THE TEMPLE OF ISIS.

ITS PRIEST.

THE CHARACTER OF ARBACES DEVELOPS ITSELF.
THE story returns to the Egyptian.

We left Arbaces upon the shores of the noonday sea, after he had parted from Glaucus and his companion.

As he approached to the more crowded part of the bay, he paused and gazed upon that animated scene with folded arms, and a bitter smile upon his dark features.
'Gulls, dupes, fools, that ye are!' muttered he to himself; 'whether business or pleasure, trade or religion, be your pursuit, you are equally cheated by the passions that ye should rule! How I could loathe you, if I did not hate--yes, hate! Greek or Roman, it is from us, from the dark lore of Egypt, that ye have stolen the fire that gives you souls.