Show d ILI my C up mom being isam 0 a saga ac giniat colant of f Heru tine royal e egypto egypti Ey tsow SL an C cay 7 1 au 1 0 X 0 S again 0 my f friend Ilar machis and thou t halt answer me 1 arid and she gave mo me tier her land hand to kiss scarce knowing what I 1 did I 1 kissed it and in another moment she was gone frolic but bu I 1 stood in tho the chamber razing gazing after her like one asleep f CHAPTER XIII OK OF TUB THE WORDS AND JEALOUSY or OF OP OF till LAUGHTER OF MAKING ill UDY rou roil tim till DEED OF BLOOD AND OF TUB THE MESSAGE OF TILE OLD sill STOOD still plunged r in ill thought thou then by hazard as it were I 1 took up tho the wreath of roses and looked thereon how lon ion 9 I 1 stood so I 1 know not but when next I 1 lifted my eyes they i fell upon tho the form of SS charmion Charmi whom indeed 1 had altogether forgot S ten tell and though 0 tit at the moment I 1 thought but little of it 1 noted vaguely that silo she was flushed as though 0 with singer and that she beat tier her foot upon the floor oil oh is it thou charmion I 1 said what nils thee art thou cramped with standing so long within thy hiding I 1 placed why didat I 1 lion hou not slip bill hence when cleopatra led me to the balcony V where is my iny kerch kerchief lef ill she asked shooting inan angry blanco i at me ino 1 I 1 lot fall my bi 0 kerchief 11 tho why thou not sect cleopatra rilo nio about it alla X ll it uio the balcony yen yea I 1 saw answered tho girl 11 1 I 1 saw but too well thou fling away my herel def but tho the wreath of roses that thou fc riot not fling away it was ri a queens gift forsooth and the royal tile tho priest of isis tho chosen of the gods tho the crowned pharaoh wod to tho weal of khem khein cherished iland it and saved havad it but bul my iny korchick stung by tho the jaul laughter liber of that queen ho he cast it way 11 what meanest thou I 1 gehred aston islieb tit lit her bitter tone 1 I read not thy riddles 11 what mean I 1 silo sho answered tossing n ill ap tier her head and shelving sh tile white curves of her throat nay I 1 mean incan naught or all lake it as thou wilt fc know what I 1 mean my cousin and my lord I 1 silo she went on oil in a hard low voice behold I 1 will tell thee thou art in danger of the great on onse se this cleopatra lint 1131 cast her fatal wiles about tc aiso talo 1 1 irv hal 0 mil to toast near ya to tri thou must loving il her and stare at that wreath att man bitti iitti thy wreath thou bot send to join my iny ker kerchkof chlof suro sure cleopatra it but to 11 II ditl the portet no ino of tho the hair of CiE sars ini mistress atress und and others yot giai the odor of its I aseal now how fur thou darry curry tile mutter matter on dindor y ander tal conyl for in that liolu holo choro JI lay hid I 1 could riot not hear or see ITIs a sweet spot for lovers Is 19 IV it not ay arid and a sweet night tool venus is surely in the right ascension us cension and nil all of this she said so quietly and J n so ho soft arid and modest a way though her words iverc not nob modest arid and yet so bitter bit terIn Jy that L vory syllabus cut mo me to the heart arid and mo me till I 1 could ilna no sp eccli cell ot of a truth thou hast a wise economy alic went on oil seeing tier lier ad advantage vantage ato tonight thou dost kiss tile the lips that tomorrow to o morrow morron I 1 thou hou still forever I 1 tia frugal dealing d call ng wit h the occasion oft of the ho moment aye 13 C worthy and honorable dealing it t ilian then at last i broko cortti Gir mirll lIll I 1 cried how flow darest thou speak thus alius to mo me kindest thou who and what I 1 am that thou lonseth thy peevish gibes upon me 1 I mind what it behooves theo thee to ho be sho answered quick what thou art that I 1 mind riot not now surely thou kno west alone thou and cleopatra atral I 1 I what nic meanest anest thou I 1 said am ito I 1 to I 1 banle if tile alio queen 11 alio queen I 1 what have wo ive herol pharaoh owns a queen ill I 1 if cleopatra wills to como come hither of a ninh nigh tand talk of stars Ilar machis surely su rely of stars and roses and naught beside ill 1 after that I 1 know ehnow not what I 1 said for troubled as ai I 1 was the girls bitter tongue and quiet way drove nio mo well nigh n to mad ness but this I 1 know I 1 spoke so fiercely lier cely that slie silo cowered before roo ino as she bho had cowered before my uncle sepa when lio rated her because of tier her grecian garb and as sho she wept then so silo wept acia now only more passionately and with sobs at AL length I 1 ceased half asha ashamed ined but still ang angry and smarting sorely for oven even while she wept she bho could linda finda toilie to answer with and a wo comans womans n wil B S shafts haf t S ar aro a sharp thou should st not speak to mo me thuel chub ill she sobbed its cruel it is unman lyl but if I 1 forgot thou art a priest not a mau mali ex cx copt c a pt maybac ina for cleopatra Cleopat ral I 1 I what right hast thou I 1 said what canet ahou lilea mcana lill what right have 13 she naked asked looking up her dark eyes all abood with t aars mrs that ran down liar her sweet faco face like ohp dow of down 11 twy n itly I cart oart what right lenva 11 1 0 art h blind dost thou not inlow by what raw rig fedj I 1 speak thus to then must I 1 toll tell iiii th well tho the faggion fai hion in alexandrian Alexandri Alex andrial alSy that birst st and of womanly tile right of tho the great love I 1 bear thee arid and which it seems thou hast no eyes to see by tho right of my iny globy arid and my shame 0 bo be not wroth with me nor set mo me down as light because the truth has at last burst f from roni me for I 1 am not so I 1 am what thou thoa wilt make me I 1 am the wix wax within tho the molders hands and us is thou dost fashion JILO so shall I 1 ho be there breathes within me now a breath of glory blowing across the waters of my soul that can waft t itic ino to ends more noble than over ave r I 1 have dreamed afore if thou wilt pilot and my iny guide but if I 1 lose joso thov thoo then lose logo I 1 all that holds ino from froin my worse belr una ml lot let shipwreck cornel colnel thou nio me noti not thou canet not sea how big a spirit g acs s within this frail form of 1 1 to thee I 1 am ain a girl clover clever wayward shallow but I 1 am all more I 1 show TOO 0 thy loftiest loft iest thought und and I 1 will match icv it the deepest puzzle of 0 thy mind inin dand and IL I will make inako it clear 0 of f one all blood are arc we arid and love can call ra el al up our little difference arid and mako make us grow ono one wo we have ono one land wo love ono one vow binds us both tako take ino to thy heart and set mo me by thee ou on tile double throne and I 1 swear that I 1 will lift thee higher than ever man mail has hag climbed reject uio me and becaro lest I 1 pull null thee down I 1 and now ncr asido t tho he cold delicacy of custom stung thereto by what I 1 saw of 1 the ho arts of that lovey hying ng falsehood cleopatra which for pastime eho doth practice on oil eliy folly I 1 have spoken out my heart and answer thou khou I 1 and sho she clasped tier her hands anti and drawing one pace nearer gazed azad all trembling on oil my face for tu moment I 1 stood sti ri JC c dumb for the magic of lier liar voice and tile power po of liar her speech despite myself had stirred mo me like tile rush of music bad I 1 loved tile tho woman doubtless sho might have fired tile mo with aih tier her flame but I 1 loved her not and I 1 auld cluid not lot play at passion and so thought lw camo came and with thought thou glit that laughing mood which is everart over apt to fasten upon nerves strained strain cd to tho the point of breaking bre alting in a flash as it wore were I 1 bethought mo me of tho the way in which silo sho had that very night forced tho the wreath of roses on oil my head I 1 thought of tho the kerchief her chief and how I 1 had flung it forth I 1 thought of charmion in tile tho little chambor chamber watching what sho leold to bothe bo tho arts of cleopatra and of lier liar bitter speeches lastly I 1 thought of what my undo uncle sepa scia would say of liar her could coula lie ho see her now and of tile tho strange and tangled skein shein wherewith I 1 was unmeshed od I 1 lau laughed glied aloud the fools that was my knoll of ruin I 1 silo sho turned whiter yet whito white as tho the dead and on oil her faco face thero there prow grely a look that checked my foolish mirth thou fin findert lind dest cst then Hiiri Hari silo she said in atia a low choked voice and dropping tile tho level of liar her eyes thou fondest cause of merriment fc in what I 1 have s said aid 1 nay I 1 answered nay Ch charmion armlon forgive mo me if I 1 laughed rather a laugh of despair for what am I 1 to say to theol thee thou liast hast spoken high words of all thou lightest might est be is it left lor for mo me to tell thee what thou artill silo she shrank arid and I 1 paused speak silo sho said thou none so well what I 1 am and what my mission is thou none so bo well that 1 lam am sworn to isla isis and may by law divino divine have naught to do with I 1 lay ay 11 sho she broke in iu her low voice a and nd with bilth liar her eyes still ax fixed ed upon th the e ground I 1 lay ay and I 1 know that thy vows uro are brokon broken in spirit it not in form broken like wreaths of clouds for thou loveit love it oi cn patra it is a liol lial I 1 cried thou wanton gh girl 1 who seduce mo me from my duty and put mo me to an open shame I 1 who led by passion or ambition or the love jovo of evil hast not shamed to break tho the barriers of thy sex and speak as thou hist hast spoken beware lest thou go too fart far I 1 arid and if thou wilt have an answer hero it is put straightly as thy question charmion outside the matter of my duty and my vows thou art naught to mol mo I 1 nor for all thy tender glances will my heart beat ono one pulse more fasti fast I 1 hardly art thou now my friend for of a truth Iscar I 1 scarce cocan can trust thee but once more beware 1 to m mo 0 thou do thy worst but if thou dost fare diiro to lift a linger finger against our causo cause that day thou diestl and now is this play 1 anoll and ana Us as wild with angor I 1 ke thus she bho babir find and yet lurther further back bacic till at length sho she rested against the wall wali liar hor eyes covered with her hand but when JT I ceased she sho dropped liar hor hand band glancing up a and nd liar her fuco face was ivas the faco face of a statue wherein n the great eyes glowed like embers and round them was a ring of purple shadow wot not altogether done silo sho said gently the arena must yet bo be sanded 1 ill tin this s sho she said having reference to tho the covering up of tile the blood stains at tile tho gladiatorial shows with fine white sand well sho she wont went on waste not thine anger on a thing so vile 1 have thrown my throw and I 1 havo have lost vaa vectis I 1 all ah I 1 vw victus I 1 wilt thou not lend mo me tile the dagger in thy robe that hero here arid and now I 1 may end arid my shame no then one worn wora more most royal harmanis Harma his if canet forgot forget my folly but at tile tho least last have no fear from froin nio me I 1 ani am now as ever thy servant arid and tho the servant of our cause farewell Farow ellit 1 and silo she went leaning her hand bana 6 against tile wall but I 1 passing to my chamber flung myself upon my couch arid and groaned in bitterness ot spirit alakl wo we shape our plans and by slow do dorces degrees 17 build up our alse house of rope hope never counting on oil the that time shall bring to lodge therein for 4 L X who can guard against the me unforeseen 1 at length I 1 slept and evil were my dreams when I 1 woke tho the light of the day which should bee tho the red f fulfillment of the plot was streaming ng through tho the case nicut and tho the birds sang bang merrily among tile the garden palms I 1 woke and as I 1 woke tile tho sense of trouble pressed in upon me for I 1 remembered that before this day was gathered to the past I 1 must dip my hands in ill blood oven in the blood of cleopatra who trusted me t why could I 1 not hato her as I 1 there had been a time when I 1 had looked on this act of vengeance with somewhat of a righteous glow of zeal and now and now why I 1 would rankly frankly give my royal birthright to bo be free from its necessity I 1 but alas I 1 I 1 knew that there ther was ewas no escape I 1 must drain the cup or bo be forever cast away I 1 felt tho the eyes of egypt E agypt watching me and tho the eyes of egypto gods I 1 prayed to my mother isis to give me ine strength to do this deed and prayed as JL I had nov nover never er prayed before and 0 wonder I 1 no answer came nay how was this what then had loosed tho the link between us that for tile the first time tho the goddess deigned no reply to liar her could it be that I 1 had sinned in heart against horl herl what had charmion said bald that I 1 loved cle was this sickness lovel level nay a ii thousand times nay I 1 but the devoll 0 nature against a a deedom treachery and blood tho the goddess did but try my strength or perchance she atio also turned tier her holy countenance from blood I 1 rose filled with despair ind went about my work like a nian man without iv a soul I 1 conned tho the fatal lists and noted all tile tho plans ay in my brain I 1 gathered g up the very words of that proclamation of my royalty which on tire tho morrow I 1 startled world citizens of alexandria and dwellers in tho land of egypt it began bof iran cleopatra tho the macedonian hath by tho the command of tho the gods suffered justice j for liar her crimes 1 0 all these and other things edid idid but I 1 did them as a man without a soul as a man moved by a force from without and nob knot from within and so the minutes wore away tile tho af afternoon tor noori v I 1 went as by appointment fixed to botho the house where lodged my undo uncle zepa bopa that samo bame house to which some somo three montha F olo folo ia had b been a 11 brought when lor for tho the first time L entered onto red alexandria alexandr a anthero and hero I 1 lound found assembled in secret conclave con clavo the loaders leaders ot of tho the revolt in tho the city to tho number berof ol 01 seven when I 1 had entered arid and tho doors nvere barred thoy they prostrated themselves sand and cried hall hafl pharaoh Phara ohl I 1 but 1 bado them rise saying baying that not yet was I 1 pharaoh for the chicken was still in tho the egg yea prince said my uncle but dibut UR his beala shows through not in vain hath egypt brooded blooded all these years an t thou I 1 io fail not with that dagger stroke of thine and how canet thou fall faila I 1 i t aught can now stop our course to victory 1 it is on tho the knees of tho the gods I 1 answered swore d nay no ho said tile tho fi oja have placed tho issue in tho the hands of a morralin mor talIn thy hands 0 I 1 and thoro there is 19 it safe sao boo horo here oro are tho the last lists thirty one thousand men who bear arms are arc sworn divorn to riso rise when tile tho tidings como coin 0 to t thorn hem avit within h five doys days every citadel in el egypt 93 p t will wili bo in our hands and then what havo wn t fear from rome komo but little for her hands aro are full and besides bes I 1 des wo we will make alvance alliance with tile tho triumvirate and if need be buy them off for of money there is plenty in tile the land and if more bo be wanted thou w where h are itis stored against tho the need of khom khem and outside tho the romans reach of arm who is there to harm us 3 there is none perchance Porcha tico in 11 this turbulent city there may bo be a struggle I 1 t rv 4 n nud mui a counter plot to bring arsinio to gyp t and set act liar her on tho the throne thero there roro must alexandria ile bo severely dealt thayo wi aye 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