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"Take heed and follow my advice to sharpen your eyes," added Philotas, who, conscious of his inferiority in intellect and talents to the e of this opportunity to assert himself in a manner suited to his aristocratic birth "This artistic yet hapless Arachne, if any one, teaches the lesson how the lofty Olympians punish those who venture to place themselves on the same level; so let artists beware We stepchildren of the Muse can lull ourselves coods the slightest cause for the doom which overtook the pitiable weaver"

Not a word of this declaration of the Macedonian aristocrat escaped the listening Ledscha Scales seemed to fall from her eyes Hermon had won her love in order to use her for the model of his statue of Arachne, and, now that he had met Althea, who perhaps suited his purpose even better, he no longer needed the barbarian He had cast her aside like a tight shoe as soon as he found a irl had already asked herself, with a slight thrill of horror, whether she had not prematurely called down so terrible a punishment upon her lover; now she rejoiced in her swift action If anything else reeance hich she intended to requite him still more severe

There he stood beside the woht upon the Bia he had inflicted?

Oh, no! His heart was filled to overflowing by the Greek--every look revealed it

What was the sha to hiranted The rapture which had been predicted to her for this ht, and of which Hermon had robbed her, wasexcept her and her poor, crushed heart

But Ledscha was retted having been detained by her beforeat the banquet had been connected with a great sacrifice--nay, with an offence which weighed heavily on his uided his decision, for Althea had it in her power to colance full of pro toward the pedestal at the same instant, she asked softly, "Is the compensation I must and will bestow connected with the Arachne?"