**But  permit  me.  to  move  opposite  to  thee,  or  our  light
boat  will  be  overbalanced."

So  saying,  he  took  his  seat  exactly  opposite  to  lone^  and
leaning  forward,  he  fancied  that  it  was  her  breath,  and  not
the  winds  of  summer  that  flung  fragrance  over  the  sea.
"  Thou  wert  to  tell  me,"  said  Glaucus,  "  why  for  so  many
days  thy  door  was  closed  to  me?"

"Oh,  think  of  it  no  morel"  answered  lone,  quickly;  "T
gave  my  ear  to  what  I  now  know  was  the  malice  of  slander."
"And  my  slanderer  was  the  Egyptian?"
loners  silence  assented  to  the  question.
"His  motives  are  sufficiently  obvious."
"Talk  not  of  him,"  said  lone,  covering  her  face  with  her
hands,  as  if  to  shut  out  his  very  thought.
"Perhaps  he  may  be  already  by  the  banks  of  the  slow
Styx,"  resumed  Glaucus;  "yet  in  that  case  we  should
probably  have  heard  of  his  death.  Thy  brother,  methinks,
iath  felt  the  dark  influence  of  his  gloomy  soul.  When  we
arrived  last  night  at  thy  house  he  left  me  abruptly.  Will
He  ever  vouchsafe  to  be  my  friend?"

"He  is  consumed  with  some  secret  care,"  answered  lone,
tearfully.  "  Would  that  we  could  lure  him  from  himself  I
I^  as  join  in  that  tender  office."


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200  THE  LAST  DAYS  OF  POMPEH.
"He  shall  be  my  brother,"  returned  the  Greek.
