to say to me he said i ft yes lord but not before these that which i have to i � is secret j father and daughter hesitated have no fear lord said reading his thoughts � see i am then he commanded the others to go and when the door had closed behind them he looked at her tell me lord who am i asked throwing the from her head and turning her face to the glare of the how can i know who you are wanderer yet had i met you by chance i should have said that you were of our blood that is so lord i am of your blood cast your mind back and think if you can remember a certain daughter whom you loved many years ago but who through the workings of your foes was chosen to be a bride to the snake and she paused speak on said in a low voice perchance you can recall lord that moved to it by love and pity on the night of the sacrifice you helped that daughter to escape the of the snake i remember something of it he replied cautiously but tidings were brought to me that this woman of whom you speak was overtaken by the vengeance of the god and died on her journey that is not so lord i am your daughter and you are none other than my father i knew you when first i saw your face though you did not know me prove it and beware how you lie he said show me the secret sign and whisper the hidden word into my ear then glancing suspiciously behind her came to him and made some movements with her hands in the shadow of the table next bending forward she whispered a while into his ear when she had finished her father looked up and there were tears in his aged eyes welcome daughter he said i thought that i was alone and that none of my issue lived anywhere upon the earth welcome your life is to the snake but forgetting my vows i will protect you ay even at the cost of my own then the two embraced each other with every sign of tenderness a spectacle that would have struck anyone acquainted with their characters as both curious and in resting the people of the mist presently left the and having dismissed the attendant priest and his great niece s a who were waiting outside he returned and prayed his daughter explain the reason of her presence in the train of first you shall swear an oath to me my father said and if you swear it not i will tell you no word of my story you shall swear by the blood of that you wiu i do nothing against the life of that queen with whom i hither for the others you may work your i upon them but her you shall not harm why should i swear this daughter he asked you shall swear it because i whom you love love her and also because so shall you gain the greater honour who am i that i should lift my hand against the gods daughter i swear it by the blood of and if i break my oath then may j l deal with me as once he dealt with then went on freely for she knew that this was a vow that could not be broken beginning at its commence j ment she told him all the story of her life since forty years j ago she had from among the people of the mist pass i ing on rapidly however to that part of it which had to do i � with the capture and rescue of from the slave and with the promise that she had made to as the price of his assistance this promise she was careful to explain she had not intended to fulfil until she was forced to do so by herself then she gave him a minute history of the object and details of their expedition down to her final quarrel with and her mistress on the previous day to say that the old priest was at i extraordinary revelations would be too little he was over � to overwhelmed that for a while he could i it is fortunate for this of a mistress of yours who dares to make a mockery of our goddess that she may steal her wealth that i have sworn to save her from harm daughter he gasped at length else she had died and j swiftly at least the others remain to me and he sprang i to his feet j stay a while father said catching his cloak j what is your plan my plan to drag them to the temple and them what else ia there to do father and daughter and thereby yourself who proclaimed m gods i think i have a better tell it then daughter is this do you pass in before the gods this day to the gods praying them to change the face of the heavens that the sun may shine telling them also that strange talk has come to your ears by the mouth of and the other women of words that have been spoken by the god j i which would seem to show that he is no god but that of this you believe nothing as yet then say to them that if the face of the heavens remains grey on the morrow yon will know that this talk is true and that they will be brought to the temple there to be judged and dealt with according to the finding of the people who have heard these things also and what if the weather should change daughter it will not change yet a while but if that should chance we must make another plan just now 