Chapter 16 IN THE HOUSE OF THE ACTOR.

Hardly had Eboracus conveyed Domitia out of the Forum into a place of safety, than a rush of people down the street threatened to drive him back in the direction whence he had come. The drifting mob, as it cascaded down, cried: "The Pr?torians are coming from their camp!"

It was so. Down the hill by the Tiburtine way marched a compact body of so