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肩書を与える: Tales of Long Ago
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tales of Long Ago

by

Arthur Conan Doyle

NOTE

  Tales of the （犯罪の）一味 and the （軍の）野営地，陣営
  Tales of 著作権侵害者s and Blue Water
  Tales of Terror and Mystery
  Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
  Tales of Adventure and 医療の Life
  Tales of Long Ago

  This 一連の 容積／容量s 含む／封じ込めるs a re-問題／発行する of the short
  stories--apart from those relating the adventures of Sherlock
  Holmes--written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and selected by him from
  the さまざまな 調書をとる／予約するs in which they 初めは appeared, the cheap
  版s of which, with one exception, have been 孤立した from
  出版（物）. The stories are grouped 一般に によれば
  支配する, and have been taken from The Green 旗, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the
  解雇する／砲火／射撃 Stories, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the Red Lamp, The Last Galley, The
  Captain of the Polestar, and Danger, and a few hitherto
  unpublished stories have been 追加するd.

PREPARER'S NOTE

  This text was 用意が出来ている from an undated 版 published by John
  Murray as part of Murray's 2'- 逮捕する Novels. It was printed by
  Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury, England.

CONTENTS

THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS
THE LAST GALLEY
THROUGH THE VEIL
THE COMING OF THE HUNS
THE CONTEST
THE FIRST CARGO
AN ICONOCLAST
GIANT MAXIMIN
THE RED STAR
THE SILVER MIRROR
THE HOME-COMING
A POINT OF CONTACT

THE LAST OF THE LEGIONS

Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial 郊外住宅 by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose 黒人／ボイコット 注目する，もくろむs were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so 十分な was his mind of this sudden and most 予期しない order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable 廃虚.

"Very good," he said at last in a hard 乾燥した，日照りの 発言する／表明する, "you can go."

The man saluted and staggered out of the hall. A yellow-haired British major-domo （機の）カム 今後 for orders.

"Is the General there?"

"He is waiting, your excellency."

"Then show him in, and leave us together."

A few minutes later Licinius Crassus, the 長，率いる of the British 軍の 設立, had joined his 長，指導者. He was a large, bearded man in a white 非軍事の toga, hemmed with the Patrician purple. His rough, bold features, 燃やすd and seamed and lined with the long African wars, were 影をつくる／尾行するd with 苦悩 as he looked with 尋問 注目する，もくろむs at the drawn, haggard 直面する of the viceroy.

"I 恐れる, your excellency, that you have had bad news from Rome."

"The worst, Crassus. It is all over with Britain. It is a question whether even Gaul will be held."

"Saint Albus save us! Are the orders 正確な?"

"Here they are, with the Emperor's own 調印（する）."

"But why? I had heard a rumour, but it had seemed too incredible."

"So had I only last week, and had the fellow 天罰（を下す）d for having spread it. But here it is as （疑いを）晴らす as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by 軍隊d marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders."

"But the 原因（となる）?"

"They will let the 四肢s wither so that the heart be stronger. The old German 蜂の巣 is about to 群れている once more. There are fresh （人が）群がるs of Barbarians from Dacia and Scythia. Every sword is needed to 持つ／拘留する the Alpine passes. They cannot let three legions 嘘（をつく） idle in Britain."

The 兵士 shrugged his shoulders.

"When the legions go no Roman would feel that his life was 安全な here. For all that we have done, it is 非，不，無 the いっそう少なく the truth that it is no country of ours, and that we 持つ／拘留する it as we won it by the sword."

"Yes, every man, woman, and child of Latin 血 must come with us to Gaul. The galleys are already waiting at Portus Dubrish. Get the orders out, Crassus, at once. As the Valerian legion 落ちるs 支援する from the 塀で囲む of Hadrian it can take the northern colonists with it. The Jovians can bring in the people from the west, and the Batavians can 護衛する the easterns if they will 召集（する） at Camboricum. You will see to it." He sank his 直面する for a moment in his 手渡すs. "It is a fearsome thing," said he, "to 涙／ほころび up the roots of so goodly a tree."

"To make more space for such a 刈る of 少しのd," said the 兵士 激しく. "My God, what will be the end of these poor Britons! From ocean to ocean there is not a tribe which will not be at the throat of its 隣人 when the last Roman Lictor has turned his 支援する. With these hot-長，率いるd Silures it is hard enough now to keep the swords in their sheaths."

"The kennel might fight as they choose の中で themselves until the best hound won," said the Roman 知事. "At least the 勝利者 would keep the arts and the 宗教 which we have brought them, and Britain would be one land. No, it is the 耐える from the north and the wolves from oversea, the painted savage from beyond the 塀で囲むs and the Saxon 著作権侵害者 from over the water, who will 後継する to our 支配する. Where we saved, they will 殺す; where we built, they will 燃やす; where we 工場／植物d, they will 荒廃させる. But the die is cast, Crassus. You will carry out the orders."

"I will send out the messengers within an hour. This very morning there has come news that the Barbarians are through the old gap in the 塀で囲む, and their outriders as far south as Vinovia."

The 知事 shrugged his shoulders.

"These things 関心 us no longer," said he. Then a bitter smile broke upon his aquiline clean-shaven 直面する. "Whom think you that I see in audience this morning?"

"Nay, I know not."

"Caradoc and Regnus, and Celticus the Icenian, who, like so many of the richer Britons, have been educated at Rome, and who would lay before me their 計画（する）s as to the 判決，裁定 of this country."

"And what is their 計画（する）?"

"That they themselves should do it."

The Roman 兵士 laughed. "井戸／弁護士席, they will have their will," said he, as he saluted and turned upon his heel. "別れの（言葉，会）, your excellency. There are hard days coming for you and for me."

An hour later the British deputation was 勧めるd into the presence of the 知事. They were good, 確固たる men, men who with a whole heart, and at some 危険 to themselves, had taken up their country's 原因（となる）, so far as they could see it. At the same time they 井戸／弁護士席 knew that under the 穏やかな and beneficent 支配する of Rome it was only when they passed from words to 行為s that their 支援するs or their necks would be in danger. They stood now, earnest and a little abashed, before the 王位 of the viceroy. Celticus was a swarthy, 黒人／ボイコット-bearded little Iberian. Caradoc and Regnus were tall middle-老年の men of the fair flaxen British type. All three were dressed in the draped yellow toga after the Latin fashion, instead of in the を締める and tunic which distinguished their more insular fellow-countrymen.

"井戸／弁護士席?" asked the 知事.

"We are here," said Celticus boldly, "as the spokesmen of a 広大な／多数の／重要な number of our fellow-countrymen, for the 目的 of sending our 嘆願（書） through you to the Emperor and to the Roman 上院, that we may 勧める upon them the 政策 of 許すing us to 治める／統治する this country after our own 古代の fashion." He paused, as if を待つing some 爆発 as an answer to his own temerity; but the 知事 単に nodded his 長，率いる as a 調印する that he should proceed. "We had 法律s of our own before ever Caesar 始める，決める foot in Britain, which have served their 目的 since first our forefathers （機の）カム from the land of Ham. We are not a child の中で the nations, but our history goes 支援する in our own traditions その上の even than that of Rome, and we are galled by this yoke which you have laid upon us."

"Are not our 法律s just?" asked the 知事.

"The code of Caesar is just, but it is always the code of Caesar. Our own 法律s were made for our own uses and our own circumstances, and we would fain have them again."

"You speak Roman as if you had been bred in the 会議; you wear a Roman toga; your hair is filleted in Roman fashion--are not these the gifts of Rome?"

"We would take all the learning and all the arts that Rome or Greece could give, but we would still be Britain, and 支配するd by Britons."

The viceroy smiled. "By the rood of Saint Helena," said he, "had you spoken thus to some of my heathen ancestors, there would have been an end to your politics. That you have dared to stand before my 直面する and say as much is a proof for ever of the gentleness of our 支配する. But I would 推論する／理由 with you for a moment upon this your request. You know 井戸／弁護士席 that this land has never been one kingdom, but was always under many 長，指導者s and many tribes, who have made war upon each other. Would you in very truth have it so again?"

"Those were the evil pagan days, the days of the Druid and the oak-grove, your excellency. But now we are held together by a gospel of peace."

The viceroy shook his 長，率いる. "If all the world were of the same way of thinking, then it would be easier," said he. "It may be that this blessed doctrine of peace will be little help to you when you are 直面する to 直面する with strong men who still worship the god of war. What would you do against the Picts of the north?"

"Your excellency knows that many of the bravest legionaries are of British 血. These are our defence."

"But discipline, man, the 力／強力にする to 命令（する）, the knowledge of war, the strength to 行為／法令／行動する--it is in these things that you would fail. Too long have you leaned upon the crutch."

"The times may be hard, but when we have gone through them, Britain will be herself again."

"Nay, she will be under a different and a harsher master," said the Roman. "Already the 著作権侵害者s 群れている upon the eastern coast. Were it not for our Roman Count of the Saxon shore they would land to-morrow. I see the day when Britain may, indeed, be one; but that will be because you and your fellows are either dead or are driven into the mountains of the west. All goes into the melting マリファナ, and if a better Albion should come 前へ／外へ from it, it will be after ages of 争い, and neither you nor your people will have part or lot in it."

Regnus, the tall young Celt, smiled. "With the help of God and our own 権利 武器 we should hope for a better end," said he. "Give us but the chance, and we will 耐える the brunt."

"You are as men that are lost," said the viceroy sadly. "I see this 幅の広い land, with its gardens and orchards, its fair 郊外住宅s and its 塀で囲むd towns, its 橋（渡しをする）s and its roads, all the work of Rome. Surely it will pass even as a dream, and these three hundred years of settled order will leave no trace behind. For learn that it will indeed be as you wish, and that this very day the orders have come to me that the legions are to go."

The three Britons looked at each other in amazement. Their first impulse was に向かって a wild exultation, but reflection and 疑問 followed の近くに upon its heels.

"This is indeed wondrous news," said Celticus. "This is a day of days to the motherland. When do the legions go, your excellency, and what 軍隊／機動隊s will remain behind for our 保護?"

"The legions will go at once," said the viceroy. "You will doubtless rejoice to hear that within a month there will be no Roman 兵士 in the island, nor, indeed, a Roman of any sort, age, or sex, if I can take them with me."

The 直面するs of the Britons were 影をつくる／尾行するd, and Caradoc, a 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な and thoughtful man, spoke for the first time.

"But this is over sudden, your excellency," said he. "There is much truth in what you have said about the 著作権侵害者s. From my 郊外住宅 近づく the fort of Anderida I saw eighty of their galleys only last week, and I know 井戸／弁護士席 that they would be on us like ravens on a dying ox. For many years to come it would not be possible for us to 持つ／拘留する them off."

The viceroy shrugged his shoulders. "It is your 事件／事情／状勢 now," said he. "Rome must look to herself."

The last traces of joy had passed from the 直面するs of the Britons. Suddenly the 未来 had started up 明確に before them, and they quailed at the prospect.

"There is a rumour in the market-place," said Celticus, "that the northern Barbarians are through the gap in the 塀で囲む. Who is to stop their 進歩?"

"You and your fellows," said the Roman.

Clearer still grew the 未来, and there was terror in the 注目する，もくろむs of the spokesmen as they 直面するd it.

"But, your excellency, if the legions should go at once, we should have the wild Scots at York, and the Northmen in the Thames within the month. We can build ourselves up under your 保護物，者, and in a few years it would be easier for us; but not now, your excellency, not now."

"Tut, man; for years you have been clamouring in our ears and raising the people. Now you have got what you asked. What more would you have? Within the month you will be as 解放する／自由な as were your ancestors before Caesar 始める，決める foot upon your shore."

"For God's sake, your excellency, put our words out of your 長，率いる. The 事柄 had not been 井戸／弁護士席 considered. We will send to Rome. We will ride 地位，任命する-haste ourselves. We will 落ちる at the Emperor's feet. We will ひさまづく before the 上院 and beg that the legions remain."

The Roman proconsul rose from his 議長，司会を務める and 動議d that the audience was at an end.

"You will do what you please," said he. "I and my men are for Italy."

And even as he said, so was it, for before the spring had ripened into summer, the 軍隊／機動隊s were clanking 負かす／撃墜する the 経由で Aurelia on their way to the Ligurian passes, whilst every road in Gaul was dotted with the carts and the waggons which bore the Brito-Roman 難民s on their 疲れた／うんざりした 旅行 to their distant country. But ere another summer had passed Celticus was dead, for he was flayed alive by the 著作権侵害者s and his 肌 nailed upon the door of a church 近づく Caistor. Regnus, too, was dead, for he was tied to a tree and 発射 with arrows when the painted men （機の）カム to the 解雇（する）ing of Isca. Caradoc only was alive, but he was a slave to Elda the red Caledonian and his wife was mistress to Mordred the wild 長，指導者 of the western Cymri. From the 廃虚d 塀で囲む in the north to Vectis in the south 血 and 廃虚 and ashes covered the fair land of Britain. And after many days it （機の）カム out fairer than ever, but, even as the Roman had said, neither the Britons nor any men of their 血 （機の）カム into the 遺産 of that which had been their own.

THE LAST GALLEY

"Mutato nomine, de te, Britannia, fabula narratur."

It was a spring morning, one hundred and forty-six years before the coming of Christ. The North African coast, with its 幅の広い hem of golden sand, its green belt of feathery palm trees, and its background of barren, red-scarped hills, shimmered like a dream country in the opal light. Save for a 狭くする 辛勝する／優位 of snow-white surf, the Mediterranean lay blue and serene as far as the 注目する，もくろむ could reach. In all its 広大な expanse there was no break but for a 選び出す／独身 galley, which was slowly making its way from the direction of Sicily and 長，率いるing for the distant harbour of Carthage.

Seen from afar it was a stately and beautiful 大型船, 深い red in colour, 二塁打-banked with scarlet oars, its 幅の広い, flapping sail stained with Tyrian purple, its 防御壁／支持者s gleaming with 厚かましさ／高級将校連 work. A brazen, three-pronged 押し通す 事業／計画（する）d in 前線, and a high golden 人物／姿／数字 of Baal, the God of the Phoenicians, children of Canaan, shone upon the after-deck. From the 選び出す／独身 high mast above the 抱擁する sail streamed the tiger-（土地などの）細長い一片d 旗 of Carthage. So, like some stately scarlet bird, with golden beak and wings of purple, she swam upon the 直面する of the waters--a thing of might and of beauty as seen from the distant shore.

But approach and look at her now! What are these dark streaks which foul her white decks and dapple her brazen 保護物，者s? Why do the long red oars move out of time, 不規律な, convulsive? Why are some 行方不明の from the 星／主役にするing portholes, some snapped with jagged, yellow 辛勝する／優位s, some 追跡するing inert against the 味方する? Why are two prongs of the brazen 押し通す 新たな展開d and broken? See, even the high image of Baal is 乱打するd and disfigured! By every 調印する this ship has passed through some grievous 裁判，公判, some day of terror, which has left its 激しい 示すs upon her.

And now stand upon the deck itself, and see more closely the men who man her! There are two decks 今後 and aft, while in the open waist are the 二塁打 banks of seats, above and below, where the rowers, two to an oar, 強く引っ張る and bend at their endless 仕事. 負かす／撃墜する the centre is a 狭くする 壇・綱領・公約, along which pace a line of warders, 攻撃する in 手渡す, who 削減（する） cruelly at the slave who pauses, be it only for an instant, to sweep the sweat from his dripping brow. But these slaves--look at them! Some are 逮捕（する）d Romans, some Sicilians, many 黒人／ボイコット Libyans, but all are in the last exhaustion, their 疲れた／うんざりした eyelids drooped over their 注目する，もくろむs, their lips 厚い with 黒人／ボイコット crusts, and pink with 血まみれの froth, their 武器 and 支援するs moving mechanically to the hoarse 詠唱する of the overseer. Their 団体／死体s of all 色合いs from ivory to jet, are stripped to the waist, and every glistening 支援する shows the angry （土地などの）細長い一片s from the warders. But it is not from these that the 血 comes which reddens the seats and 色合いs the salt water washing beneath their manacled feet. 広大な／多数の／重要な gaping 負傷させるs, the 示すs of sword 削除する and spear を刺す, show crimson upon their naked chests and shoulders, while many 嘘（をつく） 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集めるd and senseless athwart the （法廷の）裁判s, careless for ever of the whips which still hiss above them. Now we can understand those empty portholes and those 追跡するing oars.

Nor were the 乗組員 in better 事例／患者 than their slaves. The decks were littered with 負傷させるd and dying men. It was but a 残余 who still remained upon their feet. The most lay exhausted upon the fore-deck, while a few of the more 熱心な were mending their 粉々にするd armour, restringing their 屈服するs, or きれいにする the deck from the 示すs of 戦闘. Upon a raised 壇・綱領・公約 at the base of the mast stood the sailing-master who conned the ship, his 注目する，もくろむs 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon the distant point of Megara which 審査するd the eastern 味方する of the Bay of Carthage. On the after-deck were gathered a number of officers, silent and brooding, ちらりと見ることing from time to time at two of their own class who stood apart 深い in conversation. The one, tall, dark, and wiry, with pure, Semitic features, and the 四肢s of a 巨大（な）, was Magro, the famous Carthaginian captain, whose 指名する was still a terror on every shore, from Gaul to the Euxine. The other, a white-bearded, swarthy man, with indomitable courage and energy stamped upon every eager line of his keen, aquiline 直面する, was Gisco the 政治家，政治屋, a man of the highest Punic 血, a Suffete of the purple 式服, and the leader of that party in the 明言する／公表する which had watched and striven まっただ中に the selfishness and slothfulness of his fellow-countrymen to rouse the public spirit and waken the public 良心 to the ever-増加するing danger from Rome. As they talked, the two men ちらりと見ることd continually, with earnest anxious 直面するs, に向かって the northern skyline.

"It is 確かな ," said the older man, with gloom in his 発言する／表明する and 耐えるing, "非，不，無 have escaped save ourselves."

"I did not leave the 圧力（をかける） of the 戦う／戦い whilst I saw one ship which I could succour," Magro answered. "As it was, we （機の）カム away, as you saw, like a wolf which has a hound hanging on to either haunch. The Roman dogs can show the wolf-bites which 証明する it. Had any other galley won （疑いを）晴らす, they would surely be with us by now, since they have no place of safety save Carthage."

The younger 軍人 ちらりと見ることd 熱心に ahead to the distant point which 示すd his native city. Already the low, leafy hill could be seen, dotted with the white 郊外住宅s of the 豊富な Phoenician merchants. Above them, a gleaming dot against the pale blue morning sky, shone the brazen roof of the citadel of Byrsa, which capped the sloping town.

"Already they can see us from the watch-towers," he 発言／述べるd. "Even from afar they may know the galley of 黒人／ボイコット Magro. But which of all of them will guess that we alone remain of all that goodly (n)艦隊／(a)素早い which sailed out with blare of trumpet and roll of 派手に宣伝する but one short month ago?"

The patrician smiled 激しく. "If it were not for our 広大な／多数の／重要な ancestors and for our beloved country, the Queen of the Waters," said he, "I could find it in my heart to be glad at this 破壊 which has come upon this vain and feeble 世代. You have spent your life upon the seas, Magro. You do not know how it has been with us on the land. But I have seen this canker grow upon us which now leads us to our death. I and others have gone 負かす／撃墜する into the market-place to 嘆願d with the people, and been pelted with mud for our 苦痛s. Many a time I have pointed to Rome, and said, 'Behold these people, who 耐える 武器 themselves, each man for his own 義務 and pride. How can you who hide behind mercenaries hope to stand against them?'--a hundred times I have said it."

"And had they no answer?" asked the Rover.

"Rome was far off and they could not see it, so to them it was nothing," the old man answered. "Some thought of 貿易（する）, and some of 投票（する）s, and some of 利益（をあげる）s from the 明言する／公表する, but 非，不，無 would see that the 明言する／公表する itself, the mother of all things, was 沈むing to her end. So might the bees 審議 who should have wax or honey when the たいまつ was 炎ing which would bring to ashes the 蜂の巣 and all therein. 'Are we not 支配者s of the sea?' 'Was not Hannibal a 広大な／多数の／重要な man?' Such were their cries, living ever in the past and blind to the 未来. Before that sun 始める，決めるs there will be 涙／ほころびing of hair and rending of 衣料品s; but what will that now avail us?"

"It is some sad 慰安," said Magro, "to know that what Rome 持つ／拘留するs she cannot keep."

"Why say you that? When we go 負かす／撃墜する, she is 最高の in all the world."

"For a time, and only for a time," Magro answered 厳粛に. "Yet you will smile, perchance, when I tell you how it is that I know it. There was a wise woman who lived in that part of the Tin Islands which juts 前へ／外へ into the sea, and from her lips I have heard many things, but not one which has not come aright. Of the 落ちる of our own country, and even of this 戦う／戦い, from which we now return, she told me 明確に. There is much strange lore amongst these savage peoples in the west of the land of Tin."

"What said she of Rome?"

"That she also would 落ちる, even as we, 弱めるd by her riches and her 派閥s."

Gisco rubbed his 手渡すs. "That at least makes our own 落ちる いっそう少なく bitter," said he. "But since we have fallen, and Rome will 落ちる, who in turn may hope to be Queen of the Waters?"

"That also I asked her," said Magro, "and gave her my Tyrian belt with the golden buckle as a guerdon for her answer. But, indeed, it was too high 支払い（額） for the tale she told, which must be 誤った if all else she said was true. She would have it that in coming days it was her own land, this 霧-girt 小島 where painted savages can 不十分な 列／漕ぐ／騒動 a wicker coracle from point to point, which shall at last take the 核搭載ミサイル which Carthage and Rome have dropped."

The smile which flickered upon the old Patrician's keen features died away suddenly, and his fingers の近くにd upon his companion's wrist. The other had 始める，決める rigid, his 長，率いる 前進するd, his 強硬派 注目する，もくろむs upon the northern skyline. Its straight, blue horizon was broken by two low 黒人／ボイコット dots.

"Galleys!" whispered Gisco.

The whole 乗組員 had seen them. They clustered along the starboard 防御壁／支持者s, pointing and chattering. For a moment the gloom of 敗北・負かす was 解除するd, and a buzz of joy ran from group to group at the thought that they were not alone--that someone had escaped the 広大な／多数の／重要な 大虐殺 同様に as themselves.

"By the spirit of Baal," said 黒人／ボイコット Magro, "I could not have believed that any could have fought （疑いを）晴らす from such a welter. Could it be young Hamilcar in the Africa, or is it Beneva in the blue Syrian ship? We three with others may form a 騎兵大隊 and make 長，率いる against them yet. If we 持つ／拘留する our course, they will join us ere we 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the harbour mole."

Slowly the 負傷させるd galley toiled on her way, and more 速く the two new-comers swept 負かす／撃墜する from the north. Only a few miles off lay the green point and the white houses which 側面に位置するd the 広大な／多数の／重要な African city. Already, upon the headland, could be seen a dark group of waiting townsmen. Gisco and Magro were still watching with puckered gaze the approaching galleys, when the brown Libyan boatswain, with flashing teeth and gleaming 注目する，もくろむs, 急ぐd upon the poop, his long thin arm stabbing to the north.

"Romans!" he cried. "Romans!"

A hush had fallen over the 広大な／多数の／重要な 大型船. Only the wash of the water and the 手段d 動揺させる and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 of the oars broke in upon the silence.

"By the horns of God's altar, I believe the fellow is 権利!" cried old Gisco. "See how they 急襲する upon us like falcons. They are 十分な-乗組員を乗せた and 十分な-oared."

"Plain 支持を得ようと努めるd, unpainted," said Magro. "See how it gleams yellow where the sun strikes it."

"And yonder thing beneath the mast. Is it not the 悪口を言う／悪態d 橋（渡しをする） they use for 搭乗?"

"So they grudge us even one," said Magro with a bitter laugh. "Not even one galley shall return to the old sea-mother. 井戸／弁護士席, for my part, I would as soon have it so. I am of a mind to stop the oars and を待つ them."

"It is a man's thought," answered old Gisco; "but the city will need us in the days to come. What shall it 利益（をあげる） us to make the Roman victory 完全にする? Nay, Magro, let the slaves 列／漕ぐ／騒動 as they never 列／漕ぐ／騒動d before, not for our own safety, but for the 利益（をあげる） of the 明言する／公表する."

So the 広大な／多数の／重要な red ship 労働d and lurched, onwards, like a 疲れた／うんざりした panting stag which 捜し出すs 避難所 from his pursuers, while ever swifter and ever nearer sped the two lean 猛烈な／残忍な galleys from the north. Already the morning sun shone upon the lines of low Roman helmets above the 防御壁／支持者s, and glistened on the silver wave where each sharp prow 発射 through the still blue water. Every moment the ships drew nearer, and the long thin 叫び声をあげる of the Roman trumpets grew louder upon the ear.

Upon the high bluff of Megara there stood a 広大な／多数の／重要な concourse of the people of Carthage who had hurried 前へ／外へ from the city upon the news that the galleys were in sight. They stood now, rich and poor, effete and plebeian, white Phoenician and dark Kabyle, gazing with breathless 利益／興味 at the spectacle before them. Some hundreds of feet beneath them the Punic galley had drawn so の近くに that with their naked 注目する，もくろむs they could see those stains of 戦う／戦い which told their dismal tale. The Romans, too, were 長，率いるing in such a way that it was before their very 直面するs that their ship was about to be 削減（する） off; and yet of all this multitude not one could raise a 手渡す in its defence. Some wept in impotent grief, some 悪口を言う／悪態d with flashing 注目する，もくろむs and knotted 握りこぶしs, some on their 膝s held up 控訴，上告ing 手渡すs to Baal; but neither 祈り, 涙／ほころびs, nor 悪口を言う／悪態s could undo the past nor mend the 現在の. That broken, はうing galley meant that their (n)艦隊／(a)素早い was gone. Those two 猛烈な／残忍な darting ships meant that the 手渡すs of Rome were already at their throat. Behind them would come others and others, the innumerable trained hosts of the 広大な／多数の／重要な 共和国, long mistress of the land, now 支配的な also upon the waters. In a month, two months, three at the most, their armies would be there, and what could all the untrained multitudes of Carthage do to stop them?

"Nay!" cried one, more 希望に満ちた than the 残り／休憩（する）, "at least we are 勇敢に立ち向かう men with 武器 in our 手渡すs."

"Fool!" said another, "is it not such talk which has brought us to our 廃虚? What is the 勇敢に立ち向かう man untrained to the 勇敢に立ち向かう man trained? When you stand before the sweep and 急ぐ of a Roman legion you may learn the difference."

"Then let us train!"

"Too late! A 十分な year is needful to turn a man to a 兵士. Where will you--where will your city be within one year? Nay, there is but one chance for us. If we give up our 商業 and our 植民地s, if we （土地などの）細長い一片 ourselves of all that made us 広大な／多数の／重要な, then perchance the Roman 征服者／勝利者 may 持つ／拘留する his 手渡す."

And already the last sea-fight of Carthage was coming 速く to an end before them. Under their very 注目する，もくろむs the two Roman galleys had 発射 in, one on either 味方する of the 大型船 of 黒人／ボイコット Magro. They had grappled with him, and he, desperate in his despair, had cast the crooked flukes of his 錨，総合司会者s over their gunwales, and bound them to him in an アイロンをかける 支配する, whilst with 大打撃を与える and crowbar he burst 広大な／多数の／重要な 穴を開けるs in his own sheathing. The last Punic galley should never be 列／漕ぐ／騒動d into Ostia, a sight for the holiday-製造者s of Rome. She would 嘘（をつく） in her own waters. And the 猛烈な／残忍な, dark soul of her rover captain glowed as he thought that not alone should she 沈む into the depths of the mother sea.

Too late did the Romans understand the man with whom they had to 取引，協定. Their boarders who had flooded the Punic decks felt the planking 沈む and sway beneath them. They 急ぐd to 伸び（る） their own 大型船s; but they, too, were 存在 drawn downwards, held in the dying 支配する of the 広大な／多数の／重要な red galley. Over they went and ever over. Now the deck of Magro's ship is 紅潮／摘発する with the water, and the Romans', drawn に向かって it by the アイロンをかける 社債s which 持つ／拘留する them, are 攻撃するd downwards, one 防御壁／支持者 upon the waves, one 後部d high in the 空気／公表する. Madly they 緊張する to cast off the death-支配する of the galley. She is under the surface now, and ever swifter, with the greater 負わせる, the Roman ships heel after her. There is a rending 衝突，墜落. The 木造の 味方する is torn out of one, and mutilated, dismembered, she 権利s herself, and lies a helpless thing upon the water. But a last yellow gleam in the blue water shows where her consort has been dragged to her end in the アイロンをかける death-grapple of her foeman. The tiger-（土地などの）細長い一片d 旗 of Carthage has sunk beneath the 渦巻くing surface, never more to be seen upon the 直面する of the sea.

For in that year a 広大な／多数の／重要な cloud hung for seventeen days over the African coast, a 深い 黒人／ボイコット cloud which was the dark shroud of the 燃やすing city. And when the seventeen days were over, Roman ploughs were driven from end to end of the charred ashes, and salt was scattered there as a 調印する that Carthage should be no more. And far off a 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集める of naked, 餓死するing folk stood upon the distant mountains, and looked 負かす／撃墜する upon the desolate plain which had once been the fairest and richest upon earth. And they understood too late that it is the 法律 of heaven that the world is given to the hardy and to the self-否定するing, whilst he who would escape the 義務s of manhood will soon be stripped of the pride, the wealth, and the 力／強力にする, which are the prizes which manhood brings.

THROUGH THE VEIL

He was a 広大な／多数の／重要な shock-長，率いるd, freckle-直面するd Borderer, the lineal 子孫 of a cattle-thieving 一族／派閥 in Liddesdale. In spite of his 家系 he was as solid and sober a 国民 as one would wish to see, a town 議員 of Melrose, an 年上の of the Church, and the chairman of the 地元の 支店 of the Young Men's Christian 協会. Brown was his 指名する--and you saw it printed up as "Brown and Handiside" over the 広大な／多数の／重要な grocery 蓄える／店s in the High Street. His wife, Maggie Brown, was an Armstrong before her marriage, and （機の）カム from an old farming 在庫／株 in the wilds of Teviothead. She was small, swarthy, and dark-注目する，もくろむd, with a strangely nervous temperament for a Scotch woman. No greater contrast could be 設立する than the big tawny man and the dark little woman, but both were of the 国／地域 as far 支援する as any memory could 延長する.

One day--it was the first 周年記念日 of their wedding--they had driven over together to see the 穴掘りs of the Roman Fort at Newstead. It was not a 特に picturesque 位置／汚点／見つけ出す. From the northern bank of the Tweed, just where the river forms a 宙返り飛行, there 延長するs a gentle slope of arable land. Across it run the ざん壕s of the excavators, with here and there an （危険などに）さらす of old stonework to show the 創立／基礎s of the 古代の 塀で囲むs. It had been a 抱擁する place, for the （軍の）野営地，陣営 was fifty acres in extent, and the fort fifteen. However, it was all made 平易な for them since Mr. Brown knew the 農業者 to whom the land belonged. Under his 指導／手引 they spent a long summer evening 検査／視察するing the ざん壕s, the 炭坑，オーケストラ席s, the ramparts, and all the strange variety of 反対するs which were waiting to be 輸送（する）d to the Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities. The buckle of a woman's belt had been dug up that very day, and the 農業者 was discoursing upon it when his 注目する，もくろむs fell upon Mrs. Brown's 直面する.

"Your good leddy's tired," said he. "Maybe you'd best 残り／休憩（する） a 少しの before we ギャング（団） その上の."

Brown looked at his wife. She was certainly very pale, and her dark 注目する，もくろむs were 有望な and wild.

"What is it, Maggie? I've 疲れた／うんざりしたd you. I'm thinkin' it's time we went 支援する."

"No, no, John, let us go on. It's wonderful! It's like a dreamland place. It all seems so の近くに and so 近づく to me. How long were the Romans here, Mr. Cunningham?"

"A fair time, mam. If you saw the kitchen midden-炭坑，オーケストラ席s you would guess it took a long time to fill them."

"And why did they leave?"

"井戸／弁護士席, mam, by all accounts they left because they had to. The folk 一連の会議、交渉／完成する could thole them no longer, so they just up and 燃やすd the fort aboot their lugs. You can see the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 示すs on the stanes."

The woman gave a quick little shudder. "A wild night--a fearsome night," said she. "The sky must have been red that night--and these grey 石／投石するs, they may have been red also."

"Aye, I think they were red," said her husband. "It's a queer thing, Maggie, and it may be your words that have done it; but I seem to see that 商売／仕事 aboot as （疑いを）晴らす as ever I saw anything in my life. The light shone on the water."

"Aye, the light shone on the water. And the smoke gripped you by the throat. And all the savages were yelling."

The old 農業者 began to laugh. "The leddy will be writin' a story aboot the old fort," said he. "I've shown many a one over it, but I never heard it put so （疑いを）晴らす afore. Some folk have the gift."

They had strolled along the 辛勝する／優位 of the foss, and a 炭坑，オーケストラ席 yawned upon the 権利 of them.

"That 炭坑，オーケストラ席 was fourteen foot 深い," said the 農業者. "What d'ye think we dug oot from the 底（に届く） o't? Weel, it was just the 骸骨／概要 of a man wi' a spear by his 味方する. I'm thinkin' he was grippin' it when he died. Now, how （機の）カム' a man wi' a spear doon a 穴を開ける fourteen foot 深い. He wasna' buried there, for they aye 燃やすd their dead. What make ye o' that, mam?"

"He sprang doon to get （疑いを）晴らす of the savages," said the woman.

"Weel, it's likely enough, and a' the professors from Edinburgh couldna gie a better 推論する／理由. I wish you were aye here, mam, to answer a' oor deeficulties sae readily. Now, here's the altar that we 設立する last week. There's an inscreeption. They tell me it's Latin, and it means that the men o' this fort give thanks to God for their safety."

They 診察するd the old worn 石／投石する. There was a large 深く，強烈に-削減（する） "VV" upon the 最高の，を越す of it.

"What does 'VV' stand for?" asked Brown.

"Naebody kens," the guide answered.

"Valeria Victrix," said the lady, softly. Her 直面する was paler than ever, her 注目する，もくろむs far away, as one who peers 負かす／撃墜する the 薄暗い aisles of overarching centuries.

"What's that?" asked her husband はっきりと.

She started as one who wakes from sleep. "What were we talking about?" she asked.

"About this 'VV' upon the 石／投石する."

"No 疑問 it was just the 指名する of the Legion which put the altar up."

"Aye, but you gave some special 指名する."

"Did I? How absurd! How should I ken what the 指名する was?"

"You said something--'Victrix,' I think."

"I suppose I was guessing. It gives me the queerest feeling, this place, as if I were not myself, but someone else."

"Aye, it's an uncanny place," said her husband, looking 一連の会議、交渉／完成する with an 表現 almost of 恐れる in his bold grey 注目する，もくろむs. "I feel it mysel'. I think we'll just be wishin' you good evenin', Mr. Cunningham, and get 支援する to Melrose before the dark 始める，決めるs in."

Neither of them could shake off the strange impression which had been left upon them by their visit to the 穴掘りs. It was as if some 毒気／悪影響 had risen from those 深い ざん壕s and passed into their 血. All the evening they were silent and thoughtful, but such 発言／述べるs as they did make showed that the same 支配する was in the mind of each. Brown had a restless night, in which he dreamed a strange connected dream, so vivid that he woke sweating and shivering like a 脅すd horse. He tried to 伝える it all to his wife as they sat together at breakfast in the morning.

"It was the clearest thing, Maggie," said he. "Nothing that has ever come to me in my waking life has been more （疑いを）晴らす than that. I feel as if these 手渡すs were sticky with 血."

"Tell me of it--tell me slow," said she.

"When it began, I was oot on a braeside. I was laying flat on the ground. It was rough, and there were clumps of heather. All 一連の会議、交渉／完成する me was just 不明瞭, but I could hear the rustle and the breathin' of men. There seemed a 広大な／多数の／重要な multitude on every 味方する of me, but I could see no one. There was a low chink of steel いつかs, and then a number of 発言する／表明するs would whisper 'Hush!' I had a ragged club in my 手渡す, and it had spikes o' アイロンをかける 近づく the end of it. My heart was beatin' quickly, and I felt that a moment of 広大な／多数の／重要な danger and excitement was at 手渡す. Once I dropped my club, and again from all 一連の会議、交渉／完成する me the 発言する／表明するs in the 不明瞭 cried, 'Hush!' I put oot my 手渡す, and it touched the foot of another man lying in 前線 of me. There was someone at my very 肘 on either 味方する. But they said nothin'.

"Then we all began to move. The whole braeside seemed to be crawlin' downwards. There was a river at the 底（に届く） and a high-arched 木造の 橋（渡しをする）. Beyond the 橋（渡しをする） were many lights--たいまつs on a 塀で囲む. The creepin' men all flowed に向かって the 橋（渡しをする）. There had been no sound of any 肉親，親類d, just a velvet stillness. And then there was a cry in the 不明瞭, the cry of a man who had been stabbed suddenly to the hairt. That one cry swelled out for a moment, and then the roar of a thoosand furious 発言する／表明するs. I was runnin'. Everyone was runnin'. A 有望な red light shone out, and the river was a scarlet streak. I could see my companions now. They were more like devils than men, wild 人物／姿／数字s 覆う？ in 肌s, with their hair and 耐えるd streamin'. They were all mad with 激怒（する）, jumpin' as they ran, their mouths open, their 武器 wavin', the red light beatin' on their 直面するs. I ran, too, and yelled out 悪口を言う／悪態s like the 残り／休憩（する）. Then I heard a 広大な／多数の／重要な cracklin' of 支持を得ようと努めるd, and I knew that the palisades were doon. There was a loud whistlin' in my ears, and I was aware that arrows were flyin' past me. I got to the 底（に届く） of a dyke, and I saw a 手渡す stretched doon from above. I took it, and was dragged to the 最高の，を越す. We looked doon, and there were silver men beneath us holdin' up their spears. Some of our folk sprang on to the spears. Then we others followed, and we killed the 兵士s before they could draw the spears oot again. They shouted loud in some foreign tongue, but no mercy was shown them. We went ower them like a wave, and trampled them doon into the mud, for they were few, and there was no end to our numbers.

"I 設立する myself の中で buildings, and one of them was on 解雇する／砲火／射撃. I saw the 炎上s spoutin' through the roof. I ran on, and then I was alone の中で the buildings. Someone ran across in 前線 o' me. It was a woman. I caught her by the arm, and I took her chin and turned her 直面する so as the light of the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 would strike it. Whom think you that it was, Maggie?"

His wife moistened her 乾燥した，日照りの lips. "It was I," she said.

He looked at her in surprise. "That's a good guess," said he. "Yes, it was just you. Not 単に like you, you understand. It was you--you yourself. I saw the same soul in your 脅すd 注目する，もくろむs. You looked white and bonnie and wonderful in the firelight. I had just one thought in my 長，率いる--to get you awa' with me; to keep you all to mysel' in my own home somewhere beyond the hills. You clawed at my 直面する with your nails. I heaved you over my shoulder, and I tried to find a way oot of the light of the 燃やすing hoose and 支援する into the 不明瞭.

"Then （機の）カム the thing that I mind best of all. You're ill, Maggie. Shall I stop? My God! you have the very look on your 直面する that you had last night in my dream. You 叫び声をあげるd. He （機の）カム runnin' in the firelight. His 長，率いる was 明らかにする; his hair was 黒人／ボイコット and curled; he had a naked sword in his 手渡す, short and 幅の広い, little more than a dagger. He stabbed at me, but he tripped and fell. I held you with one 手渡す, and with the other----"

His wife had sprung to her feet with writhing features.

"Marcus!" she cried. "My beautiful Marcus! Oh, you brute! you brute! you brute!" There was a clatter of tea-cups as she fell 今後 senseless upon the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する.

They never talk about that strange 孤立するd 出来事/事件 in their married life. For an instant the curtain of the past had swung aside, and some strange glimpse of a forgotten life had come to them. But it の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する, never to open again. They live their 狭くする 一連の会議、交渉／完成する--he in his shop, she in her 世帯--and yet new and wider horizons have ばく然と formed themselves around them since that summer evening by the 崩壊するing Roman fort.

THE COMING OF THE HUNS

In the middle of the fourth century the 明言する／公表する of the Christian 宗教 was a スキャンダル and a 不名誉. 患者, humble, and long-苦しむing in adversity, it had become 肯定的な, 積極的な, and 不当な with success. Paganism was not yet dead, but it was 速く 沈むing, finding its most faithful 支持者s の中で the 保守的な aristocrats of the best families on the one 手渡す, and の中で those benighted 村人s on the other who gave their 指名する to the 満了する／死ぬing creed. Between these two extremes the 広大な／多数の／重要な 大多数 of reasonable men had turned from the conception of many gods to that of one, and had 拒絶するd for ever the beliefs of their forefathers. But with the 副／悪徳行為s of polytheism, they had also abandoned its virtues, の中で which toleration and 宗教的な good humour had been 目だつ. The strenuous earnestness of the Christians had compelled them to 診察する and define every point of their own theology; but as they had no central 当局 by which such 鮮明度／定義s could be checked, it was not long before a hundred heresies had put 今後 their 競争相手 見解（をとる）s, while the same earnestness of 有罪の判決 led the stronger 禁止（する）d of schismatics to endeavour, for 良心 sake, to 軍隊 their 見解（をとる）s upon the 女性, and thus to cover the Eastern world with 混乱 and 争い.

Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople were centres of theological 戦争. The whole north of Africa, too, was rent by the 争い of the Donatists, who upheld their particular schism by アイロンをかける flails and the war-cry of "賞賛する to the Lord!" But minor 地元の 論争s sank to nothing when compared with the 抱擁する argument of the カトリック教徒 and the Arian, which rent every village in twain, and divided every 世帯 from the cottage to the palace. The 競争相手 doctrines of the Homoousian and of the Homoiousian, 含む／封じ込めるing metaphysical differences so attenuated that they could hardly be 明言する／公表するd, turned bishop against bishop and congregation against congregation. The 署名／調印する of the theologians and the 血 of the fanatics were 流出／こぼすd in floods on either 味方する, and gentle 信奉者s of Christ were horrified to find that their 約束 was 責任がある such a 明言する／公表する of 暴動 and 血-shed as had never yet 不名誉d the 宗教的な history of the world. Many of the more earnest の中で them, shocked and scandalised, slipped away to the Libyan 砂漠, or to the 孤独 of Pontus, there to を待つ in self-否定 and 祈り that second coming which was supposed to be at 手渡す. Even in the 砂漠s they could not escape the echo of the distant 争い, and the hermits themselves scowled ひどく from their dens at passing travellers who might be 汚染するd by the doctrines of Athanasius or of Arius.

Such a hermit was Simon Melas, of whom I 令状. A Trinitarian and a カトリック教徒, he was shocked by the 超過s of the 迫害 of the Arians, which could be only matched by the 類似の 乱暴／暴力を加えるs with which these same Arians in the day of their 力／強力にする avenged their 治療 on their brother Christians. 疲れた／うんざりした of the whole 争い, and 納得させるd that the end of the world was indeed at 手渡す, he left his home in Constantinople and travelled as far as the Gothic 解決／入植地s in Dacia, beyond the Danube, in search of some 位置／汚点／見つけ出す where he might be 解放する／自由な from the never-ending 論争s. Still 旅行ing to the north and east, he crossed the river which we now call the Dneister, and there, finding a rocky hill rising from an 巨大な plain, he formed a 独房 近づく its 首脳会議, and settled himself 負かす／撃墜する to end his life in self-否定 and meditation. There were fish in the stream, the country teemed with game, and there was an 豊富 of wild fruits, so that his spiritual 演習s were not unduly interrupted by the search of sustenance for his mortal でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる.

In this distant 退却／保養地 he 推定する／予想するd to find 絶対の 孤独, but the hope was in vain. Within a week of his arrival, in an hour of worldly curiosity, he 調査するd the 辛勝する／優位s of the high rocky hill upon which he lived. Making his way up to a cleft, which was hung with olives and myrtles, he （機の）カム upon a 洞穴 in the 開始 of which sat an 老年の man, white-bearded, white-haired, and infirm--a hermit like himself. So long had this stranger been alone that he had almost forgotten the use of his tongue; but at last, words coming more 自由に, he was able to 伝える the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） that his 指名する was Paul of Nicopolis, that he was a Greek 国民, and that he also had come out into the 砂漠 for the saving of his soul, and to escape from the 汚染 of heresy.

"Little I thought, brother Simon," said he, "that I should ever find anyone else who had come so far upon the same 宗教上の errand. In all these years, and they are so many that I have lost count of them, I have never seen a man, save indeed one or two wandering shepherds far out upon yonder plain."

From where they sat, the 抱擁する steppe, covered with waving grass and gleaming with a vivid green in the sun, stretched away as level and as 無傷の as the sea, to the eastern horizon. Simon Melas 星／主役にするd across it with curiosity.

"Tell me, brother Paul," said he, "you who have lived here so long--what lies at the その上の 味方する of that plain?"

The old man shook his 長，率いる. "There is no その上の 味方する to the plain," said he. "It is the earth's 境界, and stretches away to eternity. For all these years I have sat beside it, but never once have I seen anything come across it. It is manifest that if there had been a その上の 味方する there would certainly at some time have come some traveller from that direction. Over the 広大な／多数の／重要な river yonder is the Roman 地位，任命する of Tyras; but that is a long day's 旅行 from here, and they have never 乱すd my meditations."

"On what do you meditate, Brother Paul?"

"At first I meditated on many sacred mysteries; but now, for twenty years, I have brooded continually on the nature of the Logos. What is your 見解（をとる） upon that 決定的な 事柄, brother Simon?"

"Surely," said the younger man, "there can be no question as to that. The Logos is assuredly but a 指名する used by St. John to signify the Deity."

The old hermit gave a hoarse cry of fury, and his brown, withered 直面する was convulsed with 怒り／怒る. 掴むing the 抱擁する cudgel which he kept to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 off the wolves, he shook it murderously at his companion.

"Out with you! Out of my 独房!" he cried. "Have I lived here so long to have it 汚染するd by a vile Trinitarian--a 信奉者 of the rascal Athanasius? Wretched idolater, learn once for all, that the Logos is in truth an emanation from the Deity, and in no sense equal or co-eternal with Him! Out with you, I say, or I will dash out your brains with my staff!"

It was useless to 推論する／理由 with the furious Arian, and Simon withdrew in sadness and wonder, that at this extreme 瀬戸際 of the known earth the spirit of 宗教的な 争い should still break upon the 平和的な 孤独 of the wilderness. With hanging 長，率いる and 激しい heart he made his way 負かす／撃墜する the valley, and climbed up once more to his own 独房, which lay at the 栄冠を与える of the hill, with the 意向 of never again 交流ing visits with his Arian 隣人.

Here, for a year, dwelt Simon Melas, 主要な a life of 孤独 and 祈り. There was no 推論する／理由 why anyone should ever come to this outermost point of human habitation. Once a young Roman officer--Caius Crassus--棒 out a day's 旅行 from Tyras, and climbed the hill to have speech with the anchorite. He was of an equestrian family, and still held his belief in the old 免除. He looked with 利益／興味 and surprise, but also with some disgust, at the ascetic 手はず／準備 of that humble abode.

"Whom do you please by living in such a fashion?" he asked.

"We show that our spirit is superior to our flesh," Simon answered. "If we fare 不正に in this world, we believe that we shall 得る an advantage in the world to come."

The centurion shrugged his shoulders. "There are philosophers の中で our people, Stoics and others, who have the same idea. When I was in the Herulian Cohort of the Fourth Legion we were ４半期/4分の1d in Rome itself, and I saw much of the Christians, but I could never learn anything from them which I had not heard from my own father, whom you, in your arrogance, would call a Pagan. It is true that we talk of 非常に／多数の gods; but for many years we have not taken them very 本気で. Our thoughts upon virtue and 義務 and a noble life are the same as your own."

Simon Melas shook his 長，率いる.

"If you have not the 宗教上の 調書をとる／予約するs," said he, "then what guide have you to direct your steps?"

"If you will read our philosophers, and above all the divine Plato, you will find that there are other guides who may take you to the same end. Have you by chance read the 調書をとる／予約する which was written by our Emperor Marcus Aurelius? Do you not discover there every virtue which man could have, although he knew nothing of your creed? Have you considered, also, the words and 活動／戦闘s of our late Emperor Julian, with whom I served my first （選挙などの）運動をする when he went out against the Persians? Where could you find a more perfect man than he?"

"Such talk is 無益な, and I will have no more of it," said Simon 厳しく. "Take 注意する while there is time, and embrace the true 約束; for the end of the world is at 手渡す, and when it comes there will be no mercy for those who have shut their 注目する，もくろむs to the light." So 説, he turned 支援する once more to his praying-stool and to his crucifix, while the young Roman walked in 深い thought 負かす／撃墜する the hill, and 開始するing his horse, 棒 off to his distant 地位，任命する. Simon watched him until his brazen helmet was but a bead of light on the western 辛勝する／優位 of the 広大な／多数の／重要な plain; for this was the first human 直面する that he had seen in all this long year, and there were times when his heart yearned for the 発言する／表明するs and the 直面するs of his 肉親，親類d.

So another year passed, and save for the change of 天候 and the slow change of the seasons, one day was as another. Every morning when Simon opened his 注目する，もくろむs, he saw the same grey line ripening into red in the furthest east, until the 有望な 縁 押し進めるd itself above that far-off horizon across which no living creature had ever been known to come. Slowly the sun swept across the 抱擁する arch of the heavens, and as the 影をつくる／尾行するs 転換d from the 黒人／ボイコット 激しく揺するs which jutted 上向き from above his 独房, so did the hermit 規制する his 条件 of 祈り and meditation. There was nothing on earth to draw his 注目する，もくろむ, or to distract his mind, for the grassy plain below was as 無効の from month to month as the heaven above. So the long hours passed, until the red 縁 slipped 負かす／撃墜する on the その上の 味方する, and the day ended in the same pearl-grey shimmer with which it had begun. Once two ravens circled for some days 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the lonely hill, and once a white fish-eagle （機の）カム from the Dniester and 叫び声をあげるd above the hermit's 長，率いる. いつかs red dots were seen on the green plain where the antelopes grazed, and often a wolf howled in the 不明瞭 from the base of the 激しく揺するs. Such was the uneventful life of Simon Melas the anchorite, until there （機の）カム the day of wrath.

It was in the late spring of the year 375 that Simon （機の）カム out from his 独房, his gourd in his 手渡す, to draw water from the spring. 不明瞭 had の近くにd in, the sun had 始める，決める, but one last 微光 of rosy light 残り／休憩（する）d upon a rocky 頂点（に達する）, which jutted 前へ／外へ from the hill, on the その上の 味方する from the hermit's dwelling. As Simon （機の）カム 前へ／外へ from under his ledge, the gourd dropped from his 手渡す, and he stood gazing in amazement.

On the opposite 頂点（に達する） a man was standing, his 輪郭（を描く） 黒人／ボイコット in the fading light. He was a strange, almost a deformed 人物／姿／数字, short-statured, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する-支援するd, with a large 長，率いる, no neck, and a long 棒 jutting out from between his shoulders. He stood with his 直面する 前進するd, and his 団体／死体 bent, peering very intently over the plain to the 西方の. In a moment he was gone, and the lonely 黒人／ボイコット 頂点（に達する） showed up hard and naked against the faint eastern 微光. Then the night の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する, and all was 黒人／ボイコット once more.

Simon Melas stood long in bewilderment, wondering who this stranger could be. He had heard, as had every Christian, of those evil spirits which were wont to haunt the hermits in the Thebaid and on the skirts of the Ethiopian waste. The strange 形態／調整 of this 独房監禁 creature, its dark 輪郭（を描く） and prowling, 意図 態度, suggestive rather of a 猛烈な／残忍な, rapacious beast than of a man, all helped him to believe that he had at last 遭遇（する）d one of those wanderers from the 炭坑，オーケストラ席, of whose 存在, in those days of 強健な 約束, he had no more 疑問 than of his own. Much of the night he spent in 祈り, his 注目する，もくろむs ちらりと見ることing continually at the low arch of his 独房 door, with its curtain of 深い purple wrought with 星／主役にするs. At any instant some crouching monster, some horned abomination, might peer in upon him, and he clung with frenzied 控訴，上告 to his crucifix, as his human 証拠不十分 quailed at the thought. But at last his 疲労，（軍の）雑役 overcame his 恐れるs, and 落ちるing upon his couch of 乾燥した，日照りのd grass, he slept until the 有望な daylight brought him to his senses.

It was later than was his wont, and the sun was far above the horizon. As he （機の）カム 前へ／外へ from his 独房, he looked across at the 頂点（に達する） of 激しく揺する, but it stood there 明らかにする and silent. Already it seemed to him that that strange dark 人物／姿／数字 which had startled him so was some dream, some 見通し of the twilight. His gourd lay where it had fallen, and he 選ぶd it up with the 意向 of going to the spring. But suddenly he was aware of something new. The whole 空気／公表する was throbbing with sound. From all 味方するs it （機の）カム, rumbling, 不明確な／無期限の, an inarticulate mutter, low, but 厚い and strong, rising, 落ちるing, reverberating の中で the 激しく揺するs, dying away into vague whispers, but always there. He looked 一連の会議、交渉／完成する at the blue, cloudless sky in bewilderment. Then he 緊急発進するd up the rocky pinnacle above him, and 避難所ing himself in its 影をつくる／尾行する, he 星／主役にするd out over the plain. In his wildest dream he had never imagined such a sight.

The whole 広大な expanse was covered with horsemen, hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands, all riding slowly and in silence, out of the unknown east. It was the multitudinous （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 of their horses' hoofs which 原因（となる）d that low throbbing in his ears. Some were so の近くに to him as he looked 負かす／撃墜する upon them that he could see 明確に their thin, wiry horses, and the strange humped 人物／姿／数字s of their swarthy riders, sitting 今後 on the withers, shapeless bundles, their short 脚s hanging stirrupless, their 団体／死体s balanced as 堅固に as though they were part of the beast. In those nearest he could see the 屈服する and the quiver, the long spear and the short sword, with the coiled lasso behind the rider, which told that this was no helpless horde of wanderers, but a formidable army upon the march. His 注目する，もくろむs passed on from them and swept その上の and その上の, but still to the very horizon, which quivered with movement, there was no end to this monstrous cavalry. Already the 先導 was far past the island of 激しく揺する upon which he dwelt, and he could now understand that in 前線 of this 先導 were 選び出す／独身 scouts who guided the course of the army, and that it was one of these whom he had seen the evening before.

All day, held （一定の）期間-bound by this wonderful sight, the hermit crouched in the 影をつくる／尾行する of the 激しく揺するs, and all day the sea of horsemen rolled onward over the plain beneath. Simon had seen the 群れているing quays of Alexandria, he had watched the 暴徒 which 封鎖するd the hippodrome of Constantinople, yet never had he imagined such a multitude as now defiled beneath his 注目する，もくろむs, coming from that eastern skyline which had been the end of his world. いつかs the dense streams of horsemen were broken by droves of brood-損なうs and foals, driven along by 機動力のある guards; いつかs there were herds of cattle; いつかs there were lines of waggons with 肌 canopies above them; but then once more, after every break, （機の）カム the horsemen, the horsemen, the hundreds and the thousands and the tens of thousands, slowly, ceaselessly, silently drifting from the east to the west. The long day passed, the light 病弱なd, and the 影をつくる／尾行するs fell, but still the 広大な／多数の／重要な 幅の広い stream was flowing by.

But the night brought a new and even stranger sight. Simon had 示すd bundles of faggots upon the 支援するs of many of the led horses, and now he saw their use. All over the 広大な／多数の／重要な plain, red pin-points gleamed through the 不明瞭, which grew and brightened into flickering columns of 炎上. So far as he could see both to east and west the 解雇する／砲火／射撃s 延長するd, until they were but points of light in the furthest distance. White 星／主役にするs shone in the 広大な heavens above, red ones in the 広大な／多数の／重要な plain below. And from every 味方する rose the low, 混乱させるd murmur of 発言する／表明するs, with the lowing of oxen and the neighing of horses.

Simon had been a 兵士 and a man of 事件／事情／状勢s before ever he forsook the world, and the meaning of all that he had seen was （疑いを）晴らす to him. History told him how the Roman world had ever been 攻撃する，非難するd by fresh 群れているs of Barbarians, coming from the outer 不明瞭, and that the eastern Empire had already, in its fifty years of 存在 since Constantine had moved the 資本／首都 of the world to the shores of the Bosphorus, been tormented in the same way. Gepidae and Heruli, Ostrogoths and Sarmatians, he was familiar with them all. What the 前進するd sentinel of Europe had seen from this lonely 辺ぴな hill, was a fresh 群れている breaking in upon the Empire, distinguished only from the others by its enormous, incredible size and by the strange 面 of the 軍人s who composed it. He alone of all civilised men knew of the approach of this dreadful 影をつくる／尾行する, 広範囲にわたる like a 激しい 嵐／襲撃する-cloud from the unknown depths of the east. He thought of the little Roman 地位，任命するs along the Dneister, of the 廃虚d Dacian 塀で囲む of Trajan behind them, and then of the scattered, defenceless villages which lay with no thought of danger over all the open country which stretched 負かす／撃墜する to the Danube. Could he but give them the alarm! Was it not, perhaps, for that very end that God had guided him to the wilderness?

Then suddenly he remembered his Arian 隣人, who dwelt in the 洞穴 beneath him. Once or twice during the year he had caught a glimpse of his tall, bent 人物／姿／数字 hobbling 一連の会議、交渉／完成する to 診察する the 罠（にかける）s which he laid for quails and partridges. On one occasion they had met at the brook; but the old theologian waved him away as if he were a leper. What did he think now of this strange happening? Surely their differences might be forgotten at such a moment. He stole 負かす／撃墜する the 味方する of the hill, and made his way to his fellow-hermit's 洞穴.

But there was a terrible silence as he approached it. His heart sank at that deadly stillness in the little valley. No 微光 of light （機の）カム from the cleft in the 激しく揺するs. He entered and called, but no answer （機の）カム 支援する. Then, with flint, steel, and the 乾燥した，日照りの grass which he used for tinder, he struck a 誘発する, and blew it into a 炎. The old hermit, his white hair dabbled with crimson, lay sprawling across the 床に打ち倒す. The broken crucifix, with which his 長，率いる had been beaten in, lay in 後援s across him. Simon had dropped on his 膝s beside him, straightening his contorted 四肢s, and muttering the office for the dead, when the thud of a horse's hoofs was heard 上がるing the little valley which led to the hermit's 独房. The 乾燥した，日照りの grass had 燃やすd 負かす／撃墜する, and Simon crouched trembling in the 不明瞭, pattering 祈りs to the Virgin that his strength might be upheld.

It may have been that the new-comer had seen the gleam of the light, or it may have been that he had heard from his comrades of the old man whom they had 殺人d, and that his curiosity had led him to the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す. He stopped his horse outside the 洞穴, and Simon, lurking in the 影をつくる／尾行するs within, had a fair 見解（をとる） of him in the moonlight. He slipped from his saddle, fastened the bridle to a root, and then stood peering through the 開始 of the 独房. He was a very short, 厚い man, with a dark 直面する, which was gashed with three 削減（する）s upon either 味方する. His small 注目する，もくろむs were sunk 深い in his 長，率いる, showing like 黒人／ボイコット 穴を開けるs in the 激しい, flat, hairless 直面する. His 脚s were short and very bandy, so that he waddled uncouthly as he walked.

Simon crouched in the darkest angle, and he gripped in his 手渡す that same knotted cudgel which the dead theologian had once raised against him. As that hideous stooping 長，率いる 前進するd into the 不明瞭 of the 独房, he brought the staff 負かす／撃墜する upon it with all the strength of his 権利 arm, and then, as the stricken savage fell 今後 upon his 直面する, he struck madly again and again, until the shapeless 人物／姿／数字 lay limp and still. One roof covered the first 殺害された of Europe and of Asia.

Simon's veins were throbbing and quivering with the unwonted joy of 活動／戦闘. All the energy 蓄える／店d up in those years of repose （機の）カム in a flood at this moment of need. Standing in the 不明瞭 of the 独房, he saw, as in a 地図／計画する of 解雇する／砲火／射撃, the 輪郭（を描く）s of the 広大な／多数の／重要な 野蛮な host, the line of the river, the position of the 解決／入植地s, the means by which they might be 警告するd. Silently he waited in the 影をつくる／尾行する until the moon had sunk. Then he flung himself upon the dead man's horse, guided it 負かす／撃墜する the gorge, and 始める，決める 前へ／外へ at a gallop across the plain.

There were 解雇する／砲火／射撃s on every 味方する of him, but he kept （疑いを）晴らす of the （犯罪の）一味s of light. 一連の会議、交渉／完成する each he could see, as he passed, the circle of sleeping 軍人s, with the long lines of picketed horses. Mile after mile and league after league stretched that 抱擁する 野営. And then, at last, he had reached the open plain which led to the river, and the 解雇する／砲火／射撃s of the invaders were but a dull smoulder against the 黒人／ボイコット eastern sky. Ever faster and faster he sped across the steppe, like a 選び出す／独身 ぱたぱたするd leaf which whirls before the 嵐／襲撃する. Even as the 夜明け whitened the sky behind him, it gleamed also upon the 幅の広い river in 前線, and he flogged his 疲れた／うんざりした horse through the shallows, until he 急落（する），激減（する）d into its 十分な yellow tide.

So it was that, as the young Roman centurion--Caius Crassus--made his morning 一連の会議、交渉／完成する in the fort of Tyras he saw a 選び出す／独身 horseman, who 棒 に向かって him from the river. 疲れた／うんざりした and spent, drenched with water and caked with dirt and sweat, both horse and man were at the last 行う／開催する／段階 of their endurance. With amazement the Roman watched their 進歩, and recognised in the ragged, swaying 人物／姿／数字, with 飛行機で行くing hair and 星／主役にするing 注目する，もくろむs, the hermit of the eastern 砂漠. He ran to 会合，会う him, and caught him in his 武器 as he reeled from the saddle.

"What is it, then?" he asked. "What is your news?"

But the hermit could only point at the rising sun. "To 武器!" he croaked. "To 武器! The day of wrath is come!" And as he looked, the Roman saw--far across the river--a 広大な／多数の／重要な dark 影をつくる／尾行する, which moved slowly over the distant plain.

THE CONTEST

In the year of our Lord 66, the Emperor Nero, 存在 at that time in the twenty-ninth year of his life and the thirteenth of his 統治する, 始める，決める sail for Greece with the strangest company and the most singular design that any 君主 has ever entertained. With ten galleys he went 前へ／外へ from Puteoli, carrying with him 広大な／多数の／重要な 蓄える／店s of painted scenery and theatrical 所有物／資産／財産s, together with a number of knights and 上院議員s, whom he 恐れるd to leave behind him at Rome, and who were all 示すd for death in the course of his wanderings. In his train he took Natus, his singing coach; Cluvius, a man with a monstrous 発言する／表明する, who should bawl out his 肩書を与えるs; and a thousand trained 青年s who had learned to applaud in unison whenever their master sang or played in public. So deftly had they been taught that each had his own r?le to play. Some did no more than give 前へ／外へ a low 深い hum of speechless 評価. Some clapped with enthusiasm. Some, rising from approbation into 絶対の frenzy, shrieked, stamped, and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 sticks upon the （法廷の）裁判s. Some--and they were the most 効果的な--had learned from an Alexandrian a long droning musical 公式文書，認める which they all uttered together, so that it にわか景気d over the 議会. With the 援助（する） of these mercenary admirers, Nero had every hope, in spite of his indifferent 発言する／表明する and clumsy 死刑執行, to return to Rome, 耐えるing with him the chaplets for song 申し込む／申し出d for 解放する／自由な 競争 by the Greek cities. As his 広大な／多数の／重要な gilded galley with two tiers of oars passed 負かす／撃墜する the Mediterranean, the Emperor sat in his cabin all day, his teacher by his 味方する, rehearsing from morning to night those compositions which he had selected, whilst every few hours a Nubian slave massaged the 皇室の throat with oil and balsam, that it might be ready for the 広大な／多数の／重要な ordeal which lay before it in the land of poetry and song. His food, his drink, and his 演習 were 定める／命ずるd for him as for an 競技者 who trains for a contest, and the twanging of his lyre, with the strident 公式文書，認めるs of his 発言する／表明する, resounded continually from the 皇室の ４半期/4分の1s.

Now it chanced that there lived in those days a Grecian goatherd 指名するd Policles, who tended and partly owned a 広大な／多数の／重要な flock which grazed upon the long 側面に位置するs of the hills 近づく Heroea, which is five miles north of the river Alpheus, and no 広大な／多数の／重要な distance from the famous Olympia. This person was 公式文書，認めるd over all the country-味方する as a man of strange gifts and singular character. He was a poet who had twice been 栄冠を与えるd for his 詩（を作る）s, and he was a musician to whom the use and sound of an 器具 were so natural that one would more easily 会合，会う him without his staff than his harp. Even in his lonely 徹夜s on the winter hills he would 耐える it always slung over his shoulder, and would pass the long hours by its 援助（する）, so that it had come to be part of his very self. He was beautiful also, swarthy and eager, with a 長，率いる like Adonis, and in strength there was no one who could compete with him. But all was 廃虚d by his disposition, which was so masterful that he would brook no 対立 nor contradiction. For this 推論する／理由 he was continually at 敵意 with all his 隣人s, and in his fits of temper he would spend months at a time in his 石／投石する hut の中で the mountains, 審理，公聴会 nothing from the world, and living only for his music and his goats.

One spring morning, in the year of 67, Policles, with the 援助（する） of his boy Dorus, had driven his goats over to a new pasturage which overlooked from afar the town of Olympia. Gazing 負かす／撃墜する upon it from the mountain, the shepherd was surprised to see that a 部分 of the famous amphitheatre had been roofed in, as though some 業績／成果 was 存在 制定するd. Living far from the world and from all news, Policles could not imagine what was 進行中で, for he was 井戸／弁護士席 aware that the Grecian games were not 予定 for two years to come. Surely some poetic or musical contest must be 訴訟／進行 of which he had heard nothing. If so, there would perhaps be some chance of his 伸び（る）ing the 投票（する）s of the 裁判官s; and in any 事例／患者 he loved to hear the compositions and admire the 死刑執行 of the 広大な／多数の／重要な minstrels who 組み立てる／集結するd on such an occasion. Calling to Dorus, therefore, he left the goats to his 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, and strode 速く away, his harp upon his 支援する, to see what was going 今後 in the town.

When Policles （機の）カム into the 郊外s, he 設立する them 砂漠d; but he was still more surprised when he reached the main street to see no 選び出す／独身 human 存在 in the place. He 急いでd his steps, therefore, and as he approached the theatre he was conscious of a low 支えるd hum which 発表するd the concourse of a 抱擁する 議会. Never in all his dreams had he imagined any musical 競争 upon so 広大な a 規模 as this. There were some 兵士s clustering outside the door; but Policles 押し進めるd his way 速く through them, and 設立する himself upon the 郊外s of the multitude who filled the 広大な／多数の／重要な space formed by roofing over a 部分 of the 国家の stadium. Looking around him, Policles saw a 広大な／多数の／重要な number of his 隣人s, whom he knew by sight, tightly packed upon the （法廷の）裁判s, all with their 注目する，もくろむs 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon the 行う／開催する／段階. He also 観察するd that there were 兵士s 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the 塀で囲むs, and that a かなりの part of the hall was filled by a 団体／死体 of 青年s of foreign 面, with white gowns and long hair. All this he perceived; but what it meant he could not imagine. He bent over to a 隣人 to ask him, but a 兵士 prodded him at once with the butt end of his spear, and 命令（する）d him ひどく to 持つ／拘留する his peace. The man whom he had 演説（する）／住所d, thinking that Policles had 需要・要求するd a seat, 圧力（をかける）d closer to his 隣人, and so the shepherd 設立する himself sitting at the end of the （法廷の）裁判 which was nearest to the door. Thence he concentrated himself upon the 行う／開催する／段階, on which Metas, a 井戸／弁護士席-known minstrel from Corinth and an old friend of Policles, was singing and playing without much 激励 from the audience. To Policles it seemed that Metas was having いっそう少なく than his 予定, so he 拍手喝采する loudly, but he was surprised to 観察する that the 兵士s frowned at him, and that all his 隣人s regarded him with some surprise. 存在 a man of strong and obstinate character, he was the more inclined to persevere in his clapping when he perceived that the general 感情 was against him.

But what followed filled the shepherd poet with 絶対の amazement. When Metas of Corinth had made his 屈服する and 孤立した to half-hearted and perfunctory 賞賛, there appeared upon the 行う／開催する／段階, まっただ中に the wildest enthusiasm upon the part of the audience, a most 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 人物／姿／数字. He was a short fat man, neither old nor young, with a bull neck and a 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, 激しい 直面する, which hung in creases in 前線 like the dewlap of an ox. He was absurdly 覆う？ in a short blue tunic, を締めるd at the waist with a golden belt. His neck and part of his chest were exposed, and his short, fat 脚s were 明らかにする from the buskins below to the middle of his thighs, which was as far as his tunic 延長するd. In his hair were two golden wings, and the same upon his heels, after the fashion of the god 水銀柱，温度計. Behind him walked a negro 耐えるing a harp, and beside him a richly dressed officer who bore rolls of music. This strange creature took the harp from the 手渡すs of the attendant, and 前進するd to the 前線 of the 行う／開催する／段階, whence he 屈服するd and smiled to the 元気づける audience. "This is some foppish singer from Athens," thought Policles to himself, but at the same time he understood that only a 広大な／多数の／重要な master of song could receive such a 歓迎会 from a Greek audience. This was evidently some wonderful performer whose 評判 had に先行するd him. Policles settled 負かす／撃墜する, therefore, and 用意が出来ている to give his soul up to the music.

The blue-覆う？ player struck several chords upon his lyre, and then burst suddenly out into the "Ode of Niobe." Policles sat straight up on his （法廷の）裁判 and gazed at the 行う／開催する／段階 in amazement. The tune 需要・要求するd a 早い 移行 from a low 公式文書，認める to a high, and had been purposely chosen for this 推論する／理由. The low 公式文書，認める was a grunting, a rumble, the 深い discordant growling of an ill-条件d dog. Then suddenly the singer threw up his 直面する, straightened his tubby 人物／姿／数字, rose upon his tiptoes, and with a wagging 長，率いる and scarlet cheeks emitted such a howl as the same dog might have given had his growl been checked by a kick from his master. All the while the lyre twanged and thrummed, いつかs in 前線 of and いつかs behind the 発言する／表明する of the singer. But what amazed Policles most of all was the 影響 of this 業績／成果 upon the audience. Every Greek was a trained critic, and as unsparing in his hisses as he was lavish in his 賞賛. Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven まっただ中に execration and 乱用 from the 壇・綱領・公約. But now, as the man stopped and wiped the abundant sweat from his fat 直面する, the whole 議会 burst into a delirium of 評価. The shepherd held his 手渡すs to his bursting 長，率いる, and felt that his 推論する／理由 must be leaving him. It was surely a dreadful musical nightmare, and he would wake soon and laugh at the remembrance. But no; the 人物／姿／数字s were real, the 直面するs were those of his 隣人s, the 元気づけるs which resounded in his ears were indeed from an audience which filled the theatre of Olympia. The whole chorus was in 十分な 爆破, the hummers humming, the shouters bellowing, the tappers hard at work upon the （法廷の）裁判s, while every now and then （機の）カム a musical サイクロン of "Incomparable! Divine!" from the trained phalanx who intoned their 賞賛, their 部隊d 発言する／表明するs 広範囲にわたる over the tumult as the drone of the 勝利，勝つd 支配するs the roar of the sea. It was madness--insufferable madness! If this were 許すd to pass, there was an end of all musical 司法（官） in Greece. Policles' 良心 would not 許す him to be still. Standing upon his （法廷の）裁判 with waving 手渡すs and upraised 発言する／表明する, he 抗議するd with all the strength of his 肺s against the mad judgment of the audience.

At first, まっただ中に the tumult, his 活動／戦闘 was hardly noticed. His 発言する／表明する was 溺死するd in the 全世界の／万国共通の roar which broke out afresh at each 屈服する and smirk from the fatuous musician. But 徐々に the folk around Policles 中止するd clapping, and 星／主役にするd at him in astonishment. The silence grew in ever 広げるing circles, until the whole 広大な／多数の／重要な 議会 sat mute, 星／主役にするing at this wild and magnificent creature who was 嵐／襲撃するing at them from his perch 近づく the door.

"Fools!" he cried. "What are you clapping at? What are you 元気づける? Is this what you call music? Is this cat-calling to earn an Olympian prize? The fellow has not a 公式文書，認める in his 発言する／表明する. You are either deaf or mad, and I for one cry shame upon you for your folly."

兵士s ran to pull him 負かす／撃墜する, and the whole audience was in 混乱, some of the bolder 元気づける the 感情s of the shepherd, and others crying that he should be cast out of the building. 一方／合間 the successful singer, having 手渡すd his lyre to his negro attendant, was 問い合わせing from those around him on the 行う／開催する／段階 as to the 原因（となる） of the uproar. Finally a 先触れ（する） with an enormously powerful 発言する／表明する stepped 今後 to the 前線, and 布告するd that if the foolish person at the 支援する of the hall, who appeared to 異なる from the opinion of the 残り／休憩（する） of the audience, would come 今後 upon the 壇・綱領・公約, he might, if he dared, 展示（する） his own 力／強力にするs, and see if he could outdo the admirable and wonderful 展示 which they had just had the 特権 of 審理，公聴会.

Policles sprang readily to his feet at the challenge, and the 広大な／多数の／重要な company making way for him to pass, he 設立する himself a minute later standing in his unkempt garb, with his frayed and 天候-beaten harp in his 手渡す, before the expectant （人が）群がる. He stood for a moment 強化するing a string here and slackening another there until his chords rang true. Then, まっただ中に a murmur of laughter and jeers from the Roman （法廷の）裁判s すぐに before him, he began to sing.

He had 用意が出来ている no composition, but he had trained himself to improvise, singing out of his heart for the joy of the music. He told of the land of Elis, beloved of Jupiter, in which they were gathered that day, of the 広大な／多数の／重要な 明らかにする mountain slopes, of the swift 影をつくる／尾行するs of the clouds, of the winding blue river, of the keen 空気／公表する of the uplands, of the 冷気／寒がらせる of the evenings, and the beauties of earth and sky. It was all simple and childlike, but it went to the hearts of the Olympians, for it spoke of the land which they knew and loved. Yet when he at last dropped his 手渡す, few of them dared to applaud, and their feeble 発言する／表明するs were 溺死するd by a 嵐／襲撃する of hisses and groans from his 対抗者s. He shrank 支援する in horror from so unusual a 歓迎会, and in an instant his blue-覆う？ 競争相手 was in his place. If he had sung 不正に before, his 業績／成果 now was 信じられない. His 叫び声をあげるs, his grunts, his discords, and 厳しい jarring cacophonies were an 乱暴／暴力を加える to the very 指名する of music. And yet every time that he paused for breath or to wipe his streaming forehead a fresh 雷鳴 of 賞賛 （機の）カム rolling 支援する from the audience. Policles sank his 直面する in his 手渡すs and prayed that he might not be insane. Then, when the dreadful 業績／成果 中止するd, and the uproar of 賞賛 showed that the 栄冠を与える was certainly awarded to this impostor, a horror of the audience, a 憎悪 of this race of fools, and a craving for the peace and silence of the pastures mastered every feeling in his mind. He dashed through the 集まり of people waiting at the wings, and 現れるd in the open 空気／公表する. His old 競争相手 and friend Metas of Corinth was waiting there with an anxious 直面する.

"Quick, Policles, quick!" he cried. "My pony is tethered behind yonder grove. A grey he is, with red trappings. Get you gone as hard as hoof will 耐える you, for if you are taken you will have no 平易な death."

"No 平易な death! What mean you, Metas? Who is the fellow?"

"広大な／多数の／重要な Jupiter! did you not know? Where have you lived? It is Nero the Emperor! Never would he 容赦 what you have said about his 発言する／表明する. Quick, man, quick, or the guards will be at your heels!"

An hour later the shepherd was 井戸／弁護士席 on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the Emperor, having received the Chaplet of Olympia for the incomparable excellence of his 業績／成果, was making 調査s with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous 批評s.

"Bring him to me here this instant," said he, "and let Marcus with his knife and branding-アイロンをかける be in 出席."

"If it please you, 広大な／多数の／重要な Caesar," said Arsenius Platus, the officer of 出席, "the man cannot be 設立する, and there are some very strange rumours 飛行機で行くing about."

"Rumours!" cried the angry Nero. "What do you mean, Arsenius? I tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart with the 耐えるing of a boor and the 発言する／表明する of a peacock. I tell you also that there are a good many who are as 有罪の as he の中で the people, for I heard them with my own ears raise 元気づけるs for him when he had sung his ridiculous ode. I have half a mind to 燃やす their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit."

"It is not to be wondered at if he won their 投票（する）s, Caesar," said the 兵士, "for from what I hear it would have been no 不名誉 had you, even you, been 征服する／打ち勝つd in this contest."

"I 征服する／打ち勝つd! You are mad, Arsenius. What do you mean?"

"非，不，無 know him, 広大な／多数の／重要な Caesar! He （機の）カム from the mountains, and he disappeared into the mountains. You 示すd the wildness and strange beauty of his 直面する. It is whispered that for once the 広大な／多数の／重要な god Pan has condescended to 手段 himself against a mortal."

The cloud （疑いを）晴らすd from Nero's brow. "Of course, Arsenius! You are 権利! No man would have dared to 勇敢に立ち向かう me so. What a story for Rome! Let the messenger leave this very night, Arsenius, to tell them how their Emperor has upheld their honour in Olympia this day."

THE FIRST CARGO

"Ex ovo omnia"

When you left Britain with your legion, my dear Crassus, I 約束d that I would 令状 to you from time to time when a messenger chanced to be going to Rome, and keep you 知らせるd as to anything of 利益／興味 which might occur in this country. 本人自身で, I am very glad that I remained behind when the 軍隊／機動隊s and so many of our 国民s left, for though the living is rough and the 気候 is infernal, still by dint of the three voyages which I have made for amber to the Baltic, and the excellent prices which I 得るd for it here, I shall soon be in a position to retire, and to spend my old age under my own fig tree, or even perhaps to buy a small 郊外住宅 at Baiae or Posuoli, where I could get a good sun-bath after the continued 霧s of this accursed island. I picture myself on a little farm, and I read the Georgics as a 準備; but when I hear the rain 落ちるing and the 勝利，勝つd howling, Italy seems very far away.

In my previous letter I let you know how things were going in this country. The poor folk, who had given up all 兵士ing during the centuries that we guarded them, are now perfectly helpless before these Picts and Scots, tattooed Barbarians from the north, who 侵略（する）／超過（する） the whole country and do 正確に／まさに what they please. So long as they kept to the north, the people in the south, who are the most 非常に／多数の, and also the most civilised of the Britons, took no 注意する of them; but now the rascals have come as far as London, and the lazy folk in these parts have had to wake up. Vortigern, the king, is useless for anything but drink or women, so he sent across to the Baltic to get over some of the North Germans, in the hope that they would come and help him. It is bad enough to have a boar in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend 事柄s if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves 同様に. However, nothing better could be 工夫するd, so an 招待 was sent and very 敏速に 受託するd. And it is here that your humble friend appears upon the scene. In the course of my amber 貿易（する）ing I had learned the Saxon speech, and so I was sent 負かす／撃墜する in all haste to the Kentish shore that I might be there when our new 同盟（する）s （機の）カム. I arrived there on the very day when their first 大型船 appeared, and it is of my adventures that I wish to tell you. It is perfectly （疑いを）晴らす to me that the 上陸 of these warlike Germans in England will 証明する to be an event of historical importance, and so your inquisitive mind will not feel 疲れた／うんざりしたd if I 扱う／治療する the 事柄 in some 詳細（に述べる）.

It was, then, upon the day of 水銀柱，温度計, すぐに に引き続いて the Feast of Our Blessed Lord's Ascension, that I 設立する myself upon the south bank of the river Thames, at the point where it opens into a wide estuary. There is an island there 指名するd Thanet, which was the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す chosen for the landfall of our 訪問者s. Sure enough, I had no sooner ridden up than there was a 広大な／多数の／重要な red ship, the first as it seems of three, coming in under 十分な sail. The white horse, which is the ensign of these rovers, was hanging from her topmast, and she appeared to be （人が）群がるd with men. The sun was 向こうずねing brightly, and the 広大な／多数の／重要な scarlet ship, with snow-white sails and a line of gleaming 保護物，者s slung over her 味方する, made as fair a picture on that blue expanse as one would wish to see.

I 押し進めるd off at once in a boat, because it had been arranged that 非，不，無 of the Saxons should land until the king had come 負かす／撃墜する to speak with their leaders. Presently I was under the ship, which had a gilded dragon in the 屈服するs, and a tier of oars along either 味方する. As I looked up, there was a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 of helmeted 長，率いるs looking 負かす／撃墜する at me, and の中で them I saw, to my 広大な／多数の／重要な surprise and 楽しみ, that of Eric the Swart, with whom I do 商売／仕事 at Venta every year. He 迎える／歓迎するd me heartily when I reached the deck, and became at once my guide, friend, and counsellor. This helped me 大いに with these Barbarians, for it is their nature that they are very 冷淡な and aloof unless one of their own number can vouch for you, after which they are very hearty and hospitable. Try as they will, they find it hard, however, to 避ける a 確かな suggestion of condescension, and in the baser sort, of contempt, when they are 取引，協定ing with a foreigner.

It was a 広大な／多数の／重要な 一打／打撃 of luck 会合 Eric, for he was able to give me some idea of how things stood before I was shown into the presence of Kenna, the leader of this particular ship. The 乗組員, as I learned from him, was 完全に made up of three tribes or families--those of Kenna, of Lanc, and of Hasta. Each of these tribes gets its 指名する by putting the letters "ing" after the 指名する of the 長，指導者, so that the people on board would 述べる themselves as Kennings, Lancings, and Hastings. I 観察するd in the Baltic that the villages were 指名するd after the family who lived in them, each keeping to itself, so that I have no 疑問 that if these fellows get a 地盤 on shore, we shall see 解決／入植地s with 指名するs like these rising up の中で the British towns.

The greater part of the men were sturdy fellows with red, yellow, or brown hair, mostly the latter. To my surprise, I saw several women の中で them. Eric, in answer to my question, explained that they always take their women with them so far as they can, and that instead of finding them an encumbrance as our Roman dames would be, they look upon them as helpmates and 助言者s. Of course, I remembered afterwards that our excellent and 正確な Tacitus has 発言／述べるd upon this characteristic of the Germans. All 法律s in the tribes are decided by 投票（する）s, and a 投票（する） has not yet been given to the women, but many are in favour of it, and it is thought that woman and man may soon have the same 力／強力にする in the 明言する／公表する, though many of the women themselves are …に反対するd to such an 革新. I 観察するd to Eric that it was fortunate there were several women on board, as they could keep each other company; but he answered that the wives of 長，指導者s had no 願望（する） to know the wives of the inferior officers, and that both of them 連合させるd against the more ありふれた women, so that any companionship was out of the question. He pointed as he spoke to Editha, the wife of Kenna, a red-直面するd, 年輩の woman, who walked の中で the others, her chin in the 空気／公表する, taking no more notice than if they did not 存在する.

Whilst I was talking to my friend Eric, a sudden altercation broke out upon the deck, and a 広大な／多数の／重要な number of the men paused in their work, and flocked に向かって the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す with 直面するs which showed that they were 深く，強烈に 利益／興味d in the 事柄. Eric and I 押し進めるd our way の中で the others, for I was very anxious to see as much as I could of the ways and manners of these Barbarians. A quarrel had broken out about a child, a little blue-注目する，もくろむd fellow with curly yellow hair, who appeared to be 大いに amused by the hubbub of which he was the 原因（となる）. On one 味方する of him stood a white-bearded old man, of very majestic 面, who 示す by his gestures that he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the lad for himself, while on the other was a thin, earnest, anxious person, who 堅固に 反対するd to the boy 存在 taken from him. Eric whispered in my ear that the old man was the 部族の high priest, who was the 公式の／役人 sacrificer to their 広大な／多数の／重要な god Woden, whilst the other was a man who took somewhat different 見解（をとる）s, not upon Woden, but upon the means by which he should be worshipped. The 大多数 of the 乗組員 were on the 味方する of the old priest; but a 確かな number, who liked greater liberty of worship, and to invent their own 祈りs instead of always repeating the 公式の／役人 ones, followed the lead of the younger man. The difference was too 深い and too old to be 傷をいやす／和解させるd の中で the grown men, but each had a 広大な／多数の／重要な 願望（する） to impress his 見解（をとる） upon the children. This was the 推論する／理由 why these two were now so furious with each other, and the argument between them ran so high that several of their 信奉者s on either 味方する had drawn the short saxes, or knives from which their 指名する of Saxon is derived, when a burly, red-長，率いるd man 押し進めるd his way through the throng, and in a 発言する／表明する of 雷鳴 brough the 論争 to an end.

"You priests, who argue about the things which no man can know, are more trouble 船内に this ship than all the dangers of the sea," he cried. "Can you not be content with worshipping Woden, over which we are all agreed, and not make so much of those small points upon which we may 異なる. If there is all this fuss about the teaching of the children, then I shall forbid either of you to teach them, and they must be content with as much as they can learn from their mothers."

The two angry teachers walked away with discontented 直面するs; and Kenna--for it was he who spoke--ordered that a whistle should be sounded, and that the 乗組員 should 組み立てる／集結する. I was pleased with the 解放する／自由な 耐えるing of these people, for though this was their greatest 長，指導者, they showed 非，不，無 of the 誇張するd 尊敬（する）・点 which 兵士s of a legion might show to the Praetor, but met him on a respectful equality, which showed how 高度に they 率d their own manhood.

From our Roman 基準, his 発言／述べるs to his men would seem very wanting in eloquence, for there were no graces nor metaphors to be 設立する in them, and yet they were short, strong and to the point. At any 率 it was very （疑いを）晴らす that they were to the minds of his hearers. He began by reminding them that they had left their own country because the land was all taken up, and that there was no use returning there, since there was no place where they could dwell as 解放する／自由な and 独立した・無所属 men. This island of Britain was but sparsely 住むd, and there was a chance that every one of them would be able to 設立する a home of his own.

"You, Whitta," he said, 演説（する）／住所ing some of them by 指名する, "you will 設立する a Whitting hame, and you, Bucka, we shall see you in a Bucking hame, where your children and your children's children will bless you for the 幅の広い acres which your valour will have 伸び（る）d for them." There was no word of glory or of honour in his speech, but he said that he was aware that they would do their 義務, on which they all struck their swords upon their 保護物，者s so that the Britons on the beach could hear the clang. Then, his 注目する，もくろむs 落ちるing upon me, he asked me whether I was the messenger from Vortigern, and on my answering, he 企て，努力，提案 me follow him into his cabin, where Lanc and Hasta, the other 長，指導者s, were waiting for a 会議.

Picture me, then, my dear Crassus, in a very low-roofed cabin, with these three 抱擁する Barbarians seated 一連の会議、交渉／完成する me. Each was 覆う？ in some sort of saffron tunic, with a chain-mail shirt over it, and a helmet with the horns of oxen on the 味方するs, laid upon the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する before him. Like most of the Saxon 長，指導者s, their 耐えるd were shaved, but they wore their hair long and their 抱擁する light-coloured moustaches drooped 負かす／撃墜する on to their shoulders. They are gentle, slow, and somewhat 激しい in their 耐えるing, but I can 井戸／弁護士席 fancy that their fury is the more terrible when it does arise.

Their minds seem to be of a very practical and 肯定的な nature, for they at once began to ask me a 一連の question upon the numbers of the Britons, the 資源s of the kingdom, the 条件s of its 貿易（する）, and other such 支配するs. They then 始める，決める to work arguing over the （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） which I had given, and became so 吸収するd in their own 論争 that I believe there were times when they forgot my presence. Everything, after 予定 discussion, was decided between them by the 投票（する）, the one who 設立する himself in the 少数，小数派 always submitting, though いつかs with a very bad grace. Indeed, on one occasion Lanc, who usually 異なるd from the others, 脅すd to 言及する the 事柄 to the general 投票（する） of the whole 乗組員. There was a constant 衝突 in the point of 見解（をとる）; for 反して Kenna and Hasta were anxious to 延長する the Saxon 力／強力にする, and to make it greater in the 注目する，もくろむs of the world, Lanc was of opinion that they should give いっそう少なく thought to conquest and more to the 慰安 and 進歩 of their 信奉者s. At the same time it seemed to me that really Lanc was the most combative of the three; so much so that, even in time of peace, he could not forego this contest with his own brethren. Neither of the others seemed very fond of him, for they were each, as was 平易な to see, proud of their chieftainship, and anxious to use their 当局, referring continually to those noble ancestors from whom it was derived; while Lanc, though he was 平等に 井戸／弁護士席 born, took the 見解（をとる） of the ありふれた men upon every occasion, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that the 利益／興味s of the many were superior to the 特権s of the few. In a word, Crassus, if you could imagine a 解放する／自由な-booting Gracchus on one 味方する, and two piratical Patricians upon the other, you would understand the 影響 which my companions produced upon me.

There was one peculiarity which I 観察するd in their conversation which soothed me very much. I am fond of these Britons, の中で whom I have spent so much of my life, and I wish them 井戸／弁護士席. It was very pleasing, therefore, to notice that these men 主張するd upon it in their conversation that the whole 反対する of their visit was the good of the Islanders. Any prospect of advantage to themselves was 押し進めるd into the background. I was not （疑いを）晴らす that these professions could be made to agree with the speech in which Kenna had 約束d a hundred hides of land to every man on the ship; but on my making this 発言／述べる, the three 長，指導者s seemed very surprised and 傷つける by my 疑惑s, and explained very plausibly that, as the Britons needed them as a guard, they could not 援助（する） them better than by settling on the 国／地域, and so 存在 continually at 手渡す ーするために help them. In time, they said, they hoped to raise and train the natives to such a point that they would be able to look after themselves. Lanc spoke with some degree of eloquence upon the nobleness of the 使節団 which they had undertaken, and the others clattered their cups of mead (a jar of that unpleasant drink was on the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する) in 記念品 of their 協定.

I 観察するd also how much 利益／興味d, and how very earnest and intolerant these Barbarians were in the 事柄 of 宗教. Of Christianity they knew nothing, so that although they were aware that the Britons were Christians, they had not a notion of what their creed really was. Yet without examination they started by taking it for 認めるd that their own worship of Woden was 絶対 権利, and that therefore this other creed must be 絶対 wrong. "This vile 宗教," "This sad superstition," and "This grievous error" were の中で the phrases which they used に向かって it. Instead of 表明するing pity for anyone who had been misinformed upon so serious a question, their feelings were those of 怒り／怒る, and they 宣言するd most 真面目に that they would spare no 苦痛s to 始める，決める the 事柄 権利, fingering the hilts of their long broadswords as they said so.

井戸／弁護士席, my dear Crassus, you will have had enough of me and of my Saxons. I have given you a short sketch of these people and their ways. Since I began this letter, I have visited the two other ships which have come in, and as I find the same 特徴 の中で the people on board them, I cannot 疑問 that they 嘘（をつく） 深く，強烈に in the race. For the 残り／休憩（する）, they are 勇敢に立ち向かう, hardy, and very pertinacious in all that they 請け負う; 反して the Britons, though a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 more spirited, have not the same steadiness of 目的, their quicker imaginations 示唆するing always some other course, and their more fiery passions 存在 後継するd by reaction. When I looked from the deck of the first Saxon ship, and saw the swaying excited multitude of Britons on the beach, contrasting them with the 意図, silent men who stood beside me, it seemed to me more than ever dangerous to call in such 同盟（する）s. So 堅固に did I feel it that I turned to Kenna, who was also looking に向かって the beach.

"You will own this island before you have finished," said I.

His 注目する，もくろむs sparkled as he gazed. "Perhaps," he cried; and then suddenly 訂正するing himself and thinking that he had said too much, he 追加するd--

"A 一時的な 占領／職業--nothing more."

AN ICONOCLAST

It was daybreak of a March morning in the year of Christ 92. Outside the long Semita Alta was already thronged with people, with 買い手s and 販売人s, 報知係s and strollers, for the Romans were so 早期に-rising a people that many a Patrician preferred to see his （弁護士の）依頼人s at six in the morning. Such was the good 共和国の／共和党の tradition, still upheld by the more 保守的な; but with more modern habits of 高級な, a night of 楽しみ and 祝宴ing was no uncommon thing. Thus one, who had learned the new and yet 固執するd to the old, might find his hours overlap, and without so much as a pretence of sleep come straight from his night of debauch into his day of 商売／仕事, turning with 激しい wits and an aching 長，率いる to that 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of formal 義務s which 消費するd the life of a Roman gentleman.

So it was with Emilius Flaccus that March morning. He and his fellow 上院議員, Caius Balbus, had passed the night in one of those 暗い／優うつな drinking 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s to which the Emperor Domitian 召喚するd his chosen friends at the high palace on the Palatine. Now, having reached the portals of the house of Flaccus, they stood together under the pomegranate-fringed portico which 前線d the peristyle and, 確信して in each other's tried discretion, made up by the freedom of their 批評 for the long self-鎮圧 of that melancholy feast.

"If he would but 料金d his guests," said Balbus, a little red-直面するd, choleric nobleman with yellow-発射 angry 注目する，もくろむs. "What had we? Upon my life, I have forgotten. Plovers' eggs, a mess of fish, some bird or other, and then his eternal apples."

"Of which," said Flaccus, "he ate only the apples. Do him the 司法（官） to 自白する that he takes even いっそう少なく than he gives. At least they cannot say of him as of Vitellius, that his teeth beggared the empire."

"No, nor this かわき, 広大な／多数の／重要な as it is. That fiery Sabine ワイン of his could be had for a few sesterces the amphora. It is the ありふれた drink of the carters at every ワイン-house on the country roads. I longed for a glass of my own rich Falernian or the mellow Coan that was 瓶／封じ込めるd in the year that Titus took Jerusalem. Is it even now too late? Could we not wash this rasping stuff from our palates?"

"Nay, better come in with me now and take a bitter draught ere you go upon your way. My Greek 内科医 Stephanos has a rare prescription for a morning 長，率いる. What! Your （弁護士の）依頼人s を待つ you? 井戸／弁護士席, I will see you later at the 上院 house."

The Patrician had entered his atrium, 有望な with rare flowers, and melodious with strange singing birds. At the jaws of the hall, true to his morning 義務s, stood Lebs, the little Nubian slave, with snow-white tunic and turban, a salver of glasses in one 手渡す, whilst in the other he held a flask of thin lemon-色合いd liquid. The master of the house filled up a bitter aromatic bumper, and was about to drink it off, when his 手渡す was 逮捕（する）d by a sudden perception that something was much amiss in his 世帯. It was to be read all around him--in the 脅すd 注目する，もくろむs of the 黒人／ボイコット boy, in the agitated 直面する of the keeper of the atrium, in the gloom and silence of the little knot of ordinarii, the procurator or majordomo at their 長，率いる, who had 組み立てる／集結するd to 迎える／歓迎する their master. Stephanos the 内科医, Cleios the Alexandrine reader, Promus the steward each turned his 長，率いる away to 避ける his master's 尋問 gaze.

"What in the 指名する of Pluto is the 事柄 with you all?" cried the amazed 上院議員, whose night of potations had left him in no mood for patience. "Why do you stand moping there? Stephanos, Vacculus, is anything amiss? Here, Promus, you are the 長，率いる of my 世帯. What is it, then? Why do you turn your 注目する，もくろむs away from me?"

The burly steward, whose fat 直面する was haggard and mottled with 苦悩, laid his 手渡す upon the sleeve of the 国内の beside him.

"Sergius is 責任がある the atrium, my lord. It is for him to tell you the terrible thing that has befallen in your absence."

"Nay, it was Datus who did it. Bring him in, and let him explain it himself," said Sergius in a sulky 発言する／表明する.

The patience of the Patrician was at an end. "Speak this instant, you rascal!" he shouted 怒って. "Another minute, and I will have you dragged to the ergastulum, where, with your feet in the 在庫／株s and the gyves 一連の会議、交渉／完成する your wrists, you may learn quicker obedience. Speak, I say, and without 延期する."

"It is the Venus," the man stammered; "the Greek Venus of Praxiteles."

The 上院議員 gave a cry of 逮捕 and 急ぐd to the corner of the atrium, where a little 神社, curtained off by silken drapery, held the precious statue, the greatest art treasure of his collection--perhaps of the whole world. He tore the hangings aside and stood in speechless 怒り／怒る before the 乱暴／暴力を加えるd goddess. The red, perfumed lamp which always 燃やすd before her had been 流出／こぼすd and broken; her altar 解雇する／砲火／射撃 had been quenched, her chaplet had been dashed aside. But worst of all--insufferable sacrilege!--her own beautiful nude 団体／死体 of glistening Pantelic marble, as white and fair as when the 奮起させるd Greek had hewed it out five hundred years before, had been most 残酷に mishandled. Three fingers of the gracious outstretched 手渡す had been struck off, and lay upon the pedestal beside her. Above her delicate breast a dark 示す showed, where a blow had disfigured the marble. Emilius Flaccus, the most delicate and judicious connoisseur in Rome, stood gasping and croaking, his 手渡す to his throat, as he gazed at his disfigured masterpiece. Then he turned upon his slaves, his fury in his convulsed 直面する; but, to his amazement, they were not looking at him, but had all turned in 態度s of 深い 尊敬（する）・点 に向かって the 開始 of the peristyle. As he 直面するd 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and saw who had just entered his house, his own 激怒（する） fell away from him in an instant, and his manner became as humble as that of his servants.

The new-comer was a man forty-three years of age, clean shaven, with a 大規模な 長，率いる, large engorged 注目する，もくろむs, a small （疑いを）晴らす-削減（する） nose, and the 十分な bull neck which was the especial 示す of his 産む／飼育する. He had entered through the peristyle with a swaggering, rolling gait, as one who walks upon his own ground, and now he stood, his 手渡すs upon his hips, looking 一連の会議、交渉／完成する him at the 屈服するing slaves, and finally at their master, with a half-humorous 表現 upon his 紅潮／摘発するd and 残虐な 直面する.

"Why, Emilius," said he, "I had understood that your 世帯 was the best-ordered in Rome. What is amiss with you this morning?"

"Nothing could be amiss with us now that Caesar has deigned to come under my roof," said the courtier. "This is indeed a most glad surprise which you have 用意が出来ている for me."

"It was an afterthought," said Domitian. "When you and the others had left me, I was in no mood for sleep, and so it （機の）カム into my mind that I would have a breath of morning 空気／公表する by coming 負かす／撃墜する to you, and seeing this Grecian Venus of yours, about which you discoursed so eloquently between the cups. But, indeed, by your 外見 and that of your servants, I should 裁判官 that my visit was an ill-timed one."

"Nay, dear master; say not so. But, indeed, it is truth that I was in trouble at the moment of your welcome 入り口, and this trouble was, as the 運命／宿命s have willed it, brought 前へ／外へ by that very statue in which you have been graciously pleased to show your 利益／興味. There it stands, and you can see for yourself how rudely it has been mishandled."

"By Pluto and all the nether gods, if it were 地雷 some of you should 料金d the lampreys," said the Emperor, looking 一連の会議、交渉／完成する with his 猛烈な／残忍な 注目する，もくろむs at the 縮むing slaves. "You were always overmerciful, Emilius. It is the ありふれた talk that your catenae are rusted for want of use. But surely this is beyond all bounds. Let me see how you 扱う the 事柄. Whom do you 持つ／拘留する responsible?"

"The slave Sergius is responsible, since it is his place to tend the atrium," said Flaccus. "Stand 今後, Sergius. What have you to say?"

The trembling slave 前進するd to his master. "If it please you, sir, the mischief has been done by Datus the Christian."

"Datus! Who is he?"

"The matulator, the scavenger, my lord. I did not know that he belonged to these horrible people, or I should not have 認める him. He （機の）カム with his broom to 小衝突 out the litter of the birds. His 注目する，もくろむs fell upon the Venus, and in an instant he had 急ぐd upon her and struck her two blows with his 木造の besom. Then we fell upon him and dragged him away. But 式のs! 式のs! it was too late, for already the wretch had dashed off the fingers of the goddess."

The Emperor smiled grimly, while the Patrician's thin 直面する grew pale with 怒り／怒る.

"Where is the fellow?" he asked.

"In the ergastulum, your honour, with the furca on his neck."

"Bring him hither and 召喚する the 世帯."

A few minutes later the whole 支援する of the atrium was thronged by the motley （人が）群がる who 大臣d to the 世帯 needs of a 広大な／多数の／重要な Roman nobleman. There was the arcarius, or account keeper, with his stylum behind his ear; the sleek praegustator, who 見本d all foods, so as to stand between his master and 毒（薬）, and beside him his 前任者, now a half-witted idiot through the interception twenty years before of a datura draught from Canidia; the cellar-man, 召喚するd from amongst his amphorae; the cook, with his basting-ladle in his 手渡す; the pompous nomenclator, who 勧めるd the guests; the cubicularius, who saw to their accommodation; the silentiarius, who kept order in the house; the structor, who 始める，決める 前へ／外へ the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs; the carptor, who carved the food; the cinerarius, who lit the 解雇する／砲火／射撃s--these and many more, half curious, half-terrified, （機の）カム to the 裁判官ing of Datus. Behind them a chattering, giggling 群れている of Lalages, Marias, Cerusas, and Amaryllides, from the laundries and the spinning-rooms, stood upon their tiptoes, and 延長するd their pretty wondering 直面するs over the shoulders of the men. Through this （人が）群がる （機の）カム two stout varlets 主要な the 犯人 between them. He was a small, dark, rough-長，率いるd man, with an unkempt 耐えるd and wild 注目する，もくろむs which shone brightly with strong inward emotion. His 手渡すs were bound behind him, and over his neck was the 激しい 木造の collar or furca which was placed upon refractory slaves. A smear of 血 across his cheek showed that he had not come uninjured from the 先行する scuffle.

"Are you Datus the scavenger?" asked the Patrician.

The man drew himself up proudly. "Yes," said he, "I am Datus."

"Did you do this 傷害 to my statue?"

"Yes, I did."

There was an uncompromising boldness in the man's reply which compelled 尊敬（する）・点. The wrath of his master became tinged with 利益／興味.

"Why did you do this?" he asked.

"Because it was my 義務."

"Why, then, was it your 義務 to destroy your master's 所有物／資産／財産?"

"Because I am a Christian." His 注目する，もくろむs 炎d suddenly out of his dark 直面する. "Because there is no God but one eternal, and all else are sticks and 石／投石するs. What has this naked harlot to do with Him to whom the 広大な／多数の／重要な firmament is but a 衣料品 and the earth a footstool? It was in His service that I have broken your statue."

Domitian looked with a smile at the Patrician. "You will make nothing of him," said he. "They speak even so when they stand before the lions in the 円形競技場. As to argument, not all the philosophers of Rome can break them 負かす／撃墜する. Before my very 直面する they 辞退する to sacrifice in my honour. Never were such impossible people to を取り引きする. I should take a short way with him if I were you."

"What would Caesar advise?"

"There are the games this afternoon. I am showing the new 追跡（する）ing-ヒョウ which King Juba has sent from Numidia. This slave may give us some sport when he finds the hungry beast 匂いをかぐing at his heels."

The Patrician considered for a moment. He had always been a father to his servants. It was hateful to him to think of any 傷害 生じるing them. Perhaps even now, if this strange fanatic would show his 悲しみ for what he had done, it might be possible to spare him. At least it was 価値（がある） trying.

"Your offence deserves death," he said. "What 推論する／理由s can you give why it should not 生じる you, since you have 負傷させるd this statue, which is 価値（がある） your own price a hundred times over?"

The slave looked 確固に at his master. "I do not 恐れる death," he said. "My sister Candida died in the 円形競技場, and I am ready to do the same. It is true that I have 負傷させるd your statue, but I am able to find you something of far greater value in 交流. I will give you the truth and the gospel in 交流 for your broken idol."

The Emperor laughed. "You will do nothing with him, Emilius," he said. "I know his 産む／飼育する of old. He is ready to die; he says so himself. Why save him, then?"

But the Patrician still hesitated. He would make a last 成果／努力.

"Throw off his 社債s," he said to the guards. "Now take the furca off his neck. So! Now, Datus, I have 解放（する）d you to show you that I 信用 you. I have no wish to do you any 傷つける if you will but 認める your error, and so 始める，決める a better example to my 世帯 here 組み立てる／集結するd."

"How then, shall I 認める my error?" the slave asked.

"屈服する your 長，率いる before the goddess, and entreat her forgiveness for the 暴力／激しさ you have done her. Then perhaps you may 伸び（る） my 容赦 as 井戸／弁護士席."

"Put me, then, before her," said the Christian.

Emilius Flaccus looked triumphantly at Domitian. By 親切 and tact he was 影響ing that which the Emperor had failed to do by 暴力／激しさ. Datus walked in 前線 of the mutilated Venus. Then with a sudden spring he tore the baton out of the 手渡す of one of his 後見人s, leaped upon the pedestal, and にわか雨d his blows upon the lovely marble woman. With a 割れ目 and a dull thud her 権利 arm dropped to the ground. Another 猛烈な／残忍な blow and the left had followed. Flaccus danced and 叫び声をあげるd with horror, while his servants dragged the raving iconoclast from his impassive 犠牲者. Domitian's 残虐な laughter echoed through the hall.

"井戸／弁護士席, friend, what think you now?" he cried. "Are you wiser than your Emperor? Can you indeed tame your Christian with 親切?"

Emilius Flaccus wiped the sweat from his brow. "He is yours, 広大な／多数の／重要な Caesar. Do with him as you will."

"Let him be at the gladiators' 入り口 of the circus an hour before the games begin," said the Emperor. "Now, Emilius, the night has been a merry one. My Ligurian galley waits by the river quay. Come, 冷静な／正味の your 長，率いる with a spin to Ostia ere the 商売／仕事 of 明言する／公表する calls you to the 上院."

GIANT MAXIMIN

I - THE COMING OF MAXIMIN

Many are the strange vicissitudes of history. Greatness has often sunk to the dust, and has tempered itself to its new surroundings. Smallness has risen aloft, has 繁栄するd for a time, and then has sunk once more. Rich 君主s have become poor 修道士s, 勇敢に立ち向かう 征服者／勝利者s have lost their manhood, eunuchs and women have overthrown armies and kingdoms. Surely there is no 状況／情勢 which the mind of man could invent which has not taken 形態／調整 and been played out upon the world 行う／開催する／段階. But of all the strange careers and of all the wondrous happenings, stranger than Charles in his 修道院, or Justin on his 王位, there stands the 事例／患者 of 巨大（な） Maximin, what he 達成するd, and how he 達成するd it. Let me tell the sober facts of history, tinged only by that colouring to which the more 厳格な，質素な historians could not condescend. It is a 記録，記録的な／記録する 同様に as a story.

In the heart of Thrace some ten miles north of the Rhodope mountains, there is a valley which is 指名するd Harpessus, after the stream which runs 負かす／撃墜する it. Through this valley lies the main road from the east to the west, and along the road, returning from an 探検隊／遠征隊 against the Alani, there marched, upon the fifth day of the month of June in the year 210, a small but compact Roman army. It consisted of three legions--the Jovian, the Cappadocian, and the men of Hercules. Ten turmae of Gallic cavalry led the 先頭, while the 後部 was covered by a 連隊 of Batavian Horse Guards, the 即座の attendants of the Emperor Septimus Severus, who had 行為／行うd the （選挙などの）運動をする in person. The 小作農民s who lined the low hills which fringed the valley looked with 無関心／冷淡 upon the long とじ込み／提出するs of dusty, ひどく-重荷（を負わせる）d infantry, but they broke into murmurs of delight at the gold-直面するd cuirasses and high brazen horse-hair helmets of the guardsmen, applauding their stalwart 人物／姿／数字s, their 戦争の 耐えるing, and the stately 黒人／ボイコット chargers which they 棒. A 兵士 might know that it was the little 疲れた／うんざりした men with their short swords, their 激しい pikes over their shoulders, and their square 保護物，者s slung upon their 支援するs, who were the real terror of the enemies of the Empire, but to the 注目する，もくろむs of the wondering Thracians it was this 軍隊／機動隊 of glittering Apollos who bore Rome's victory upon their 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道するs, and upheld the 王位 of the purple-togaed prince who 棒 before them.

の中で the scattered groups of 小作農民s who looked on from a respectful distance at this 軍の 野外劇／豪華な行列, there were two men who attracted much attention from those who stood すぐに around them. The one was commonplace enough--a little grey-長，率いるd man, with uncouth dress and a でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる which was bent and warped by a long life of arduous toil, goat-運動ing and 支持を得ようと努めるd-chopping, の中で the mountains. It was the 外見 of his youthful companion which had drawn the amazed 観察 of the bystanders. In stature he was such a 巨大（な） as is seen but once or twice in each 世代 of mankind. Eight feet and two インチs was his 手段 from his sandalled 単独の to the topmost curls of his 絡まるd hair. Yet for all his mighty stature there was nothing 激しい or clumsy in the man. His 抱擁する shoulders bore no redundant flesh, and his 人物／姿／数字 was straight and hard and supple as a young pine tree. A frayed 控訴 of brown leather clung の近くに to his 巨大（な） 団体／死体, and a cloak of undressed sheep-肌 was slung from his shoulder. His bold blue 注目する，もくろむs, shock of yellow hair and fair 肌 showed that he was of Gothic or northern 血, and the amazed 表現 upon his 幅の広い frank 直面する as he 星／主役にするd at the passing 軍隊／機動隊s told of a simple and uneventful life in some 支援する valley of the Macedonian mountains.

"I 恐れる your mother was 権利 when she advised that we keep you at home," said the old man anxiously. "Tree-cutting and 支持を得ようと努めるd-carrying will seem but dull work after such a sight as this."

"When I see mother next it will be to put a golden torque 一連の会議、交渉／完成する her neck," said the young 巨大（な）. "And you, daddy; I will fill your leather pouch with gold pieces before I have done."

The old man looked at his son with startled 注目する，もくろむs. "You would not leave us, Theckla! What could we do without you?"

"My place is 負かす／撃墜する の中で yonder men," said the young man. "I was not born to 運動 goats and carry スピードを出す／記録につけるs, but to sell this manhood of 地雷 in the best market. There is my market in the Emperor's own Guard. Say nothing, daddy, for my mind is 始める，決める, and if you weep now it will be to laugh hereafter. I will to 広大な／多数の／重要な Rome with the 兵士s."

The daily march of the ひどく laden Roman legionary was 直す／買収する，八百長をするd at twenty miles; but on this afternoon, though only half the distance had been 遂行するd, the silver trumpets blared out their welcome news that a （軍の）野営地，陣営 was to be formed. As the men broke their 階級s, the 推論する／理由 of their light march was 発表するd by the decurions. It was the birthday of Geta, the younger son of the Emperor, and in his honour there would be games and a 二塁打 ration of ワイン. But the アイロンをかける discipline of the Roman army 要求するd that under all circumstances 確かな 義務s should be 成し遂げるd, and 真っ先の の中で them that the （軍の）野営地，陣営 should be made 安全な・保証する. Laying 負かす／撃墜する their 武器 in the order of their 階級s, the 兵士s 掴むd their spades and axes, and worked 速く and joyously until sloping vallum and gaping fossa girdled them 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, and gave them 安全な 避難 against a night attack. Then in noisy, laughing, gesticulating （人が）群がるs they gathered in their thousands 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the grassy 円形競技場 where the sports were to be held. A long green hill-味方する sloped 負かす／撃墜する to a level plain, and on this gentle incline the army lay watching the 争い of the chosen 競技者s who 競うd before them. They stretched themselves in the glare of the 日光, their 激しい tunics thrown off, and their naked 四肢s sprawling, ワイン-cups and baskets of fruit and cakes circling amongst them, enjoying 残り／休憩（する） and peace as only those can to whom it comes so rarely.

The five-mile race was over, and had been won as usual by Decurion Brennus, the 割れ目 long-distance 支持する／優勝者 of the Herculians. まっただ中に the yells of the Jovians, Capellus of the 軍団 had carried off both the long and the high jump. Big Brebix the Gaul had out-thrown the long guardsman Serenus with the fifty 続けざまに猛撃する 石／投石する. Now, as the sun sank に向かって the western 山の尾根, and turned the Harpessus to a riband of gold, they had come to the final of the 格闘するing, where the pliant Greek, whose 指名する is lost in the 愛称 of "Python," was tried out against the bull-necked Lictor of the 軍の police, a hairy Hercules, whose 激しい 手渡す had in the way of 義務 抑圧するd many of the 観客s.

As the two men, stripped save for their loincloths, approached the 格闘するing-wring, 元気づけるs and 反対する-元気づけるs burst from their adherents, some favouring the Lictor for his Roman 血, some the Greek from their own 私的な grudge. And then, of a sudden, the 元気づける died, 長，率いるs were turned に向かって the slope away from the 円形競技場, men stood up and peered and pointed, until finally, in a strange hush, the whole 広大な／多数の／重要な 議会 had forgotten the 競技者s, and were watching a 選び出す／独身 man walking 速く に向かって them 負かす／撃墜する the green curve of the hill. This 抱擁する 独房監禁 人物／姿／数字, with the oaken club in his 手渡す, the shaggy fleece flapping from his 広大な／多数の／重要な shoulders, and the setting sun gleaming upon a halo of golden hair, might have been the tutelary god of the 猛烈な／残忍な and barren mountains from which he had 問題／発行するd. Even the Emperor rose from his 議長，司会を務める and gazed with open-注目する，もくろむd amazement at the 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 存在 who approached him.

The man, whom we already know as Theckla the Thracian, paid no 注意する to the attention which he had 誘発するd, but strode onwards, stepping as lightly as a deer, until he reached the fringe of the 兵士s. まっただ中に their open 階級s he 選ぶd his way, sprang over the ropes which guarded the 円形競技場, and 前進するd に向かって the Emperor, until a spear at his breast 警告するd him that he must go no nearer. Then he sunk upon his 権利 膝 and called out some words in the Gothic speech.

"広大な／多数の／重要な Jupiter! Whoever saw such a 団体／死体 of a man!" cried the Emperor. "What says he? What is amiss with the fellow? Whence comes he, and what is his 指名する?"

An interpreter translated the Barbarian's answer. "He says, 広大な／多数の／重要な Caesar, that he is of good 血, and sprung by a Gothic father from a woman of the Alani. He says that his 指名する is Theckla, and that he would fain carry a sword in Caesar's service."

The Emperor smiled. "Some 地位，任命する could surely be 設立する for such a man, were it but as 管理人 in the Palatine Palace," said he to one of the Prefects. "I would fain see him walk even as he is through the 会議. He would turn the 長，率いるs of half the women in Rome. Talk to him, Crassus. You know his speech."

The Roman officer turned to the 巨大（な）. "Caesar says that you are to come with him, and he will make you the servant at his door."

The Barbarian rose, and his fair cheeks 紅潮／摘発するd with 憤慨.

"I will serve Caesar as a 兵士," said he, "but I will be house-servant to no man--not even to him. If Caesar would see what manner of man I am, let him put one of his guardsmen up against me."

"By the shade of Milo this is a bold fellow!" cried the Emperor. "How say you, Crassus? Shall he make good his words?"

"By your leave, Caesar," said the blunt 兵士, "good swordsmen are too rare in these days that we should let them 殺す each other for sport. Perhaps if the Barbarian would 格闘する a 落ちる----"

"Excellent!" cried the Emperor. "Here is the Python, and here Varus the Lictor, each stripped for the 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合. Have a look at them, Barbarian, and see which you would choose. What does he say? He would take them both? Nay then he is either the king of レスラーs or the king of boasters, and we shall soon see which. Let him have his way, and he has himself to thank if he comes out with a broken neck."

There was some laughter when the 小作農民 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするd his sheep-肌 mantle to the ground and, without troubling to 除去する his leathern tunic, 前進するd に向かって the two レスラーs; but it became uproarious when with a quick spring he 掴むd the Greek under one arm and the Roman under the other, 持つ／拘留するing them as in a 副／悪徳行為. Then with a terrific 成果／努力 he tore them both from the ground, carried them writhing and kicking 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the 円形競技場, and finally walking up to the Emperor's 王位, threw his two 競技者s 負かす／撃墜する in 前線 of him. Then, 屈服するing to Caesar, the 抱擁する Barbarian withdrew, and laid his 広大な／多数の／重要な 本体，大部分／ばら積みの 負かす／撃墜する の中で the 階級s of the applauding 兵士s, whence he watched with stolid unconcern the 結論 of the sports.

It was still daylight, when the last event had been decided, and the 兵士s returned to the （軍の）野営地，陣営. The Emperor Severus had ordered his horse, and in the company of Crassus, his favourite prefect, 棒 負かす／撃墜する the winding pathway, which skirts the Harpessus, chatting over the 未来 dispersal of the army. They had ridden for some miles when Severus, ちらりと見ることing behind him, was surprised to see a 抱擁する 人物／姿／数字 which trotted lightly along at the very heels of his horse.

"Surely this is 水銀柱，温度計 同様に as Hercules that we have 設立する の中で the Thracian mountains," said he with a smile. "Let us see how soon our Syrian horses can out-distance him."

The two Romans broke into a gallop, and did not draw rein until a good mile had been covered at the 十分な pace of their splendid chargers. Then they turned and looked 支援する; but there, some distance off, still running with a lightness and a spring which spoke of アイロンをかける muscles and inexhaustible endurance, （機の）カム the 広大な／多数の／重要な Barbarian. The Roman Emperor waited until the 競技者 had come up to them.

"Why do you follow me?" he asked.

"It is my hope, Caesar, that I may always follow you." His 紅潮／摘発するd 直面する as he spoke was almost level with that of the 機動力のある Roman.

"By the god of war, I do not know where in all the world I could find such a servant!" cried the Emperor. "You shall be my own 団体／死体-guard, the one nearest to me of all."

The 巨大（な） fell upon his 膝. "My life and strength are yours," he said. "I ask no more than to spend them for Caesar."

Crassus had 解釈する／通訳するd this short 対話. He now turned to the Emperor.

"If he is indeed to be always at your call, Caesar, it would be 井戸／弁護士席 to give the poor Barbarian some 指名する which your lips can でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる. Theckla is as uncouth and craggy a word as one of his native 激しく揺するs."

The Emperor pondered for a moment. "If I am to have the 指名するing of him," said he, "then surely I shall call him Maximus, for there is not such a 巨大（な） upon earth."

"Hark you," said the Prefect. "The Emperor has deigned to give you a Roman 指名する, since you have come into his service. Henceforth you are no longer Theckla, but you are Maximus. Can you say it after me?"

"Maximin," repeated the Barbarian, trying to catch the Roman word.

The Emperor laughed at the mincing accent. "Yes, yes, Maximin let it be. To all the world you are Maximin, the 団体／死体-guard of Severus. When we have reached Rome, we will soon see that your dress shall correspond with your office. 一方／合間 march with the guard until you have my その上の orders."

So it （機の）カム about that as the Roman army 再開するd its march next day, and left behind it the fair valley of the Harpessus, a 抱擁する 新採用する, 覆う？ in brown leather, with a rude sheep-肌 floating from his shoulders, marched beside the 皇室の 軍隊／機動隊s. But far away in the 木造の farmhouse of a distant Macedonian valley two old country folk wept salt 涙／ほころびs, and prayed to the gods for the safety of their boy who had turned his 直面する to Rome.

II - THE RISE OF GIANT MAXIMIN

正確に／まさに twenty-five years had passed since the day that Theckla the 抱擁する Thracian 小作農民 had turned into Maximin the Roman guardsman. They had not been good years for Rome. Gone for ever were the 広大な／多数の／重要な 皇室の days of the Hadrians and the Trajans. Gone also the golden age of the two Antonines, when the highest were for once the most worthy and most wise. It had been an 時代 of weak and cruel men. Severus, the swarthy African, a stark grim man had died in far away York, after fighting all the winter with the Caledonian Highlanders--a race who have ever since worn the 戦争の garb of the Romans. His son, known only by his slighting 愛称 of Caracalla, had 統治するd during six years of insane lust and cruelty, before the knife of an angry 兵士 avenged the dignity of the Roman 指名する. The nonentity Macrinus had filled the dangerous 王位 for a 選び出す／独身 year before he also met a 血まみれの end, and made room for the most grotesque of all 君主s, the unspeakable Heliogabalus with his foul mind and his painted 直面する. He in turn was 削減（する） to pieces by the 兵士s; and Severus Alexander, a gentle 青年, 不十分な seventeen years of age, had been thrust into his place. For thirteen years now he had 支配するd, 努力する／競うing with some success to put some virtue and 安定 into the rotting Empire, but raising many 猛烈な／残忍な enemies as he did so--enemies whom he had not the strength nor the wit to 持つ／拘留する in check.

And 巨大（な） Maximin--what of him? He had carried his eight feet of manhood through the lowlands of Scotland and the passes of the Grampians. He had seen Severus pass away, and had 兵士d with his son. He had fought in Armenia, in Dacia, and in Germany. They had made him a centurion upon the field when with his 手渡すs he plucked out one by one the stockades of a northern village, and so （疑いを）晴らすd a path for the stormers. His strength had been the jest and the 賞賛 of the 兵士s. Legends about him had spread through the army, and were the ありふれた gossip 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the （軍の）野営地，陣営 解雇する／砲火／射撃s--of his duel with the German axeman on the Island of the Rhine, and of the blow with his 握りこぶし that broke the 脚 of a Scythian's horse. 徐々に he had won his way 上向きs, until now, after ４半期/4分の1 of a century's service, he was tribune of the fourth legion and superintendent of 新採用するs for the whole army. The young 兵士 who had come under the glare of Maximin's 注目する，もくろむs, or had been 解除するd up with one 抱擁する 手渡す while he was cuffed by the other, had his first lesson from him in the discipline of the service.

It was nightfall in the （軍の）野営地，陣営 of the fourth legion upon the Gallic shore of the Rhine. Across the moonlit water, まっただ中に the 厚い forests which stretched away to the 薄暗い horizon, lay the wild untamed German tribes. 負かす／撃墜する on the river bank the light gleamed upon the helmets of the Roman sentinels who kept guard along the river. Far away a red point rose and fell in the 不明瞭--a watch-解雇する／砲火／射撃 of the enemy upon the その上の shore.

Outside his テント, beside some smouldering スピードを出す／記録につけるs, 巨大（な） Maximin was seated, a dozen of his officers around him. He had changed much since the day when we first met him in the Valley of the Harpessus. His 抱擁する でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる was as 築く as ever, and there was no 調印する of diminution of his strength. But he had 老年の 非，不，無 the いっそう少なく. The yellow 絡まる of hair was gone, worn 負かす／撃墜する by the ever-圧力（をかける）ing helmet. The fresh young 直面する was drawn and 常習的な, with 厳格な，質素な lines wrought by trouble and privation. The nose was more 強硬派-like, the 注目する，もくろむs more cunning, the 表現 more 冷笑的な and more 悪意のある. In his 青年, a child would have run to his 武器. Now it would 縮む 叫び声をあげるing from his gaze. That was what twenty-five years with the eagles had done for Theckla the Thracian 小作農民.

He was listening now--for he was a man of few words--to the chatter of his centurions. One of them, Balbus the Sicilian, had been to the main （軍の）野営地，陣営 at Mainz, only four miles away, and had seen the Emperor Alexander arrive that very day from Rome. The 残り／休憩（する） were eager at the news, for it was a time of 不安, and the rumour of 広大な／多数の／重要な changes was in the 空気／公表する.

"How many had he with him?" asked Labienus, a 黒人／ボイコット-browed 退役軍人 from the south of Gaul. "I'll wager a month's 支払う／賃金 that he was not so trustful as to come alone の中で his faithful legions."

"He had no 広大な／多数の／重要な 軍隊," replied Balbus. "Ten or twelve cohorts of the Praetorians and a handful of horse."

"Then indeed his 長，率いる is in the lion's mouth," cried Sulpicius, a hot-長，率いるd 青年 from the African Pentapolis. "How was he received?"

"Coldly enough. There was 不十分な a shout as he （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する the line."

"They are 熟した for mischief," said Labienus. "And who can wonder, when it is we 兵士s who 支持する the Empire upon our spears, while the lazy 国民s at Rome 得る all our （種を）蒔くing. Why cannot a 兵士 have what the 兵士 伸び（る）s? So long as they throw us our denarius a day, they think that they have done with us."

"Aye," croaked a 不平（をいう）ing old greybeard. "Our 四肢s, our 血, our lives--what do they care so long as the Barbarians are held off, and they are left in peace to their feastings and their circus? 解放する／自由な bread, 解放する／自由な ワイン, 解放する／自由な games--everything for the loafer at Rome. For us the frontier guard and a 兵士's fare."

Maximin gave a 深い laugh. "Old Plancus 会談 like that," said he; "but we know that for all the world he would not change his steel plate for a 国民's gown. You've earned the kennel, old hound, if you wish it. Go and gnaw your bone and growl in peace."

"Nay, I am too old for change. I will follow the eagle till I die. And yet I had rather die in serving a 兵士 master than a long-gowned Syrian who comes of a 在庫／株 where the women are men and the men are women."

There was a laugh from the circle of 兵士s, for sedition and 反乱（を起こす） were rife in the （軍の）野営地，陣営, and even the old centurion's 突発／発生 could not draw a 抗議する. Maximin raised his 広大な／多数の／重要な mastiff 長，率いる and looked at Balbus.

"Was any 指名する in the mouths of the 兵士s?" he asked in a meaning 発言する／表明する.

There was a hush for the answer. The sigh of the 勝利，勝つd の中で the pines and the low lapping of the river swelled out louder in the silence. Balbus looked hard at his 指揮官.

"Two 指名するs were whispered from 階級 to 階級," said he. "One was Ascenius Pollio, the General. The other was----"

The fiery Sulpicius sprang to his feet waving a glowing brand above his 長，率いる.

"Maximinus!" he yelled, "Imperator Maximinus Augustus!"

Who could tell how it （機の）カム about? No one had thought of it an hour before. And now it sprang in an instant to 十分な 業績／成就. The shout of the frenzied young African had scarcely rung through the 不明瞭 when from the テントs, from the watch-解雇する／砲火／射撃s, from the 歩哨s, the answer （機の）カム pealing 支援する: "Ave Maximinus! Ave Maximinus Augustus!" From all 味方するs men （機の）カム 急ぐing, half-覆う？, wild-注目する，もくろむd, their 注目する，もくろむs 星／主役にするing, their mouths agape, 炎上ing wisps of straw or ゆらめくing たいまつs above their 長，率いるs. The 巨大（な） was caught up by 得点する／非難する／２０s of 手渡すs, and sat enthroned upon the bull-necks of the legionaries. "To the （軍の）野営地，陣営!" they yelled. "To the （軍の）野営地，陣営! あられ／賞賛する, あられ／賞賛する to the 兵士 Caesar!"

That same night Severus Alexander, the young Syrian Emperor, walked outside his Praetorian （軍の）野営地，陣営, …を伴ってd by his friend Licinius Probus, the Captain of the Guard. They were talking 厳粛に of the 暗い／優うつな 直面するs and seditious 耐えるing of the 兵士s. A 広大な／多数の／重要な foreboding of evil 重さを計るd ひどく upon the Emperor's heart, and it was 反映するd upon the 厳しい bearded 直面する of his companion.

"I like it not," said he. "It is my counsel, Caesar, that with the first light of morning we make our way south once more."

"But surely," the Emperor answered, "I could not for shame turn my 支援する upon the danger. What have they against me? How have I 害（を与える）d them that they should forget their 公約するs and rise upon me?"

"They are like children who ask always for something new. You heard the murmur as you 棒 along the 階級s. Nay, Caesar, 飛行機で行く to-morrow, and your Praetorians will see that you are not 追求するd. There may be some loyal cohorts の中で the legions, and if we join 軍隊s----"

A distant shout broke in upon their conversation--a low continued roar, like the swelling tumult of a 広範囲にわたる wave. Far 負かす／撃墜する the road upon which they stood there twinkled many moving lights, 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするing and 沈むing as they 速く 前進するd, whilst the hoarse tumultuous bellowing broke into articulate words, the same tremendous words, a thousand-倍の repeated. Licinius 掴むd the Emperor by the wrist and dragged him under the cover of some bushes.

"Be still, Caesar! For your life be still!" he whispered. "One word and we are lost!"

Crouching in the 不明瞭, they saw that wild 過程ing pass, the 急ぐing, 叫び声をあげるing 人物／姿／数字s, the 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするing 武器, the bearded, distorted 直面するs, now scarlet and now grey, as the brandished たいまつs waxed or 病弱なd. They heard the 急ぐ of many feet, the clamour of hoarse 発言する／表明するs, the clang of metal upon metal. And then suddenly, above them all, they saw a 見通し of a monstrous man, a 抱擁する 屈服するd 支援する, a savage 直面する, grim 強硬派 注目する，もくろむs, that looked out over the swaying 保護物，者s. It was seen for an instant in a smoke-fringed circle of 解雇する／砲火／射撃, and then it had swept on into the night.

"Who is he?" stammered the Emperor, clutching at his guardsman's sleeve. "They call him Caesar."

"It is surely Maximin the Thracian 小作農民." In the 不明瞭 the Praetorian officer looked with strange 注目する，もくろむs at his master.

"It is all over, Caesar. Let us 飛行機で行く together to your テント."

But even as they went a second shout had broken 前へ／外へ tenfold louder than the first. If the one had been the roar of an oncoming wave, the other was the 十分な 騒動 of the tempest. Twenty thousand 発言する／表明するs from the （軍の）野営地，陣営 had broken into one wild shout which echoed through the night, until the distant Germans 一連の会議、交渉／完成する their watch-解雇する／砲火／射撃s listened in wonder and alarm.

"Ave!" cried the 発言する／表明するs. "Ave Maximinus Augustus!"

High upon their bucklers stood the 巨大（な）, and looked 一連の会議、交渉／完成する him at the 広大な／多数の／重要な 床に打ち倒す of 上昇傾向d 直面するs below. His own savage soul was stirred by the clamour, but only his gleaming 注目する，もくろむs spoke of the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 within. He waved his 手渡す to the shouting 兵士s as the huntsman waves to the leaping pack. They passed him up a coronet of oak leaves, and 衝突／不一致d their swords in homage as he placed it on his 長，率いる. And then there （機の）カム a 渦巻く in the （人が）群がる before him, a little space was （疑いを）晴らすd, and there knelt an officer in the Praetorian garb, 血 upon his 直面する, 血 upon his 明らかにするd forearm, 血 upon his naked sword. Licinius too had gone with the tide.

"あられ／賞賛する, Caesar, あられ／賞賛する!" he cried, as he 屈服するd his 長，率いる before the 巨大（な）. "I come from Alexander. He will trouble you no more."

III - THE FALL OF MAXIMIN

For three years the 兵士 Emperor had been upon the 王位. His palace had been his テント, and his people had been the legionaries. With them he was 最高の; away from them he was nothing. He had gone with them from one frontier to the other. He had fought against Dacians, Sarmatians, and once again against the Germans. But Rome knew nothing of him, and all her turbulence rose against a master who cared so little for her or her opinion that he never deigned to 始める，決める foot within her 塀で囲むs. There were cabals and 共謀s against the absent Caesar. Then his 激しい 手渡す fell upon them, and they were cuffed, even as the young 兵士s had been who passed under his discipline. He knew nothing, and cared as much for 領事s, 上院s, and 民法s. His own will and the 力／強力にする of the sword were the only 軍隊s which he could understand. Of 商業 and the arts he was as ignorant as when he left his Thracian home. The whole 広大な Empire was to him a 抱擁する machine for producing the money by which the legions were to be rewarded. Should he fail to get that money, his fellow 兵士s would 耐える him a grudge. To watch their 利益／興味s they had raised him upon their 保護物，者s that night. If city 基金s had to be plundered or 寺s desecrated, still the money must be got. Such was the point of 見解（をとる） of 巨大（な） Maximin.

But there （機の）カム 抵抗, and all the 猛烈な／残忍な energy of the man, all the hardness which had given him the leadership of hard men, sprang 前へ／外へ to 鎮圧する it. From his 青年 he had lived まっただ中に 虐殺（する）. Life and death were cheap things to him. He struck savagely at all who stood up to him, and when they 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する, he struck more savagely still. His 巨大（な） 影をつくる／尾行する lay 黒人／ボイコット across the Empire from Britain to Syria. A strange subtle vindictiveness became also 明らかな in him. Omnipotence ripened every fault and swelled it into 罪，犯罪. In the old days he had been rebuked for his roughness. Now a sullen, dangerous 怒り／怒る rose against those who had rebuked him. He sat by the hour with his craggy chin between his 手渡すs, and his 肘s 残り／休憩（する）ing on his 膝s, while he 解任するd all the misadventures, all the vexations of his 早期に 青年, when Roman wits had 発射 their little satires upon his 本体，大部分／ばら積みの and his ignorance. He could not 令状, but his son Verus placed the 指名するs upon his tablets, and they were sent to the 知事 of Rome. Men who had long forgotten their offence were called suddenly to make most 血まみれの 賠償.

A 反乱 broke out in Africa, but was 鎮圧するd by his 中尉／大尉／警部補. But the mere rumour of it 始める，決める Rome in a 騒動. The 上院 設立する something of its 古代の spirit. So did the Italian people. They would not be for ever いじめ（る）d by the legions. As Maximin approached from the frontier with the 解雇（する） of 反抗的な Rome in his mind, he was 直面するd with every 調印する of a 国家の 抵抗. The country-味方する was 砂漠d, the farms abandoned, the fields （疑いを）晴らすd of 刈るs and cattle. Before him lay the 塀で囲むd town of Aquileia. He flung himself ひどく upon it, but was met by as 猛烈な／残忍な a 抵抗. The 塀で囲むs could not be 軍隊d, and yet there was no food in the country 一連の会議、交渉／完成する for his legions. The men were 餓死するing and 不満な. What did it 事柄 to them who was Emperor? Maximin was no better than themselves. Why should they call 負かす／撃墜する the 悪口を言う／悪態 of the whole Empire upon their 長，率いるs by 支持するing him? He saw their sullen 直面するs and their 回避するd 注目する，もくろむs, and he knew that the end had come.

That night he sat with his son Verus in his テント, and he spoke softly and gently as the 青年 had never heard him speak before. He had spoken thus in old days with Paullina, the boy's mother; but she had been dead these many years, and all that was soft and gentle in the big man had passed away with her. Now her spirit seemed very 近づく him, and his own was tempered by its presence.

"I would have you go 支援する to the Thracian mountains," he said. "I have tried both, boy, and I can tell you that there is no 楽しみ which 力／強力にする can bring which can equal the breath of the 勝利，勝つd and the smell of the 肉親，親類 upon a summer morning. Against you they have no quarrel. Why should they mishandle you. Keep far from Rome and the Romans. Old Eudoxus has money, and to spare. He を待つs you with two horses outside the （軍の）野営地，陣営. Make for the valley of the Harpessus, lad. It was thence that your father （機の）カム, and there you will find his 肉親，親類. Buy and 在庫／株 a homestead, and keep yourself far from the parts of greatness and of danger. God keep you, Verus, and send you 安全な to Thrace."

When his son had kissed his 手渡す and had left him, the Emperor drew his 式服 around him and sat long in thought. In his slow brain he 回転するd the past--his 早期に 平和的な days, his years with Severus, his memories of Britain, his long （選挙などの）運動をするs, his strivings and battlings, all 主要な to that mad night by the Rhine. His fellow 兵士s had loved him then. And now he had read death in their 注目する，もくろむs. How had he failed them? Others he might have wronged, but they at least had no （民事の）告訴 against him. If he had his time again, he would think いっそう少なく of them and more of his people, he would try to 勝利，勝つ love instead of 恐れる, he would live for peace and not for war. If he had his time again! But there were shuffling steps, furtive whispers, and the low 動揺させる of 武器 outside his テント. A bearded 直面する looked in at him, a swarthy African 直面する that he knew 井戸／弁護士席. He laughed, and 明らかにするing his arm, he took his sword from the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する beside him.

"It is you, Sulpicius," said he. "You have not come to cry 'Ave Imperator Maximin!' as once by the （軍の）野営地，陣営 解雇する／砲火／射撃. You are tired of me, and by the gods I am tired of you, and glad to be at the end of it. Come and have done with it, for I am minded to see how many of you I can take with me when I go."

They clustered at the door of the テント, peeping over each other's shoulders, and 非，不，無 wishing to be the first to の近くに with that laughing, mocking 巨大（な）. But something was 押し進めるd 今後 upon a spear point, and as he saw it, Maximin groaned and his sword sank to the earth.

"You might have spared the boy," he sobbed. "He would not have 傷つける you. Have done with it, then, for I will 喜んで follow him."

So they の近くにd upon him and 削減（する） and stabbed and thrust, until his 膝s gave way beneath him and he dropped upon the 床に打ち倒す.

"The tyrant is dead!" they cried. "The tyrant is dead," and from all the （軍の）野営地，陣営 beneath them and from the 塀で囲むs of the beleaguered city the joyous cry （機の）カム echoing 支援する, "He is dead, Maximin is dead!"

I sit in my 熟考する／考慮する, and upon the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する before me lies a denarius of Maximin, as fresh as when the triumvie of the 寺 of Juno Moneta sent it from the 造幣局. Around it are 記録，記録的な／記録するd his resounding 肩書を与えるs--Imperator Maximinus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia potestate, and the 残り／休憩（する）. In the centre is the impress of a 広大な／多数の／重要な craggy 長，率いる, a 大規模な jaw, a rude fighting 直面する, a 契約d forehead. For all the pompous roll of 肩書を与えるs it is a 小作農民's 直面する, and I see him not as the Emperor of Rome, but as the 広大な／多数の／重要な Thracian boor who strode 負かす／撃墜する the hill-味方する on that far-distant summer day when first the eagles beckoned him to Rome.

THE RED STAR

The house of Theodosius, the famous eastern merchant, was in the best part of Constantinople at the Sea Point which is 近づく the church of Saint Demetrius. Here he would entertain in so princely a fashion that even the Emperor Maurice had been known to come 個人として from the 隣人ing Bucolean palace ーするために join in the revelry. On the night in question, however, which was the fourth of November in the year of our Lord 630, his 非常に／多数の guests had retired 早期に, and there remained only two intimates, both of them successful merchants like himself, who sat with him over their ワイン on the marble verandah of his house, whence on the one 味方する they could see the lights of the shipping in the Sea of Marmora, and on the other the beacons which 示すd out the course of the Bosphorus. すぐに at their feet lay a 狭くする 海峡 of water, with the low, dark ぼんやり現れる of the Asiatic hills beyond. A thin 煙霧 hid the heavens, but away to the south a 選び出す／独身 広大な／多数の／重要な red 星／主役にする 燃やすd sullenly in the 不明瞭.

The night was 冷静な／正味の, the light was soothing, and the three men talked 自由に, letting their minds drift 支援する into the earlier days when they had 火刑／賭けるd their 資本／首都, and often their lives, on the 投機・賭けるs which had built up their 現在の fortunes. The host spoke of his long 旅行s in North Africa, the land of the Moors; how he had travelled, keeping the blue sea ever upon his 権利, until he had passed the 廃虚s of Carthage, and so on and ever on until a 広大な／多数の／重要な 潮の ocean （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 upon a yellow 立ち往生させる before him, while on the 権利 he could see the high 激しく揺する across the waves which 示すd the 中心存在s of Hercules. His talk was of dark-skinned bearded men, of lions, and of monstrous serpents. Then Demetrius, the Cilician, an 厳格な，質素な man of sixty, told how he also had built up his mighty wealth. He spoke of a 旅行 over the Danube and through the country of the 猛烈な／残忍な Huns, until he and his friends had 設立する themselves in the mighty forest of Germany, on the shores of the 広大な／多数の／重要な river which is called the Elbe. His stories were of 抱擁する men, 不振の of mind, but murderous in their cups, of sudden midnight broils and nocturnal flights, of villages buried in dense 支持を得ようと努めるd, of 血まみれの heathen sacrifices, and of the 耐えるs and wolves who haunted the forest paths. So the two 年上の men capped each other's stories and awoke each other's memories, while Manuel Ducas, the young merchant of gold and ostrich feathers, whose 指名する was already known all over the Levant, sat in silence and listened to their talk. At last, however, they called upon him also for an anecdote, and leaning his cheek upon his 肘, with his 注目する，もくろむs 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon the 広大な／多数の／重要な red 星／主役にする which 燃やすd in the south, the younger man began to speak.

"It is the sight of that 星／主役にする which brings a story into my mind," said he. "I do not know its 指名する. Old Lascarius the 天文学者 would tell me if I asked, but I have no 願望（する） to know. Yet at this time of the year I always look out for it, and I never fail to see it 燃やすing in the same place. But it seems to me that it is redder and larger than it was.

"It was some ten years ago that I made an 探検隊／遠征隊 into Abyssinia, where I 貿易（する）d to such good 影響 that I 始める，決める 前へ／外へ on my return with more than a hundred camel-負担s of 肌s, ivory, gold, spices, and other African produce. I brought them to the sea-coast at Arsinoe, and carried them up the Arabian 湾 in five of the small boats of the country. Finally, I landed 近づく Sava, which is a starting-point for caravans, and, having 組み立てる／集結するd my camels and 雇うd a guard of forty men from the wandering Arabs, I 始める，決める 前へ／外へ for Macoraba. From this point, which is the sacred city of the idolaters of those parts, one can always join the large caravans which go north twice a year to Jerusalem and the sea-coast of Syria.

"Our 大勝する was a long and 疲れた／うんざりした one. On our left 手渡す was the Arabian 湾, lying like a pool of molten metal under the glare of day, but changing to 血-red as the sun sank each evening behind the distant African coast. On our 権利 was a monstrous 砂漠 which 延長するs, so far as I know, across the whole of Arabia and away to the distant kingdom of the Persians. For many days we saw no 調印する of life save our own long, straggling line of laden camels with their tattered, swarthy 後見人s. In these 砂漠s the soft sand deadens the footfall of the animals, so that their silent 進歩 day after day through a scene which never changes, and which is itself noiseless, becomes at last like a strange dream. Often as I 棒 behind my caravan, and gazed at the grotesque 人物／姿／数字s which bore my wares in 前線 of me, I 設立する it hard to believe that it was indeed reality, and that it was I, I, Manuel Ducas, who lived 近づく the Theodosian Gate of Constantinople, and shouted for the Green at the hippodrome every Sunday afternoon, who was there in so strange a land and with such singular comrades.

"Now and then, far out at sea, we caught sight of the white triangular sails of the boats which these people use, but as they are all 著作権侵害者s, we were very glad to be 安全に upon shore. Once or twice, too, by the water's 辛勝する／優位 we saw dwarfish creatures--one could scarcely say if they were men or monkeys--who burrow for homes の中で the 海草, drink the pools of brackish water, and eat what they can catch. These are the fish-eaters, the Ichthyophagi, of whom old Herodotus 会談--surely the lowest of all the human race. Our Arabs shrank from them with horror, for it is 井戸／弁護士席 known that, should you die in the 砂漠, these little people will settle on you like carrion crows, and leave not a bone unpicked. They gibbered and croaked and waved their skinny 武器 at us as we passed, knowing 井戸／弁護士席 that they could swim far out to sea if we 試みる／企てるd to 追求する them; for it is said that even the sharks turn with disgust from their foul 団体／死体s.

"We had travelled in this way for ten days, （軍の）野営地，陣営ing every evening at the vile 井戸／弁護士席s which 申し込む／申し出d a small 量 of abominable water. It was our habit to rise very 早期に and to travel very late, but to 停止（させる） during the intolerable heat of the afternoon, when, for want of trees, we would crouch in the 影をつくる／尾行する of a sandhill, or, if that were wanting, behind our own camels and 商品／売買する, ーするために escape from the insufferable glare of the sun. On the seventh day we were 近づく the point where one leaves the coast ーするために strike inland to Macoraba. We had 結論するd our midday 停止（させる）, and were just starting once more, the sun still 存在 so hot that we could hardly 耐える it, when, looking up, I saw a remarkable sight. Standing on a hillock to our 権利 there was a man about forty feet high, 持つ／拘留するing in his 手渡す a spear which was the size of the mast of a large ship. You look surprised, my friends, and you can therefore imagine my feelings when I saw such a sight. But my 推論する／理由 soon told me that the 反対する in 前線 of me was really a wandering Arab, whose form had been enormously magnified by the strange distorting 影響s which the hot 空気／公表する of the 砂漠 is able to 原因（となる）.

"However, the actual apparition 原因（となる）d more alarm to my companions than the imagined one had to me, for with a howl of 狼狽 they shrank together into a 脅すd group, all pointing and gesticulating as they gazed at the distant 人物／姿／数字. I then 観察するd that the man was not alone, but that from all the sandhills a line of turbaned 長，率いるs was gazing 負かす／撃墜する upon us. The 長，指導者 of the 護衛する （機の）カム running to me, and 知らせるd me of the 原因（となる） of their terror, which was that they recognised, by some peculiarity in their headgear, that these men belonged to the tribe of the Dilwas, the most ferocious and unscrupulous of the Bedouin, who had evidently laid an ambuscade for us at this point with the 意向 of 掴むing our caravan. When I thought of all my 成果／努力s in Abyssinia, of the length of my 旅行 and of the dangers and 疲労，（軍の）雑役s which I had 耐えるd, I could not 耐える to think of this total 災害 coming upon me at the last instant and robbing me not only of my 利益（をあげる）s, but also of my 初めの 支出. It was evident, however, that the robbers were too 非常に／多数の for us to 試みる／企てる to defend ourselves, and that we should be very fortunate indeed if we escaped with our lives. Sitting upon a packet, therefore, I commended my soul to our blessed Saint Helena, while I watched with despairing 注目する，もくろむs the stealthy and 脅迫的な approach of the Arab robbers.

"It may have been our own good fortune, or it may have been the handsome 申し込む／申し出ing of beeswax candles--four to the 続けざまに猛撃する--which I had mentally 公約するd to the Blessed Helena, but at that instant I heard a 広大な／多数の／重要な 激しい抗議 of joy from の中で my own 信奉者s. Standing up on the packet that I might have a better 見解（をとる）, I was overjoyed to see a long caravan--five hundred camels at least--with a 非常に／多数の 武装した guard, coming along the 大勝する from Macoraba. It is, I need not tell you, the custom of all caravans to 連合させる their 軍隊s against the robbers of the 砂漠, and with the 援助（する） of these new-comers we had become the stronger party. The marauders recognised at at once, for they 消えるd as if their native sands had swallowed them. Running up to the 首脳会議 of a sandhill, I was just able to catch a glimpse of a dust-cloud whirling away across the yellow plain, with the long necks of their camels, the ぱたぱたする of their loose 衣料品s, and the gleam of their spears breaking out from the heart of it. So 消えるd the marauders.

"Presently I 設立する, however, that I had only 交流d one danger for another. At first I had hoped that this new caravan might belong to some Roman 国民, or at least to some Syrian Christian, but I 設立する that it was 完全に Arab. The 貿易（する）ing Arabs who are settled in the 非常に／多数の towns are, of course, very much more peaceable than the Bedouin of the wilderness, those sons of Ishmael of whom we read in 宗教上の 令状. But the Arab 血 is covetous and lawless, so that when I saw several hundred of them formed in a 半分-circle 一連の会議、交渉／完成する our camels, looking with greedy 注目する，もくろむs at my boxes of precious metals and my packets of ostrich feathers, I 恐れるd the worst.

"The leader of the new caravan was a man of dignified 耐えるing and remarkable 外見. His age I would 裁判官 to be about forty. He had aquiline features, a noble 黒人／ボイコット 耐えるd, and 注目する，もくろむs so luminous, so searching, and so 激しい that I cannot remember in all my wanderings to have seen any which could be compared with them. To my thanks and salutations he returned a formal 屈服する, and stood 一打／打撃ing his 耐えるd and looking in silence at the wealth which had suddenly fallen into his 力／強力にする. A murmur from his 信奉者s showed the 切望 with which they を待つd the order to 落ちる upon the plunder, and a young ruffian, who seemed to be on intimate 条件 with the leader, （機の）カム to his 肘 and put the 願望（する）s of his companions into words.

"'Surely, oh 深い尊敬の念を抱くd One,' said he, 'these people and their treasure have been 配達するd into our 手渡すs. When we return with it to the 宗教上の place, who of all the Koraish will fail to see the finger of God which has led us?'

"But the leader shook his 長，率いる. 'Nay, Ali, it may not be,' he answered. 'This man is, as I 裁判官, a 国民 of Rome, and we may not 扱う／治療する him as though he were an idolater.'

"'But he is an unbeliever,' cried the 青年, fingering a 広大な／多数の／重要な knife which hung in his belt. 'Were I to be the 裁判官, he would lose not only his 商品／売買する, but his life also, if he did not 受託する the 約束.'

"The older man smiled and shook his 長，率いる. 'Nay, Ali; you are too hot-長，率いるd,' said he, 'seeing that there are not as yet three hundred faithful in the world, our 手渡すs would indeed be 十分な if we were to take the lives and 所有物／資産／財産 of all who are not with us. Forget not, dear lad, that charity and honesty are the very nose-（犯罪の）一味 and halter of the true 約束.'

"'の中で the faithful,' said the ferocious 青年.

"'Nay, に向かって everyone. It is the 法律 of Allah. And yet'--here his countenance darkened, and his 注目する，もくろむs shone with a most 悪意のある light--'the day may soon come when the hour of grace is past, and woe, then, to those who have not hearkened! Then shall the sword of Allah be drawn, and it shall not be sheathed until the 収穫 is 得るd. First it shall strike the idolaters on the day when my own people and kinsmen, the unbelieving Koraish, shall be scattered, and the three hundred and sixty idols of the Caaba thrust out upon the dungheaps of the town. Then shall the Caaba be the home and 寺 of one God only who brooks no 競争相手 on earth or in heaven.'

"The man's 信奉者s had gathered 一連の会議、交渉／完成する him, their spears in their 手渡すs, their ardent 注目する，もくろむs 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon his 直面する, and their dark features convulsed with such fanatic enthusiasm as showed the 持つ／拘留する which he had upon their love and 尊敬（する）・点.

"'We shall be 患者,' said he; 'but some time next year, the year after, the day may come when the 広大な／多数の／重要な angel Gabriel shall 耐える me the message that the time of words has gone by, and that the hour of the sword has come. We are few and weak, but if it is His will, who can stand against us? Are you of ユダヤ人の 約束, stranger?' he asked.

"I answered that I was not.

"'The better for you,' he answered, with the same furious 怒り／怒る in his swarthy 直面する. 'First shall the idolaters 落ちる, and then the Jews, in that they have not known those very prophets whom they had themselves foretold. Then last will come the turn of the Christians, who follow indeed a true Prophet, greater than Moses or Abraham, but who have sinned in that they have confounded a creature with the Creator. To each in turn--idolater, Jew, and Christian--the day of reckoning will come.'

"The ragamuffins behind him all shook their spears as he spoke. There was no 疑問 about their earnestness, but when I looked at their tattered dresses and simple 武器, I could not help smiling to think of their ambitious 脅しs, and to picture what their 運命／宿命 would be upon the day of 戦う／戦い before the 戦う／戦い-axes of our 皇室の Guards, or the spears of the 激しい cavalry of the Armenian 主題s. However, I need not say that I was 控えめの enough to keep my thoughts to myself, as I had no 願望（する） to be the first 殉教者 in this fresh attack upon our blessed 約束.

"It was now evening, and it was decided that the two caravans should （軍の）野営地，陣営 together--an 協定 which was the more welcome as we were by no means sure that we had seen the last of the marauders. I had 招待するd the leader of the Arabs to have supper with me, and after a long 演習 of 祈り with his 信奉者s, he （機の）カム to join me, but my 試みる／企てる at 歓待 was thrown away, for he would not touch the excellent ワイン which I had unpacked for him, nor would he eat any of my dainties, contenting himself with stale bread, 乾燥した，日照りのd dates, and water. After this meal we sat alone by the smouldering 解雇する／砲火／射撃, the magnificent arch of the heavens above us of that 深い, rich blue with those gleaming, （疑いを）晴らす-削減（する） 星／主役にするs which can only be seen in that 乾燥した，日照りの 砂漠 空気／公表する. Our （軍の）野営地，陣営 lay before us, and no sound reached our ears save the dull murmur of the 発言する／表明するs of our companions and the 時折の shrill cry of a jackal の中で the sandhills around us. 直面する to 直面する I sat with this strange man, the glow of the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing upon his eager and imperious features and 反映するing from his 熱烈な 注目する，もくろむs. It was the strangest 徹夜, and one which will never pass from my recollection. I have spoken with many wise and famous men upon my travels, but never with one who left the impression of this one.

"And yet much of his talk was unintelligible to me, though, as you are aware, I speak Arabian like an Arab. It rose and fell in the strangest way. いつかs it was the babble of a child, いつかs the incoherent raving of a fanatic, いつかs the lofty dreams of a prophet and philosopher. There were times when his stories of demons, of 奇蹟s, of dreams, and of omens, were such as an old woman might tell to please the children of an evening. There were others when, as he talked with 向こうずねing 直面する of his converse with angels, of the 意向s of the Creator, and the end of the universe, I felt as if I were in the company of someone more than mortal, someone who was indeed the direct messenger of the Most High.

"There were good 推論する／理由s why he should 扱う／治療する me with such 信用／信任. He saw in me a messenger to Constantinople and to the Roman Empire. Even as Saint Paul had brought Christianity to Europe, so he hoped that I might carry his doctrines to my native city. 式のs! be the doctrines what they may, I 恐れる that I am not the stuff of which Pauls are made. Yet he strove with all his heart during that long Arabian night to bring me over to his belief. He had with him a 宗教上の 調書をとる／予約する, written, as he said, from the 口述 of an angel, which he carried in tablets of bone in the nose-捕らえる、獲得する of a camel. Some 一時期／支部s of this he read me; but, though the precepts were usually good, the language seemed wild and fanciful. There were times when I could 不十分な keep my countenance as I listened to him. He planned out his 未来 movements, and indeed, as he spoke, it was hard to remember that he was only the wandering leader of an Arab caravan, and not one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な ones of the earth.

"'When God has given me 十分な 力／強力にする, which will be within a few years,' said he, 'I will 部隊 all Arabia under my 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する. Then I will spread my doctrine over Syria and Egypt. When this has been done, I will turn to Persia, and give them the choice of the true 約束 or the sword. Having taken Persia, it will be 平易な then to 侵略（する）／超過（する） Asia Minor, and so to make our way to Constantinople.'

"I bit my lip to keep from laughing. 'And how long will it be before your 勝利を得た 軍隊／機動隊s have reached the Bosphorus?' I asked.

"'Such things are in the 手渡すs of God, whose servants we are,' said he. 'It may be that I shall myself have passed away before these things are 遂行するd, but before the days of our children are 完全にするd, all that I have now told you will come to pass. Look at that 星／主役にする,' he 追加するd, pointing to a beautiful （疑いを）晴らす 惑星 above our 長，率いるs. 'That is the symbol of Christ. See how serene and 平和的な it 向こうずねs, like His own teaching and the memory of His life. Now,' he 追加するd, turning his outstretched 手渡す to a dusky red 星／主役にする upon the horizon--the very one on which we are gazing now--'that is my 星／主役にする, which tells of wrath, of war, of a 天罰（を下す） upon sinners. And yet both are indeed 星／主役にするs, and each does as Allah may 任命する.'

"井戸／弁護士席, that was the experience which was called to my mind by the sight of the 星／主役にする to-night. Red and angry, it still broods over the south, even as I saw it that night in the 砂漠. Somewhere 負かす／撃墜する yonder that man is working and 努力する／競うing. He may be stabbed by some brother fanatic or 殺害された in a 部族の 小競り合い. If so, that is the end. But if he lives, there was that in his 注目する，もくろむs and in his presence which tells me that Mahomet the son of Abdallah--for that was his 指名する--will 証言する in some noteworthy fashion to the 約束 that is in him."

THE SILVER MIRROR

Jan. 3.--This 事件／事情／状勢 of White and Wotherspoon's accounts 証明するs to be a gigantic 仕事. There are twenty 厚い ledgers to be 診察するd and checked. Who would be a junior partner? However, it is the first big bit of 商売／仕事 which has been left 完全に in my 手渡すs. I must 正当化する it. But it has to be finished so that the lawyers may have the result in time for the 裁判，公判. Johnson said this morning that I should have to get the last 人物／姿／数字 out before the twentieth of the month. Good Lord! 井戸／弁護士席, have at it, and if human brain and 神経 can stand the 緊張する, I'll 勝利，勝つ out at the other 味方する. It means office-work from ten to five, and then a second sitting from about eight to one in the morning. There's 演劇 in an accountant's life. When I find myself in the still 早期に hours, while all the world sleeps, 追跡（する）ing through column after column for those 行方不明の 人物／姿／数字s which will turn a 尊敬（する）・点d alderman into a felon, I understand that it is not such a prosaic profession after all.

On Monday I （機の）カム on the first trace of defalcation. No 激しい game hunter ever got a finer thrill when first he caught sight of the 追跡する of his quarry. But I look at the twenty ledgers and think of the ジャングル through which I have to follow him before I get my kill. Hard work--but rare sport, too, in a way! I saw the fat fellow once at a City dinner, his red 直面する glowing above a white napkin. He looked at the little pale man at the end of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する. He would have been pale too if he could have seen the 仕事 that would be 地雷.

Jan. 6.--What perfect nonsense it is for doctors to 定める／命ずる 残り／休憩（する） when 残り／休憩（する） is out of the question! Asses! They might 同様に shout to a man who has a pack of wolves at his heels that what he wants is 絶対の 静かな. My 人物／姿／数字s must be out by a 確かな date; unless they are so, I shall lose the chance of my lifetime, so how on earth am I to 残り／休憩（する）? I'll take a week or so after the 裁判，公判.

Perhaps I was myself a fool to go to the doctor at all. But I get nervous and 高度に-strung when I sit alone at my work at night. It's not a 苦痛--only a sort of fullness of the 長，率いる with an 時折の もや over the 注目する，もくろむs. I thought perhaps some bromide, or chloral, or something of the 肉親，親類d might do me good. But stop work? It's absurd to ask such a thing. It's like a long distance race. You feel queer at first and your heart 強くたたくs and your 肺s pant, but if you have only the pluck to keep on, you get your second 勝利，勝つd. I'll stick to my work and wait for my second 勝利，勝つd. If it never comes--all the same, I'll stick to my work. Two ledgers are done, and I am 井戸／弁護士席 on in the third. The rascal has covered his 跡をつけるs 井戸／弁護士席, but I 選ぶ them up for all that.

Jan. 9.--I had not meant to go to the doctor again. And yet I have had to. "緊張するing my 神経s, 危険ing a 完全にする 決裂／故障, even 危うくするing my sanity." That's a nice 宣告，判決 to have 解雇する／砲火／射撃d off at one. 井戸／弁護士席, I'll stand the 緊張する and I'll take the 危険, and so long as I can sit in my 議長，司会を務める and move a pen I'll follow the old sinner's slot.

By the way, I may 同様に 始める，決める 負かす／撃墜する here the queer experience which drove me this second time to the doctor. I'll keep an exact 記録，記録的な／記録する of my symptoms and sensations, because they are 利益／興味ing in themselves--"a curious psycho-physiological 熟考する／考慮する," says the doctor--and also because I am perfectly 確かな that when I am through with them they will all seem blurred and unreal, like some queer dream betwixt sleeping and waking. So now, while they are fresh, I will just make a 公式文書，認める of them, if only as a change of thought after the endless 人物／姿／数字s.

There's an old silver-でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd mirror in my room. It was given me by a friend who had a taste for antiquities, and he, as I happen to know, 選ぶd it up at a sale and had no notion of where it （機の）カム from. It's a large thing--three feet across and two feet high--and it leans at the 支援する of a 味方する-（米）棚上げする／（英）提議する on my left as I 令状. The でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる is flat, about three インチs across, and very old; far too old for hall-示すs or other methods of 決定するing its age. The glass part 事業／計画（する）s, with a bevelled 辛勝する／優位, and has the magnificent 反映するing 力／強力にする which is only, as it seems to me, to be 設立する in very old mirrors. There's a feeling of 視野 when you look into it such as no modern glass can ever give.

The mirror is so 据えるd that as I sit at the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する I can usually see nothing in it but the reflection of the red window curtains. But a queer thing happened last night. I had been working for some hours, very much against the 穀物, with continual 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s of that mistiness of which I had complained. Again and again I had to stop and （疑いを）晴らす my 注目する，もくろむs. 井戸／弁護士席, on one of these occasions I chanced to look at the mirror. It had the oddest 外見. The red curtains which should have been 反映するd in it were no longer there, but the glass seemed to be clouded and steamy, not on the surface, which glittered like steel, but 深い 負かす／撃墜する in the very 穀物 of it. This opacity, when I 星／主役にするd hard at it, appeared to slowly 回転／交替 this way and that, until it was a 厚い white cloud 渦巻くing in 激しい 花冠s. So real and solid was it, and so reasonable was I, that I remember turning, with the idea that the curtains were on 解雇する／砲火／射撃. But everything was deadly still in the room--no sound save the ticking of the clock, no movement save the slow gyration of that strange woolly cloud 深い in the heart of the old mirror.

Then, as I looked, the もや, or smoke, or cloud, or whatever one may call it, seemed to coalesce and solidify at two points やめる の近くに together, and I was aware, with a thrill of 利益／興味 rather than of 恐れる, that these were two 注目する，もくろむs looking out into the room. A vague 輪郭（を描く） of a 長，率いる I could see--a woman's by the hair, but this was very shadowy. Only the 注目する，もくろむs were やめる 際立った; such 注目する，もくろむs--dark, luminous, filled with some 熱烈な emotion, fury or horror, I could not say which. Never have I seen 注目する，もくろむs which were so 十分な of 激しい, vivid life. They were not 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon me, but 星／主役にするd out into the room. Then as I sat 築く, passed my を引き渡す my brow, and made a strong conscious 成果／努力 to pull myself together, the 薄暗い 長，率いる faded into the general opacity, the mirror slowly （疑いを）晴らすd, and there were the red curtains once again.

A sceptic would say, no 疑問, that I had dropped asleep over my 人物／姿／数字s, and that my experience was a dream. As a 事柄 of fact, I was never more vividly awake in my life. I was able to argue about it even as I looked at it, and to tell myself that it was a subjective impression--a chimera of the 神経s--begotten by worry and insomnia. But why this particular 形態／調整? And who is the woman, and what is the dreadful emotion which I read in those wonderful brown 注目する，もくろむs? They come between me and my work. For the first time I have done いっそう少なく than the daily 一致する which I had 示すd out. Perhaps that is why I have had no 異常な sensations to-night. To-morrow I must wake up, come what may.

Jan. 11.--All 井戸／弁護士席, and good 進歩 with my work. I 勝利，勝つd the 逮捕する, coil after coil, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する that bulky 団体／死体. But the last smile may remain with him if my own 神経s break over it. The mirror would seem to be a sort of 晴雨計 which 示すs my brain 圧力. Each night I have 観察するd that it had clouded before I reached the end of my 仕事.

Dr. Sinclair (who is, it seems, a bit of a psychologist) was so 利益／興味d in my account that he （機の）カム 一連の会議、交渉／完成する this evening to have a look at the mirror. I had 観察するd that something was scribbled in crabbed old characters upon the metal work at the 支援する. He 診察するd this with a レンズ, but could make nothing of it. "Sanc. X. Pal." was his final reading of it, but that did not bring us any その上の. He advised me to put it away into another room; but, after all, whatever I may see in it is, by his own account, only a symptom. It is in the 原因（となる） that the danger lies. The twenty ledgers--not the silver mirror--should be packed away if I could only do it. I'm at the eighth now, so I 進歩.

Jan. 13.--Perhaps it would have been wiser after all if I had packed away the mirror. I had an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の experience with it last night. And yet I find it so 利益／興味ing, so fascinating, that even now I will keep it in its place. What on earth is the meaning of it all?

I suppose it was about one in the morning, and I was の近くにing my 調書をとる／予約するs 準備の to staggering off to bed, when I saw her there in 前線 of me. The 行う／開催する／段階 of mistiness and 開発 must have passed unobserved, and there she was in all her beauty and passion and 苦しめる, as （疑いを）晴らす-削減（する） as if she were really in the flesh before me. The 人物／姿／数字 was small, but very 際立った--so much so that every feature, and every 詳細（に述べる） of dress, are stamped in my memory. She is seated on the extreme left of the mirror. A sort of shadowy 人物／姿／数字 crouches 負かす／撃墜する beside her--I can dimly discern that it is a man--and then behind them is a cloud, in which I see 人物／姿／数字s--人物／姿／数字s which move. It is not a mere picture upon which I look. It is a scene in life, an actual episode. She crouches and quivers. The man beside her cowers 負かす／撃墜する. The vague 人物／姿／数字s make abrupt movements and gestures. All my 恐れるs were swallowed up in my 利益／興味. It was maddening to me to see so much and not to see more.

But I can at least 述べる the woman to the smallest point. She is very beautiful and やめる young--not more than five-and-twenty, I should 裁判官. Her hair is of a very rich brown, with a warm chestnut shade 罰金ing into gold at the 辛勝する／優位s. A little flat-pointed cap comes to an angle in 前線 and is made of lace 辛勝する／優位d with pearls. The forehead is high, too high perhaps for perfect beauty; but one would not have it さもなければ, as it gives a touch of 力／強力にする and strength to what would さもなければ be a softly feminine 直面する. The brows are most delicately curved over 激しい eyelids, and then come those wonderful 注目する，もくろむs--so large, so dark, so 十分な of overmastering emotion, of 激怒（する） and horror, 競うing with a pride of self-支配（する）／統制する which 持つ／拘留するs her from sheer frenzy! The cheeks are pale, the lips white with agony, the chin and throat most exquisitely 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd. The 人物／姿／数字 sits and leans 今後 in the 議長，司会を務める, 緊張するing and rigid, cataleptic with horror. The dress is 黒人／ボイコット velvet, a jewel gleams like a 炎上 in the breast, and a golden crucifix smoulders in the 影をつくる／尾行する of a 倍の. This is the lady whose image still lives in the old silver mirror. What 悲惨な 行為 could it be which has left its impress there, so that now, in another age, if the spirit of a man be but worn 負かす／撃墜する to it, he may be conscious of its presence?

One other 詳細（に述べる）: On the left of the skirt of the 黒人／ボイコット dress was, as I thought at first, a shapeless bunch of white 略章. Then, as I looked more intently or as the 見通し defined itself more 明確に, I perceived what it was. It was the 手渡す of a man, clenched and knotted in agony, which held on with a convulsive しっかり掴む to the 倍の of the dress. The 残り／休憩（する） of the crouching 人物／姿／数字 was a mere vague 輪郭（を描く）, but that strenuous 手渡す alone shone （疑いを）晴らす on the dark background, with a 悪意のある suggestion of 悲劇 in its frantic clutch. The man is 脅すd--horribly 脅すd. That I can 明確に discern. What has terrified him so? Why does he 支配する the woman's dress? The answer lies amongst those moving 人物／姿／数字s in the background. They have brought danger both to him and to her. The 利益／興味 of the thing fascinated me. I thought no more of its relation to my own 神経s. I 星／主役にするd and 星／主役にするd as if in a theatre. But I could get no その上の. The もや thinned. There were tumultuous movements in which all the 人物／姿／数字s were ばく然と 関心d. Then the mirror was （疑いを）晴らす once more.

The doctor says I must 減少（する） work for a day, and I can afford to do so, for I have made good 進歩 lately. It is やめる evident that the 見通しs depend 完全に upon my own nervous 明言する／公表する, for I sat in 前線 of the mirror for over an hour to-night, with no result whatever. My soothing day has chased them away. I wonder whether I shall ever 侵入する what they all mean? I 診察するd the mirror this evening under a good light, and besides the mysterious inscription "Sanc. X. Pal.," I was able to discern some 調印するs of heraldic 示すs, very faintly 明白な upon the silver. They must be very 古代の, as they are almost obliterated. So far as I could make out, there were three spear-長，率いるs, two above and one below. I will show them to the doctor when he calls to-morrow.

Jan. 14.--Feel perfectly 井戸／弁護士席 again, and I ーするつもりである that nothing else shall stop me until my 仕事 is finished. The doctor was shown the 示すs on the mirror and agreed that they were armorial bearings. He is 深く，強烈に 利益／興味d in all that I have told him, and cross-questioned me closely on the 詳細（に述べる）s. It amuses me to notice how he is torn in two by 相反する 願望（する）s--the one that his 患者 should lose his symptoms, the other that the medium--for so he regards me--should solve this mystery of the past. He advised continued 残り／休憩（する）, but did not …に反対する me too violently when I 宣言するd that such a thing was out of the question until the ten remaining ledgers have been checked.

Jan. 17.--For three nights I have had no experiences--my day of 残り／休憩（する） has borne fruit. Only a ４半期/4分の1 of my 仕事 is left, but I must make a 軍隊d march, for the lawyers are clamouring for their 構成要素. I will give them enough and to spare. I have him 急速な／放蕩な on a hundred counts. When they realise what a slippery, cunning rascal he is, I should 伸び（る） some credit from the 事例／患者. 誤った 貿易（する）ing accounts, 誤った balance-sheets, （株主への）配当s drawn from 資本／首都, losses written 負かす／撃墜する as 利益（をあげる）s, 鎮圧 of working expenses, 巧みな操作 of petty cash--it is a 罰金 記録，記録的な／記録する!

Jan. 18.--頭痛s, nervous twitches, mistiness, fullness of the 寺s--all the premonitions of trouble, and the trouble （機の）カム sure enough. And yet my real 悲しみ is not so much that the 見通し should come as that it should 中止する before all is 明らかにする／漏らすd.

But I saw more to-night. The crouching man was as 明白な as the lady whose gown he clutched. He is a little swarthy fellow, with a 黒人／ボイコット pointed 耐えるd. He has a loose gown of damask trimmed with fur. The 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるing 色合いs of his dress are red. What a fright the fellow is in, to be sure! He cowers and shivers and glares 支援する over his shoulder. There is a small knife in his other 手渡す, but he is far too tremulous and cowed to use it. Dimly now I begin to see the 人物／姿／数字s in the background. 猛烈な／残忍な 直面するs, bearded and dark, 形態／調整 themselves out of the もや. There is one terrible creature, a 骸骨／概要 of a man, with hollow cheeks and 注目する，もくろむs sunk in his 長，率いる. He also has a knife in his 手渡す. On the 権利 of the woman stands a tall man, very young, with flaxen hair, his 直面する sullen and dour. The beautiful woman looks up at him in 控訴，上告. So does the man on the ground. This 青年 seems to be the arbiter of their 運命／宿命. The crouching man draws closer and hides himself in the woman's skirts. The tall 青年 bends and tries to drag her away from him. So much I saw last night before the mirror （疑いを）晴らすd. Shall I never know what it leads to and whence it comes? It is not a mere imagination, of that I am very sure. Somewhere, some time, this scene has been 行為／法令／行動するd, and this old mirror has 反映するd it. But when--where?

Jan. 20.--My work draws to a の近くに, and it is time. I feel a tenseness within my brain, a sense of intolerable 緊張する, which 警告するs me that something must give. I have worked myself to the 限界. But to-night should be the last night. With a 最高の 成果／努力 I should finish the final ledger and 完全にする the 事例／患者 before I rise from my 議長，司会を務める. I will do it. I will.

Feb. 7.--I did. My God, what an experience! I hardly know if I am strong enough yet to 始める，決める it 負かす／撃墜する.

Let me explain in the first instance that I am 令状ing this in Dr. Sinclair's 私的な hospital some three weeks after the last 入ること／参加（者） in my diary. On the night of January 20 my nervous system finally gave way, and I remembered nothing afterwards until I 設立する myself three days ago in this home of 残り／休憩（する）. And I can 残り／休憩（する） with a good 良心. My work was done before I went under. My 人物／姿／数字s are in the solicitors 手渡すs. The 追跡（する） is over.

And now I must 述べる that last night. I had sworn to finish my work, and so intently did I stick to it, though my 長，率いる was bursting, that I would never look up until the last column had been 追加するd. And yet it was 罰金 self-抑制, for all the time I knew that wonderful things were happening in the mirror. Every 神経 in my 団体／死体 told me so. If I looked up there was an end of my work. So I did not look up till all was finished. Then, when at last with throbbing 寺s I threw 負かす／撃墜する my pen and raised my 注目する，もくろむs, what a sight was there!

The mirror in its silver でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる was like a 行う／開催する／段階, brilliantly lit, in which a 演劇 was in 進歩. There was no もや now. The 圧迫 of my 神経s had wrought this amazing clarity. Every feature, every movement, was as （疑いを）晴らす-削減（する） as in life. To think that I, a tired accountant, the most prosaic of mankind, with the account-調書をとる／予約するs of a 搾取するing 破産者／倒産した before me, should be chosen of all the human race to look upon such a scene!

It was the same scene and the same 人物／姿／数字s, but the 演劇 had 前進するd a 行う／開催する／段階. The tall young man was 持つ／拘留するing the woman in his 武器. She 緊張するd away from him and looked up at him with loathing in her 直面する. They had torn the crouching man away from his 持つ／拘留する upon the skirt of her dress. A dozen of them were 一連の会議、交渉／完成する him--savage men, bearded men. They 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスd at him with knives. All seemed to strike him together. Their 武器 rose and fell. The 血 did not flow from him--it squirted. His red dress was dabbled in it. He threw himself this way and that, purple upon crimson, like an over-熟した plum. Still they 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスd, and still the jets 発射 from him. It was horrible--horrible! They dragged him kicking to the door. The woman looked over her shoulder at him and her mouth gaped. I heard nothing, but I knew that she was 叫び声をあげるing. And then, whether it was this 神経-racking 見通し before me, or whether, my 仕事 finished, all the overwork of the past weeks （機の）カム in one 鎮圧するing 負わせる upon me, the room danced 一連の会議、交渉／完成する me, the 床に打ち倒す seemed to 沈む away beneath my feet, and I remembered no more. In the 早期に morning my landlady 設立する me stretched senseless before the silver mirror, but I knew nothing myself until three days ago I awoke in the 深い peace of the doctor's nursing home.

Feb. 9.--Only to-day have I told Dr. Sinclair my 十分な experience. He had not 許すd me to speak of such 事柄s before. He listened with an 吸収するd 利益／興味. "You don't identify this with any 井戸／弁護士席-known scene in history?" he asked, with 疑惑 in his 注目する，もくろむs. I 保証するd him that I knew nothing of history. "Have you no idea whence that mirror （機の）カム and to whom it once belonged?" he continued. "Have you?" I asked, for he spoke with meaning. "It's incredible," said he, "and yet how else can one explain it? The scenes which you 述べるd before 示唆するd it, but now it has gone beyond all 範囲 of coincidence. I will bring you some 公式文書，認めるs in the evening."

Later.--He has just left me. Let me 始める，決める 負かす／撃墜する his words as closely as I can 解任する them. He began by laying several musty 容積／容量s upon my bed.

"These you can 協議する at your leisure," said he. "I have some 公式文書，認めるs here which you can 確認する. There is not a 疑問 that what you have seen is the 殺人 of Rizzio by the Scottish nobles in the presence of Mary, which occurred in March 1566. Your description of the woman is 正確な. The high forehead and 激しい eyelids 連合させるd with 広大な／多数の／重要な beauty could hardly 適用する to two women. The tall young man was her husband, Darnley. Rizzio, says the chronicle, 'was dressed in a loose dressing-gown of furred damask, with 靴下／だます of russet velvet.' With one 手渡す he clutched Mary's gown, with the other he held a dagger. Your 猛烈な／残忍な, hollow-注目する，もくろむd man was Ruthven, who was new-risen from a bed of sickness. Every 詳細（に述べる） is exact."

"But why to me?" I asked, in bewilderment. "Why of all the human race to me?"

"Because you were in the fit mental 明言する／公表する to receive the impression. Because you chanced to own the mirror which gave the impression."

"The mirror! You think, then, that it was Mary's mirror--that it stood in the room where the 行為 was done?"

"I am 納得させるd that it was Mary's mirror. She had been Queen of フラン. Her personal 所有物／資産／財産 would be stamped with the 王室の 武器. What you took to be three spear-長，率いるs were really the lilies of フラン."

"And the inscription?"

"'Sanc. X. Pal.' You can 拡大する it into Sanctae Crucis Palatium. Someone has made a 公式文書，認める upon the mirror as to whence it （機の）カム. It was the Palace of the 宗教上の Cross."

"Holyrood!" I cried.

"正確に／まさに. Your mirror （機の）カム from Holyrood. You have had one very singular experience, and have escaped. I 信用 that you will never put yourself into the way of having such another."

THE HOME-COMING

In the spring of the year 528, a small brig used to run as a 乗客 boat between Chalcedon on the Asiatic shore and Constantinople. On the morning in question, which was that of the feast of Saint George, the 大型船 was （人が）群がるd with excursionists who were bound for the 広大な／多数の／重要な city ーするために 参加する the 宗教的な and festive 祝賀s which 示すd the festival of the Megalo-殉教者, one of the most choice occasions in the whole 広大な hagiology of the Eastern Church. The day was 罰金 and the 微風 light, so that the 乗客s in their holiday mood were able to enjoy without a qualm the many 反対するs of 利益／興味 which 示すd the approach to the greatest and most beautiful 資本／首都 in the world.

On the 権利, as they sped up the 狭くする 海峡, there stretched the Asiatic shore, ぱらぱら雨d with white villages and with 非常に／多数の 郊外住宅s peeping out from the 支持を得ようと努めるd which adorned it. In 前線 of them, the Prince's Islands, rising as green as emeralds out of the 深い sapphire blue of the Sea of Marmora, obscured for the moment the 見解（をとる） of the 資本／首都. As the brig 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd these, the 広大な／多数の／重要な city burst suddenly upon their sight, and a murmur of 賞賛 and wonder rose from the （人が）群がるd deck. Tier above tier it rose, white and glittering, a hundred brazen roofs and gilded statues gleaming in the sun, with high over all the magnificent 向こうずねing cupola of Saint Sophia. Seen against a cloudless sky, it was the city of a dream--too delicate, too airily lovely for earth.

In the prow of the small 大型船 were two travellers of singular 外見. The one was a very beautiful boy, ten or twelve years of age, swarthy, （疑いを）晴らす-削減（する）, with dark, curling hair and vivacious 黒人／ボイコット 注目する，もくろむs, 十分な of 知能 and of the joy of living. The other was an 年輩の man, gaunt-直面するd and grey-bearded, whose 厳しい features were lit up by a smile as he 観察するd the excitement and 利益／興味 with which his young companion 見解（をとる）d the beautiful distant city and the many 大型船s which thronged the 狭くする 海峡.

"See! see!" cried the lad. "Look at the 広大な／多数の／重要な red ships which sail out from yonder harbour. Surely, your holiness, they are the greatest of all ships in the world."

The old man, who was the abbot of the 修道院 of Saint Nicephorus in Antioch, laid his 手渡す upon the boy's shoulder.

"Be 用心深い, Leon, and speak いっそう少なく loudly, for until we have seen your mother we should keep ourselves secret. As to the red galleys they are indeed as large as any, for they are the 皇室の ships of war, which come 前へ／外へ from the harbour of Theodosius. 一連の会議、交渉／完成する yonder green point is the Golden Horn, where the merchant ships are moored. But now, Leon, if you follow the line of buildings past the 広大な／多数の／重要な church, you will see a long 列／漕ぐ／騒動 of 中心存在s 前線ing the sea. It 示すs the Palace of the Caesars."

The boy looked at it with 直す／買収する，八百長をするd attention. "And my mother is there," he whispered.

"Yes, Leon, your mother the 皇后 Theodora and her husband the 広大な／多数の／重要な Justinian dwell in yonder palace."

The boy looked wistfully up into the old man's 直面する.

"Are you sure, Father Luke, that my mother will indeed be glad to see me?"

The abbot turned away his 直面する to 避ける those 尋問 注目する，もくろむs.

"We cannot tell, Leon. We can only try. If it should 証明する that there is no place for you, then there is always a welcome の中で the brethren of Saint Nicephorus."

"Why did you not tell my mother that we were coming, Father Luke? Why did you not wait until you had her 命令（する）?"

"At a distance, Leon, it would be 平易な to 辞退する you. An 皇室の messenger would have stopped us. But when she sees you, Leon--your 注目する，もくろむs, so like her own, your 直面する, which carries memories of one whom she loved--then, if there be a woman's heart within her bosom, she will take you into it. They say that the Emperor can 辞退する her nothing. They have no child of their own. There is a 広大な／多数の／重要な 未来 before you, Leon. When it comes, do not forget the poor brethren of Saint Nicephorus, who took you in when you had no friend in the world."

The old abbot spoke cheerily, but it was 平易な to see from his anxious countenance that the nearer he （機の）カム to the 資本／首都 the more doubtful did his errand appear. What had seemed 平易な and natural from the 静かな cloisters of Antioch became 疑わしい and dark now that the golden ドームs of Constantinople glittered so の近くに at 手渡す. Ten years before, a wretched woman, whose very 指名する was an offence throughout the eastern world, where she was as 悪名高い for her dishonour as famous for her beauty, had come to the 修道院 gate, and had 説得するd the 修道士s to take 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of her 幼児 son, the child of her shame. There he had been ever since. But she, Theodora, the harlot, returning to the 資本／首都, had by the strangest turn of Fortune's wheel caught the fancy and finally the 耐えるing love of Justinian the 相続人 to the 王位. Then on the death of his uncle Justin, the young man had become the greatest 君主 upon the earth, and had raised Theodora to be not only his wife and 皇后, but to be 絶対の 支配者 with 力／強力にするs equal to and 独立した・無所属 of his own. And she, the 汚染するd one, had risen to the dignity, had 削減（する） herself 厳しく away from all that 関係のある to her past life, and had shown 調印するs already of 存在 a 広大な／多数の／重要な Queen, stronger and wiser than her husband, but 猛烈な／残忍な, vindictive, and unbending, a 会社／堅い support to her friends, but a terror to her 敵s. This was the woman to whom the Abbot Luke of Antioch was bringing Leon, her forgotten son. If ever her mind 逸脱するd 支援する to the days when, abandoned by her lover Ecebolus, the 知事 of the African Pentapolis, she had made her way on foot through Asia Minor, and left her 幼児 with the 修道士s, it was only to 説得する herself that the brethren cloistered far from the world would never identify Theodora the 皇后 with Theodora the dissolute wanderer, and that the fruits of her sin would be for ever 隠すd from her 皇室の husband.

The little brig had now 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd the point of the Acropolis, and the long blue stretch of the Golden Horn lay before it. The high 塀で囲む of Theodosius lined the whole harbour, but a 狭くする 瀬戸際 of land had been left between it and the water's 辛勝する／優位 to serve as a quay. The 大型船 ran と一緒に 近づく the Neorian Gate, and the 乗客s, after a short scrutiny from the group of helmeted guards who lounged beside it, were 許すd to pass through into the 広大な／多数の／重要な city.

The abbot, who had made several visits to Constantinople upon the 商売／仕事 of his 修道院, walked with the 保証するd step of one who knows his ground; while the boy, alarmed and yet pleased by the 急ぐ of people, the roar and clatter of passing chariots, and the vista of magnificent buildings, held tightly to the loose gown of his guide, while 星／主役にするing 熱望して about him in every direction. Passing through the 法外な and 狭くする streets which led up from the water, they 現れるd into the open space which surrounds the magnificent pile of Saint Sophia, the 広大な／多数の／重要な church begun by Constantine, hallowed by Saint Chrysostom, and now the seat of the Patriarch, and the very centre of the Eastern Church. Only with many crossings and genuflections did the pious abbot 後継する in passing the 深い尊敬の念を抱くd 神社 of his 宗教, and hurried on to his difficult 仕事.

Having passed Saint Sophia, the two travellers crossed the marble-覆うd Augusteum, and saw upon their 権利 the gilded gates of the hippodrome through which a 広大な （人が）群がる of people was 圧力（をかける）ing, for though the morning had been 充てるd to the 宗教的な 儀式, the afternoon was given over to 世俗的な festivities. So 広大な／多数の／重要な was the 急ぐ of the populace that the two strangers had some difficulty in 解放する／撤去させるing themselves from the stream and reaching the 抱擁する arch of 黒人／ボイコット marble which formed the outer gate of the palace. Within they were ひどく ordered to 停止（させる） by a gold-crested and magnificent sentinel who laid his 向こうずねing spear across their breasts until his superior officer should give them 許可 to pass. The abbot had been 警告するd, however, that all 障害s would give way if he について言及するd the 指名する of Basil the eunuch, who 行為／法令／行動するd as chamberlain of the palace and also as Parakimomen--a high office which meant that he slept at the door of the 皇室の bed-議会. The charm worked wonderfully, for at the について言及する of that potent 指名する the Protosphathaire, or 長，率いる of the Palace Guards, who chanced to be upon the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, すぐに detached one of his 兵士s with 指示／教授／教育s to 軍用車隊 the two strangers into the presence of the chamberlain.

Passing in succession a middle guard and an inner guard, the travellers （機の）カム at last into the palace proper, and followed their majestic guide from 議会 to 議会, each more wonderful than the last. Marbles and gold, velvet and silver, glittering mosaics, wonderful carvings, ivory 審査するs, curtains of Armenian tissue and of Indian silk, damask from Arabia, and amber from the Baltic--all these things 合併するd themselves in the minds of the two simple 地方のs, until their 注目する，もくろむs ached and their senses reeled before the 炎 and the glory of this, the most magnificent of the dwellings of man. Finally, a pair of curtains, crusted with gold, were parted, and their guide 手渡すd them over to a negro eunuch who stood within. A 激しい, fat, brown-skinned man, with a large, flabby, hairless 直面する, was pacing up and 負かす／撃墜する the small apartment, and he turned upon them as they entered with an abominable and 脅すing smile. His loose lips and pendulous cheeks were those of a 甚だしい／１２ダース old woman, but above them there shone a pair of dark malignant 注目する，もくろむs, 十分な of 猛烈な／残忍な intensity of 観察 and judgment.

"You have entered the palace by using my 指名する," he said. "It is one of my 誇るs that any of the populace can approach me in this way. But it is not fortunate for those who take advantage of it without 予定 原因（となる）." Again he smiled a smile which made the 脅すd boy 粘着する tightly to the loose serge skirts of the abbot.

But the ecclesiastic was a man of courage. Undaunted by the 悪意のある 外見 of the 広大な／多数の／重要な chamberlain, or by the 脅し which lay in his words, he laid his 手渡す upon his young companion's shoulder and 直面するd the eunuch with a 確信して smile.

"I have no 疑問, your excellency," said he, "that the importance of my 使節団 has given me the 権利 to enter the palace. The only thing which troubles me is whether it may not be so important as to forbid me from broaching it to you, or indeed, to anybody save the 皇后 Theodora, since it is she only whom it 関心s."

The eunuch's 厚い eyebrows bunched together over his vicious 注目する，もくろむs.

"You must make good those words," he said. "If my gracious master--the ever-glorious Emperor Justinian--does not disdain to take me into his most intimate 信用／信任 in all things, it would be strange if there were any 支配する within your knowledge which I might not hear. You are, as I gather from your garb and 耐えるing, the abbot of some Asiatic 修道院?"

"You are 権利, your excellency, I am the Abbot of the 修道院 of St. Nicephorus in Antioch. But I repeat that I am 保証するd that what I have to say is for the ear of the 皇后 Theodora only."

The eunuch was evidently puzzled, and his curiosity 誘発するd by the old man's persistence. He （機の）カム nearer, his 激しい 直面する thrust 今後, his flabby brown 手渡すs, like two sponges, 残り／休憩（する）ing upon the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する of yellow jasper before him.

"Old man," said he, "there is no secret which 関心s the 皇后 which may not be told to me. But if you 辞退する to speak, it is 確かな that you will never see her. Why should I 収容する／認める you, unless I know your errand? How should I know that you are not a Manichean 異端者 with a poniard in your bosom, longing for the 血 of the mother of the Church?"

The abbot hesitated no longer. "If there be a mistake in the 事柄, then on your 長，率いる be it," said he. "Know then that this lad Leon is the son of Theodora the 皇后, left by her in our 修道院 within a month of his birth ten years ago. This papyrus which I 手渡す you will show you that what I say is beyond all question or 疑問."

The eunuch Basil took the paper, but his 注目する，もくろむs were 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon the boy, and his features showed a mixture of amazement at the news that he had received, and of cunning 憶測 as to how he could turn it to 利益（をあげる）.

"Indeed, he is the very image of the 皇后," he muttered; and then, with sudden 疑惑, "Is it not the chance of this likeness which has put the 計画／陰謀 into your 長，率いる, old man?"

"There is but one way to answer that," said the abbot. "It is to ask the 皇后 herself whether what I say is not true, and to give her the glad tidings that her boy is alive and 井戸／弁護士席."

The トン of 信用／信任, together with the 証言 of the papyrus, and the boy's beautiful 直面する, 除去するd the last 影をつくる／尾行する of 疑問 from the eunuch's mind. Here was a 広大な／多数の／重要な fact; but what use could he make of it? Above all, what advantage could he draw from it? He stood with his fat chin in his 手渡す, turning it over in his cunning brain.

"Old man," said he at last, "to how many have you told this secret?"

"To no one in the whole world," the other answered. "There is 助祭 Bardas at the 修道院 and myself. No one else knows anything."

"You are sure of this?"

"絶対 確かな ."

The eunuch had made up his mind. If he alone of all men in the palace knew of this event, he would have a powerful 持つ／拘留する over his masterful mistress. He was 確かな that Justinian the Emperor knew nothing of this. It would be a shock to him. It might even 疎遠にする his affections from his wife. She might care to take 警戒s to 妨げる him from knowing. And if he, Basil the eunuch, was her confederate in those 警戒s, then how very の近くに it must draw him to her. All this flashed through his mind as he stood, the papyrus in his 手渡す, looking at the old man and the boy.

"Stay here," said he. "I will be with you again." With a swift rustle of his silken 式服s he swept from the 議会.

A few minutes had elapsed when a curtain at the end of the room was 押し進めるd aside, and the eunuch, 再現するing, held it 支援する, 二塁打ing his unwieldy 団体／死体 into a 深遠な obeisance as he did so. Through the gap （機の）カム a small 警報 woman, 覆う？ in golden tissue, with a loose outer mantle and shoes of the 皇室の purple. That colour alone showed that she could be 非，不，無 other than the 皇后; but the dignity of her carriage, the 猛烈な／残忍な 当局 of her magnificent dark 注目する，もくろむs, and the perfect beauty of her haughty 直面する, all 布告するd that it could only be that Theodora who, in spite of her lowly origin, was the most majestic as 井戸／弁護士席 as the most maturely lovely of all the women in her kingdom. Gone now were the buffoon tricks which the daughter of Acacius the bearward had learned in the amphitheatre; gone too was the light charm of the wanton, and what was left was the worthy mate of a 広大な／多数の／重要な king, the 手段d dignity of one who was every インチ an 皇后.

無視（する）ing the two men, Theodora walked up to the boy, placed her two white 手渡すs upon his shoulders, and looked with a long 尋問 gaze, a gaze which began with hard 疑惑 and ended with tender 承認, into those large lustrous 注目する，もくろむs which were the very reflection of her own. At first the 極度の慎重さを要する lad was 冷気／寒がらせるd by the 冷淡な 意図 question of the look; but as it 軟化するd, his own spirit 答える／応じるd, until suddenly, with a cry of "Mother! Mother!" he cast himself into her 武器, his 手渡すs locked 一連の会議、交渉／完成する her neck, his 直面する buried in her bosom. Carried away by the sudden natural 爆発 of emotion, her own 武器 強化するd 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the lad's 人物／姿／数字, and she 緊張するd him for an instant to her heart. Then, the strength of the 皇后 伸び（る）ing instant 命令（する） over the 一時的な 証拠不十分 of the mother, she 押し進めるd him 支援する from her, and waved that they should leave her to herself. The slaves in 出席 hurried the two 訪問者s from the room. Basil the eunuch ぐずぐず残るd, looking 負かす／撃墜する at his mistress, who had thrown herself upon a damask couch, her lips white and her bosom heaving with the tumult of her emotion. She ちらりと見ることd up and met the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長's crafty gaze, her woman's instinct reading the 脅し that lurked within it.

"I am in your 力／強力にする," she said. "The Emperor must never know of this."

"I am your slave," said the eunuch, with his あいまいな smile. "I am an 器具 in your 手渡す. If it is your will that the Emperor should know nothing, then who is to tell him?"

"But the 修道士, the boy? What are we to do?"

"There is only one way for safety," said the eunuch.

She looked at him with horrified 注目する，もくろむs. His spongy 手渡すs were pointing 負かす／撃墜する to the 床に打ち倒す. There was an 地下組織の world to this beautiful palace, a 影をつくる／尾行する that was ever の近くに to the light, a 地域 of dimly-lit passages, of 影をつくる／尾行するd corners, of noiseless, tongueless slaves, of sudden sharp 叫び声をあげるs in the 不明瞭. To this the eunuch was pointing.

A terrible struggle rent her breast. The beautiful boy was hers, flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone. She knew it beyond all question or 疑問. It was her one child, and her whole heart went out to him. But Justinian! She knew the Emperor's strange 制限s. Her career in the past was forgotten. He had swept it all aside by special 皇室の 法令 published throughout the Empire, as if she were new-born through the 力／強力にする of his will, and her 協会 with his person. But they were childless, and this sight of one which was not his own would 削減（する） him to the quick. He could 解任する her 悪名高い past from his mind, but if it took the 固める／コンクリート 形態／調整 of this beautiful child, then how could he wave it aside as if it had never been? All her instincts and her intimate knowledge of the man told her that even her charm and her 影響（力） might fail under such circumstances to save her from 廃虚. Her 離婚 would be as 平易な to him as her elevation had been. She was balanced upon a giddy pinnacle, the highest in the world, and yet the higher the deeper the 落ちる. Everything that earth could give her was now at her feet. Was she to 危険 the losing of it all--for what? For a 証拠不十分 which was unworthy of an 皇后, for a foolish new-born spasm of love, for that which had no 存在 within her in the morning? How could she be so foolish as to 危険 losing such a 実体 for such a 影をつくる／尾行する?

"Leave it to me," said the brown watchful 直面する above her.

"Must it be--death?"

"There is no real safety outside. But if your heart is too 慈悲の, then by the loss of sight and speech----"

She saw in her mind the white-hot アイロンをかける approaching those glorious 注目する，もくろむs, and she shuddered at the thought.

"No, no! Better death than that!"

"Let it be death then. You are wise, 広大な／多数の／重要な 皇后, for there only is real safety and 保証／確信 of silence."

"And the 修道士?"

"Him also."

"But the 宗教上の 教会会議! He is a tonsured priest? What would the Patriarch do?"

"Silence his babbling tongue. Then let them do what they will. How are we of the palace to know that this conspirator, taken with a dagger in his sleeve, is really what he says?"

Again she shuddered and shrank 負かす／撃墜する の中で the cushions.

"Speak not of it, think not of it," said the eunuch. "Say only that you leave it in my 手渡すs. Nay, then, if you cannot say it, do but nod your 長，率いる, and I take it as your signal."

In that moment there flashed before Theodora's mind a 見通し of all her enemies, of all those who envied her rise, of all whose 憎悪 and contempt would rise into a clamour of delight could they see the daughter of the bearward 投げつけるd 負かす／撃墜する into that abyss from which she had been dragged. Her 直面する 常習的な, her lips 強化するd, her little 手渡すs clenched in the agony of her thought.

"Do it!" she said.

In an instant, with a terrible smile, the messenger of death hurried from the room. She groaned aloud, and buried herself yet deeper まっただ中に the silken cushions, clutching them frantically with convulsed and twitching 手渡すs.

The eunuch wasted no time, for this 行為, once done, he became--save for some insignificant 修道士 in Asia Minor, whose 運命／宿命 would soon be 調印（する）d--the only sharer of Theodora's secret, and therefore the only person who could 抑制（する） and bend that most imperious nature. Hurrying into the 議会 where the 訪問者s were waiting, he gave a 悪意のある signal, only too 井戸／弁護士席 known in those アイロンをかける days. In an instant the 黒人／ボイコット brutes in 出席 掴むd the old man and the boy, 押し進めるing them 速く 負かす／撃墜する a passage and into a meaner 部分 of the palace, where the 激しい smell of luscious cooking 布告するd the neighbourhood of the kitchens. A 味方する 回廊（地帯） led to a ひどく-閉めだした アイロンをかける door, and this in turn opened upon a 法外な flight of 石／投石する steps, feebly illuminated by the 微光 of 塀で囲む lamps. At the 長，率いる and foot stood a mute sentinel like an ebony statue, and below, along the dusky and forbidding passages from which the 独房s opened, a succession of niches in the 塀で囲む were each 占領するd by a 類似の 後見人. The unfortunate 訪問者s were dragged 残酷に 負かす／撃墜する a number of 石／投石する-flagged and dismal 回廊（地帯）s until they descended another long stair which led so 深く，強烈に into the earth that the damp feeling in the 激しい 空気／公表する and the drip of water all 一連の会議、交渉／完成する showed that they had come 負かす／撃墜する to the level of the sea. Groans and cries, like those of sick animals, from the さまざまな grated doors which they passed showed how many there were who spent their whole lives in this 湿気の多い and poisonous atmosphere.

At the end of this lowest passage was a door which opened into a 選び出す／独身 large 丸天井d room. It was devoid of furniture, but in the centre was a large and 激しい 木造の board clamped with アイロンをかける. This lay upon a rude 石／投石する parapet, engraved with inscriptions beyond the wit of the eastern scholars, for this old 井戸／弁護士席 時代遅れの from a time before the Greeks 設立するd Byzantium, when men of Chaldea and Phoenicia build with 抱擁する unmortared 封鎖するs, far below the level of the town of Constantine. The door was の近くにd, and the eunuch beckoned to the slaves that they should 除去する the 厚板 which covered the 井戸／弁護士席 of death. The 脅すd boy 叫び声をあげるd and clung to the abbot, who, ashy-pale and trembling, was pleading hard to melt the heart of the ferocious eunuch.

"Surely, surely, you would not 殺す the innocent boy!" he cried. "What has he done? Was it his fault that he （機の）カム here? I alone--I and 助祭 Bardas--are to 非難する. Punish us, if someone must indeed be punished. We are old. It is to-day or to-morrow with us. But he is so young and so beautiful, with all his life before him. Oh, sir! oh, your excellency, you would not have the heart to 傷つける him!"

He threw himself 負かす／撃墜する and clutched at the eunuch's 膝s, while the boy sobbed piteously and cast horror-stricken 注目する，もくろむs at the 黒人／ボイコット slaves who were 涙／ほころびing the 木造の 厚板 from the 古代の parapet beneath. The only answer which the chamberlain gave to the frantic pleading of the abbot was to take a 石／投石する which lay on the 対処するing of the 井戸／弁護士席 and 投げ上げる／ボディチェックする it in. It could be heard clattering against the old, damp, mildewed 塀で囲むs, until it fell with a hollow にわか景気 into some far distant subterranean pool. Then he again 動議d with his 手渡すs, and the 黒人／ボイコット slaves threw themselves upon the boy and dragged him away from his 後見人. So shrill was his clamour that no one heard the approach of the 皇后. With a swift 急ぐ she had entered the room, and her 武器 were 一連の会議、交渉／完成する her son.

"It shall not be! It cannot be!" she cried. "No, no, my darling! my darling! they shall do you no 傷つける. I was mad to think of it--mad and wicked to dream of it. Oh, my 甘い boy! to think that your mother might have had your 血 upon her 長，率いる!"

The eunuch's brows were gathered together at this 失敗 of his 計画（する）s, at this fresh example of feminine caprice.

"Why kill them, 広大な／多数の／重要な lady, if it 苦痛s your gracious heart?" said he. "With a knife and a branding-アイロンをかける they can be 武装解除するd for ever."

She paid no attention to his words. "Kiss me, Leon!" she cried. "Just once let me feel my own child's soft lips 残り／休憩（する） upon 地雷. Now again! No, no more, or I shall 弱める for what I have still to say and still to do. Old man, you are very 近づく a natural 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な, and I cannot think from your venerable 面 that words of falsehood come readily to your lips. You have indeed kept my secret all these years, have you not?"

"I have in very truth, 広大な／多数の／重要な 皇后. I 断言する to you by Saint Nicephorus, patron of our house, that save old 助祭 Bardas, there is 非，不，無 who knows."

"Then let your lips still be 調印（する）d. If you have kept 約束 in the past, I see no 推論する／理由 why you should be a babbler in the 未来. And you, Leon"--she bent her wonderful 注目する，もくろむs with a strange mixture of sternness and of love upon the boy, "can I 信用 you? Will you keep a secret which could never help you, but would be the 廃虚 and downfall of your mother?"

"Oh, mother, I would not 傷つける you! I 断言する that I will be silent."

"Then I 信用 you both. Such 準備／条項 will be made for your 修道院 and for your own personal 慰安s as will make you bless the day you （機の）カム to my palace. Now you may go. I wish never to see you again. If I did, you might find me in a softer mood, or in a harder, and the one would lead to my undoing, the other to yours. But if by whisper or rumour I have 推論する／理由 to think that you have failed me, then you and your 修道士s and your 修道院 will have such an end as will be a lesson for ever to those who would break 約束 with their 皇后."

"I will never speak," said the old abbot; "neither will 助祭 Bardas; neither will Leon. For all three I can answer. But there are others--these slaves, the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長. We may be punished for another's fault."

"Not so," said the 皇后, and her 注目する，もくろむs were like flints. "These slaves are voiceless; nor have they any means to tell those secrets which they know. As to you, Basil----" She raised her white 手渡す with the same deadly gesture which he had himself used so short a time before. The 黒人／ボイコット slaves were on him like hounds on a stag.

"Oh, my gracious mistress, dear lady, what is this? What is this? You cannot mean it!" he 叫び声をあげるd, in his high, 割れ目d 発言する／表明する. "Oh, what have I done? Why should I die?"

"You have turned me against my own. You have goaded me to 殺す my own son. You have ーするつもりであるd to use my secret against me. I read it in your 注目する，もくろむs from the first. Cruel, murderous villain, taste the 運命／宿命 which you have yourself given to so many others. This is your doom. I have spoken."

The old man and the boy hurried in horror from the 丸天井. As they ちらりと見ることd 支援する they saw the 築く inflexible, shimmering, gold-覆う？ 人物／姿／数字 of the 皇后. Beyond they had a glimpse of the green-scummed lining of the 井戸／弁護士席, and of the 広大な／多数の／重要な red open mouth of the eunuch, as he 叫び声をあげるd and prayed while every 強く引っ張る of the 緊張するing slaves brought him one step nearer to the brink. With their 手渡すs over their ears they 急ぐd away, but even so they heard that last woman-like shriek, and then the 激しい 急落（する），激減（する） far 負かす／撃墜する in the dark abysses of the earth.

A POINT OF CONTACT

A curious train of thought is started when one 反映するs upon those 広大な／多数の／重要な 人物／姿／数字s who have trod the 行う／開催する／段階 of this earth, and 現実に played their parts in the same 行為／法令／行動する, without ever coming 直面する to 直面する, or even knowing of each other's 存在. Baber, the 広大な／多数の／重要な Mogul, was, for example, overrunning India at the very moment when Hernando Cortez was overrunning Mexico, and yet the two could never have heard of each other. Or, to take a more 最高の example, what could the Emperor Augustus Caesar know of a 確かな Carpenter's shop wherein there worked a dreamy-注目する，もくろむd boy who was 運命にあるd to change the whole 直面する of the world? It may be, however, that いつかs these 広大な／多数の／重要な 同時代の 軍隊s did approach, touch, and separate--each unaware of the true meaning of the other. So it was in the instance which is now narrated.

It was evening in the port of Tyre, some eleven hundred years before the coming of Christ. The city held, at that time, about a ４半期/4分の1 of a million of inhabitants, the 大多数 of whom dwelt upon the 本土／大陸, where the buildings of the 豊富な merchants, each in its own tree-girt garden, 延長するd for several miles along the coast. The 広大な／多数の／重要な island, however, from which the town got its 指名する, lay out some distance from the shore, and 含む／封じ込めるd within its 狭くする 国境s the more famous of the 寺s and public buildings. Of these 寺s the 長，指導者 was that of Melmoth, which covered with its long colonnades the greater part of that 味方する of the island which looked 負かす／撃墜する upon the Sidonian port, so called because only twenty miles away the older city of Sidon 持続するd a constant stream of traffic with its rising offshoot.

Inns were not yet in vogue, but the poorer traveller 設立する his ４半期/4分の1s with hospitable 国民s, while men of distinction were frequently housed in the 別館 of the 寺s, where the servants of the priests …に出席するd to their wants. On that particular evening there stood in the portico of the 寺 of Melmoth two remarkable 人物／姿／数字s who were the centre of 観察 for a かなりの fringe of Phoenician idlers. One of these men was 明確に by his 直面する and demeanour a 広大な／多数の／重要な chieftain. His 堅固に-示すd features were those of a man who had led an adventurous life, and were suggestive of every virile 質 from 勇敢に立ち向かう 解決する to desperate 死刑執行. His 幅の広い, high brow and contemplative 注目する，もくろむs showed that he was a man of 知恵 同様に as of valour. He was 覆う？, as became a Greek nobleman of the period, with a pure white linen tunic, a gold-studded belt supporting a short sword, and a purple cloak. The lower 脚s were 明らかにする, and the feet covered by sandals of red leather, while a cap of white cloth was 押し進めるd 支援する upon his brown curls, for the heat of the day was past and the evening 微風 most welcome.

His companion was a short, 厚い-始める，決める man, bull-necked and swarthy, 覆う？ in some dusky cloth which gave him a sombre 外見 relieved only by the vivid scarlet of his woollen cap. His manner に向かって his comrade was one of deference, and yet there was in it also something of that freshness and frankness which go with ありふれた dangers and a ありふれた 利益／興味.

"Be not impatient, sire," he was 説. "Give me two days, or three at the most, and we shall make as 勇敢に立ち向かう a show at the 召集（する） as any. But, indeed, they would smile if they saw us はう up to Tenedos with ten 行方不明の oars and the mainsail blown into rags."

The other frowned and stamped his foot with 怒り／怒る.

"We should have been there now had it not been for this 悪口を言う／悪態d mischance," said he. "Aeolus played us a pretty trick when he sent such a 爆破 out of a cloudless sky."

"井戸／弁護士席, sire, two of the Cretan galleys 創立者d, and Trophimes, the 操縦する, 断言するs that one of the Argos ships was in trouble. Pray Zeus that it was not the galley of Menelaus. We shall not be the last at the 召集（する）."

"It is 井戸／弁護士席 that Troy stands a good ten miles from the sea, for if they （機の）カム out at us with a (n)艦隊／(a)素早い they might have us at a disadvantage. We had no choice but to come here and refit, yet I shall have no happy hour until I see the white 泡，激怒すること from the 攻撃する of our oars once more. Go, Seleucas, and 速度(を上げる） them all you may."

The officer 屈服するd and 出発／死d, while the chieftain stood with his 注目する，もくろむs 直す／買収する，八百長をするd upon his 広大な／多数の／重要な 取り去る／解体するd galley over which the riggers and carpenters were 群れているing. その上の out in the roadstead lay eleven other smaller galleys, waiting until their 負傷させるd 旗艦 should be ready for them. The sun, as it shone upon them, gleamed upon hundreds of bronze helmets and breastplates, telling of the warlike nature of the errand upon which they were engaged. Save for them the port was filled with bustling merchant ships taking in 貨物s or disgorging them upon the quays. At the very feet of the Greek chieftain three 幅の広い 船s were moored, and ギャング（団）s of labourers with 木造の shovels were heaving out the mussels brought from Dor, 運命にあるd to 供給（する） the famous Tyrian dye-作品 which adorn the most noble of all 衣料品s. Beside them was a tin ship from Britain, and the square boxes of that precious metal, so needful for the making of bronze, were 存在 passed from 手渡す to 手渡す to the waiting wagons. The Greek 設立する himself smiling at the uncouth wonder of a Cornishman who had come with his tin, and who was now lost in amazement as he 星／主役にするd at the long colonnades of the 寺 of Melmoth and the high 前線 of the 神社 of Ashtaroth behind it. Even as he gazed some of his shipmates passed their 手渡すs through his 武器 and led him along the quay to a ワイン-shop, as 存在 a building much more within his comprehension. The Greek, still smiling, was turning on his heels to return to the 寺, when one of the clean-shaven priests of Baal （機の）カム に向かって him.

"It is rumoured, sire," said he, "that you are on a very distant and dangerous 投機・賭ける. Indeed, it is 井戸／弁護士席 known from the talk of your 兵士s what it is that you have on 手渡す."

"It is true," said the Greek, "that we have a hard 仕事 before us. But it would have been harder to 企て，努力，提案 at home and to feel that the honour of a leader of the Argives had been 国／地域d by this dog from Asia."

"I hear that all Greece has taken up the quarrel."

"Yes, there is not a 長，指導者 from Thessaly to the Malea who has not called out his men, and there were twelve hundred galleys in the harbour of Aulis."

"It is a 広大な／多数の／重要な host," said the priest. "But have ye any seers or prophets の中で ye who can tell what will come to pass?"

"Yes, we had one such, Calchas his 指名する. He has said that for nine years we shall 努力する／競う, and only on the tenth will the victory come."

"That is but 冷淡な 慰安," said the priest. "It is, indeed, a 広大な／多数の／重要な prize which can be 価値（がある） ten years of a man's life."

"I would give," the Greek answered, "not ten years but all my life if I could but lay proud Ilium in ashes and carry 支援する Helen to her palace on the hill of Argos."

"I pray Baal, whose priest I am, that you may have good fortune," said the Phoenician. "I have heard that these Trojans are stout 兵士s, and that 圧力をかけて脅す（悩ます）, the son of Priam, is a mighty leader."

The Greek smiled proudly.

"They must be stout and 井戸／弁護士席-led also," said he, "if they can stand the brunt against the long-haired Argives with such captains as Agamemnon, the son of Atreus from golden Mycenae, or Achilles, son of Peleus, with his myrmidons. But these things are on the 膝s of the 運命／宿命s. In the 合間, my friend, I would fain know who these strange people are who come 負かす／撃墜する the street, for their chieftain has the 空気／公表する of one who is made for 広大な／多数の／重要な 行為s."

A tall man 覆う？ in a long white 式服, with a golden fillet running through his flowing auburn hair, was striding 負かす／撃墜する the street with the 解放する／自由な elastic gait of one who has lived an active life in the open. His 直面する was ruddy and noble, with a short, crisp 耐えるd covering a strong, square jaw. In his （疑いを）晴らす blue 注目する，もくろむs as he looked at the evening sky and the busy waters beneath him there was something of the exaltation of the poet, while a 青年 walking beside him and carrying a harp hinted at the graces of music. On the other 味方する of him, however, a second squire bore a brazen 保護物，者 and a 激しい spear, so that his master might never be caught unawares by his enemies. In his train there （機の）カム a tumultuous 群衆 of dark 強硬派-like men, 武装した to the teeth, and peering about with covetous 注目する，もくろむs at the 調印するs of wealth which lay in profusion around them. They were swarthy as Arabs, and yet they were better 覆う？ and better 武装した than the wild children of the 砂漠.

"They are but barbarians," said the priest. "He is a small king from the mountain parts opposite Philistia, and he comes here because he is building up the town of Jebus, which he means to be his 長，指導者 city. It is only here that he can find the 支持を得ようと努めるd, and 石／投石する, and craftsmanship that he 願望（する）s. The 青年 with the harp is his son. But I pray you, 長，指導者, if you would know what is before you at Troy, to come now into the outer hall of the 寺 with me, for we have there a famous seer, the prophetess Alaga who is also the priestess of Ashtaroth. It may be that she can do for you what she has done for many others, and send you 前へ／外へ from Tyre in your hollow ships with a better heart than you （機の）カム."

To the Greeks, who by oracles, omens, and auguries were for ever 調査するing into the 未来, such a suggestion was always welcome. The Greek followed the priest to the inner 聖域, where sat the famous Pythoness--a tall, fair woman of middle age, who sat at a 石／投石する （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する upon which was an abacus or tray filled with sand. She held a style of chalcedony, and with this she traced strange lines and curves upon the smooth surface, her chin leaning upon her other 手渡す and her 注目する，もくろむs cast 負かす／撃墜する. As the 長，指導者 and the priest approached her she did not look up, but she quickened the movements of her pencil, so that curve followed curve in quick succession. Then, still with downcast 注目する，もくろむs, she spoke in a strange, high, sighing 発言する／表明する like 勝利，勝つd まっただ中に trees.

"Who, then, is this who comes to Alaga of Tyre, the handmaiden of 広大な／多数の／重要な Ashtaroth? Behold I see an island to the west, and an old man who is the father, and the 広大な／多数の／重要な 長，指導者, and his wife, and his son who now waits him at home, 存在 too young for the wars. Is this not true?"

"Yes, maiden, you have said truth," the Greek answered.

"I have had many 広大な／多数の／重要な ones before me, but 非，不，無 greater than you, for three thousand years from now people will still talk of your bravery and of your 知恵. They will remember also the faithful wife at home, and the 指名する of the old man, and of the boy your son--all will be remembered when the very 石／投石するs of noble Sidon and 王室の Tyre are no more."

"Nay, say not so, Alaga!" cried the priest.

"I speak not what I 願望（する） but what it is given to me to say. For ten years you will 努力する／競う, and then you will 勝利，勝つ, and victory will bring 残り／休憩（する） to others, but only new troubles to you. Ah!" The prophetess suddenly started in violent surprise, and her 手渡す made ever faster 場内取引員／株価s on the sand.

"What is it that ails you, Alaga?" asked the priest.

The woman had looked up with wild 問い合わせing 注目する，もくろむs. Her gaze was neither for the priest nor for the 長，指導者, but 発射 past them to the その上の door. Looking 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the Greek was aware that two new 人物／姿／数字s had entered the room. They were the ruddy barbarian whom he had 示すd in the street, together with the 青年 who bore his harp.

"It is a marvel upon marvels that two such should enter my 議会 on the same day," cried the priestess. "Have I not said that you were the greatest that ever （機の）カム, and yet behold here is already one who is greater. For he and his son--even this 青年 whom I see before me--will also be in the minds of all men when lands beyond the 中心存在s of Hercules shall have taken the place of Phoenicia and of Greece. あられ／賞賛する to you, stranger, あられ／賞賛する! Pass on to your work for it を待つs you, and it is 広大な／多数の／重要な beyond words of 地雷." Rising from her stool the woman dropped her pencil upon the sand and passed 速く from the room.

"It is over," said the priest. "Never have I heard her speak such words."

The Greek 長，指導者 looked with 利益／興味 at the barbarian. "You speak Greek?" he asked.

"Indifferently 井戸／弁護士席," said the other. "Yet I should understand it seeing that I spent a long year at Ziklag in the land of the Philistines."

"It would seem," said the Greek, "that the gods have chosen us both to play a part in the world."

"Stranger," the barbarian answered, "there is but one God."

"Say you so? 井戸／弁護士席, it is a 事柄 to be argued at some better time. But I would fain have your 指名する and style and what it is you 目的 to do, so that we may perchance hear of each other in years to come. For my part I am Odysseus, known also as Ulysses, the King of Ithica, with the good Laertes as my father and young Telemachus as my son. For my work, it is the taking of Troy."

"And my work," said the barbarian, "is the building of Jebus, which now we call Jerusalem. Our ways 嘘（をつく） separate, but it may come 支援する to your memory that you have crossed the path of David, second King of the Hebrews, together with his young son Solomon, who may follow him upon the 王位 of イスラエル."

So he turned and went 前へ／外へ into the darkened streets where his spearmen were を待つing him, while the Greek passed 負かす／撃墜する to his boat that he might see what was still to be done ere he could 始める，決める 前へ／外へ upon his voyage.

THE END

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