Agias shivered and wound himself in his mantle.

The wine was making him drowsy, and he felt himself sinking into semiconsciousness, when a touch on his arm aroused him.
[161] The official residence of the Pontifex Maximus.
"_St!"_ whispered Demetrius.

"I saw a light moving." Agias stared into the darkness.
"There," continued the pirate, "see, it is a lantern carefully covered! Only a little glint on the ground now and then.

Some one is creeping along the wall to enter the house of the Vestals!" "I see nothing," confessed Agias, rubbing his eyes.
"You are no sailor; look harder.

I can count four men in the gloom.
They are stealing up to the gate of the building.