Are you alone ?" "Alone for ever," I said; and as I spoke the procession that with bare and bent heads carried two veiled forms into the peristyle below told all he sought to know.

I need not dwell on the scene that followed.

I scarcely remember anything, till a chest of gold, bearing the cipher which though seldom seen I knew so well, was placed in my hands.

I turned to Zulve, and to Ergimo, who stood beside her.
"Have you need of me ?" I said.

"If I can serve her house I will remain willingly, and as long as I can help or comfort." "No," replied Ergimo; for Zulve could not speak.