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THE sudden catastrophe which had, as it were, riven the very bonds of / society, and left prisoner and jailer alike free, had soon rid Calenus / of the guards to whose care the praetor had consigned him. And when the / darkness and the crowd separated the priest from his attendants, he / hastened with trembling steps towards the temple of his goddess. As he / crept along, and ere the darkness was complete, he felt himself suddenly / caught by the robe, and a voice muttered in his ear:
'Hist! -- Calenus! -- an awful hour!'