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after all, may not the mission on which he has started be a mission of deception ? May not Akiba in his early life have been deceived ? And, if so, may not he Simeon be, in fact, although innocently, a son of lies ? It is true, that the Eoman leader who is now opposing him is only Tinnius Eufus of Britain, who has never before led a body of troops in all his boisterously merry life. And how shall such a leader cope with the conqueror of Valerius, once the trusted heutenant of Trajan? Still the ...soldiers are Eoman, the defences are strong, and the stake momentous. Such balancing of sentiments, so different in kind, is a new task for Simeon, and binds him more closely and firmly than ever to himself and to silence. He adds to the doubting side of his thoughts the remembrance most painful of all, that the coins of the king are as refuse of coinage in his own royal 206 THE SON OF A STAR kingdom. Goscius, the treasurer of Leviathan ' herself, would not accept the coins except as things that should be kept because they are curious and may remain in history as marking the epoch of a crowned king who never really reigned.
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