The Physician Oribases.

[Calling out in the passage to the left.] Eutherius,—have you found him? Eutherius, Eutherius, where is Caesar?

Julian.

[Meeting him.] Here, here;—is it true, Oribases?

Oribases.

[Coming forward.] Incredible, inexplicable,—and yet true; they touch the bier, the priests read and pray over them, and they are healed; from time to time a voice proclaims: “Holy, holy, is the pure woman!”

Julian.

A voice proclaims——?

Oribases.

The voice of one invisible, my Caesar; a voice high up under the vaultings of the church——; no man knows whence it comes.