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By the flickering light of the captain's lantern it was ascertained that the woundeddark beard, was probably a Gaul The stupor was to be attributed to the fall of a beareat loss of blood sustained by the young and powerful soldier had probably caused the duration of the swoon

During the attempts at resuscitation a sailor boy offered his assistance He carefully held the lantern, and, as its flickering light fell for brief moments upon the artist's face, the lad of thirteen or fourteen asked if he was Hermon of Alexandria

A curt "If you will permit," answered the question, considered by the Hellenes an unseemly one, especially from such a youth; but the sculptor paid no further attention to hi himself honestly to the wounded man, his anxiety about his invalid friend increased, and Ledscha's iain before him

At last the ferryboat touched the land, and when Hermon looked around for the lad he had already leaped ashore, and was just vanishing in the darkness

It was probably within an hour offiercely over the water, driving the black clouds across the dark sky, so sounds, so ones The rain had wholly ceased, and seemed to have exhausted itself here in the afternoon

As Archias's white house was a considerable distance fro place of the ferryboat, Hermon had the wounded warrior carried to it by Biaain mounted his horse to ride to Myrtilus at as swift a trot as the soaked, wretched, but familiar road would per a litter for the Gaul, yet Hermon was surprised to meet the lad who had questioned hi place, but running toward it again fro a blazing torch, which he waved saucily The wind blew aside the fla pitch, but it shone brightly through the gloom and permitted the boy to be distinctly seen Whence had the nimble fellow coale, in kindling the torch so soon into a powerful flame? Was it not foolish to let a child aerous a toy?

Herht over these questions, but the supposition that the light of the torch nal did not occur to him