Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

! in the door, and an aged eunuch, looking
forth, roughly asked our business.
"Our business is with Lord Antony,
said Charmion.
'Then it is no business, for Antony, my
master, sees neither man nor woman.
"Yet will he see us, for we bring It'd
ings. Go tell him Lady Charmion brings
tidings from the army"
The man went, and presently returned.
"The Lord Antony would know II the
tidings be good or i'll, for, if i'll, then will
he none of it, for with evil tldings hath
he been overfed of late"
"Why-why, It's both good and i'll.
Open. slave, will make answer to thy
MASTER and she slipped a purse OF gold
drought the bars.
"Well, well, p" he grumbled as he took
the purse, ''the times are hard, and likely
to be harder; for when the lions down
who will feed the iackal? Give
thy news myself, and if it do
but draw the noble Antony out OF
this hall of Groans, care not what 1t be
Now, the pal ace door is open, and there :
the road to the banqueting chsmbeT"
We passed on, to find ourselves IN mar
row passage, and leaving the eunuch to
bar the door. advanced till we came to q
curtain. Through this We went, and
foupd ourselves in a vaulted chamber, Ill
lighted from the roof. Ga the further SIDE
of this rude chamber was bed Of rugs,
and thereon crouehed the figure Of q man,
his face hid in the folds of his tOga.
'Most noble Antony" said CharmiOn,
drawing near, "unwrap thy fsce, and
hearken unto me, for bring thee tidings."
Then he lifted up his head. Marred
was his face by sorrow; his tangled hair,
grizzled with years, hang about mis- mol
low eyes, and white on his chin was the
stubble of an unshaven beard. Squaiid
was his robe, and more wretched hls as
pect than that of the poorest beggar at the
Temple gates. To this, then, had the love
of CLEOPATRA brought the glorious and re-
nowned Antony, afOretime Master Of Half
the World!
what will We with me, Lady" he
asked, "who would perish here alone?
And who is this man who comes to gaze
on fallen and forsaken Antony"
This is Olympus, noble Antony, that
wise physician, the skilled in augurIes, Of
whom thou hast heard much, and who
Cleopatra, ever mindful of thy welfare,
though but little doth thou think of hers,
hath sent to minister to thee"
"And can thy physician minister to
grief such as my grief? Can his drugs give
me back my galleys, my honor and my
peace? Nay! Away with thy physicianl
What is thy tidings? quick-out with it!
Hath Canidius, perchance, conquered
CesaI? Tell me but that, and thou
shalt have province for tiny guer-
dOn-ayl aud If Octavisnus is dead,
twenty thousand sestertia to fill its treas
u1y. Spesk-nay; speak not I fear
the opening of thy lips as l never feared an
earthly thing Surely the wheel OF For
tune hath gone round and Canidius hath
conquered? Is it not 80? Nsy-out with
it! can no more"
30 noble Antonym she said, ''steel thy
heart to hear that which needs must tell
thee Canidius is in Alexandria. He hath
fled fast and far, and this is his report.
For seven whole days did the legions wait
the coming of Antony, as aforetime, TO
lead them to victory, putting aside the
offers of the ENJOYS of Cesar. But AntO-
ny came not. And then twas rumored
that Antony had fed to Teoarus, drawn
thither by Cleopatra. The man
who first brought that tale to the
camp the DICTIONARIES cried shame
on-sy, and beat him to the death But
ever it grew, until at length there was no
more room to doubt and then, o Antony,
thy officers slipped one by one away to
Cesar, and where the officers 20 there
the men follow. Nor is this all the story
for thy sllies-Bocchus of Africa, TarcOn-
dimotus of Cilicis, Mithridates of Comma
gene, Adallas of Thrace, Philadelphus OF
Psphlagonia. Archelaus of CappadOcia.
Herod of Judea, Amyntas of Galatia, Pole
mon of Pontus, and Mslchus of Arabia
all, all have fled or bid their generals fly
back to whence they came; and already
their AMBASSADORS do crave cold Caesars