nd the temples. They seem to put you on your good behavior. Then
I always like to go to a place where you are as much of a curiosity to
the people as they are to you. It seems to excuse your staring about
you."

"A curiosity!" exclaimed Carlton; "I should say so! The last time I
was here I tried to wear a pair of knickerbockers around the city, and
the people stared so that I had to go back to the hotel and change
them. I shouldn't have minded it so much in any other country, but I
thought men who wore Jaeger underclothing and women's petticoats for a
national costume might have excused so slight an eccentricity as
knickerbockers. THEY had no right to throw the first stone."

The rock upon which the temples of the Acropolis are built is more of a
hill than a rock. It is much steeper upon one side than the other,
with a sheer fall a hundred yards broad; on the opposite side there are
the rooms of the Hospital of Aesculapius and the theatres of Dionysus
and Herodes Atticus. The top of the rock holds the Parthenon and the
other smaller temples, or what yet remains of them, and its surface is
littered with broken marble and stones and pieces of rock. The top is
so closely built over that the few tourists who visit it can imagine
themselves its sole occupants for a half-hour at a time. When Carlton
and his friends arrived, the place appeared quite deserted. They left
the carriage at the base of the rock, and climbed up to the entrance on
foot.

"Now, before I go on to the Parthenon," said Miss Morris, "I want to
walk around the sides, and see what is there. I shall begin with that
theatre to the left, and I warn you that I mean to take my time about
it. So you people who have been here before can run along by
yourselves, but I mean to enjoy it leisurely. I am safe by myself
here, am I not?" she asked.

"As safe as though you were in the Metropolitan Museum," said Carlton,
as he and Mrs. Downs followed Miss Morris along the side of the hill
towards the ruined theatre of Herodes, and stood at its top, looking
down into the basin below. From their feet ran a great semicircle of
marble seats, descending tier below tier to a marble pavement, and
facing a great ruined wall of pillars and arches which in the past had
formed the background for the actors. From the height on which they
stood above the city they could see the green country stretching out
for miles on every side and swimming in the warm sunlight, th