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"O thou bearded warrior, are we then still in the self-centered period

of our roht"

Arewfidelity, John," she said

He gazed at her, waiting a further re out his hands

"Shall I be faithless to Sheba? Is the chars

faded? Shall I turn fro so staanished

"But it is not that I am lovely which made you a lover--until now,"

she went on "I have seen men faithful to women unlovely as Hecate It

is not that And I am still as I was, but--"

He looked down on the triple bands of the aold-powdered hair and said: "It is you who have groeary; not I"

She astutely drew back froround upon which she had entered It

lay in the power of this Gischalan to refuse further protection to her

out of sheer spite if she made her disaffection too patent

"O leader of hosts, canst thou bepoet, pettish

wo all in one? No! And I shall love the

clanking of arms and thy mailed footsteps all the more if thou

permittest me to look upon irresponsible folly while thou art absent"

"Have thy way I have mine Furthermore, I wish to thank thee for the

companion thou sentest me at breakfast He who dines alone with her,

hath his table full Farewell"