"If so, will you not," said Paulus, "come and stay with us?"
"That is an engagement," said the Athenian, "provided some day you will all pay me a return visit at Athens."
"We'll exchange the tessera hospitalis on it," exclaimed Paulus.
Thus they parted on the moonlit road, Dionysius returning to Formiæ, and Paulus walking onward with long, rapid strides.
TO BE CONTINUED.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES.
BY HENRI LASSERRE.