The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

Patriarch's ear and meant to keep It. Peter hated Philammon. His calculat- ing mind instinctiyely recoiled rom contact with that fresh young soul F'ervently he wished the boy back In the sands of the Laura. So now, when Phlammon asked to see the Patriarch, Peter the Reader said to him: Do you think His Holiness has nothing to do but to listen to such youthful wander CTS from the desert as you? You shall not see him."
 But he told me to report to him. objected Philammon. For reply Peter struck the boy blow and at the same time set up a shout of Help, l am being beaten in the house of the Lord by this barbarian." And in fact he was for Philammon had knocKed the man down.. In an instant @ mob- Of monks ran up and at Philammon and he was hustled through the gate Into the street. Panting bleeding, indignant at the injustice of the thing and bewil- dered at the many things which had happened to i'm since he came to Alex andria Philammon wandered as in a dream to the museum and sat down on its steps He knew that rypatia lived in one of the houses opposite and won dered which one. So wondering, he fell asleep, and when he woke from a
  broad daylight and the little porter was shaking him by the arm
 Beloved of the gods" said the DOT ter: favored of Hypatia, how comes it that you are here asleep?' Philam- mon told his story-and it was great relief to him to have somebody to hear it. The porter took him home and not only fed him, but showed him little room which he told him he might oc- hpttnr with him. Philammon had found favor in the sight of the little porter-first and foremost because he had been looked on kindly by Hypatia, whom the porter worshipped from afar; and secondly, because in one of the many riots be- tween the Nitrians Jews and Romans, Philammon had chanced to save the porter's negro wife. The little porter beat his wife after the manner of his kind. bnt nevertheless was deeply grateful for the saving of her life.
 Soon thereafter Philammon became a regular student in the school of Fly patia. repairing there regularly and drinking deep of her philosophy. He had not lost his Christianity. only like many others. both in his century and our own, he had ceased to practice 1t. He still believed that he was member of the Catholic church; but this new field of knOWleuBe inlo WHiSif "i'h hSi alluring lips Hypatia had Introduced him was so strangely beautiful to him that he needs must finger there and nick it's posies for while.
 One day to his astonishment Pelagla with her Goths and her girls came driving up to the door of the museum. The girls gay with saffron shawls, came riding in gorgeous chariots, while the Coths rode the small miserable na- tive horses, whose small bulk allowed the feet of the vikings almost to touch the earth. Pegalia had heard so much about Hypatia that she had become jealous, especially when she had heard her Gotns talking about the fair phil osopher as being more nearly like an "Alruna wife" than any woman they had seen in Africa.
 The chaste Athene of the schools bit her lip with vexation when she saw the party of Pelagia. Then with cold. calm demeaDor she forgot or tried to forget, their presence and launched out in her lecture for the day. At first Pelagia and her nymphs smirked and eigRled at the phrases. to them mean ingless, which fell from the cold lips of Hypatia. But one of the Goths st-