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"Dost thou believe in me?" she asked

"Believe what?"

"That I am thy wife"

"Tut! Back to the old quarrel! No! But by Heaven, thou art e of an excla eyes

"Coet the dowry! Let her stay

here and be queen over this place if she will I had rather possess

you than all the kingdoer crimsoned her face

"Thou to insult ht out between clenched

teeth "Thou to offer affront to thine own e! I to live in

shame with mine own husband!"

The insult in his speech overwhel for words to express her rage, she turned and fled back to

her roohts leaped up in the hall of Amaryllis the Greek

Presently there ca that

Philadelphus stood without, sat still and made no answer A irl who acted as page for

the Greek

"Open, lady; it is I, Myrrha"

Laodice went to the s

"A and would speak with thee, in her

hall," the girl said

Reluctantly Laodice, who feared the revelation which the light ht

have to e

The Greek was standing, as if in evidence that the intervieould not