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factored a weapon very similar to an olden reaping knife . Armed with this weapon , they determined to attack their obdurate father , but at the moment of action the courage of the mighty band of brothers , with the exception of the youngest ,

failed them . Kronos , however , by a secret blow , deposed Uranus , and confined him in hell ; nevertheless , eventually and similarly to be himself deposed , and cast out of heaven by his son Zeus .

The Nemesis: A Tale Of The Days Of Trajan.

THE NEMESIS : A TALE OF THE DAYS OF TRAJAN .

JSy BHO . A . OXEAL HAVE , K 3 L , K . Gal ., Corresponding Member of the German Society , Leipzig ; Knight Templar , Scot ; Author of "The History of the Knights Templars ;" " Vara Queer ; " " Gatherings in Wanderings ; " " Songs and Ballads ; " "Poemata ; " "Legends of Edinburgh . ' " See ., § "c , $ -c . ; Poet Laureate of the Canongate , Kilwinning ; P . M . St . Stephens ; P . P . Z . of St . Andrews , B . A € hap . \ Sfc ; Sj-c . ( Continued from page 68 . )

CHAPTER XIX . CENNA ' S LEGACY . " Yes , Sir , he is dead , but he has left a very pretty legacy ¦¦ behind him . Look , you , it is a small book but curious ; a devil's book and may bring some to destruction . "

To that fatal banquet , which swept him from life , the unfortunate Cenna had brought his magnum opus , the account of the Cloaca Maxima , as well as other papers of equal importance . Balbus fell heir to them by right of might , Murenna and

the others being too horror struck by the fell tragedy played out before their eyes to pay much attention to the robbing of the dead . Balbus , while destroying all trace of their existence , by the death of the informer , struck a death blow at the existence of the Bacchanaliau society . Murenna buried himself in his own house , seldom

appearing m public , while tue others who had been present at Cenna ' s murder fled from Rome in terror of the consequences . Without leaders , the society dissolved , and the other members sought their pleasures in other channels . Balbus , with the

deed accomplished passed it from his mind . It had been successful , and that was all he cared for . But most eagerly did he examine the papers of his victim , in them he found a rich mine of wealth of fame aud he saw before him a grand vista open of

literary renown . Not alone had Cenna devoted his attention to the Cloaca Maxima and the early buildings of Rome , he had been a frequent visitor to the catacombs , and had prepared a sketch of certain portions he had explored . This paper rivetted Balbos ' s attention .

Cenna had entered the catacombs one day near the city , while examining the arches of the'A qua Claudia . His attention had long been given to them , but the clangers which were supposed to exist in them , had deterred him from their

exploration . This time however curiosity mastered fear , and he resolved to commence their exploration . The entrance by which he gained admittance was one by which the Christians were accustomed to descend to their chapels . Cenna , with caution

examined the entrance , and letting himself down found before him a long low passage , throug-h which he passed , till he came upon a kind of square from whence three other roads branched

off . He had a lamp with him , which he now lighted , and examined the passages . At the entrance to one of them , he found cut in the wall , a carefully cut cross , from which ran a deep groove the whole length of the passage , and at the other

end it was stopped by another deep cut cross . Carefully noting the passage by which he had gained entrance , he extinguished his lamp , and placing his hand in the groove marched along the branch , until he emerged upon another square ,

with four galleries running off from it . One of these bore a similar cross and groove , and following it , and others of a like character , he was stopped at length by the chapel .

Cenna , a keen intellect , saw something extremely suspicious in this , and although there was little to be discovered in the chapel itself , without he found many of the roads marked with crosses and with grooves running along the sides ,

branching off in all directions . Ultimately he examined each passage , taking them day by day , noting from whence they came , and where they stopped . Before however he could make any particular discovery , death stepped in , and Balbus heired this

fruits of his discovery . Balbus was well read in the past history , both of Rome and Judea , if he had an inclination at all in religious matters , it was to the Jewish faith , the faith of his fathers , for Balbus , who could trace his pedigree up to

the days of Adam , looked down in secret upon the Romans , who were to his race but a i ^ eop le of yesterday . Sceptic as he was on the matter of an after life , he believed firmly in the pre-eminence of the Jews , and his dreams of ambition were

coloured with bright hopes that he might be the chieftain to raise the fallen banner of Israel , and found a new Jerusalem on the Roman Empire . But it was politically , not spiritually he dreamed ;