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Besides, the boy and the light in his hand occupied his s to think of With what longing Myrtilushis arrival! But the Gaul needed his aid no less urgently than his friend Accurately as he knehat remedies relieved Myrtilus in severe attacks of illness, he could scarcely dispense with an assistant or a leech for the other, and the idea swiftly flashed upon him that the wounded ain

She had told hi art possessed by old Tabus on the Owl's Nest Suppose he should now seek the angry girl to entreat her to speak to the aged ner?

Here he interrupted hiliround by the wayside It came fro to the time of Alexander the Great, which he had often examined with pleasure Several steps led to the anteroom, supported by Ionic colu at the side of the door leading into the little open cella, and at the back of the consecrated place the statue of the winged goddess was visible in the light of a sht hand she held the bridle and scourge, and at her feet stood the wheel, whose turning indicates the influence exerted by her power upon the destiny of azed down upon her left forearm, bent at the elbohich corresponds with the ell, the just measure

Hermon certainly now, if ever, lacked both tiain this modest work of an ordinary artist, yet he quickly stopped his weary horse; for in the little pronaos directly in front of the cella door stood a slender figure clad in a long floating dark robe, extending its hands through the cella door toward the statue in fervent prayer She was pressing her brow against the left post of the door, but at her feet, on the right side, cowered another figure, which could scarcely be recognised as a hu

This, too, was a woman

Deeply absorbed in her own thoughts, she was also extending her arms toward the statue of Nemesis

Hermon knew theination was showing hiure was Ledscha, the crouching one Gula, the sailor's hose child he had rescued from the flames, and who had recently been cast out by her husband