I have slipped away; Hekt may come back at any moment, and if she sees that I have taken myself off I shall get a beating and nothing to eat." "Who is this horrible Hekt ?" asked Rameri indignantly.
"That Uarda can tell you by and by," said the little one hurriedly.

"Now only listen.

She laid me on my board in the cave, and threw a sack over me, and first came Nemu, and then another man, whom she spoke to as Steward.

She talked to him a long time.

At first I did not listen, but then I caught the name of Pentaur, and I got my head out, and now I understand it all.