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200 is abundance of gold and jewels. Meet me at daybreak in the same place in ten days."

He kissed her hand and said—

"I return to my people to set the city in order."

And without further farewell he entered the car and disappeared.

Some peasants found Daphne and took her into the city.

The plague had vanished, and she found that many friends and companions had survived. When questioned as to her journey, she said simply that the vessel had been wrecked, and that she alone had been saved, and after much toil and suffering she had been restored to Athens by a man of Grecian birth, who wished to take her to wife. She showed the treasures in token of the truth of her words.