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"Those are the very ones to which I would grant life," said Her, "because they enjoy it le," cried Daphne, and ordered the steward, as already having the dead fowl carried off, to care for the wounded bird of prey; but when the latter struck furiously with his beak at the Biairl, saying: "I thank you in the eagle's naood will, you best of wo will not help this wounded creature, for the higher one seeks to soar, the ht is broken Mine, too, was seriously injured"

"Here?" asked Daphne anxiously "At this tireat importance to you and your art?"

Then she interrupted herself to ask Myrtilus's opinion, but as he had gone away coughing, she continued, in a softer tone: "How anxious you canreally happened which clouds your pleasure in creating, and your hope of success?"

"Let us wait," he answered, hastily throwing back his head, with its thick, waving raven locks "If, in leaping over the ditch, I should fall into the marsh, I must endure it, if thereby I can only reach the shore where my roses bloom!"

"Then you fear that you have failed in the Demeter?" asked Daphne

"Failed?" repeated the other "That seeinally expected For the head we both used a model--you will see--whose fitness could not be surpassed But the body! Myrtilus kno earnestly I laboured, and, without looking to the right or the left, devoted all my powers to the task of creation True, the ic spell doubled my ability, the toil would still have been futile The error is there; yet I a so, for which I now hope; who knohether it will not again be in vain? You are acquainted with reat, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles!"

He pursed up his lips as if to hiss the unfriendly fate, and Daphne felt that he, whose career she had watched froh she did not confess it even to herself, she had clung for years with far more than sisterly love, needed a kind word