Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-12

SAW SPAR OF WOOD, TO WHICH SWAMI. he nightin gale, the murmur of tho summer sea, and tho music of Cleopatra's laugh of 7'ctory followed me softly and yet more 'oft as sank away to sleep.
 Once more my life came back, and with it aensa ef steadily sickness and of aching pain. 1 opened ray eyes and saw kindly faces bending o'er me, and knew that was n Q room of a builded house,
 siftayy came hitheri" asked, faintly.
 ':Of $ truth, Poseidou brought thee, Strangcr," answered 6 rough voice in bar Sarous Greek, "for we found thee cast high apon the beach like a dead dolphin, and brought thee to our house, for we are fisher Eolk. And here methinks must thou lie lWhile, for thy left les Is broken by the orce Of the waves"
 lstrove to move my foot, but could not It knee.
 ''Who art thou and how art thou namedl" lsked the rot sh-bearded sailor.
 'st vi ss.. egyptian traveller whose ship IL: s.>- !: ir. .he fury of the gale, and Olym- ,us s.i- named," answered, for Olympus ;lese people called mountain that we had iir;lted, and therefore took the name at ,,2ard. And as Olympus henceforth was ia~w2i.
 ITe'e with these rough fisher-felk did I lole;a fcI tiie half of year, paying them title out of the sum of gold that had come safely ashore upon me. For long was 1t be- iore my bones grew together again, and :hen sreo left somewhat of O cripple for I who had been so tall and straight and strong low limped-one limb being shorter than ihe other. And after I recovered from my Wtt, still l lived there, and teiied with Ihem at tt>e trade of fishing; for whither I ,,ould go or what I should do that knew got, and, tor awhile, fain was I to become tpeasant fisherman, and Sd wear my weary fife away And these people entreated me kindly, though, as others, they feared me f1uch, holding me to be wizard brought aither by the sea. For methinks that my ,errows had stamped so strange an aspect ,n my face that men gazing thereon grew 'earful of what lay beneath it's calm.
 There then l abode, till at length one light as l lar and strove to sleep, great :estlessncss came upon me, and Q mighty lesire once more to see the broad face of sihor. But whether this desire was of the 3ods or born of my own heart, not knowing : can not tell So strong was it at the last hat before it was dawn rose from my bed # straw, and clothed myself in my fisher yarb, and, because had no wish to answer lueations, thus l took farewell of my hum
 
 wood placed some pieces of gold, and then aking pot of flour 1 strewed it in the orm of letter-writing-
 "1hts gift from Olympus, the Egypttd,,, srho eturns i,,to the sea-"
 Then I went and on the third day came o the great city of Salamis, that is also on he sea. Here abode in the fisherman's quarter till vessel was about to sail for Alexandria, and to the captain of this ves- ,el, a man of Paphos, hired myself as tailor. We sailed with 0 favoring wind, md on the fifth day came to Alexandria, that hateful city, and saw the light glaripg an it's golden domes.
 Eere might not abide. So once again aired myself out as sailor, giving my abor in return for passage, and we passed ap the Nile. And from the talk of men 1 earned that Cleopatra had come back to Alexandria, drawing Antony with her, and that together they lived in royal state in the palace on the Lochias. Indeed, the poatmen already had 8 song thereon, which they sang as they labored at the oar. Also heard how the galley that was sent to search for the vessel which carried the Syrian merchant had foundered with all aer crew, and the tale that the Queens as kronomer, harmachis, had flown to Heaven from the roof of the house at farsus. And the sailors wondered because 1 sat and lnbored. and would not sing their rlbald songs of the loves of Cleopatra. For they, too, began to fear me, aud mutter con- cerning me among themselves. Then I knew that was ? man accursed and set spart-a man whom none might love.
 On the sixth day we drew nigh to Abouthis, where left the craft, and right glad were the sailors to see mo go And, with R breaking heart, walked through the fertile fields, seeing faces that we'll knew. But in my rough disguise and limp ing gait none knew me. At length came, as tho sun sank, near to the great outer pylon of the Temple; and here I oreuched down in the ruins of 9 house, not knowing had come or what was about to do Like lost OK had strayed from far, back to the fields of my birth, and for uhata If my father, Amenemhat, still lived, surely he would turn his face from mel dared not go into the presence of My father. I sat hidden there among the broken rafters and idly watched the pylon- gates, to see if perchance 8 face knew should issue forth. But none came forth or
 To be contlnueu.