Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE GOLDEN HOPE

_A STORY OF THE TIME OF
KING ALEXANDER THE GREAT_

BY

ROBERT H. FULLER

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1905,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1905. Reprinted May, 1906.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

"_For what was all his war in Asia after the death of Philippus, but tempests, extreme heats, wonderful deep rivers, marvellous high mountains, monstrous beasts for greatness to behold, wild savage fashions of life, change and alteration of governors upon every occasion, yea treasons and rebellions of some? At the beginning of his voyage, Greece did yet lay their heads together, for the remembrance of the wars that Philippus made upon them: the towns gathered together: Macedonia inclined to some change and alteration: divers people far and near lay in wait to see what their neighbours would do: the gold and silver of Persia flowing in the orators' purses, and governors of the people did raise up Peloponnese: Philippus' treasure and coffers were empty, and the debts were great. In despite of all these troubles, and in the middest of his poverty, a young man, but newly come to man's estate, durst in his mind think of the conquest of Asia, yea of the empire of the whole world, with thirty thousand footmen and five thousand horse, ... howbeit he was furnished with magnanimity, with temperance, with wisdom, and valour: being more holpen in this martial enterprise, with that he had learned of his tutor Aristotle, than with that which his father Philippus had left him.... In Alexander's actions they see, that his valiantness is gentle, his gentleness valiant: his liberality, husbandry, his choler soon down, his loves temperate, his pastimes not idle, and his travels gracious. What is he that hath mingled feasting with wars, and military expeditions with sports? Who hath intermingled in the middest of his besieging of towns: and in the middest of skirmishes and fights, sports, banquets, and wedding songs? Who was ever more enemy to those that did wrong, nor more gracious to the afflicted? Who was ever more cruel to those that fought, or more just unto suppliants?_"

--NORTH'S _Plutarch_.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THREE FRIENDS MEET
II. WARNING FROM THE GODS
III. ARISTON LAYS A PLOT
IV. THE VOICE OF DEMOSTHENES
V. THE BANQUET
VI. SYPHAX EARNS HIS REWARD
VII. THE RESPONSE OF THE ORACLE
VIII. THE THUNDERBOLT FALLS
IX. THE DOOM OF THEBES
X. CHARES BARTERS HIS SWORD
XI. THAIS
XII. MENA READS A LETTER
XIII. THE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE
XIV. ACROSS THE HELLESPONT
XV. THAIS AND ARTEMISIA
XVI. IN THE CAMP OF THE MERCENARIES
XVII. THE TRAGEDY OF THE MARSH
XVIII. GREEK AND BARBARIAN
XIX. THE ROUT OF THE SATRAPS
XX. MENA MAKES A DISCOVERY
XXI. PHRADATES TRIUMPHS
XXII. THE VISION OF DANIEL, THE VICEROY
XXIII. IN THE WHIRLWIND'S TRACK
XXIV. THE GORDIAN KNOT
XXV. BESSUS COMES TO BABYLON
XXVI. THE GREAT KING IS ANGRY
XXVII. NATHAN KEEPS HIS WORD
XXVIII. BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY
XXIX. THE SLUICE GATE
XXX. LEONIDAS UNDERTAKES A MISSION
XXXI. ALEXANDER IS SURPRISED
XXXII. THE WORLD AT STAKE
XXXIII. THE CHESTNUT MARE
XXXIV. IN THE PAVILION OF THE QUEENS
XXXV. PHRADATES MAKES A WAGER
XXXVI. TYRE ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE
XXXVII. THE JEST OF KING AZEMILCUS
XXXVIII. MENA REVEALS A SECRET
XXXIX. JOEL BRINGS BAD NEWS
XL. THE GAP OF DEATH
XLI. PRINCE HUR'S COUNTERPLOT
XLII. A TRAITOR IN PURPLE
XLIII. THI KING TAKES HIS REVENGE
XLIV. THE REVOLT OF THE ISRAELITES
XLV. MOLOCH CLAIMS HIS SACRIFICE
XLVI. THE PASSING OF A GOD
XLVII. SYPHAX SQUARES HIS ACCOUNT
XLVIII. THAIS GIVES A FEAST
XLIX. CHARES FINDS REST
L. PROMISES FULFILLED
LI. AMID FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE

THE GOLDEN HOPE