Only Amada kept her seat and looked at me.
"You lie!" I cried, "and were it not for your safe-conduct I would kill you for the lie." "I lie, do I ?" sneered Idernes.

"Speak then, you who were present, and tell this noble company whether I lie," and he pointed to the hawk-eyed lord.
"He does not lie," said the Captain.

"I was in the Court of the Great King and heard yonder Shabaka purchase pardon by promising to hand over his cousin, the lady Amada, to the King.

The pearls were entrusted to him as a gift to her and I see she wears them.

The gold also of which mention has been made was to provide for her journey in state to the East, or so I heard.