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"My father meant so kindly toward hiuardian to you both You are rich, and therefore he aided in every possible way your taste for art; but Herle drach him if he devoted himself to sculpture And, besides, he had destined his nephew to becoest co so," Myrtilus responded, "he believed he had made the best provision for his happiness But there is so peculiar in art I know from your father himself how kind his intentions hen he withdrew his assistance from Hermon, and when he had escaped to the island of Rhodes, left hi the first period of apprenticeship through which he passed there Necessity, he thought, would bring hi him But the result was different Far be it from me to blame the admirable Archias, yet had he permitted his ward to follow his true vocation earlier, it would have been better for hian to study too late?" asked Daphne eagerly

"Not too late," was the reply, "but with his passionate struggle to advance, an earlier commencement would have been e were already doing independent work, he was still a student, and so it happened that he began for himself too soon"

"Yet," Daphne answered, "can you deny that, directly after Hermon produced his first hich ain treated him like his own son?"

"On the contrary," replied Myrtilus, "I remember only too well how Archias at that time, probably not entirely without your intercession, fairly showered gold upon his nephew, but unfortunately this abundance was by no e"

"What do you mean?" asked Daphne "Were not you, at that very tireat wealth inherited from your father and th? Bryaxis--I heard him--was full of your praises, and yet entreated uardian, to warn you against overwork"

"My kind master!" cried Myrtilus, deeply moved "He was as anxious about me as a father"

"Because he perceived that you were destined for great achievements"