noon
Again the steward shook his head ; this vast , unexpected inheritance did not seem to make half so deep an impression upon the eccentric blind man as the news received a short time ago that his trivial debt to the goldsmith Chello was already settled . But Hermon must have dearly loved the friend to whom he owed this great change of fortune , and grief for him had cast joy in his immense new wealth completely into the shade . This conjecture was confirmed on the following morning , for the blind man had himself led to the Greek necropolis to offer sacrifices to the gods of the nether world and to think of his friend . When , soon after noon , the lessee of the royal bank appeared on the ship to offer him as many drachmae or talents as he might need for present use , he asked for a considerable sum to purchase a larger death-offering for his murdered friend . The next morning he went with the architect of the province to the scene of the conflagration , and had him mark the spot of ground on which he desired to erect to his Myrtilus a monument to be made in Alexandria . At sunset , leaning on the steward 's arm , he went to the Temple of Nemesis , where he prayed and commissioned the priest to offer a costly sacrifice to the goddess in his name . On the return home , Hermon suddenly stood still and mentioned to Gras the sum which he intended to bestow upon the blind in Tennis .