Crossword-Solution: TARPEIA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Arthur and the Sword 204 Tarpeia 208 The Buckwheat 210 The Judgment of Midas 211 Why the Sea is salt 213 Billy Beg and his Bull 221 The Little Hero of Haarlem 233 The Last Lesson 238 The Story of Christmas 243 THE CHILD-MIND; AND HOW TO SATISFY IT A short List of Books in which the Story-teller will find Stories not too far from the Form in which they are needed 247 INTRODUCTION Not long ago, I chanced to open a magazine at a story of Italian life which dealt with a curious popular custom.

TARPEIA There was once a girl named Tarpeia, whose father was guard of the outer gate of the citadel of Rome.

Tarpeia used to see the Sabine soldiers when she went to draw water from the public well, for that was outside the gate.

When it was perfectly dark and still, Tarpeia stole from her bed, took the great key from its place, and silently unlocked the gate which protected the city.

But Tarpeia, daughter to the captain, coveting the golden bracelets she saw them wear, betrayed the fort into the Sabines' hands, and asked, in reward of her treachery, the things they wore on their left arms.