The secretaries and officers of his suite filled one boat and Marcus and his brother were getting into the other with their men.

We, and others of the free passengers, should have been left behind if Dada..." "That pretty little blonde ?" asked Damia.
"The very same.

Marcus had taken a great fancy to her prattle and her songs during the voyage--no nightingale can sing more clearly--and when she begged and prayed him he gave way at once, and said: he would take her in his boat.

But the brave child declared that she would jump into the sea before she would leave without us." "Well done!" cried the old lady, and Porphyrius added: "That speaks well for her and for you." "So after all Marcus found room for us in the boat--for all of us, and we got safely to land.

A few days after we all came on in a troop-ship: Cynegius, the two brothers and the rest, all safe and sound; and, as we had lost everything we possessed, Marcus gave us a certificate which procured our admission into his mother's Xenodochium.