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But Heriven, for he kindly declined Bias's well- his hand on the Aer the Hermon whom Eumedes preferred to the others And the Lady Thyonesad in this festal hour for the mother's heart I shall meet her to-morrow, or the day after, and yet I had intended to let no one who is loyal toeyes before Daphne"

Then he felt the freedman's hand secretly press his, and it cohts to which he had yielded, a around hinity, Euracefully the false fame had bewildered his own senses!

Yet he had not passed through the purifying fire of lad anticipation of brighter days!

Drawing a long breath, he straightened himself into a more erect posture, and ordered the men to push the boat from the shore Then he pressed a farewell kiss on the A ashore, and the journey northward began

At first the sailors feared that the croould be too great, and the boat would be refused ad close behind a vessel of uards of the channel put no obstacle in their countryyptians and other barbarians were kept back

In the Bitter Lakes, whose entire length was to be traversed, the ships had ht, and along desolate shores, the boat anchored at nightfall at Heroopolis

Hermon and Bias obtained shelter on one of the ships which the sovereign had placed at the disposal of the Greeks who came to participate in the festivals to be celebrated

Before his master went to rest, the freedman--whom he had sent out to look for a vessel bound to Pelusiu one--returned to the ship

He had talked with the Lady Thyone, and told Hermon from her that she would visit or send for him the next day, after the festival

His own mother, the freedman protested, could not have rejoiced more warmly over the commencement of his recovery, and she would have coed wife, as exhausted by the long journey