Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-10-11

post, and the golden castle in which
we chung lurched so wildly that we
were torn from it and shot fer away
into the water.
Still there, of course, we were safe,
and I was pleased enough to be rid
Of the bumpings.
Phorenice laughed as she swan.
you handle yourself like sore
man, Deucalion. owe you some
thing for lending me the cushion of
your body. BY my facet There's
more of the gallant about you when
it comes to the test than one would
guess to hear you talk. How did you
like the ride, sir? warrant it came
to you as new experience"
I'D liefer have walked"
"Pish, man! you'll never be
courtier. You should have sworn
that with me in your arms you could
have wished the humping had gone
on forever. Ho, the boat there! Hold
your arrows. Deucalion, hail me
those fools in that boat. Tell them
that, if they hurt 50 much as hair
of my mammoth, I'll kill them all by
torture. He'll exhaust himself di-
rectly, and when his furry's done
we'll leave him where he is, to con-
slider his evil ways for day or so,
and then haul him out with wind
lasses, and tame him afresh. Pho! I
could not feel myself to be Phorenice
If had no fine, red, shaggy mann
moth to take me out for my rides"
The boat was ten-slave galley,
which was churning up from the
farther side of the harbor as hard as
well-plied whips could make oars
drive her; but at the sound of my
shouts the soldiers on her foredeck
stopped their arrow-shots, and the
steersman swerved her off on new
course to pick us up. Till then we
had been swimming leisurely across
an angle of the harpor, SO as to avoid
landing where the sewers outpoured;
but we stopped now, treading the
water, and We're helped over the side
by most respectful hands.
The galley belonged to the captain
of the port, a mincing figure of a
mariner, whose highest appetite in
life was to lick the feet of the great;
and he began to fawn and PROSTATE
himself at once, and to wish that his
eyes had been blinded before he saw
the empress in such deadly peril.
But it seemed she could be cloyed
with fiattery. "If you are tired of
your eyes" said She, ''let me tell you
that you have gone the way to
have them plucked out from their
sockets. Kill my mammoth, would
you, because he has shown himself
trifle frolicsome? You and your sort
want more education, my man. / shall
have to teach you that port-captains
and such small creatures are very
easy to come by, and very small
value when got, but that my mann
moth is mine-mine, do you under
stand ?-the property of Goddess
Phorenice, and as such is sacred"
The port captain abased himself be-
fore her. II am an ignorant fellow"
said he, land heaven was robbed of
it's brightest ornament when Phoren-
ice came down to Atlantis. But if
PREPARATION is permitted me" I"haye
two prisoners in the cabin of the boat
here who shall be sacrificed to the
mammoth forthwith. Doubtless it
would please him to make sport with
them, and spill out the last lees of his
rage upon their bodies"
Prisoners you've got, have you?
How taken?o
Under cover Of last night they were
trying to pass in between the two
forts which guard the harbor mouth.
But their boat fouled the
chain, and by the light Of the torches
the sentries spied them. They were
caught with ropes and put in a dun
geon. There is an order not to abuse
prisoners before they have been
brought before Judgment
ut was my order. Did these pris-