CHAPTER XIX.
BARELY had Vinicius finished reading when Chilo pushed quietly into his library, unannounced by any one, for the servants had the order to admit him at every hour of the day or night.
"May the divine mother of thy magnanimous ancestor AEneas be full of favor to thee, as the son of Maia was kind to me." "What dost thou mean ?" asked Vinicius, springing from the table at which he was sitting.
Chilo raised his head and said, "Eureka!" The young patrician was so excited that for a long time he could not utter a word.
"Hast thou seen her ?" asked he, at last.
"I have seen Ursus, lord, and have spoken with him." "Dost thou know where they are secreted ?" "No, lord.

Another, through boastfulness, would have let the Lygian know that he divined who he was; another would have tried to extort from him the knowledge of where he lived, and would have received either a stroke of the fist,--after which all earthly affairs would have become indifferent to him,--or he would have roused the suspicion of the giant and caused this,--that a new hiding-place would be found for the girl, this very night perhaps.

I did not act thus.

It suffices me to know that Ursus works near the Emporium, for a miller named Demas, the same name as that borne by thy freedman; now any trusted slave of thine may go in the morning on his track, and discover their hiding place.

I bring thee merely the assurance that, since Ursus is here, the divine Lygia also is in Rome, and a second news that she will be in Ostrianum to-night, almost certainly--" "In Ostrianum?
Where is that ?" interrupted Vinicius, wishing evidently to run to the place indicated.
"An old hypogeum between the Viae Salaria and Nomentana.