The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-29
SECTION Two
Translated By
SigmuRd krauSz
Author Of Towards the
Rising Sun"

Nov thou hast attained thine OBJ
ject-gOi"
Why should she not have saved such
a noble life by a kiss?
AristOmenes. at this moment fa1f
such strength IN him that had the
whole population OF Sparta crowded
its streets. he would have fought his
way to liberty. But nobody was out.
The sentinels had left their posts. the
gates Of the city stood ajar. d un-
harmed he reached his camp I'm safety.
Long after midnight the people
awoke from their heavy stupor. Sol
diers who, fOrgetful Of their duties had
thrown their arms away. searched for
them and hurried To- their posts. The
morning found the usual order iu Spar
"a, but the dungeon Of A-rislomenes
was empty.
How ne had escaped through the
crowded streets in spite of soldiers and
sentinels. could not be discovered.
Those who had seen him kept silent.
for never would a Spartan confess Co
having been a coward, TO have seen am
enemy pass without daring to stop him.
kleanthOs alone suspected the truth.
he knew the effect of his Wife's phIlter
n cOujectured that Agamede had lib
Grated the. hostile leader.
After he had given his suspicion
room in his breast, a second one im-
mediately took hold of him. Why had
H-E ~ &E"L AthA LacA AAE A2AAaEnTNAaa
which Aristomenes had made I'm his
stupor toucher her heart? Jealousy fs
a VenemOus reptile, "a bears one sus-
piciOn after another.
One day Kleanthos requested Aga
Hede again to prepare the Craught for
a suspected Eph0r whom he a In
vited TO dinner. But this Ephor was a
c0nhdant Of the king and initiated i'm
his plan
When Agamede had filled the cup OF
EphOF, Kleanthos dropped his ring aud
asked Agamede to pick it up for him.
While the queen complied with his
] wish, the EphoT quickly changed the
gObIets, placing his own before Aga
mede. The next moment both had
emptied them TO the health of the king.
After a few minutes Agamede began
20 feel the ~enervating effect of the
draught. Her heart began to beat with
anguish, like a Of the criminal who
sees the eXeCutiOner before him, and
yet h did not know what had hap
pened TO her.
But now she looked at the Ephor,
who smiled sarcastically at her, then
she turned her yes TO kleanthOs.
whose face was burning with uucOn-
trollable rage, and in this moment eve
erything was clear TO her mind; she
had drunk the AchaemenidiOn.
On the table before her lay the knife.
She s~hUddered as she saw DO, like all
Who had been sLupeied by the pHiiEeT.
and as she put her hand on the iron
her nerves began 90 twitch with terror.
I'm spite Of this, she clutched the hau-
die of the knife and looked at it.
though this seemed like torture of he'll
to her.
And now she heard the voice of her
husband. Like the blOodthirsty roar
of a wild beast it sounded i'm her heart.
Woman, answer me three ques-
tons What happened eight days ago
to the people of SPARTA Who gave
AristOmenes his liberty, and what is
the secret of this magic ~draught2'
Agamede felt irresistibIy compelled
to answer these questions. Her tongue
would not obey her viii, and in her
heart she had only a small particle of
strength left. But this particle resist
ed. revolted i'm her breast Quickly she
jumped up and drove the sharp knife
with trembling hand TO the hilt. into
her breast.
Kieauthos did mot receive au answer
90 his questions.
The last strength of her failing C0n-
sciOusuess. Agamede had used TO ado
vantage. The bloody knife had broken
the charm of cOwardice and the dead
do not betray the secret of a magic
~draught.
Copyright, 1904. sampson-Hodges
Co, Chicago.