The Senate would take a terrible revenge if he were murdered, but what can they do if wild beasts fall on their plenipotentiary, and tear him to pieces ?" "Grand! splendid!" cried Euergetes, springing again to his feet, and opening his large eyes with radiant surprise and delight, as if heaven itself had opened before them, revealing the sublime host of the gods feasting at golden tables.
"You are a great man, Eulaeus, and I shall know how to reward you; but do you know of such wild beasts as we require, and do they know how to conduct themselves so that no one shall dare to harbor even the shadow of a suspicion that the wounds torn by their teeth and claws were inflicted by daggers, pikes or spearheads ?" "Be perfectly easy," replied Eulaeus.

"These beasts of prey have already had work to do here in Memphis, and are in the service of the king--" "Aha! of my gentle brother!" laughed Euergetes.

"And he boasts of never having killed any one excepting in battle--and now--" "But Philometor has a wife," interposed Eulaeus; and Euergetes went on.
"Aye, woman, woman! what is there that a man may not learn from a woman ?" Then he added in a lower tone: "When can your wild beasts do their work ?" "The sun has long since risen; before it sets I will have made my preparations, and by about midnight, I should think, the deed may be done.

We will promise the Roman a secret meeting, lure him out to the temple of Serapis, and on his way home through the desert--" "Aye, then,--" cried the king, making a thrust at his own breast as though his hand held a dagger, and he added in warning: "But your beasts must be as powerful as lions, and as cautious-as cautious, as cats.

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