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The following , there was a rap at the door of the chamber to

which Laodice had been led and inforht and had risen early, but the knock

ca

She opened the door

Without stood a ten year old girl, of thebeauty, as

barely clad as ever the children of her blood went over the green

olden hair was knotted on the back of her

pretty head and held in place by an ampyx On her feet were tiny

sheepskin buskins; about her perfect little body, worn carelessly, was

a simple chiton, out of which her dimpled shoulders and small round

ar could have been

aze at Laodice

"We breakfast in the hall, now You are to join us," she said

Laodice stepped, out of the chauide

"The uests rise late," the child went on "That

perforce starves the rest of us untilEheu! It is the one

injustice in this house"

Laodice dumbly wondered if she were to be classed with the house

servants while she waited until the return of her devoted oldthe saance