But I am weak and cowardly, and so--here I am." Pisander only groaned and went away to his room to turn over his Aristotle, and wonder why nothing in the "Nicomachean Ethics" or any other learned treatise contained the least word that made him contented over the fate of Agias or his own unhappy situation.

Arsinoe and Semiramis, when he went from them, cried, and cried again, in pity and helpless grief at their whole situation.

And so a considerable number of days passed.

Calatinus could have given joy to the hearts of several in his household if he had simply remembered that Agias had not been scourged to death, but sold.

But Calatinus feared, now that he was well out of the matter, to stir up an angry scene with his wife, by hinting that Agias had not been punished according to her orders.