Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-31

HE augurles. For at this time Cleopa-
 tra was much troubled about mat<ers
 Es political And not knowing how the great struggle among the Roman factions would end, but being very desirous to side With the strongest, she took constant coun- sel with me as to the warning of the stars. These read to her in such manner as best seemed to fit the high interest of my ends For Antony, the Roman Triumvir, was now in Asia Minor, and, rumor ran, very wroth because 1t had been told to him that Cleo patra was hostile to the Triumvi1 ate, in that her General, Serapion, had aided Cassius. But Cleopatra protested loudly to me and others that Serapion had acted against her will. Yet Charmion told me that, as with Allienus, it was because of 8 prophecy of Dioscorides, the unlucky, that :he Queen herself had secretly ordered Serapion so to do. Nevertheless, this did not save Scrap ion, for, to prove to Antony that she was in- nocent, she dragged the General from the sanctuary and slew him. Woe be to those who carry out the will of tyrants if the scale should rise against them And so Serapion perished.
 Meanwhile all things went we'll with us, for the minds of Cleopatra and those about her were so set upon affairs abroad that neither she nor they thought of revolt at home. But day by day our party gathered strength in the cities of Egypt, and even in Alexandria, which is to Egypt as another land, all things being foreign there. Day by day those who doubted were won over and sworn to the cause by that oath which can not be broken, and our plans of action more firmly laid. And every other day I went forth from the palace to take counsel
 with my uncle Sepa, and there at his house
 met the nobles and the great priests who
 were for the party of Khem.
 Of Cleopatra, the Queen. saw much,
 and never was moro astonished at tho wealth and splendor of her mind, that for richness and variety was as woven cloth of gold throwing back all lights from it's
 changing face. She feared me somewhat,
 and therefore was fain to make a friend of me, asking me many matters that seemed
 to be beyond the province of my office. Of the Lady Charmion also saw much indeed, she was ever at my side, so that scarce knew when she came and when she | went. For with that soft step of hers
 would she draw nigh, and would turn me to find her at hand and watching beneath the long lashes of her downcast eyes.
 There was no service that was too hard for | her, and no task too long, for day and night she labored for me and for our cause. But when thanked her for her loyalty and said ] it should be had in mind in that time which | was at hand. she stamped her foot and 1 pouted with her lips like an angry child | saying that, among all the things which
 had learned, this had I not learned-that | Love's service asked no payment and was
 it's own guerdon. And being innocent in | such matters and foolish that I was, hold | ing the ways of women as of small account | read her sayings in the sense that her serv- | ices to the cause of Khem, which she
 loved, brought with them their own reward But when I pralsed so fine spirit she burst into angry tears and left mo wonder. | ing; for knew naught of the trouble at her heart. knew not then that, unsought this woman had given me all her love, and