When he has gone there will be one more deceived Biamite who will call down the curse of the gods upon the head of a Greek.

You are not the only one who will execrate the destiny that brought us here.

Others have been caught in his net too." "Here ?" asked Ledscha in a hollow tone; and the slave eagerly answered: "Where else?
And that you may know the truth--among those who visited Hermon in his studio is your own young sister." "Our Taus?
That child ?" exclaimed the girl, stretching her hands toward the slave in horror, as if to ward off some impending disaster.
"That child, who, I think, has grown into a very charming girl--and, before her, pretty Gula, the wife of Paseth, who, like your father, is away on his ship." Here, in a tone of triumphant confidence, the answer rang from the Biamite's lips: "There the slanderer stands revealed! Now you are detected, now I perceive the meaning of your threat.

Because, miserable slave, you cherish the mad hope of beguiling me yourself, you do your utmost to estrange me from your master.

Gula, you say, visited Hermon in his studio, and it may be true.