“But where are the lights?”
At that moment, before Luke could answer, Lamia, who had been in the fore part of the vessel, came hastily aft, and disregarding the physician, heedless of the conversation on which he broke in, said hurriedly and in agitated tone:—
“The Imperial galley!”
CHAPTER VII.
THE FACE OF THE DEAD.
The Imperial galley!
Domitia leaped to her feet. Everything was forgotten in the one thought that before her, on the sea, floated the man who had caused the death of her father.
“Lucius I must see——”
He drew her forward, but at the same time checked her speech.