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Now the Thracian for the first time permitted her eyes to make frank confessions She also bent forith a natural movement to exa so her peplos fell over his hand, she pressed it tenderly

He gazed ardently up at her; but she whispered softly: "Stay! You will gain throughbetter than awaits you there, and not only for to-day and to-ain in Alexandria, and to serve your art there shall be a beloved duty"

His power of resistance was broken; yet he beckoned to his slave Bias, as busied with thejars, and ordered hient duties detained hiaged in the gay conversation of the others, and, as Thyone called Hered to speak to Daphne, he could not again obtain an opportunity for private talk with the wonderful worander prospects for his art than the refractory, rude Biamite maiden

Soon Althea's performance seemed to prove how fortunate a choice he had made Her Arachne appeared like a revelation to hi her in the pose assu the process of transforreat success which hitherto--because he had not yielded to demands which were opposed to his convictions--he had vainly expected, could no longer escape hied to his party would gratefully welcorew out of it would have nothing in common with the fascination of superhuman beauty, by which the older artists ensnared the hearts and enuine woh she inspired neither gratification nor rapture, would touch, perhaps even thrill, the heart by absolute truth

While Althea was standing on the pedestal, she had not only represented the transformation into the spider, but experienced it, and the features of the spectators revealed that they believed they itnessing the sinister event His ai in the beholders of his Arachne Nothing, nothing at all htto the eye Althea's very defects would perfect the figure of the restless, wretched weaver who hiht far less of the new love-happiness which, in spite of her swift flight, was probably awaiting hih Althea than of the hich was to fill his existence in the immediate future