ad the same day to
applaud the athletes who ran naked in the Olympian games, and gave them
as great honor. I came here once on a walking tour with a chap who
wasn't making as much of himself as he should have done, and he went
away a changed man, and became a personage in the world, and you would
never guess what it was that did it. He saw a statue of one of the
Greek gods in the Museum which showed certain muscles that he couldn't
find in his own body, and he told me he was going to train down until
they did show; and he stopped drinking and loafing to do it, and took
to exercising and working; and by the time the muscles showed out clear
and strong he was so keen over life that he wanted to make the most of
it, and, as I said, he has done it. That's what a respect for his own
body did for him."

The carriage stopped at the hotel on one side of the public square of
Athens, with the palace and its gardens blocking one end, and yellow
houses with red roofs, and gay awnings over the cafes, surrounding it.
It was a bright sunny day, and the city was clean and cool and pretty.

"Breakfast?" exclaimed Miss Morris, in answer to Carlton's inquiry;
"yes, I suppose so, but I won't feel safe until I have my feet on that
rock." She was standing on the steps of the hotel, looking up with
expectant, eager eyes at the great Acropolis above the city.

"It has been there for a long time now," suggested Carlton, "and I
think you can risk its being there for a half-hour longer."

"Well," she said, reluctantly, "but I don't wish to lose this chance.
There might be an earthquake, for instance."

"We are likely to see THEM this morning," said Carlton, as he left the
hotel with the ladies and drove towards the Acropolis. "Nolan has been
interviewing the English maid, and she tells him they spend the greater
part of their time up there on the rock. They are living very simply
here, as they did in Paris; that is, for the present. On Wednesday the
King gives a dinner and a reception in their honor."

"When does your dinner come off?" asked Miss Morris.

"Never," said Carlton, grimly.

"One of the reasons why I like to come back to Athens so much," said
Mrs. Downs, "is because there are so few other tourists here to spoil
the local color for you, and there are almost as few guides as
tourists, so that you can wander around undisturbed and discover things
for yourself. They don't label every fallen column, and place fences
arou