cabinet. He found the license of departure as he expected; and after waiting for a time returned into the bedroom. But the emperor was still awake. There he lay, his large savage eyes glaring in the light of the lamp, which was burning near him. Lucius, who was standing behind a curtain near the door of the cabinet, was compelled to wait in perfect stillness, feeling that the least noise on his part would consign him to instant torture and death. Several times was he tempted to regret that he had omitted the opportunity of securing his return, which the dagger of the emperor afforded him. Sometimes he felt inclined to rush on the monster, and even now to attempt his destruction. The minutes which he had to wait seemed the longest which in his whole life he had ever known by such a torture as this, he thought, an eternity might be coined out of a single hour. Every second seemed to increase the danger. After the steps which had been taken, it was impossible to go back in the design. Yet Constantine, he feared, would despair of his appearance, and perhaps return to the palace, to escape suspicion. And then all the hopes which he had cherished, and which seemed likely to be cut off, chased one another through his mind; his distant home-his walks on the free hills of his happy country—his mother's kiss his father's blessing-the great truths of which he had obscurely heard, and which he was now ready to believe would so mightily conduce to

his happiness. His mind, wearied with such thoughts began at length to recoil upon the overtasked powers of his body. He had been watching painfully ever since noon-his very excitement had fatigued him: the hot atmosphere of the room increased his lassitude. That sleep, which the emperor vainly courted, seemed to drop upon him its Lethæan dews. Yet if he moved, all was lost. In this painful struggle did he stand for two hours. But at length, O happiness,-the glaring eye, which he watched as the weary shepherd does the orb of day, began to grow dim. And now its pent-house gradually descended. Galerius slept. With tenfold caution the young Briton crept again across the apartment; and not till he replaced the panel which concealed his passage, did the sleeper give signs of being disturbed. That sound startled him. He rose, and called out. But Lucius was now in safety. As nothing was to be seen, the alarm subsided. After waiting a few minutes, to prevent its recurrence, he trod safely, yet gently, along the secret passage; and the hidden door once more let him forth into the streets of Nicomedia. A few paces from the place of meeting he found Constantine, almost as anxious as himself. A hasty recognition assured them that all was right.

The danger was now over. Long before the emperor arose on the following day, they were out of the reach of pursuit. What afterwards happened, their speedy passage across Thrace, - - their safe

arrival in Gaul,-the joy with which Constantius received his son at Boulogne,-his subsequent elevation to the imperial throne at York, is matter of public history. Such was the last flight of Constantine.

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