Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-02-01

sit seems to be black enough. I
am one that has a compassion for my
fellow men, my lord, and because of
that compassion you see me what T
am to-day. There was p time, not
long passed, when L slept as soft and
ate as dainty as any in Atlantis"
l smiled. your speech told me
that much from the first
"Then I would I had cast the
speech off, too, if that is also livery
of the tyrant's class. But I tell you
l saw all the oppression myself from
the oppressor's side. I was high in
Phorenice's favor then"
THAT, too, is easy of credence.
Ylga is the fangirl to the empress
now, and second lady in the kingdom,
and those who have seen Ylga could
make an easy guess at the parentage
of Nais."
"We were the daughters of one
BIRTH
| The torch had filed the captains
room with a resinous smoke, but the
flame was growing pale. Dawn was
coming in grayly through slender
arrow slit, and with it ever and again
the glow from some mountain out of
sight, which was shooting forth spas
modic bursts of fire. With it also
were mutterings of distant falling
rocks and sullen tremblings, which
had endured all the night through,
md
of her quaking moods, and would
probably during the forthcoming day
offer us some Christening discomforts
On this account, perhaps, my senses
were stilled to certain evidences
which would otherwise have given me
suspicion; and, also, there is no de-
nying that my general wakefulness
was Slapped by another matter. This
woman, Nais, interested me vastly
out of the common; the mere pres
ence of her seemed to warm the or
gans of my interior; and, while she
was there, all my thoughts and senses
were present in the room of the cap
tain of the gate in which we sat.
| But of sudden the floor of the
1 GIG IOChCo dlIo 1SAA away NC
meath me, and in a tumult of dust
and litter and bales of the captain
plumber I fell down (still seated on
the fagstone) into pit which had
been digged beneath it. With the vi
olence of the descent and the fiutter
of all these articles about my head
I was in no condition for immediate
/ az xxhi1o still h If
stunned by the shock. and long be-
| fore I could get my eyes into service
again, 1 had been seized and bound
and half strangled with a moose of
hide. Voices were raised that
should be dispatched at once out of
the way; but one in authority cried
out that killing me at leisure, and as
a prisoner, promised more genteel
sport; and so I was thrust down on
the floor, while whole army of men
trod in over me to the attack.
What had happened was clear to
me now, though 1 was powerless to
do anything in hinderance. The reb-
els, with more craft than anyone had
credited to them, had driven a gal
ley from Unelr camp unQeT Uno
ground, intending so to make an en-
trance into the heart of the city. In
their clumsy ignorance, and having
no one of sufficient talent in men
suration, they had bungled sadly both
| in direction and length, and so had
ended their burrow under this cham
Der OF the captain of the gate. The
great hagstone in it's fall had, it ap-
peared, crushed four of them to
death, but these were little noticed
or lamented. Life was to them a
| bauble of the slendertst price, and a
horde of others pressed through the
opening, lusting for the fight, and
rocking nothing of their risks and
perils.
Half choked by the foul air of the
galley, and trodden on by this great
procession of feet, it was little
enough 1 could do to help my imme-
date self, much less the more dis
tant city. But when the chief mass
of the attackers had passed through,
and there came only here and there
one eager to take his share at storm
ing the gate, a couple of fellows
plucked me up out of the mud ON the