She did not spare herself a single word, and finally she murmured to herself: "She can spoil every thing.

For Mena's sake she will sacrifice me and the whole world; Mena and Rameses are one, and if she discovers what we are plotting she will betray us without a moment's hesitation.

Hitherto all has gone on without her seeing it, but to-day something has been unsealed in her--an eye, a tongue, an ear, which have hitherto been closed.

She is like a deaf and dumb person, who by a sudden fright is restored to speech and hearing.

My favorite child will become the spy of my actions, and my judge." She gave no utterance to the last words, but she seemed to hear them with her inmost ear; the voice that could speak to her thus, startled and frightened her, and solitude was in itself a torture; she called the dwarf, and desired him to have her litter prepared, as she intended going to the temple, and visiting the wounded who had been sent home from Syria.
"And the handkerchief for the Regent ?" asked the little man.
"It was a pretext," said Katuti.