Shall we go now ?" Next minute the two were gone.
Ben-Hur took comfort in the assurance that no one was ever lost in Daphne, and he, too, set out--where, he knew not.
A sculpture reared upon a beautiful pedestal in the garden attracted him first.

It proved to be the statue of a centaur.

An inscription informed the unlearned visitor that it exactly represented Chiron, the beloved of Apollo and Diana, instructed by them in the mysteries of hunting, medicine, music, and prophecy.

The inscription also bade the stranger look out at a certain part of the heavens, at a certain hour of the clear night, and he would behold the dead alive among the stars, whither Jupiter had transferred the good genius.
The wisest of the centaurs continued, nevertheless, in the service of mankind.

In his hand he held a scroll, on which, graven in Greek, were paragraphs of a notice: "O Traveller! "Art thou a stranger?
"I.