Thereupon the dromedaries were forgotten, and, quite as unmindful of their riders, they turned off the road to the growing grass.
"Has Ilderim heard nothing more of the three men ?" asked Ben-Hur.
"What became of them ?" "Ah, yes, that was the cause of his coming to Simonides the day of which I was speaking.

Only the night before that day the Egyptian reappeared to him." "Where ?" "Here at the door of the tent to which we are coming." "How knew he the man ?" "As you knew the horses to-day--by face and manner." "By nothing else ?" "He rode the same great white camel, and gave him the same name--Balthasar, the Egyptian." "It is a wonder of the Lord's!" Ben-Hur spoke with excitement.
And Malluch, wondering, asked, "Why so ?" "Balthasar, you said ?" "Yes.

Balthasar, the Egyptian." "That was the name the old man gave us at the fountain today." Then, at the reminder, Malluch became excited.
"It is true," he said; "and the camel was the same--and you saved the man's life." "And the woman," said Ben-Hur, like one speaking to himself--"the woman was his daughter." He fell to thinking; and even the reader will say he was having a vision of the woman, and that it was more welcome than that of Esther, if only because it stayed longer with him; but no-- "Tell me again," he said, presently.

"Were the three to ask, 'Where is he that is to be King of the Jews ?'" "Not exactly.

The words were BORN TO BE KING OF THE JEWS.