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"This is as flattering as it is surprising," replied Thyone "The attention we showed her in Pelusiun But the court is not the principal attraction that draws me to the capital It would make Philippus happy--you have just heard him say so--to remember his old master beside the tomb of Alexander"

"And," added Daphne, "how amazed you will be when you see the present forolden coffin with the body of the divine hero whom the fortunate Philippus aided to conquer the world!"

"You are jesting," interrupted the old warrior "I aided him only as the drops in the stream help to turn the wheel of the mill As to his body, true, I marched at the head of the procession which bore it to Memphis and thence to Alexandria In the Soma I was permitted to think of hiain seen hiyptian fishing village of Rhacotis, which he transfornificent Alexandria What a youth he was! Even ould have been a defect in others became a beauty in him The powerful neck which supported his divine head was a little crooked; but what grace it lent him when he turned kindly to any one! One scarcely noticed it, and yet it was like the bend of a petitioner, and gave the hich he expressed resistless power When he stood erect, the sharpest eye could not detect it Would that he could appear before s which surrounded the golden coffin were nearly completed at the time of our departure"

"But the statues, reliefs, and ," said Hermon "They were executed by Lysippus, Euphranor, and others of our greatest artists; the paintings by Apelles himself, Antiphilus, and Nicias Only those who had won renoere per to battle, created by our Myrtilus, can be seen a the others The tomb of Alexander was not entirely coo"

"At the sa the sentence; and Althea, waving her beaker toward the old hero, remarked: "When you have your quarters in the royal palace with your crowned admirer, Arsinoe--which, I hope, will be very soon--I will be your guide"

"That office is already bestowed on me by the Lady Thyone," Daphne quietly replied