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Every other exit from this second court of the citadel led into the strictly guarded gardens and buildings of the palace itself. The noisy strife round Klea, and the cry of the wounded man had attracted the watch; the Cypriotes and the maiden soon found themselves surrounded, and they were conducted through a narrow side passage into the court-yard of the prison.
She burst into tears and threw herself on the ground before her, clasping her knees and crying, in a voice broken with sobs: "Oh Klea! poor, dear Klea, what have I done! but indeed I did not mean any harm. I don't know how it happened. Whatever I feel prompted to do I do, I can't help doing it, and it is not till it is done that I begin to know whether it was right or wrong.
And all the time he thought incessantly of Klea thinking in a dreamy way that he saw her before him, but different and taller than before, her form growing more and more before his eyes till at last it was so tall that her head touched the sky, the clouds seemed to be her veil, and the moon a brilliant diadem in her abundant dark hair.
In front of another tavern sat the officers of the troops, whose noisy mirth she had heard as she passed the former one; they were sitting over their wine and looking on at the dancing of two Egyptian girls, who screeched like cackling hens over their mad leaps, and who so effectually riveted the attention of the spectators, who were beating time for them by clapping their hands, that Klea, accelerating her step, was able to slip unobserved past the wild crew.
And now, as Klea went towards the well within the temple-wall to fetch water, she repeated to herself many of these injunctions; she felt herself encouraged by them, and firmly resolved not to give her sister up to the seducer without a struggle.
Go now and stand at the door of the great hall and speak the word." Klea heard the high-priest accede to this request and cry in a chanting voice: "Thus he commands the night and it becomes day, and the extinguished taper and lo! it flames with brightness. If indeed thou art nigh, Oh Serapis! manifest thyself to us."
As head of this temple I command you to fill your jars to-day, as usual, till one who is worthy of you comes to me, and asks you for his wife. I suspect he will not be long to wait for." "How do you know, father, " asked Klea, coloring. "I can read it in your eyes," said Asclepiodorus, and he gazed kindly after her as, at a sign from him, she quitted the room.
Then he described the events of his journey there, his narrow escape from capture, and the pursuit by the Dervishes at Abu Klea; how he gave them the slip, struck the Ambukol caravan road, had a fight with a band of robber Arabs, and finally reached the Egyptian camp. "An excellently managed business!" the General said, warmly.
"The gracious gods are merciful in permitting me to see that aye, merciful to me, and to effect that end I would have died twenty deaths." Klea pressed his now cold hand to her lips as he spoke and again asked, though hardly able to control her voice for tears: "But the wound, father where is the wound?" "Let be, let be," replied Serapion.
But the chariot must be back again in less than an hour, for it is one of the king's, and when the banquet is over there may be a scarcity of chariots." "Yes I will go back to the place I came from," said Klea eagerly, interrupting the messenger. "Take me at once to the chariot." "Follow me, then," said the old man. "But I have no veil," observed Klea, "and have only this thin robe on.
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