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Ledscha eagerly assented to this question, and the old woently: "Then tell ainst the irl related what had formerly been rumoured in Tennis, and which she had just heard from the slave

He had lured other wo sister--to his studio Noanted to induce Ledscha to go there, not from love, but merely to model her limbs so far as he considered them useful for his work He was in haste to do so because he intended to return to the capital immediately Whether heher for his selfish purposes, she also desired to learn from the sorceress But she would ask him that question herself to-nised in him the deceiver she now believed him

Hitherto Tabus had listened quietly, but when she closed her passionate threats with the excla Gula, the sailor's wife, from her absent husband, the enchantress also lost her corily: "If that is true, if the Greek really coners destroy, with their laughing levity,us We e bond, froods be thanked, it has remained This very last year the fisherman Phabis killed with a hammer the Alexandrian clerk who had stolen into his house, and drowned his faithless wife But your lover--though you should weep for sorrow till your eyes are red--"

"I would denounce the traitor, if he made himself worthy of death," Ledscha passionately interrupted, with flashing eyes "What portion of the slave's charge is true will appear at once--and if it proves correct, to reatest bliss; for though, when I was younger and happier, I contradicted Abus when he declared that one thing surpassed even the raptures of love--satisfied vengeance--noould agree with hiht!" froray-haired Biahter of her race

Then she again gazed at the wine in the vessel, and this time she did so silently, as if spellbound by the ed head, she said in a tone of the most sincere compassion: "Poor child! Yes, you would be cruelly and shamefully deceived Tear your love for this man from your heart, like poisonous hereat happiness is scarcely the next, perhaps not even the one which follows it, but surely and certainly a later one will rise, by whose light the utmost bliss awaits you True, I see it come from another man than the Greek"