Sardou's Cleopatra — page 111: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

96 SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. — she had feared to see there she knew not what, she handed the message to Cleopatra. Upon the papyrus were these words: “Queen, Antony deceives you, and you await him in vain.” As Cleopatra read, the color forsook her cheeks and she seemed about to fall, but in another mo- ment she had recovered herself, and in cold, meas- ured tones she said to Kephren, who had returned from his fruitless quest. “In twenty-four hours, produce before me the man who fired that arrow, or your head shall pay the penalty. Go!” With heavy step, Kephren, followed by his Ethiopians, left the room. ‘To have incurred the displeasure of his royal mistress was worse than death itself to the captain of the guards, who lived but in the sunshine of her favor. As he vanished, Charmian entered from an op- posite door, bearing the crown for which she had been sent. Knowing nothing of what had occurred, she exclaimed, gayly: “Here is the crown, the evoker of precious ) | memories. Iras, help me to But Cleopatra waved her back. (E(e) ae a ‘COMIC 200 ‘Ss