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"Ledscha," replied the admiral. Hermon started as if stung by a scorpion, and asked, "Where is she?" "On my ship," was the reply, "if she has not yet been taken ashore with the others." "To be killed with the pitiable band there?" cried Thyone angrily, looking her son reproachfully in the face. "No, mother," replied Eumedes.
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. Sometimes raised high on the crest of a mountain wave, sometimes sinking into the hollow, it completed its trip, and Eumedes mounted a swinging rope ladder to the Galatea's deck as nimbly as a boy. Here the young commander of the fleet hastened toward his parents.
"Neither by threats nor promises," answered the admiral, "can this sinister, beautiful creature be induced to speak." "Certainly not," said the artist, and a smile of satisfaction flitted over his face. A short row took Hermon and Eumedes the admiral's galley. Ledscha had already been carried ashore.
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. Sometimes raised high on the crest of a mountain wave, sometimes sinking into the hollow, it completed its trip, and Eumedes mounted a swinging rope ladder to the Galatea's deck as nimbly as a boy. Here the young commander of the fleet hastened toward his parents.
One star after another began to adorn the blue islands in the cloudy firmament, and at last the full moon burst through the heavy banks of dark clouds, and shone in pure brilliancy above their heads, like a huge silver vessel in the black catafalque of a giant. At the end of the first hour after sunset Eumedes ordered the boat to be manned.
Bias pointed to the poop, where the commander Eumedes was standing directing the course of the fleet. As if moulded in bronze, a man thoroughly equal to his office, he seemed, in spite of the shouts, greetings, and acclamations thundering around him, to close his eyes and ears to the vessels thronging about his ship and devote himself body and soul to the fulfilment of his duty.
Eumedes commanded the Macedonians who formed his escort to remain at the fortress on the dune, and, pointing out Ledscha by a wave of the hand, he whispered to Hermon: "By the girdle of Aphrodite! she is terribly beautiful! For whom is the Medea probably brewing in imagination the poisoned draught?"
Then he gave the sculptor permission to promise her immunity from punishment if she would consent at least to explain the Gauls' connection with the royal palaces; but Hermon strenuously refused to undertake this or a similar commission to Ledscha. Eumedes had expected the denial, and merely expressed to his friend his desire to speak to the Biamite after his interview was over.
Then he gave the sculptor permission to promise her immunity from punishment if she would consent at least to explain the Gauls' connection with the royal palaces; but Hermon strenuously refused to undertake this or a similar commission to Ledscha. Eumedes had expected the denial, and merely expressed to his friend his desire to speak to the Biamite after his interview was over.
Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. It was a terrible sight, yet grand and worthy of being wrested from oblivion by art, and it impressed itself firmly on his mind. After noon Eumedes could at last devote himself to his young friend.
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