ny of his companions felt as if happiness in person had
entered this imperilled house, and many an eye brightened when the
infuriated old man exclaimed in an altered tone, "You here, Barine?" and
she, without heeding the presence of the others, kissed his cheek with
tender affection.

Helena, Gorgias, and the old philosopher Euphranor, had approached her,
and when the latter asked with loving reproach, "Why, Barine, how did you
get through the howling mob?" she answered gaily: "That a learned member
of the Museum may receive me with the query whether I am here, though
from childhood a kind or--what do you think, grandfather?--a malign fate
has preserved me from being overlooked, and some one else reprovingly
asks how I passed through the shouting mob, as if it were a crime to wade
into the water to hold out a helping hand to those we love best when it
is up to their chins! But, oh! dear, this howling is too hideous!"

While speaking, she pressed her little hands on the part of the kerchief
which concealed her ears, and said no more until the noise subsided,
although she declared that she was in a hurry, and had only come to learn
how matters were. Meanwhile it seemed as if she was so full of quick,
pulsing life, that it was impossible to leave even a moment unused, if it
were merely to bestow or answer a friendly glance.

The architect and her sister were obliged to return hurried answers to
hasty questions; and as soon as she ascertained what had brought the
strangers there she thanked Apollonius, and said that old friends would
do their best to spare her grandfather such a sorrow.

In reply to repeated inquiries from the two old men in regard to her
arrival there, she answered: "Nobody will believe it, because in this
hurry I could not keep my mouth shut; but I acted like a mute fish and
reached the water." Then, drawing her grandfather aside, she whispered to
him that, when she left her boat at the harbour, Archibius had seen her
from his carriage, and instantly stopped it to inform her of his intended
visit that evening. He was coming to discuss an important matter.
Therefore she must receive the worthy man, whom she sincerely liked, so
she could not stay. Then turning to the others still with her kerchief on
her head ready for departure--she asked what the people meant by their
outcries. The architect replied that Philostratus had endeavoured to make
the crowd believe that the only appropriate site for the statue