangier without ever moving from the shade of olive trees to comfort them; a time when towns and cities sprung up everywhere; a time of great architecture, and when literature found new voices. An era when the beauty of Rome sparkled from England, throughout Italy, and pert near all of Europe for the most part, along with parts of Africa, and Asia-; where forums, temples, aqueducts, and theaters reached the Roman world side to side, and revealed its wealth. A time of economic security, order, discipline-where in a short period thereafter, it would allow decay, chaos and negligence to ruin the roads, reservoirs, and canals. Ephesus was a first rate city, in Asia Minor, and was the city where a number of the apostles went, especially, John, who took care of Mary, mother of Christ, and had a brick house built on the hill top within the city's walls; where the Ephesians built long and winding marble corridors, which all seemed to lead to the marble façade of its towering library......and this is where our story takes place