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Perhaps this had prevented Daphne's expressing her congratulations upon the success of his Deerly and fully as he had expected Painfully disturbed by her reserve, he had just atteive a less superficial opinion of his work, when the curtains of the dining rooreeted hiuests Archias summoned them to breakfast, and a band of beautiful boys, with flowers and garlands of ivy, obeyed the command to crown them

Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a feords with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor, over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"

Hermon stretched out his hand to draw her nearer to him and murmur softly that her counsel had aided hirasped the empty air At the same time the deep voice of his love's father, whose opposition threatened to cloud his new happiness, singing, flute-playing, and the laughter of fair woreeted him and, only half ht bend of the head, to the h his fra, and the Epicurean's h his brain But what should he fear? He had endured severe trials, it is true, for the sake of re faithful to truth in art and life; but who probably ever reached the age offroed to answer Thyone in words, he would not have been guilty of the falsehood His reply had consisted of a slight ; it washe hed heavily on his er be recalled that day, and was believed, for Thyone whispered, "We shall succeed in reconciling the terrible being"

Again the light treh him, but it lasted only an instant; for Chrysilla, the representative of the dead uests their places, called to Her you for a neighbour" and, before the sentence was finished, Archias himself seized his arm and led him to the cushions at the side of the much-courted beauty