"The full moon will make it damnably light," replied the father, "but they will scarcely venture to assail the right of asylum, and the ships anchored according to regulation at Tanis, with a cargo of wood from Sinope.

Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights.
Still, I should not like to decide anything positively about the morrow until news came from Labaja." "You will find me, whatever happens," Hanno declared after his father had ceased speaking.

Old Tabus exchanged a swift glance with her son, and Satabus said: "He is his own master.

If I am obliged to go--which may happen--then, my girl, you must be content with the youth.

Besides, you are better suited to him than to the graybeard." He shook hands with Ledscha as he spoke, and Hanno accompanied her to her boat.
At first he was silent, but as she was stepping into the skiff he repeated his promise of meeting her here the following night.
"Very well," she answered quickly.