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"The wo herself, must produce a still more horrible impression," replied Stephanion "Probably she will be represented as Athene releases her from the noose rather than when, as a punishment for her insolence, she transforht be permitted, in the form of an insect, to make artistic webs until the end of her life," the slave, now sufficiently well informed, added importantly "Since that transformation, as you know, the spider has been called by the Greeks Arachne Perhaps--I always thought so--Her the rope hich she is to kill herself You have seen many of our works, and know that we love the terrible"

"Oh, let ently than her mistress had done a short tiratified

"The sculptors," Bias truthfully asserted, "always kept their workrooest fortress, and it ise, less on account of curious spectators, fro to fear, than of the thievish propensities of the people The statues, by Archias's orders, were to be executed in chryselephantine work, and the gold and ivory which this required ht only too easily awaken the vice of cupidity in the honest and frugal Bia could be done about it, not tosold to work in a stone quarry, to open the studio to any one without his ed to submit, and the sacrifice was rendered easier for her because, just at thatfemale slave called her back to the tent where Chrysilla, Daphne's couished Greek fa that he had at last learned, without exposing his own ignorance, the story of the much-discussed Arachne, returned to the house, where he re with her co about the birds they had killed, Bias went out of doors; but he was forced to give up his desire to listen to a conversation which was exactly suited to arrest his attention, for after the first few sentences he perceived behind the thorny acacias in the "garden" his countrywonised her plainly, in spite of the veil which covered the back of her head and the lower portion of her face Her black eyes were visible, and what a sinister light shone in them as she fixed the together by the steps!