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The replies afforded little additional information He learned only that Philippus had been su, and that the Lady Thyone and her husband had talked with the leech and assented to his opinion that it would be better for Hermon to wait here until the burns on his face were healed before returning to Alexandria

For Daphne's sake this decision had undoubtedly been welcome to the matron, and it pleased hiitatedhis nuoldsmith! It depended upon his decision whether he would return to Alexandria at all

Soon after Hermon had learned from Gras that the stars had risen, he was inforyptian, as he had been suer from Proclus

Then the steward had fresh cause to e, for this news aroused the most vehement excitement

In fact, it afforded the prospect of a series--perhaps a long one--of the hts And the dreaded hours actually cauish of uncertainty had becoyptian at last returned from Alexandria They had seeled the first silver hairs in his black beard

The calls of the cheerful notary and the daily visits of the leech, an elderlyhim of many cases like his ohich all proved incurable, had been his sole diversion True, the heads of the Greek residents of Tennis had also soovernment officials, the lessees of the oil ias, who, next to Archias the Alexandrian, owned the largest weaving establishments, but the tales of daily incidents hich they entertained Hermon wearied him He listened with interest only to the story of Ledscha's disappearance, yet he perceived, froht impression it made upon hiirl

His inquiries about Gula called down upon him many well-meant jests She ith her parents; while Taus, Ledscha's young sister, was staying at the brick-kiln, where the former had reduced the unruly slaves to submission

Care had been taken to provide for his personal safety, for the attack ht perhaps yet prove to have been connected with the jealousy of the Biamite husbands

The coarrison of heavily armed soldiers and archers in Tennis, for whom tents had been pitched on the site of the burned white house