ands,
and his shoulders heaved so violently that it would seem that he was
weeping.--Mastor remained silent for a few minutes, then he went up to
Antinous and said:

"You know I have a son and a little daughter at home, and I am always
glad to hear about little girls. We are alone and if it will relieve
your heart."

"Let me alone, I have told you a dozen times already about my mother and
little Parthea," replied Antinous, trying to look composed.

"Then do so confidently for the thirteenth," said the slave. "In the
camp and in the kitchen I can talk about my people as much as I like.
But you--tell me, what do you call the little dog that Panthea made a
scarlet cloak for?"

"We called it Kallista," cried Antinous wiping his eyes with the back
of his hand. "My father would not allow it but we persuaded my mother.
I was her favorite, and when I put my arms round her and looked at her
imploringly she always said 'yes' to anything I asked her."

A bright light shone in the boy's weary eyes; he had remembered a whole
wealth of joys which left no depression behind them.

CHAPTER II.

One of the palaces built in Alexandria by the Ptolemaic kings stood on
the peninsula called Lochias which stretched out into the blue sea like
a finger pointing northwards; it formed the eastern boundary of the
great harbor. Here there was never any lack of vessels but to-day they
were particularly numerous, and the quay-road paved with smooth blocks
of stone, which led from the palatial quarter of the town--the Bruchiom
as it was called--which was bathed by the sea, to the spit of land
was so crowded with curious citizens on foot and in vehicles, that
all conveyances were obliged to stop in their progress before they had
reached the private harbor reserved for the Emperor's vessels.

But there was something out of the common to be seen at the
landing-place, for there lying under the shelter of the high mole were
the splendid triremes, galleys, long boats and barges which had brought
Hadrian's wife and the suite of the imperial couple to Alexandria. A
very large vessel with a particularly high cabin on the after deck
and having the head of a she-wolf on the lofty and boldly-carved prow
excited the utmost attention. It was carved entirely in cedar wood,
richly decorated with bronze and ivory, and named the Sabina. A young
Alexandrian pointed to the name written in gold letters on the stern,
nudging his companion and saying with a l