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At first s had disturbed thelooyptian slave, who, born in the city and accustomed to its life, found it unbearable to stay in the desert with the strange blind master, who lived like a porter, and ordered him to prepare his wretched fare with the hands skilled in the use of the pen

But this living disturber of the peace was not to annoy the recluse long Scarcely a fortnight after Bias's departure, the slave Patran, who had cost so extravagant a su with the sculptor's money and silver cup

This rascally trick of a servant whom he had treated with alarded the morose fellow's disappearance as a benefit

When for the first tioblet, he thought of Diogenes, who cast his cup aside when he saw a boy raise water to his lips in his hand, yet hoed places "if he had not been Alexander"

The active, ladly rendered hiuidance for which he had been reluctant to ask his ill-tempered slave, and he soon became accustomed to the sietables froarden, satisfied him, and when the wine he had drunk was used, he contented himself, obedient to old Tabus's advice, with pure water

As he still had several gold coins on his person, and wore two costly rings on his finger, he doubtless thought of sending to Clysma forso through the advice of the Amalekite woman, who anointed his eyes with Tabus's salve and protected the rays of the desert sun She, like the sorceress on the Owl's Nest, warned hily allowed her to take ahat she and her gray-haired father, the experienced head of the tribe, pronounced detriar's fare" see him after the riotous life of the last few e, he thought he saw a faint gliht, and how his heart exulted at this faint foretaste of the pleasure of sight!

In an instant hope sprang up with fresh power in his excitable soul, and his lost cheerfulness returned to hie of his beloved Daphne rose before him in sunny radiance, and he saw himself in his studio in the service of his art