Rome.

[1] The large central "living-room" of a Roman palace.

[2] The Palmyreans built great tower-tombs, beautiful in
architecture and adornment, the ruins of which still stand on the
hill slopes overlooking the old city. These they called their
"long homes," and you will find the word used in the same sense
in Ecclesiastes xii., 5.


Hatred, boys and girls, is a very ugly as it is a very headstrong
fault; but as there is a good side even to a bad habit, so there
is a hatred which may rise to the heighth of a virtue. Hatred of
vice IS virtue; hatred of tyranny is patriotism. It is this which
has led the world from slavery to freedom, from ignorance to
enlightenment, and inspired the words that have found immortality
alike above the ashes of Bradshaw the regicide and of Jefferson
the American. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

But how could a fatherless boy and girl, away off on the edge of
an Arabian desert, hope to resist successfully the mighty power
of Imperial Rome? The story of their lives will tell.

If there are some people who are patriots, there are others who
are poltroons, and such a one was Hairan, the elder brother of
young Odhainat, when, succeeding to his dead father's wealth and
power, he thought less of Roman tyranny than of Roman gold.

"Revenge ourselves on their purses, my brother, and not on their