She heard me out, answering little, then said, "The business is very dangerous, and of its end I will not speak until I have heard the counsel of your great-uncle, the holy Tanofir.

Still, things having gone so far, it seems to me that boldness may be the best course, since the great King has his Grecian wars to deal with, and whatever he may say, cannot attack Egypt yet awhile.

Therefore if Peroa is able to overcome Idernes and his army he may cause himself to be proclaimed Pharaoh and make Egypt free if only for a time." "Such is my mind, Mother." "Not all your mind, Son, I think," she answered smiling, "for you think more of the lovely Amada than of these high policies, at any rate to-night.

Well, marry your Amada if you can, though I misdoubt me somewhat of a woman who is so lost in learning and thinks so much about her soul.

At least if you marry her and Egypt should become free, as it was for thousands of years, you will be the next heir to the throne as husband of the Great Royal Lady." "How can that be, Mother, seeing that Peroa has a son ?" "A vain youth with no more in him than a child's rattle.