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The night following the wounding of Nicanor, John spent on his

fortifications expecting an attack It was one of the few nights when

the Gischalan kept vigil, for he refused to contribute fatigue to the

prospering of his cause

So he appeared in the house of A her to breakfast with him The Greek sent him

in return a wax tablet on which she had written that she was shut up

in her cha verse, but that she had provided him a

co as she

When he passed into the Greek's dining-room, the woman who called

herself wife to Philadelphus awaited him at the table

When he sat she dropped into a chair beside hirapes frohout the winter in casks

filled with ground cork

"It is the last, Ae is laid"

John looked ruefully at the fruit

"Perhaps," he said after thought, "were I a thrifty man and a spiteful

one, I would not eat them Instead, I should have the saht say to rapes for breakfast daily They will keep," he

added presently, "for it is tradition that stores laid up for siege

never decay"

"Obviously," said the woh"

John plucked off one of the light green grapes and ate it with relish