This Helen of Troy, of whom ye speak, was nought but a vile adulteress, with a heart false and foul, by whose sin many died and Troy town was utterly destroyed.

Did'st dare think so, forsooth? To-morrow, belike, my lord Duke shall come, and mayhap shall bring the Duchess Helen in his trainto look upon the manner of thy dying" Now hereupon up started Beltane that his fetters clashed, and laughed so sudden, so fierce and harsh, that Raoul the esquire clapped hand to dagger and even Red Pertolepe started.

" "Palsdorf!was not that the name of the count or baron we heard them talking of at Coblentz?" said Helen to Amy, with a well-feigned air of uncertainty.

Elsie motioned her to sit in the place she had pointed to, and Helen at that moment entered the room.

All day long the din and thunder of battle had roared upon the plain; all day the Duchess Helen with Sir Hacon at her side had watched the eddying dust-clouds rolling now this way, now that, straining anxious eyes to catch the gleam of a white plume or the flutter of the blue banner amid that dark confusion.

Menelaus and Helen.]The meeting of Menelaus and Helen after the taking of Troy was naturally one of the great moments in the heroic legend.

So Mr. Bernard thanked Helen for her interest without the aid of the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet,the love labial,the limping consonant which it takes two to speak plain.

Two went on with the wounded lad; the rest remained, and chivalrously devoted themselves to Helen as a body-guard.

The old woman caught Helen by the hand and clung to it, as if in fear.

This supernatural element, being the thing which, if true, separates Helen from other women, and in a way redeems her, is for that reason exactly what Hecuba denies.

God's love, messires, would ye keep the glorious Helen without?" "Lord, she is goneshe and her ape-man both.

She at once took side with Helen against Dr. Portman when he cried out at the enormity of Pen's transgressions.

It may help the reader to gain some understanding of the anomalous nature of Elsie Venner, if we look with Helen into Mr. Bernard's opinions and feelings with reference to her, as they had shaped themselves in his consciousness at the period of which we are speaking.

About a week after this conversation, during which time the circus had moved from place to place, doing good business, Mrs. Watson, meeting Helen on the lot, said: "Who are Joe's new friends?

Who durst have stol'n fair Helen out of Greece

Now this child, Launcelot, was dearer to Queen Helen than all the world besides, for he was not only large of limb but so extraordinarily beautiful of face that I do not believe an angel from Paradise could have been more beautiful than he.

Returning to the house, I put aunt Helen through an exhaustive catechism concerning him.

Then she drew Helen towards her and led her softly out of the room.

"'Girl, girl'no, it isn't 'girl'" "Girlie?" murmured Helen under her breath.

"I have two problems on my hands nowthat and trying to learn how too many persons came to the circus this afternoon," and he told Helen about the extra tickets.