The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-22

his wife, and begged Aglais and Agatha {,
follow him up the awning-covered staircase
As he began to ascend, it happened that Girls
pima, looking around, noticed Paulus, who ha,
taken off his broad-rimmed hat, under one o
the sconces. No sooner had her eyes rested O,
him than she started violently, and graspet
the balustrade as if she would have fallen bu
for that support.
who are you 2" said the woman.
"The brother of that young lady who is i'll
and the son of the other lady"
"And you too, must want Iodgingsw
Certainly"
The woman seized his arm with q vehement
grip, and gazed at him.
care you i'll 2" said Paulus "or-or-out OF
your mindf Why do you clutch my arm and
| look at me in that mannerp
"Too, young," said she, rather to herself
than to him; " besides, saw the last act with
these eyes. Truly this is wonderful"
Then, like one waking from q dream, she
added, Well, if you want lodgings you shall
have them. You shall have the apartments OF
this king or pretender-the rooms prepared for
the Jew Alexander. Come with me at once. u
And she unfastened the lamp in the nearest
sconce, and led Paulus up the staircase.
Thus the wanderers, Aglais aud her daughter
had the queens room. With their Thracian
slave Melana to wait upon them, while the
prisoner Paulus had the kings, to which Girls
pima herself ordered old Philip, the freedman,
to carry his luggage.
few moment's later, the innkeeper, who had
returned to the more public parts of the house
to attend to his usual duties, met Philip laden
with in ~ =
him what he was doing.
"Carrying young Master Paulus's things to
his ROOM"
"You can carry" said the innkeepef, "what-
ever the ladies require to their room; but your
young master has room at all, my man in
this house. And why7 For the same reason
that will compel you to sleep in one of the
lofts over the stables. There is no space for
him in the inn. You must make him as COM
Portable as you can in the hay, Just like yoar-
SELF"
Humanity is something" muttered Crispus:
but to make queen ones enemy on that
score, without adding a king, where no humane
consideration lntervenes at all, is enough for
poor lnnkeeper on single night. These tet
rarchs and rich barbarians can do poor man
an ugly turn. Who knows but he ght COM
plain of my house to the emperor, or to one of
the consuls, or to the pcator, or even the quas-
tor, and presto everything is seized, and am
banished to the Tauric Cherson csc, or to Tomos
in Scythia, to drink mares milk with the poet
Ovid"
(Something in this language may seem out
of keeping. 1 would therefore remind the
reader that the most learned, accomplished,
studious and highly cultivated minds among
the Romans were very frequently found in the
class of slaves and freedmen.)
" Go on, freedman, with your luggage,n here
said peremptory voice, "and take it whittier
you have taken the rest"
And in the name of all the gods, wife.n
cried Crispus, whittier may that be ?"
EGO on, freedman" she repeated; and then
taking her husband aside, she spoke to him in
a low tone.
Have you remarked this youths face :" she
asked; and have you any idea who he is 7"
81 know not who any of them are," replied
Crispus.
"Look at him, then, for here he comes"
Crispus looked, and as he looked his eyes
grew bigger; and again he looked, until Paul
us noticed him, and smiled.
"Do you know me :" says he.
"No, illustrious sir"
" Alas! 1 am not illustrious, good landlord,
but hungry I am. And believe we all are
except my poor sister, who is not verv strong,
and for whom, by and by, should like to pro-
cure the advice of physician"
The poor young thing" said Crispina, ais
only tired with her journey; it is nothing.
She will be we'll tomorrow. Supper you sha all
have presently in the ante-chamber of your
mothers apartments; and your freedman and
the female slave shall be cared for after thew
have waited upon you"
" All this is easy, and shall be seen to forth
with" added Crispus; but the doctor for your
dear sister, where shall we find himf"
Understand" said Paulus "my sister is
not in immediate danger, such as would Justify
calling in any empiric at once, rather than no.
body. She has been ailing for some time, and
1T is of no use to send for the first common
stupid practitioner that may be in the way. Is
there not some famous doctor procursble in
Italy 7"
The most famous in Italy is Greek physi-
cian not five thousand PAGES from here at this
said the landlord. "But he would