27/30 There we will argue out our case and abide His judgment. If there is no God there will be no judgment, and I salute you, Empress, who triumph. If, as I believe and as you say you believe, there is a God, think whom _you_ will be called upon to salute when that God has heard the truth. Meanwhile I repeat that Heliodore the Egyptian still lives beneath the sun." Irene rose from the stool on which she sat and thought a moment. I gazed through the bars of the window-place in my cell out at the night above. |