The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-20

ding DER the sea, for q mo-
nent casting shadow in her deep eyes.
80 thou art come, Harmachis," she said,
resting for awhile, as she took my hand.
Counsel me, for never did need counsel
more. oh, what days have the Gods meas
nred out TO me--days restless as the ocean
No peace have l known from childhood up,
and 1t seems none shall everknow. Scarce
by very little have escaped thy dagger's
point, Harmachis, when this new trouble,
that, like a storm, has gathered beneath the
horizons rim, bursts sudden DER me. Didst
mark that tigrish fopl Well should love
10 tap himl How soft he spokel Ay, like
cat he purred, and all the time he
stretched his claws. Didst mark the letter,
iool 1t has an ugly look know
his Antony When was but child bud
ling into womanhood, saw him; but my
Eyes were ever quick and took his measure.
half Hercules and half fool, with dash
If genius veining his folly through. Easily
I'D by those who enter at the gates Of his
FoluptuOus sense; but II crossed, an iron
Zoe. True TO his friends, II, indeed, he
owes them, and oftentimes false to his own
interest. Generous, hardy and in adversely
lman OF virtue; in prosperity a sot and o
Ilave TO women. How deal with such man,
whom Fate and Opportunity have, despite
himself, 'on the crest Of fortunes wavel
Dne day twill o'erwhelm him; but till that
Jay he sweeps across the world and laughs
1t those who drown"
"Antony is but man, answered, "and
I man with many foes; and, being but
nan, he can be o'erthrown.n
Gay, he can be o'erthrown; but he Is one
" three, Harmachis. Now that Cassius has
rome where all fools 20, Rome has thrown
)ut hydra head. Crush one and another
bisses In thy face. There's Lepidus, and
with him that young Octavianus, whose
soid eyes may yet with a smile Of triumph
bok on the murdered forms Of empty,
Worthless Lepidus, Of Antony, and Of Cleo
batra II 90 not 10 Cilicia, mark thoui
Antony will knit up peace with these
Parthians, and taking the tales they tell OF
ne for truth-and indeed there is truth in
hem-will fall with all his force on Egypt.
And how thenip
"How theni Why, then we'll drum him
hack 10 Rome"
"Ahl Thou sayest 30, and perchance,
Harmachis, had ! not won that game we
played together some twelve days gone,
lhou, being Pharaoh, mightest we'll have
lone this thing, for round thy throne old
Egypt would have gathered. But Egypt
bves not me nor my Greek blood; and but
how have scattered that great plot Of
lhine, wherein half the land was meshed.
Will these men, then, arise TO succor met
We're Egypt true 70 me ] could, indeed,
bold my own against all the force that Rome
pay bring; but Egypt hates me, and had as
ief be ruled by the Roman rs the Greek.
btill might make defense had the gold,
for with money soldiers can be bought
yherewith 70 feed the nav Of mercenary
battle. But have none my treasures are
lry, and though there Is wealth In the land,
yet do debts perplex me. These wars have
brought me ruin, and / know not how 70
lind talent Perehance, Harmachis, thou
who art by hereditary right Priest fthe
Pyramlds,n andshe drew near and looked
mem the eyes, 'petchance, Il lon n descend.
Cd rtimor does noe lie, fhou oanst ten ma
where can touch the a.ld TO- save thy land
from ruin and myself from the grasp of An
tonyl Say, q IL sop ~ f1s8-1l LIZ y
thought awhile, add then ! answered:
And II such.a tale were true, and II !