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 'Which House?' said Leo angrily, for he hated all the Houses equally.

'You are Gods, you should know,' said the man. 'We have lived together and loved one another, and I have left a good farm for my son, What have I to complain of except that I still live?'

As he was bending over his wife's baly there came a whistling through the air, and he started and tried to run away, crying, 'It is the arrow of the Archer. Let me live a little longer—only a little longer!' The arrow struck him and he died. Leo looked at the Girl and she looked at him, and both were puzzled.

'He wished to die," said Leo. ' He said that he wished to die, and when Death came he tried to run away. He is a coward.'

'No, he is not,' said the Girl; '1 think I feel what he felt. Leo, we must learn more about this for their sakes.'

'For their sakes,' said Leo, very loudly.

'Because we are never going to die,' said the Girl and Leo together, still more loudly,

'Now sit you still here, darling wife, said Leo, 'while I go to the Houses whom we hate, and learn how to make these men and women live as we do.'

'And love as we do,' said the Girl.

'I do not think they need to be taught that,' said Leo, and he strode away very angry, with his lion-skin swinging from his shoulder, till he came to the House where the Scorpion lives in the darkness, brandishing his tail over his back.

'Why do you trouble the children of men?" said Leo, with his heart between his teeth.