Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain

"In a physical ecstasy he spoke out that which clamored at his lips." Page 44 NICANOR TELLER OF TALES A STORY OF ROMAN BRITAIN BY C. BRYSON TAYLOR AUTHOR OF "IN THE DWELLINGS OF THE WILDERNESS" HAVING PICTURES AND DESIGNS BY TROY AND MARGARET WEST KINNEY CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1906 link to original decorative page Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1906 Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England All rights reserved Published April 28, 1906 Typography by The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Presswork by The Lakeside Press, Chicago, U.S.A. C. H. B. To you, whose love did come And oft did sing to me, When I was working in the furrows. CONTENTS PAGE THE MANTLE OF MELCHIOR 1 THE GARDEN OF DREAMS 59 PAWNS AND PLAYERS 119 THE LORD'S DAUGHTER AND THE ONE WHO WENT IN CHAINS 207 THE NIGHT AND THE DAWNING 295 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "In a Physical Ecstasy He Spoke Out That Which Clamored At His Lips." [Page 44] Frontispiece "'Were I That Woman, I Should have Wanted to Love Him.'" [Page 85] 72 "'You Sent For Me, Lady Varia?'" [Page 152] 176 "Half a Dozen Young Beauties had Taken Possession—Girls of the Haughtiest Blood in Britain." [Page 254] 254 "The Sight Burst Upon Him in All Its Hideousness,—Where had Been the Stately Mansion of His Lord." [Page 344] 364 CHARACTERS EUDEMIUS, a Roman lord living in Britain VARIA, his daughter LIVINIUS, a Roman citizen, a boyhood friend of Eudemius MARIUS, his son, of the Roman legions in Gaul [Guests of Eudemius] MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the Saxon Shore AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida FELIX, his son CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen [Roman girls, daughters of the guests of Eudemius] JULIA NIGIDIA PAULA GRATIA NERISSA, nurse to Varia HITO, master of the household of Eudemius CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney [Inmates of her house] SADA, a Saxon EUNICE, a Greek ELDRIS, a Briton, a convert to Christianity WARDO, a Saxon, a slave in the house of Eudemius VALERIUS, a Roman, a soldier of fortune TOBIAS, a Hebrew, a worker in ivory RATHUMUS, a British peasant, bound to the soil SUSANNA, a Hebrew woman, his wife NICANOR, a story-teller, their son WULF, the Red, a Saxon free-lance CEAWLIN, a Saxon chieftain FATHER AMBROSE, of the Christian church NICODEMUS, the One-Eyed, a British freedman MYLEIA, his wife MARCUS, a slave in the house…