And then she remembered Korinna, whose fair, pale face had been strangely
lighted up by the lamp she carried; and, again, the Magian's assurance
that the souls of the departed were endowed with every faculty possessed
by the living, and that "those who knew" could see them and converse
with them.

Then Serapion had been right in saying this; and her hand trembled in her
lover's as she thought to herself that the danger which now threatened
Philip was estrangement from the living through intercourse with the
dead. Her own dead mother, perhaps, had floated past among these
wandering souls, and she grieved to think that she had neglected to look
for her and give her a loving greeting. Even Diodoros, who was not
generally given to silent meditation, had his own thoughts to pursue; and
so they walked on in silence till suddenly they heard a dull murmur of
voices. This startled them, and looking up they saw before them the
rocky cliffs in which the Egyptians long since, and now in later times
the Christians, had hewn caves and tombs. From the door of one of these,
only a few paces beyond where they stood, light streamed out; and as they
were about to pass it a large dog barked. Immediately on this a man came
out, and in a rough, deep voice asked them the pass-word. Diodoros,
seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a
risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. The dog flew
after them, barking loudly; and when the youth stooped to pick up a stone
to scare him off, the angry brute sprang on him and dragged him down.

Melissa screamed for help, but the gruff voice angrily bade her be
silent. Far from obeying him, the girl shouted louder than ever; and
now, out of the entrance to the cave, close behind the scene of the
disaster, came a number of men with lamps and tapers. They were the same
daimons whose song she had heard in the street; she could not be