Tell him also that this has been voluntarily done by the Hebrew officers and men under the command of the Syrian Aarsu.

This very morning--Hosea will have heard the news from other sources--they offered sacrifices not only to Baal and Seth, their own gods, whom so many of you were ready to serve ere the accursed sorcerer, Mesu, seduced you, but also to Father Amon and the sacred nine of our eternal deities.

If he will do the same, we will rise hand in hand to the highest place, of that he may be sure--and well he merits it.

The obligation still due him I shall gratefully discharge in other ways, which must for the present remain secret.

But you may tell your uncle now from me that I shall find means to protect Nun, his noble father, when the vengeance of the gods and of Pharaoh falls upon the rest of your race.