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She gave him attention

"Let us not carry peril with us," he added in a half-whisper "Let us

not carry food for pestilence with us"

"I do not understand," she answered, adopting his low tone

"The more we are, the more of us to die Youtoward Momus

After a little silence, she asked: "Do we not ride toward the frosts?"

"Yes; but even now pestilence may ride on beside us--your servant and

this woman Let us save ourselves"

"Abandon theo on without us," he added

Moazed at Aquila Then he ian to fall back

They rode on

The pagan slackened his horse's gallop and reined in beside the wole tense minute and

then Aquila, with a bitter word, put spurs to his animal and dashed up

beside Laodice's caleamed The

other reached toward the casket bound to Moht attitude in her fresh fright, saw that his face was

black and twisted and that he wavered stiffly in his saddle

But the an's

outstretched hands with thathiidly and with a strange

cry, Aquila dropped back over his horse's crupper into the dust of the