Should the Queen return triumphant, and find Caesarion in wrong paths--" "We must close them against him," exclaimed Dion.
"That the boy may not follow Barine ?" asked Archibius, shaking his head.

"I think we need feel no anxiety on that score.

He will doubtless eagerly desire to do so, but with him there is a wide gulf between the wish and its fulfilment.

Antyllus is differently constituted.

He would be quite capable of ordering a horse to be saddled, or the sails of a boat to be spread in order to pursue her--beyond the Cataract if necessary.