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She waved a pair of jeweled hands

"They said that the Maccabee was strong and a over Judea Knowing you, I believed he would

still come to Jerusalem in spite of you How did you do it? In his

sleep? Now, I," she continued with an assuuarded by a ot the casket"

"She will come here then!" Philadelphus exclaimed

"What of it! Amaryllis does not know her; no one else does And I have

her proofs--and her dowry!"

After a silence in which she read the expression on his face, she rose

and came near him with determination in her nize her," she said, "lest I

suddenly discover that you are not the Philadelphus I expected"

He e over hi for such an issue," he fumed,

after a silence "I am here and not the Maccabee, whose crown you

coveted We shall get out of this perilous city"

"So?" she said, lifting her finely penciled brows "No, we shall not"

"Why?" he stormed

"Because," she answered, "John of Gischalaof

Judea--and John hath a queen's diadem for sale at two hundred

talents--or a heart which I can have for nothing"

There was malevolent and impotent silence in the andronitis of

Amaryllis, the Greek