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"Ledscha!" escaped his lips in a muttered tone, and he involuntarily extended his hands toward her as she was doing toward the goddess

But she did not seem to hear him, and the other woman also retained the same attitude, as if hewn from stone

Then he called the supplicant's name loud tone, and the next instant still ht of the little lamp, showed the ain, and this ti in his deep tones; but they seee dark eyes gazed at him so repellently and sternly that a cold tre himself from his horse, he ascended the steps of the temple, and in the most tender tones at his command exclaimed: "Ledscha! Severely as I have offended you, Ledscha--oh, do not say no! Will you hear me?"

"No!" she answered firmly, and, before he could speak, continued: "This place is ill chosen for another ! Your presence is hateful to er!"

"As you coly; but she swiftly interrupted with the question, "Do you co directly home?"

"I did not heed the storm on account of Myrtilus's illness," he answered quietly, "and if you demand it, I will return home at once; but first letalso to the gods"

"Get your response fro with a grand, queenly gesture, which at any other tihted his artist eye, to the statue of Nemesis in the cella

Meanwhile Gula had also turned her face toward Her with a faint tone of reproach: "And did hatred lead you also, Gula, to this sanctuary at oddess to destroy, "She desires it"

"And I?" he asked gently "Have I really done you so much evil?"

She raised her hand to her brow as if bewildered; her glance fell on the artist's troubled face, and lingered there for a short tioddess, and finally back again to the sculptor Meanwhile Her, and, before he had ti out to Ledscha: "You are not a mother! My child, he rescued it froer pray for his misfortune!"