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Bias assisted his master with equal readiness and skill, and at last the Gaul opened his eyes and, in the language of his country, asked a few brief questions which were incoain closed his lids

Hitherto Hermon had not even allowed himself time to look around his friend's studio and exa his absence But, after perceiving that his kind act had not been in vain, and consuorous appetite the food and hich Bias set before hio to rest, that the storht not still prove hurtful to hi tio, he pressed it so closely that it actually hurt Myrtilus But he understood his lance that sank deep into Herht

After two sleepless nights and the fatiguing ride which he had just taken, the sculptor felt weary enough; but when he laid his hand on the Gaul's brow and breast, and felt their burning heat, he refused Bias's voluntary offer to watch the sufferer in his place

If to ahts in succession in Alexandria, why should he not keep ahen the object in question was to wrest a young life frohest goal, and he had never yet repented his foolish eccentricity of i

Bias, on his part, was very willing to go to rest He had plenty of cause for weariness; Myrtilus's unscrupulous body-servant had stolen off with the other slaves the night before, and did not return, with staggering gait, until the next , but, in order to keep his promise to his ht be at hand if Myrtilus should need assistance

So Bias fell asleep quickly enough in his little room in the lower story, while his th of will, watched beside the couch of the Gaul

Yet, after the first quarter of an hour, his head, no ain upon his breast But just as slu him his patient made him start up, for he had left his bed, and when Her in theabout him