 Later, the Metropolitan Bishop told Father Somi, Kando tells me that after the Bedouins were refused admittance here, they left Jerusalem by the Jaffa Gate. But they must have shown the scrolls to people there because a Jewish merchant they met by chance at the Jaffa Gate was very keen to buy the scrolls. In fact, he had as good as bought them. But when he said, come over to my office there for the money, they snatched back the scrolls and took to their heels.