Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-06

 ment casting shadow in her deep eyes,
 ''So thou art come, Harmachis," she said, resting for awhile, as she took my hand. "Counsel me, for never did 1 need counsel more. Oh, what days have the Gods meas ured out to me-days restless as the ocean !! No peace have known from childhood up, and it seems none shall eyer know, Scarce by very little have escaped thy dagger's point, Harmachis, when this new trouble, that, like storm, has gathered beneath the horizons rim, bursts sudden OCT me. Didst mark that tigrish fops Well should love to t1 ap him! How soft he spoke! Ay, like cat he purred, and all the time ho stretched his claws: Didst mark the letter, Joo! It has an ugly look. ] know this Antony. When was but child bud ding into womanhood, saw him; but my eyes were ever quick and took his measure. Half Hercules and half a fool, with d dash of genius yeining his folly through. Easily led by those who enter at the gates of hls voluptuous sense; but If crossed, an iron foe True to his friends, if, indeed, he loves them, and oftentimes false to h1s own interest. Generous, hardy and in adversity d man of virtue; i'll prosperity a sot and a slave to women. How deal with such man, whom Fate and Opportunity have, despite himself, set on the crest of fortune's wavee One day twill o'erwhelm him; but till that day he sweeps across the world and laughs at those who drown"
 ''Antony is but man," answered, ''and man with many foes; and, being but man, he can be oerthrown."
 ''Ay, he can be oerthrown; but he is one of three, Harmachis. Now that Cassius has gone where all fools go, Rome has thrown out hydra head. Crush one and another misses III thy face. There's Lepidus, and with him that young Octavianus, whose cold eyes may yet with smile of triumph look on the murdered forms of empty, worthless Lepidus, of Antony, and of Cleo patra. If I go not to Cillcia, mark thou! Antony will knit up a peace with these Parthians, and taking the tales they tell of me for truth-and indeed there is truth in them-will fall with all his force on Egypt. And how then}"
 ''How then' Why, then we'll drum him back to Rome.'
 'Ahl Thou sayest so, and perchance, Harmachis, had l not won that game we played together some twelve days gone, thou, being Pharaoh, mightest well have done this thing, for round thy throne old Egypt would have gathered. But Egypt loves not me nor my Greek blood; and but now have 1 scattered that great plot of thine, wherein half the land was meshed. Will these men, then, arise to succor mel Were Egypt true te me I could, indeed, hold my own against all the force that Rome may bring; but Egypt hates me, and had as lief be ruled by the Roman as the Greek. Still might make defense had I the gold, for with money soldiers can be bought wherewith to feed the maw of mercenary battle. But have none; my treasuries are dry, and though there is wealth in the land, yet do debts perplex me, These wars have brought me ruin, and know not how to find talent. Perchance, Harmachls, thou who art, by hereditary right, Priest of the Pyramids" and she drew near and looked | me in the eyes, ''perchance, if long descend l ed rumor does not lie, thou canst tell me whcxe I can touch the gold to save thy land | from ruin and myself from the grasp ot An tony! Say, is 1t sop
 thought awhile, and then I answered.: | "And if such 9 tale were true, and if I could show thee treasure stored by the mighty Pharaohs of the most far-off age against the needs of Khem, ,..how can know that thou wouldst indeed make use of that wealth to those good endsl"
 ''Is there, then, a treasure?" she asked, curiously "Nay, fret me not, Harmachis; i; l for of truth the very name of gold at this time of want is like the sight of water in the desert."
 | 'I believe" said, s'that there Is such a treasure, though myself have never seen it.. But this l know, that if it still lie in the place where it was set, 'tis because so heavy ua curse shall rest upon him who wickedly and for selfish ends shall lay hands thereon that none of those Pharaohs to whom it hath been shown have dared to | touch it, whatever their need.'
 ESQ.," she said, "they were cowardly aforetime, or else was their need not great. Wilt thou show me this treasure, then, Harmachis?"
 "Perchance," answered, II will show it to thee, if it still be there, when thou hast sworn that ~ssnou wilt use it to defend Egypt from this Roman Antony and for the wei fare of her people,"
 "L swear it!" she said earnestly. "Oh, ] swear by every God Tn Khem that If thou showest me this great treasure will defy Antony and send Dellius back to Cilcia
 with words more sharp than those he brought. Ay, I'il do more, Harmachis: So soon as may be, will take thee to husband before all the world, and thou myself shalt carry out thy plans and beat the Roman eagles of.D