REMARKABLE BEHAVIOR OF A BUST OF CÆSAR IN THE LAND OF THE SLOW MOVERS.
Ay, they were changed indeed; fated henceforth to people their beautiful island home with living statues.
For years in long flight sped away, till one century followed another, and yet the wondrous talent came back no more.
It was lost forever!
Long, long ago, too, the people forgot the story of their fathers.
It is kept alive in the hearts of a few chosen ones, and they hand it down, each quarter century, to younger keepers selected for the purpose.
To Antonius the secret had been thus confided.
And such was the tale he told to me!
With a light heart, now that its weight of doubt and uncertainty had been lifted from it, I bade Antonius farewell, and, followed by Bulger wended my way back to the abodes of the Slow Movers.