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The Evening World Daily Magazine, though it had happened yesterday. It was in this very month, something over twenty years ago, that I, Lud- wig Horace Hally, was sitting one night in my rooms at Cambridge, grinding away at some mathematical work, I forget what. I was to go up for my fellowship within a week, and was expected by my tutor and my college gen- erally to distinguish myself, At last, wearled out, I flung my book down, SERNINIOINENNDDEE oMNnNEEMee ntmn BE, S. TALE OF A STRANGE, WONDERFUL WOMAN AND MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES By H. RIDER HAGGARD | CHAPTER I. My Visitor. HERE are some events of which every circumstance and surround- |, ing detail seems to be graven on the memory in such fashion that ~e cannot forget them, and go it is with the scene that Iam about to describe, It rises as clearly before my mind at this moment as Monday, June 19, 1916 1.2: RNS aI Too. t Have you ever wondered how many rulsing human 3) stories lie hidden behind hospital walls? — By Jack Callahan GooD LUCK! FOUND A HORSE and going to the mantel-plece took down a pipe ang filled it. There was a candle burning on the mantel-piece, and a long narrow glass at the back of it; and as I was in the act of lighting the pipe I caught sight of my own counténance in the glass, and paused to reflect, The lighted match burned away till it scorched my fingers, forcing me to drop it, but still I stood and stared at myself in the glass and reflected. “Well,” { said aloud at last, “it 1s to be hoped that I shall be able to do something with the inside of my head, for I shall certainly never do anything by the help of the outside.” This remark will anybody who reads it as being slightly obscure, but I was in reality alluding to my physical deficiencies, Most men of twenty-two are endowed at any rate with some share of the comell- nesa of youth, but to me even this was denied. Short, thickset, and deep-chested almost to deformity, with long, sinewy arms, heavy fea- tures, deep-set gray eyes, a low brow half overgrown with a mop of thick Diack hair, like a deserted clearing on which the forest had once more be- gun to encroach—such was my a@p- pearance nearly a quarter of a cen- tury ago, and such, with some modi- fication, is it to this day. Like Cain, I was branded—branded by nature with the stamp of abnormal! ugliness, as I was gifted by nature with iron and abnormal strength and consider- able intellectual powers. So ugly was I that the spruce young men of my college, though they were proud enough of my feats of endurance and physical prowess, did not even care to be seen walking with me. Was it wonderful that I was misanthropic and sullen? Was !t wonderful that I brooded and worked alone, and had No friends—at least only one? I was set apart by Nature to live alone, and draw comfort from her breast, and hers only. Women hated the sight of me Only a week before, I had heard one call me a “monster” when she thought I was out of hearing, and say that I had converted her to Dar- win's theory. Once, Indeed, a woman pretended to care for me, and | lav- ighed all the pent-up affection of my nature upon her. Then money that Was to have come to me went else- where, and she discarded me. I plead- ed with her as I have never picaded with any living creature before or since, for I was caught by her sweet face, and loved her; and in the end, by Way of answer, she took me to the glass, ad stood side by side with me, sked into it Now," she said, “if 1 am Beauty, who are you?” and [ cursed her and fied. That was when I was only twenty. Kies) 1 stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness—for I had neither father nor mother nor broth- er—and as I did so there came @ knock at my door. I listened before I went to open ity, for it was nearly 12 o'clock at night, and I was in no mood to admit any suranger. 1 had but one friend in the college, or indeed in the world; per- haps it was he. Just then the person outside the door coughed, and 1 hastened to open, 4%, for | knew the cough, A tall man of about thirty, with the remains of great pereonal beauty, came hurrying in, staggering beneath the weight of a massive tron box which he carried by a handle in his right hand. He placed the box upon the table, and then fell into an awful fit of coughing. “Why did you keep me standing there in the cold?” he asked; "you know the draughts are death to me. “I did not know who {t was,” I an- ewered. “You are a late visitor.” “Yes; and I verily believe it is my last it," he answered, with a ghastly attempt at a smile, “Il am done for, Holly—I am done for. I do Not believe that I shall see to-mor- I" I said. “Let me go for He waved me back imperiously with his hand. “It is sober sen: but I want no doctors. I have studied medicine and I know all about it. No doctors can help me. My last hour has come! For a year past I have only lived by a miracle. Now listen to me as you never listened to any- body before, for you will not have the opportunity of getting me to re- peat my words. We have been friends for two years; now tell me how much do you know about me?” “I know that you are rich and have had a fancy to come to college long after the age that most men leave it. I know that you have been mar- ried and that your wife died; and that you have been the best, indeed, almost the only friend I ever had “Did you know that I have a son? “T have. He ts five years old. He soest me his mother's life and I have yever been able to bear to look upon !8 face in ¢ pquence. Holly, if ‘ou will a “t the trust, Iam going leave you the boy's sole guardian,” bt sprung almost out of my chair. Mayes, you. T have not studied you PO two’ years for nothing. I . tlhwn for some time that I could Ca lost, and since I realized the fact ave been se hing for some one vhom I eould contide the boy and ," and he tap 4d the iron box Fan are the man, Holly; for, like capiseed treo, you are ‘hard’ and ‘d at the core, Lasten;\the boy Henye the last survivor of one of eringmost ancient families in the Eve that is, as far as families can wed You will laugh at me (€ Say it,but one day tt will be 4™ to you beyond a doubt that ander of the family, my sixty- or eixty-sixth lineal apcestos, ld doubtiess strike’ Sa ee Was an Egyptian priest of Isis, though he was himself of Grecian extraction, and was called Kaillikrates, or the Strong and Beautiful, or, to be still more accurate, the Beautiful in Strength! His father was, I believe, one of the Greek mercenaries raised by Hakor, a Mendesian prince of the twenty-ninth dynasty, In or about the year 339 before Christ, just at the time of the final fall of the Pharaohs, this Kailikrates broke his vows of celibacy and fled from Egypt with @ princess of royal blood who had fallen in love with him, and was finally wrecked upon ths coast of Africa, somewhere, as I believe, in| the neighborhood of wuere Delagoa Bay now is, or rather to the north of it, he and his wife being saved, and all the remainder of their company destroyed jn one way or another. Here they endured great hardships, | but were at last entertained by the mighty queen of a savage people, a white woman of peculiar loveliness, | who, under circumstances which I cannot enter into, but which you will | one day learn, if you live, from the contents of the box, finally murdered my ancestor, Kallikrates. His wife, however, escaped, how, I know not, to Athens, bearing @ child with her, whom she named Tisisthenes, or t! Mighty Avenger. Five hundred years or more after- ward the family migrated to Rome under circumstances of which no trace remains, and here, probably With the idea of preserving tho idea of vengeance which we find set out in Tisisthenes, they appear to have pretty regularly assumed the cogno- men of Vindex, or Avenger, Here, too, they remained for another five centuries or more, till about 770 A. D. when Charlemagne invaded Lom- bardy, where they were then settled, whereon the head of the family seems to have returned with him across the Alps, and finally to have settled in Brittany. Six generations later his lineal representative crossed to Eng- land in the reign of Edward the Con- fessor, and in the time of William the Conqueror was advanced to great honor and power. From that time till the present day I can trace my do- scent without a break. Not that the Vinceys—for that was the final cor- ruption of the name after Its bearers took root in English soil—have been particularly distinguished—they never came much to the fore, Sometimes they were soldiers, sometimes mer- chants, but on the whole they had preserved a dead level of respectabil- ity, and still deader level of medi- ocrity. From the time of Charles IT. till the beginning of the present cen- tury they were merchants, About my grandfather made a consid- erable fortune out of brewing and re- tired. In 1821 he died and my father succeeded him and dissipated most of he money. Ten years ago he died so, leaving me a net income of about two thousand a year, Then it was that I undertook an expedition in connection with that’—and he pointed to the iron chest—“which ended dis- astrously enough. On my way back I travelled in the south of Europe end finally reached Athens. There I met my beloved wife, who might well also have been called the ‘Beautiful,’ # like my old Greek ancestor. There I married her, and there, @ year after- ward, she died.” He paused awhile, his head sunk upon his hand, and then continued: My marriage had diverted me from a project which I cannot enter into now. I have no time, Holly—I have no time! One day, if you accept my trust, you will learn all about it. After my first wife's death I turned my mind to it again. But first tt was or at least I conceived that ssary, that I should attain to a perfect Knowledge of Bastern dialects, especially Arabic, It was to facilitate my studies that I came here. Very soon, however, my disease de- veloped itself, and now there Is an end of me.” And as though to em- vhasize his words, he burst into an- other terrible fit of coughing. I gave him some more whiskey and, after resting, he went on: I have never seen my boy, Teo, since he was a tiny baby. I never could see him, but they tell me that he is a quick and handsome child, In this envelope,” and he produced a letter from pocket addressed to myself, "I have jotted down thi urse I wish followed in the boy's education. It 12 a somewhat peculiar one. At any rate, I could not intrust it to a stranger. Once more, will you undertake it?" “IT must first know what I am to underta I answered. “You are to undertake to have the boy, L to live with you till he is twenty-flve years of age—not to send him to school, remember, On his twenty-fifth birthday your guardian- ship will end, and you will then, with the keys that I give you now" (and he placed them on the table) “open the iron box, and let h dread 1 a contents, and say whether or no ho is willing to undertake the quest. There is no obligation on him to do so. Now, as regards terms. My present income is two thousand two hundred a year, Half of that income I have secured to you by will for life, contingently on your undertaking the guardianship—that is, one thousand a year remuneration to yourself, for you will have to rive up your life to it, and one hundred a year to pay for the board of tha hoy e rest is umulate till Leo ia twenty-five, So that there may be a ¢ rand should he wish to undertake the quest of which I spoke” COULD You GO A STRONG CUP O TEA? ‘3 ROMANCE t LOVE i JEALOUSY | HATE i 66 character to date from the end of the fifteenth, or perhaps the middle of [the sixteenth, century. Immediately beneath this roll was something hard and heavy, wrapped up In yellow linen, and reposing upon another layer of the fibrous material, Slowly and carefully we unrolled the linen, exposing to view @ very large but undoubtedly anctent potsherd o a dirty yellow color, This potsherd had In my judgement ones been a part of an ordinary amphora of medium size, For the rest, it measured cleven inches In length by tan in width, wae about a quarter of an inch thick, and densely covered on the convex ‘side, that lay toward the bottom of the box, with writing im the later Uncial Greok character, faded here and there, but for the most part perfectly legible, the Inscription having evi- dently been executed with the great- 8 re, and by means of a reed pen, such as the ancients often used, I must not forget to mention that’ tn some remote age this wonderful trag- ment had been broken in two, and rejoined Dy means of cement and elght long rivets, Also there were humerous inscriptions on the inner aide, but these were of the most erratic character, and had olearly been made by different hands and in many different ages, and of them I shall have to speak presently, “Is there anything more?” esked Leo, in a kind of excited whisper, I groped about and produced some- thing hard, done up tn @ Uttle linen bag. Out of, the bag we took, first, fa very beautiful miniature done upon ivory, and secondly, a emall chooo- Inte colored composition acarabaeus, marked with symbols which we have since ascertained mean “Suten so Ra,” which 1s, being translated, the “Royal Son of Ra, or the Sun.” The miniature was a ploture of Leo's Greek mother—a lovely, dark eyed creature, On the back of it was written, in poor Vincey’s handwrit- “My beloved wife, died May, "That 1s all,” I sata. ry well,” answered Lao, putting down the miniature, at which he had been gazing affectionately: Jet us read tho letter;" and without MR. SOOMPSKOW WOULD HAVE ENJOYED HIS VISIT - LENA GAINSTER HADN'T SAT ON HIS SKY. PIECE he mistrusted it, Then he pre- 0. leave the room, “Btop @ moment, Job,” I aaid; “it by, and as he grew and increased, so did bis beauty and the beauty of his mind grow with him. When he was abeut fifteen they used to call him Beauty about they nicknamed the Beast. Beauty and the Beast was what they called we went out walking gether, us we used to every day. Then when he was @ little older the under- greduates got fresh They called me Charon and Leo the “Very well,” I @aid, “I will do it, provided there is nothing paper to make me change my mind,” and I touched the envelope he had Put upon the table by the keys, “Thank you, There is nothing at all. by God that you will be a father to the boy and follow my directions to drawn up the document in question in obedience to Mr. Vincey’s clear and precise instructions, both personal and written, and had he not then as- Mr, Leo has no objectio: prefer to ha to this business, upon to hold hiy tongue unless he is asked to speak.” thank you. Swear to me reasons for what he was doing, we fre bound to vell you that its pro- Visions seem to us ef so unusual a awered Luo, ‘Lock the door, Job," 1 ald, “and bring me my dispatch box." He obeyed, und froin the box I took poor Vincey, father, nad given me on the night of There were three of them; the largest a comparatively mwdera exceedingly an- cient one, and the third enti hike anything of the ever geen before call the attention of the Court of Chancery to them, in order that such steps might be taken as seeined desirable to ft, elther by con- he capacity of the testator or to safeguard the interests As it 1s, knowing that $a gentleman of the and acumen, and bsolutely no relations he could have con- fided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this “I swear ft," I answered, solemnly. hames for ws. remember that per- haps one day I shall ask for the ac- count of your oath, for though I am dead and forgotten, yet shall 1 Ii There is no such Holly, only a cha perhaps learn in Neve that even here that changd could under certain circumstances be in- definitely postponed.” “There,” he added, “I must go. You have the chest, and my will will be found among my papors, unde: authority of wh: handed over to you. “Very well; twenty-one might have stood for a statue of Apollo, saw anybody to touch him in looks, 4o absolutely uncon As for his mind, he and keen-witted, He had not the dullness necessary for that We followed out his father's instruc- thing as death, cf the infant ; and as you may ie to come, I b«~ RleneRt neti selous of them. that he bas living to whom ort that we had being fashioned ap- parently from 4 strip of solid silver, with a bar placed across to serve as a@ and some nicks cut It wan more like a of some antediluvian railway key than anything else. “Now are you both ready?" I said, n they are going to as no answer, rubbed some strictly enough, and on the whole the specially so far as the Greek Were satisfactory, I learned the latter language in order to help to teach it to him, but after five years of it he knew it as well as 1 did—alinost as well as tho pro- instructed us always Was & great sportsman—t is wssion—and every autuinn we went away somewhere shooting or fishing, sometimes to Scotland, some- times to Norway, once even to Russi. I am a good shot, but even in this he learned to excel me. Was eighteen I moved back into my rooms, and entered him at my own college, and at twenty-one he took a respectable degree, but Tem Then It was “Awaiting such Instructions as you please to send us as r livery of the infant an of the proportion of the « edge of the bar, h the child will be You will be well y, and I know that you are but, if you betr by Heaven I will haunt and Arabic the payment 4s people do wh fire a mine, Th so I took the big ke: salad oil into the wards, and after one or two bad shots, for my hands were shaking, managed to fit It, and shoot . Leo bent over and ca the mampive lid in both his hands, and, with an effort, for the hinges had rusted, leaned it back, revealed another case covered with we extracted from the fron chest without any difficulty, al accumulated clothes brush, to be, of ebony, or some such Close-grained blackwood and was bound with flat bands of fron, been extreme, y wood was actually tn ommencing to crumble away d and puz- an extent that at last I could stand it no longer, and determined to sleep over it. As it seaned been asleep for a few minutes when I was awakened by somebody calling I sat up and rubbed my eyes; it broad daylight—8 FPFEREY & JORDAN.” As this letter added nothing mate- 1 to my knowledge, and certainly sed no further objec mind to undertaking the promised my take, there was only one course open to write to Messrs. express my zled me to such I bad only Ite removal Geoftrey & readiness to enter on tho trust, stat- ing that I should be willing to under- » of the lad in ton days’ “Why, what is the matter with yeu, waited on Vincey and myself years from it wtth look as though you had It was, or appe: not @ very high one, that I, for the first time, told him something of his own story, and of the mystery that loomed ahead, course he was very curtous about tt, and of course I explained to him that his curtosity could not be grat! After that, to pass the time away, T sugested that he should get himself called to the bar; and this he did, reading at Cambridge, and only going up to London to ent told them as much of the lerable diffti- sir, and so I have,” he an- Tin antiquity which Is worse. in to call Mr. Vincey, as usual, and there he lies stark and dead!" CHAPTER II. The Years Roll By. course poor Vincey’s death created @ great atir in the ‘a fellowship, fled at present, which I was pr Now for it," I said, inserting the Job and Leo bent forward tn breath- The key turned, ng back the lid, and uttered an ex- clamation, as aid the others, and wonder, for inside the ebony case a magnificent twelve inches square It appeared to be of Egyptian work- ma in collego And so the time went by, till at last he reached hia twenty-fifth birth- day, at which date this strange, and in some ways awful, history really took lodgings. with somo difficulty s\ taining very close to the college gates thing was to find a this point I came to ceeded In ob- known to be very 11), and a @atistactory doctor's certt- ficate was forthcoming, there was no a determination, CHAPTER Il. The Sherd of Amenartas. the day preceding Leo birthday we both proceeded to London, and extracted the mystert- ous chest from the bank where I had deposited it twenty years of sphinxes, over mo about the child affections from me, ficulty I succeeded tn round-faced who had been a@ helper in a hunting but who sald that he was one man committed And what was the by a sphinx, The casket tarnished and dimmed with age, but otherwise in almost pe I drow it out and set tt on the table, and then, in the midst perfect silence, I inserted the strange. looking silver’ key, way and that, until at last the lock yleided and tho casket stood open be- 1 to the brim with some brown shredded material, more ike vegetable fiber than paper, the nature of which I t It looked like It quest of which ho spoke. cumstances were almost uncanny, so though I am by means nervous or apt to be alarmed at anything that may seem to cross the bounds of the natural, afraid and began to wish I had had nothing to do with it more do I wist years afterwar As I sat and thought there was a knock at the door and a letter in a big blue envelope was brought In to y at a glance that it was a lawyer's letter and twenty-fifth pet condition of the most much so that, professed himself quite pressed this when he arrived, ‘Then, having taken the iron box to In the evening we returned with our nds precious burden to Cambridge, and I think that we might both of us have given away all the sleep we got that night and not {t now, over twenty d never been able some books upon the he of some three inches, when I came to a letter inclosed tn an modern-looking in the handwriting of my dead friend Vincey: , should he Nve to to the depth Leo arrived in my room in @ dressing gown, and we should at once I scouted the name—and waited, In a very little while (for, as I ex- suggested that favorite of t fea as showing 4 open thix casket.” 1 waited twenty it could very well con- tuntil after breakfast, At last breakfast n I still have, ‘The letter, whi a sort of char favor all rules were rel: “Sir—Our client, to me to go on emptying the ‘ Nhe next thing that I cam gingerly fashion, College, Cambridge the remorse! behind him a will, you will please find copy inclosed of which we are executors. will you will pere TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION of the weekly novels and So that you will not m Special features, Order the Evening World Mailed to mer reading Summer Address aged five. Had appeared ‘to me from the syle and further ado he broke the seal and read aloud as follows: "My Son Lao—When you open this, if you ever live to do #0, you will have attained to manhood, and I shajl have ‘eon long enough dead to be abso- Jutely forgotten by nearly all who know me. Yet in reading it remember that I have been, and for anything you know may still be, and that in tt, through this link of pen and paper, I stretch out my hand to you across the gulf of death, and my votce speaks to you from the unutteradle silence of the grave, Though | am dead, and no memory of me remains in your mind, yet am I with you in this hour that you read. Since your birth to this day I have scarcely seen your face. Forgive me this, Your life sup- planted the life of one whom I loved better than women are often loved, and the bitterness of it endureth yet. Had I lived I should in time have conquered this foolish feeling, but I am not destined to live, My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such smail ar- rangements as L have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them. May God forgive me if 1 do wrong! At the hest I could not live more than another year.” So he killed “himself!” I ex- claimed. “I thought so." nd now," Leo went on, without replying, “enough of myself. What has to be said belongs to you, who live, not to me, who am dead, and al- most as mu forgotten as though I had never been. Holly, my friend (to whom, tf he will accept the trust, it in my intention to confide you), will have told you something of the ex- traordinary antiquity of your race. In the contents of this casket you will find miffictent to prove it. ‘The strany end that you will find inserthed your remote ancestress upon the sotsherd was communicated to me by my father on his death-bed, and took 4 strong hold upon my imagination, When I was only nineteen years of ago I determined—as, to his misfor- tune, did one of our ancestors about the time of Elizabeth—to investigate {ts truth, Into all that befell me [ cannot enter now, But this I saw with my own eyes, "Om the coast of Africa, in a hitherto unexplored region, some distance to the © the Zambest falls into the Beat is @ headland, at the ex tremity of which a peak towers up, shaped ke the head of a negro, {lar to that of which the writing aks. I landed there, and learned from @ wandering native, who had been cast out by his people because of some crime which he had committed, that far inland are great mountal Khaped like cups, ang caves surrounded by meamireless #€amps I learned also that the peoplo there speak a dialect of Arabic, and are ruled over by a beautiful w woman, who 1s seldom seen by t but who ts re- ported to have power over all things living and dead. ‘Two days after L had ascertained this the man died of fever contracted In crossing the swamp. and [was forced by want of provisions and by symptoms of the illness which rward prostrated me t to my w again Of the adventures that befell me after this I need rwespeak, T wag wrecked upon ust of Madagascar, and rescued © months afterward by an English brought me to Aden, wh England, Intendlr soon as I ma tions, On my way and there [om and married he born and my last turned bi against hope to learn Ar 11 ey ved so many cen sin our family But th t so far 1s Tam ed, is ab an end By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD } Mystery adds to the absorbing interest of this; story of a Great ‘Doctor and Rival Nurses F Enter Into ca 99 ’ fe “For you, however, my eon, ft is net at an end, and to you | hand on these the results of my labor, together with the hereditary proofs of its origin, It is my intention to provide that they shall not be put into your hangs until you have reached an age when you will be able to judge for yourself, whether or not you Will choose to inv what, if it is true, must be the greateee mystery in the world, or to put it an idle fable, originating in thé Place in @ woman's disordered “I do not believe that it ts @ $ I believe that, if tt can only be redis- covered there is a spot where ¢he vital forces of the world visibly extet. Life exists; why, therefore, should not the means of preserving it indefinitely exist also? But L have no wish to prejudice your mind about the matter, Read and judge for yourself. J¢ you 4re inclined to undertake the 1 have so provided that you will not lack for means. If, on the other hand, you are satisfied that the whole thing is a chimera, then 1 adjure you de- stroy the potsherd and the and let a cause of troubling be re- moved from our race forever, Per- haps that will bo wisest. The en- known je generally taken to be je ble, not, as the proverb would a from the inherent superstition of man but because it #o often is terrible, He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them. And if the end were attained, if at last emerged from the trial ever and ever young, defying time and evil, and lifted above the natural de- cay of flesh and intellect, who shall say that, the aveeene coe hange would prove a happy one ay soe and may the Power who rules al things and who says, ‘Thus far shalt thou go, and thus much shalt thou learn,’ direct the choice of your ewn happiness and the happiness of the world, which, in the event of your success, you would one day certainly rule by the pure force of accumutated experience. Farewe! Thus the let unsigned and undated, abruptly ended. ~ “What do you make of that, Uncle Holly?” aaid Leo, " ‘ “What do I make of ? Why, that your poor dear father wan off Kis head, of course,” I answered testily. “T guessed as much that night twenty years ago, when he came into my room. You nee, he evidently hui ried his own end, poor man. It Is absolute balderdash . CHAPTER IV. A Strange History. ELL, let's see what the ce potsherd has to say, at any rate,” ‘anid Leo, taking up the trgnela- tion in his father’s writing, and commencing to read: “T, Amenartaa, of the Royal House of Hakor, a Pharaoh of Egypt, wife of Kallikrates (the Strong and Beau- tiful, or the Beautiful in Strength), @ priest of Isis, whom the gods cherish and the demons obey, being about to die, to my little son Tisisthenes (the Mighty Avenger). I fied with thy father from Egypt in the days of Nekht-nebf, causing him through love to break the vows that he had vowed, We fled southward, across the waters, and we wi ae twice twelve months on the it Libya (Africa) that looks towarg the rising sun, where by a river a great rock carven ike the head 6f an Ethiopian, Four days on the water from the mouth of a mighty Fiver were we cast away, and some were drowned and some died of sickness. But us wild men took through wastes and marshes, where the eee fowl hid ‘the sky, bearing us ten aye’ journey, tll we came to a hollow mountain, where a t city had been and fallen, and whero there are caves of which no man hath seen the end; they brought we to th anes, ot by people, who jac e heads of strangers, who is a Fnagtctan having knowledge of all things, and life and loveliness that does not die, And she cast eyes of love upon thy father, Kallikrates, and would have slain me, and taken him to hueband, but he loved me and feared he eRe would not. Then did she take us, and jead us by terrible ways, by means of dark magic, to where the great pit Is, in the mouth of which the old philosopher Jay dead, and showed us : the rolling Pillar of Life that dies not, whereof the voice 1s as the voice of thun and did stand In the flames, and come forth unharmed ax t more beautgful, nen did she swear to make thy jer undying, even as she is, if he would but slay me and give himselt to her, for mo s! 1 not slay because of the magic of my own peo- ple that T have and that prevailed thus far against her. And he hq! his hand before his eyes to hide | beauty, and Would not, ‘Then in bh rage did she smite him by her magic, and he died; but she wept over him and bore him thence with lamenta- tlons and ratd, me she sent to the mou reat river where the ships. ec 1 was carried Away On whet T gave birth, a er to Athens I last many wanderings, ay m ‘Tsisis- s, sock out the woman, and urn th f life and if thou mayest find vay, @ . because thy father Kallikr nd if thou: fost fear or fail, this Tsay to il f thy seed who e after thed, til at last a brave und among the fire and “haraohs, 1 that, though yet have f known, t hand side ef this aur- the sherd, painted: obliquely ight re nthe space net cev- ed by the Uncial, and signed In blue int, Was the following @unine fa scription 1 ie IN FAR i 1 AND SKIP AND 8) PHYNGES THER B DOROTHEA VIN (To Be Continued, paliial i ;