and she the priestess of it all....inviting him to learn of her and be wise! It was a temptation! He would flee from it!--Fool that he was!--and it might not be she after all! He made some sudden movement.

She looked down, saw him, and shutting the blind, vanished for the night.

In vain, now that the temptation had departed, he sat and waited for its reappearance, half cursing himself for having broken the spell.

But the chamber was dark and silent henceforth; and Philammon, wearied out, found himself soon wandering back to the Laura in quiet dreams, beneath the balmy, semi-tropic night..