Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-19

thrown open in the door, and an aged
eunuch, looking forth, roughly asked our
business.
.'Our business is with the Lord Antony
said Charmion.
ssThen it is no business, for Antony, my
master, sees neither man or woman
''Yet will he see US, for we bring tidings.
Go tell him that the Lady Charmion brings
tiding s from the army"
The man went, and presently returned.
1.-THE Lord Antony would know it the It'd
ings be good or ill, for, if ill, then will he
none of it, for with evil tidings hath he been
overfed of late"
"Why-why, tits both good and i'll. Open,
slave, I will make answer to thy master!''
and she slipped a purse of gold through the
bars.
s'Well, well" he grumbled as he took the
purse, s'the times are hard, and likely to be
harder; for when the lions down who will
feed the jackal? Give thy news myself, and
if it do but draw the noble Antony out OF
this hall of Groans, care not what it be.
Now, the palace door is open, and there's
the road to the banqueting chamber!"
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 found
ourselves in a vaulted chamber, ill-lighted
from the roof. On the further side of this
rude chamber was bed of rugs, and there
on crouched the figure of a man, his face hid
in the folds of his toga.
.'Most noble Antony" said Charmion,
drawing near, 'unwrap thy face and heark
en- unto me, for bring thee tidings."
Then he lifted up his head. MARRIED wa.
| his face by sorrow; his tangled hair, griz
zled with years, hung about his hollow eyes
and white on his chin was the stubble of ar
unshaved beard. Squalid was his robe, and
more wretched his aspect than that of the
poorest beggar at the Temple gates. II
this, then, had the love Of Cleopatra brought
the glorious and removed Antony, afore
time Master of Half the World!
! 'What will We with me, Lady," he asked
'swho would perish here alonel And who
IS this man who comes to gaze on fallen ant
forsaken Antonyl"
This is Olympus, noble Antony, tina
wise physician, the skilled in auguries, o.
whom thou hast heard much, and who Cleo
patra, ever mindful of thy welfare, though
but little doth thou think Of hers, hath sen
! to minister to thee"
'And can thy physician minister to grie
such as my griefa Can his drugs give me-
back my galleys, my honor and my peace
Nay! Away with thy physician! What i:
| thy tidingss quick-out with it! Hath Can
idius. perchance, conquered Caesara Tel
l
| for thy guerdon-ay! and if Octavianus i:
dead, twenty, thousand sestertia to fill it:
treasury. Speak-nay; speak notl 1 feal
the opening of thy lips as I never feared al
earthly thing! Surely the wheel of Fortune
hath gone round and Canidius hath con
queredl Is it not sos Nay-out with it
can no morei"
90 noble Antony!'' she said, ''steel tn,
heart to hear that which needs must tel
thee! Canidius Is in Alexandria. He hail
| fed fast and far, and this is his report. Fo
seven whole days did the legions wait tn,
coming Of Antony, as aforetime, to leas
them to victory, putting aside the offers o
the ENJOYS of Caesar. But Antony CAM
not. And then twas runiored that Anton.
had fed to TRnarus, drawn thither b,
| Cleopatra The man who first brought tina
tale to the camp the iegionaries cried sham
on-ay, and beat him to the DEATH Blu
ever it grew, until at length there was n
more room to doubt; and then, o Antony
thy officers slipped one by one away t
Caesar, and where the officers go there tn
men follow. Nor is this all the story; TO
thy allies-Bocchus of Africa, Tarcondi
motus of Cilicia, Mithridates of Com
magene, Adallas of Thrace, Philadelphus o
Paphlagonia, Archelaus of Cappadocis
Herod of Judsea, Amyntas of Galatia, Pole
mon Of Pontus, and Malchus of Arabia-al
all have fed or bid their generals fly bac
| to whence they came; and already thei
ambassadors do crave cold Cesar's elem
ency."
ssHast done thy croaking. thou raven IN
peacoc1k's dress, or is there more to come!
asked the smitten man, lifting hIs whit
and trembling face from the shelter OF hi
hands. ssTeu me more; say that Egypt