The prince is about to wreak his vengeance on the cruel husband when he is met by Erminia herself, who, owing to her maid's attentions, has recovered from the swoon Alcippus took for death.

If, however, the garrison made such a resistance as we believed they would, and then were finally overcome, the Indians being allowed to wreak vengeance until their thirst for blood was satisfied, then was it probable we would go to the stake with a goodly company and little chance of escape.

He predicted that one should come over the Alps and wreak vengeance upon the tyrants of Italy.

We have not yet done away with robbery and murder, but we have at least made private warfare illegal; we have arrayed public opinion against it to such an extent that the police-court usually makes short shrift for the misguided man who tries to wreak vengeance on his enemy.

And the happy Ithacans with songs and solemn sacrifices of praise to the gods celebrated the return of Ulysses: for he that had been so long absent was returned to wreak the evil upon the heads of the doers; in the place where they had done the evil, there wreaked he his vengeance upon them.

"Much as we condemn the excesses of the Belgians, still we must not wreak vengeance on the whole nation as a section of our Press demands.

Yes, they Men who are little given to sift and weigh Would wreak on us the passion of the moment.

The head and body were battered and bruised by some heavy stick or poker, almost past human shape, as if the murderer had wished to wreak some awful vengeance upon the body of his victim.

She had now come out of Persia to wreak her displeasure on the Christians, who had already felt the sharpness of her sword; and as she arrived near this assembled multitude, death was the first thing that met her eyes, but in a shape so perplexing, that she looked narrowly to discern what it was, and then spurred her horse towards the scene of action.

Moreover, [as for] Ariovistus, no sooner did he defeat the forces of the Gauls in a battle, which took place at Magetobria, than [he began] to lord it haughtily and cruelly, to demand as hostages the children of all the principal nobles, and wreak on them every kind of cruelty, if everything was not done at his nod or pleasure; that he was a savage, passionate, and reckless man, and that his commands could no longer be borne.

Melanthe, believing every thing he said on this occasion, was ready to burst with indignation; which impatient to give vent to, parted from her lover much sooner than she was accustomed, in order to wreak on the poor Louisa all that rage and malice could suggest.

It may be noted here that Sulla, whose calculated moderation was paying him wellthe more pleasantly because he knew that he could wreak his revenge afterwards at his leisurenever scrupled to employ every kind of subterfuge and lie.

One can hardly imagine anything that would be more difficult for a poor water-snake than to wreak vengeance upon a big, strong elk; and old Helpless pondered day and night without finding any solution.

Such were of course bitter against him, and needed only an opportunity to wreak their vengeance upon him.

He then called a great overgrown negro to hold her hands behind her while he should wreak his vengeance upon the poor servant.

"Ay, ay," returned Richard, again clearing his throat, and looking to the right and left fiercely, as if he were seeking some object on which to wreak his vengeance.

Marie was, however, in no mood for trifling, and she sternly bade him leave her; a command which he obeyed only to wreak upon his wife the consequences of his own mortification.

The custodian of the cathedral told us that during the night of terror the German wounded, lying in the cathedral, not realising the strength and beauty of the French character under adversity, feared, seeing the cathedral in flames, that the populace might wreak vengeance on them, and that it was exceedingly difficult to get them to leave the cathedral.

And wreak thy needful wrath on my resigned breast!

Today I will wreak my long-cherished vengeance upon him, and I will today gratify (the manes of)

Come not in power to wreak so wild a vengeance!

" "Give me uplet them wreak their bloody vengeance on my head!"

Robert characteristically looked around to see whom he could knock down on the occasion; but there was no one visible on whom to wreak their vengeance.

Mariuccia opened, and I knew by the sound of the stick on the bricks that the lame count had come to wreak his vengeance.

Nowhere was there a defiant eye or a glint of scorn on which he could wreak his wrath.

"If this thing keeps up much longer, I'll just be a wreck, that's all," groaned Laura, and almost immediately she fell asleep.

Then the boys bent down and began extricating the groaning thing from the wreck of something.

The boys had succeeded in removing the man from the wreckageone glance about them told the girls that the wreck had once been an aeroplaneand the man, who was elderly, lay quite still, looking up at them with sick eyes.

" "It's a miracle," said Teddy, who had joined her and was looking down at the wreck soberly, "that he ever came out alive.

He will alone wreck the rebel cause if he is given time.

He had known the company that bought her was getting near the rocks, but they had insured her heavily and there was something strange about the wreck.

If his supposition were correct, the wreck might be worth buying and one could, no doubt, buy her very cheap.

After weighing for some weeks all he could learn about the wreck on the African coast, Cartwright went to London and was carried up one morning to the second floor of an imposing office block.

" "Then, I expect you have made some calculations and know all about the efforts to float the wreck.

All the same, Mr. Morse did not altogether see why he wanted to buy the wreck.

"Personally, I felt from the beginning there was a mystery about the wreck.

Soon after his return he sent for Lister and told him about the wreck and his salvage plans.

"If you can float the wreck and bring her home, I expect some of the big salvage companies will offer you a post.

Why do you hope to lift the wreck when the salvage men could not?" Cartwright smiled.

He told her about the wreck, and smiled when he stated that Lister would have control.

Finding it necessary to go to London, he called on the gentleman from whom he had bought the wreck a short time ago.

I want you to make an extra effort, because" She paused and the blood came to her skin when she went on: "You see, it's important you should float the wreck and bring her home.

Cartwright sends me off to float the wreck, and if it's possible, I must make good.

CHAPTER II THE WRECK The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell.

He first repaired the damaged ships, freed the slaves that served on the triremes, and assigned the spare seamen, (many of whom when their vessels were destroyed in the wreck had dived and escaped by swimming) to Antony's fleet, which was short of men.

The wreck of the steamship Titanic, of the White Star Line, the newest and biggest and presumably the safest ship in the world, is the greatest marine disaster known in the history of ocean traffic.

Far as the eye could reach no spot of light broke the gray darkness; yet other ships could hear and read the cry for help, and, wheeling in their courses, they drove full speed ahead for the wreck.

Now and then he gave the ship's position in latitude and longitude as nearly as it could be estimated by her officers as she was carried southward by the current that runs swiftly in this northern sea, so that the rescuers could keep their prows accurately pointed toward the wreck.

And when the last crowded boat had come down and there was no possibility of removing one more human being from the wreck, there were still more than fifteen hundred men on her decks.

The conquerors pursued them a little way, and in the evening returned to the wreck, seizing the remainder of the enemy's vessels, and getting back some of their own, for they had themselves lost no less than fourscore islands in the engagement.