beautiful. Give people a love for beauty and a respect for
health, Miss Morris, and the result is going to be, what they
once had here, the best art and the greatest writers and
satirists and poets. The same audience that applauded
Euripides and Sophocles in the open theatre used to cross the
road the same day to applaud the athletes who ran naked in the
Olympian games, and gave them as great honor. I came here
once on a walking tour with a chap who wasn't making as much
of himself as he should have done, and he went away a changed
man, and became a personage in the world, and you would never
guess what it was that did it. He saw a statue of one of the
Greek gods in the Museum which showed certain muscles that he
couldn't find in his own body, and he told me he was going to
train down until they did show; and he stopped drinking and
loafing to do it, and took to exercising and working; and by
the time the muscles showed out clear and strong he was so
keen over life that he wanted to make the most of it, and, as
I said, he has done it. That's what a respect for his own
body did for him."

The carriage stopped at the hotel on one side of the public
square of Athens, with the palace and its gardens blocking one
end, and yellow houses with red roofs, and gay awnings over
the cafes, surrounding it. It was a bright sunny day, and the
city was clean and cool and pretty.

"Breakfast?" exclaimed Miss Morris, in answer to Carlton's
inquiry; "yes, I suppose so, but I won't feel safe until I
have my feet on that rock." She was standing on the steps of
the hotel, looking up with expectant, eager eyes at the great