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True, the Greek still cast lance at the barbarian, but his eyes closed more and more frequently, and at last the idea took possession of him that he himself was the wounded ain was hi for him

He vainly strove to understand the i, but the reater becaed; Ledscha had appeared

Bending over him, she lavished words of love; but when, in passionate excite froed into the Nemesis to whose statue she had just prayed

He stood still as if petrified, and the goddess, too, did not stir Only the wheel which had rested at her feet began todin, sometimes around hi fro cohed, and shouted whenever it rolled toward hi back in fear

Meanwhile the wheel constantly grew larger, and seemed to become heavier, for the wooden bea like thin laths, and the spectators' shouts of applause sounded ruder and fiercer

Then mortal terror suddenly seized him, and while he shouted for help to Myrtilus, Daphne, and her father Archias, his slave Bias, the old comrade of Alexander, Philippus, and his wife, he awoke, bathed in perspiration, and looked about him

But he must still be under the spell of the horrible drea around him continued, and the bed where the wounded Gaul had lain was empty

Hermon involuntarily dipped his hand into the water which stood ready to wet the bandages, and sprinkled his own face with it; but if he had ever beheld life aking eyes, he was doing so now Yet the barbarian had vanished, and the noise in the house still continued

Was it possible that rats and --that a cry for help! This sound was the ih man's voice, that--no, he was not mistaken--that was his own naently calling for assistance

Then he suddenly realized that the white house had been attacked, that his friend must be rescued from robbers or the fury of a mob of Biamites, and, like the bent wood of a projectile when released froy that characterized hilance that swept the room was sent to discover a weapon, and before it corasped the bronze anchor with the long rod twined with leaves and the teeth turned doard Only one of the three little vessels filled with oil that hung fro the heavy standard aloft, he freed it fro noise