Begin in the library; then the sleeping-rooms; this chamber next; the kitchen last of all.

Send Hiram to the stables to except three good camels from the herd for our use.

Let Momus look to the baggage.

Where is Keturah ?" A woman servant hastening after a line of men bearing a great divan, picking up the draperies and pillows that had dropped, stopped and salaamed to her master.
"Is our apparel ready ?" he asked.
"Prepared, master," was the response.
"Then send hither--" But at that moment a man-servant dressed in the garb of a physician hastened into the chamber.

Without awaiting the notice of his master he hurried up and whispered in his ear.
Costobarus' face grew instantly grave.
"How near ?" he asked anxiously.
"In the next house--but a moment since.