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If Bias, as superior to an ordinary slave, was right, she was to be degraded to a toy and useful tool by the man who had already proved his pernicious power over other wo sister, whouarded with faithful care It had by nosoh she did not perceive the true cause of the change

The brightobject, seemed like a hts and depths had been subject to her, as to the aged enchantress she would have commanded them to cover the heavens with black clouds Now they must show her what she had to hope or to fear

She shook her head slightly, as if she no longer believed in a favourable turn of affairs, pushed the little curls which had escaped from the wealth of her black hair back from her forehead with her slender hand, and walked fir beside the hearth in thethe metal spit, on which she had put the ducks, over the freshly kindled fire

The shtly inflamed, yet they seemed to serve their purpose better than her half-dulled ear, for, after a swift glance at Ledscha, she staood, certainly It is written on your face"

The girl nodded assent, pointed with a significant gesture to her eyes and the open air, and went down to the shore again to convince herself that no other vessel was approaching

What she had to confide to Tabus was intended for her alone, and experience taught how far spoken words could be heard at night over the water

When she had returned to the hut, she bent down to the old wo her curved hand to her lips, cried, "He is not coed her shoulders, and the smile of satisfaction which flitted over her brorinkled face showed that the neelcoirl's confession that she had given her heart to a Greek affected her painfully; but Tabus also had so

Now she only intimated by a silent nod that she understood Ledscha, and her head remained constantly in ain to-morrow, but e part, it will hardly be in love At any rate--do you hear, grand Therefore--do you understand ht, for to-ht be too late"