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Then Bias related what he knew of Herive him further particulars

They came from the wohted the la his master in advance many items of news they contained, he set about the difficult task of reading

He had certainly scarcely become a master of this art on board the Hydra, yet his slow performance did all honour to the patience of his teacher Myrtilus

He began with Daphne's letter, but by the desire of prudent Archias it communicated few facts But the protestations of love and expressions of longing which filled it pierced the freedman's soul so deeply that his voicetheave a minute description of his mode of life, and informed his friend what he expected for him and himself in the future The contents of both relieved Hermon's sorely troubled heart, made life with those ere dearest to his which the reports of the slave had not rendered perfectly clear

Archias had gone with Daphne to the island of Lesbos, his mother's native city The ships which conveyed travellers to Perga, touched at this port, and Bias, to whohter, had sought the released from his oath, Myrtilus had put himself into communication with his uncle, and just before Bias's departure the hter As he had the ent Philetaerus, he seemed inclined to settle permanently there

As for Myrtilus, he had cast anchor with Ledscha in the little Mysian seaport town of Pitane, near the mouth of the Caicus River, on which, farther inland, was the rapidly growing city of Pergamus

She had found a hospitable welcome in the family of a seafarer ere relatives, while the Gaul continued his voyage to obtain information about his tribe in Syria But he had already returned when Bias reached Pitane with the two talents intended for hi before and gone to Pergamus, where he had lived and worked in secrecy until, after the freedman's return from Ledscha, who at once left Pitane with the Gaul, he was released fro the absence of Bias he had e relief, a triumphal procession of Dionysus, and as the renown of his naauished men in the city flocked to his studio to admire the work of the famous Alexandrian