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Hermon, with the rose for his friend fastened in the breast folds of his chiton, ratefully, and his companion, a sinewy, bronzed Midianite, as also to attend to the opening of the fortress gates, did the sa the open country the sculptor had to ride through the whole city, hich he was entirely unfa down the streets and squares, and often as the horse hat and draw his chlamys closer around hiht sleepless and saddened his day suddenly leave hi acted rightly? was it the friendly farehich Daphne had given him, and the hope Thyone had aroused, or the expectation of seeing Ledscha once ood will, that had restored his lost light-heartedness? He did not know himself, nor did he desire to know

While forlanced carelessly about hiiven by the veteran's deep voice, nohatever he saw appeared in clear outlines and awakened his interest, in spite of the annoyances caused by the storm

Had he not known that he was in Pelusium, it would have been difficult for hiyptian, a Hellenic, or a Syrian one; for here rose an ancient temple of the time of the Pharaohs, with obelisks and colossal statues before the lofty pylons, yonder the sanctuary of Poseidon, surrounded by stately rows of Doric columns, and farther on the smaller temple dedicated to the Dioscuri, and the circular Grecian building that belonged to Aphrodite

In another spot, still close to the harbour, he saw the large buildings consecrated to the worship of the Syrian Baal and Astarte

Here he was obliged to wait awhile, for the te froround, and their black keepers only succeeded with the ut with fear, the few persons ere in the street besides the soldiers, that were everywhere present, scattered before the huge, terrified aniave no clew to the country to which the place belonged; there were as roes Asiatics appeared in the majority only in thetheir stands to secure their goods fro where the fa carried away in jugs and wineskins, in ox-carts and on donkeys Here, too, ypt, and had been introduced there only a short time before