The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.

ure of an aged, tall, and beautiful "o"an'
wearing long, dark mantle, but with STAN
her head uncovered save by her snew-white
locks. Tho Atbenian lady uttered slight cry.
Bpt Psulus, laying his hand upon her arm,
vhispered reverentially.;s
another, youder stands theSibyl! 1t is she
who bent oyer me in the early morning Of that
formidable day, near the old Latian town. and
told me that fire would subdue the ferocious
beast"
As be spoke, tho noble and majestic figure
had advanced up the chamber, saying In Latin,
with slow bend of the beautiful head, "Are !"
saAre hospes !" returned Aglais.
al greet you ence MORE" said Paulus, in a
low voice, and with look of profound respect.
She took from him the goblet which he bad
still held in his hand, gazed into it earnestly,
breathed over it for q moment, set it upon the
table, and then muttered, II again saw her
only three hours ago. the woman of the two
vsices-and knew her even in the starlight,
although the swift carriage was bearip her to
her door along the smooth road. l am sent to
you in time, my son. You need no more medi.
cine but this cup has death in it. You, lady,
an your son. ale called for in Rome. Hasten
to Rome. Lose not an hour. The lionness
has lost her whelp and Cesar himself could
not hold the prey. On the road you will learn
more And now, rale ct salre."
"But why do you use the words of perpet-
nal farewell " asked Paulus.
As he spoke, Dionysius, who had slept in Q
neghboring apartment, entered noiselessly.
The Sibyl moved toward the door, and seeing
the Athenian, fixed her gaze on him rs she
answered the question of his friend: "Be-
cause" she said, "you will see me NO more.
The time appointed for me has almost passed
away. l am journeying even now to q holy
land for perhaps it will be granted to me to
behold with these bodily eyes before die him
whom We have all announced. But you have
deemed our words to be as rawlings, and the
hopes to be false which We have declared to be
true"
"NotI," said Dionysius.
She took a small roll of paper from q fold in
her mantle, and, banding it to him, said:
Read, and remember this. Your name al
ready is coupled with that of the beautiful
and famous city which is the very capital of
human genius and the centre of intellectual
pride. You are Dionysius Of Athens-of Athz
ems, the lamp of Eastern Europe. But q race
in the West, more famous and more polished
than the Greeks, with q capital greater and
more beautiful than Athens, will claim you one
day as theirs also, and, for fifty generations
after you shall! have died, warlike people will
continue 10 shout forth your peaceful name
over fierce fields of battle in language now
unspoken. Your reputation spans the past
and the hereafter of two distant nations, like
an arch, coming in honor out of antiquity and
the east, and settling in q glory, never to grow
dim, over the future of unborn millions at the
opposite side of Europe.
"iou are deemed its child by the fair city of
the past, which connects it's name with yours
you will be held among it's parents by the still
fairer city of the future-a queen city, where
in many temples he will be adored whom your
Athens at present worships with q simple
statue as the unknown God: for he has come
Yes, nay son, he has come"
The beautiful aged face was lighted up with
the love of child, yet the speaker bowed her
silver locks in an attitude of unspeakable sol.
emnity and awe as she pronounced the last
LOT words. For some moments after abe had
ceased to speak, all who were present pre-
served the air and look of attentive hearers,
like those who have been listening to q strain
of music, and remain awhile az though thew
WON 'AoeeniuB btillp "nep III mas Qle0 away.
When the roll of paper, which the Sibyl held
out to him in her white and almost transpa-
rent hand, had been taken by Dlonysius, she
crossed the threshold, and, once more saying
Tale ct sa're," disappeared.
In obedience to her more personal warnings
the whole party temporarily domiciled in that
remote Lombard house made immediate pre-
PAratons for a return to Rome. The groups
of soldiers who out Of interest for their hero,
their newly-made tribune, had loiteredl in the
neighbortood, although recovered from their
hurts, came now to inquire from Paulus, IA the
highest military authority within reach, what
orders he had TO give, and to receive from him
requis't'ons or billets uron the qunstors Of the
several towns and stations along the road to
Rome, for rations aud lodgings, and small
allowances, from post to post. These Paulus
wrote out for them with a strange feeling OF
the immense social space which he had trav.
ersed upward within q few weeks time; fol-
he felt that, only little while ago. he would
have been taking the orders which he wa.