Sardou's Cleopatra — page 138: what you’re looking at

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

SARDOU’S CLEOPATRA. A iee’ 123 Faster and faster gallops the good horse, closer and closer approaches the messenger. ‘The pal- ace of Rameses is in sight, but none upon the roof has as yet perceived him. Suddenly the clatter of hoofs rings faintly out upon the air. With a bound, the queen leaps to her feet, and, followed by Charmian and Iras, rushes to the edge of the parapet. . “Look! Charmian! See Iras!” she cried, ex- ultantly. “A horseman! A horseman! The gods be praised! ‘The messenger at last!” Breathlessly, they watched the onward gallop of the horse until he was close at hand. Then Cleopatra cried to the captain of the guard, who had remained at his station: “Go! Kephren! Go! Meet him! Bring him at once into my presence!” The horseman had galloped around to the other side of the palace, where the courtyard was, and was lost to view. In feverish excitement, the queen swept to and fro upon the roof, like a caged lioness hungry for the food which had been long delayed, until the sound of hurried footsteps was heard upon the stone steps of the staircase. Then she stopped — ‘comicbooks (Efe)