For you, too, child, the fullness of time is coming; for you, too, freeborn though you are, are, I know, one of the heavy laden who patiently suffer the burden laid upon you.

You too--But keep close to me; we shall find it difficult to get through this throng." It was, in fact, no easy matter to get across the crowd which was pouring noisily down the street of Hermes, into which this narrow way led.

How ever, they achieved it, and when Melissa had recovered her breath in a quiet lane in Rhakotis, she turned to her companion again with the question, "And when do you suppose that your predictions will be fulfilled ?" "As soon as the breeze blows which shall shake the overripe fruit from the tree.

It may be tomorrow, or not yet, according to the long-suffering of the Most High.

But the entire collapse of the world in which we have been living is as certain to come as that you are walking here with me!" Melissa walked on with a quaking heart, as she heard her friend's tone of conviction; he, however, was aware that the inmost meaning of his words was sealed to her.