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The chief uest-chah it was a late winter day the old arments of a midsummer afternoon, for to the sorrow of

Philistia the cold season of the year sixty-nine had been warlanced at the closed

s of the apartment when she noted the flushed face of the

merchant but she made no movement to have the the attention of the grave old man, and

the woman, by dress and ive her a moment

His porter bowed at his side

"The servants of Philip of Tyre are without," he said "Shall they

enter?"

"They have cos," Costobarus answered "Take thou

all the household but Moin in the library; then the sleeping-rooms; this chamber

next; the kitchen last of all Send Hiraood cae Where is Keturah?"

A woreat divan,

picking up the draperies and pillows that had dropped, stopped and

salaamed to her master

"Is our apparel ready?" he asked

"Prepared, master," was the response