CHAPTER XXVII.
A STRANGE HONEYMOON.
"There is one who will meet you at Thebes," said Hesperia before she parted with them. "Amongst the purest and most man-devoted of the immortals he is not the least. He can tell you much about those cities and nations, for he has studied them profoundly. His name amongst the Romans was Apollonius Tyaneus, of whom I see you have read."
Philip heard with a thrill of awe the name of this great moral reformer and mystic, who,' even in the days of Domitian, had solved the grand problem which has so troubled humanity, and who had conquered death, as his fearless words to the capricious and tyrannical royal madman proved: "Put me to death you cannot, for this the laws of fate will not permit."
"Who was this great man, Philip?" asked Adela, who had not paid much attention to her classics at school.
"Apollonius Tyaneus, at that period of his existence,
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