. The sorceress of Rome. tagonist spoke. Then approaching the baron,Eckhardt whispered one word into his ear. Vitelozzos cheeksturned to leaden hues and, trembling like a whipped cur, he 26 THE PAGEANT IN THE NAVONA sltink away. The crowds, upon witnessing the nobles dismay,broke into loud cheers, some even went so far as to kiss the hemof Eckhardts mantle. Shaking himself free of the despised rabble whose numbershad been a hundred times sufficient to snatch his prey fromVitelozzo and his entire clan, Eckhardt continued upon hisway, wondering whom he had saved from certain death, andwhom, as h
. The sorceress of Rome. tagonist spoke. Then approaching the baron,Eckhardt whispered one word into his ear. Vitelozzos cheeksturned to leaden hues and, trembling like a whipped cur, he 26 THE PAGEANT IN THE NAVONA sltink away. The crowds, upon witnessing the nobles dismay,broke into loud cheers, some even went so far as to kiss the hemof Eckhardts mantle. Shaking himself free of the despised rabble whose numbershad been a hundred times sufficient to snatch his prey fromVitelozzo and his entire clan, Eckhardt continued upon hisway, wondering whom he had saved from certain death, andwhom, as he thought, from dishonour. The procession ofthe New Vestals had disappeared in the haze of the the chariot and its mysterious inmate nota trace was to beseen. Without heeding the comments upon his bravery,tmconscious that two eyes had followed his every step, since heleft the imperial palace, Eckhardt slowly proceeded upon hisway, until he fotmd himself at the base of the Palatine. CHAPTER III ON THE PALATINE. HE moon was rising over thedistant Alban hills, when Eck-hardt began his ascent. Now andthen, he paused on a spot, whichoffered a particularly strikingview of the city, reposing in thefading light of day. Wo soundbroke the solemn stillness, savethe tolling of convent-bells onremote Aventine, or the sombrechant of pilgrims before some secluded Shrine. Like the ghost of her former self, Rome seemed to stretchinterminably into the ever deepening purple haze. Colossal watch-towers, four-cornered, massive, with twin-like steeples and crenelated ramparts, dominated the view onall sides. Their shadows fell afar from one to another. Hereand there, conspicuous among the houses, loomed up thewondrous structures of old Rome, sometimes singly, sometimesin thickly set groups. Beyond the walls the aqueducts pursuedtheir Icng and sinuous path-ways through the distant Alban hills began to shroud their imdulatingsummits in the slowly rising mists of a
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