In three days we shall know what they may be." Then, without another word, Janees turned and left them.
"What was it that lay in the pool, Nurse ?" asked Tua.

"I saw nothing." "The shadow of a dead man, I think," answered Asti grimly.

"Some jealous god has looked upon this poor King whose crime is that he desires you, and therefore he must die.

Of a truth it goes ill with your lovers, O Star of Amen, and sometimes I wonder if one who is dear to me will meet with better fortune at those royal eyes of yours.

If ill befalls him I think that at the last I may learn to hate you, whom from the first I cherished." Now at the thought that she might bring death to Rames also, Tua's tears began to gather, and her voice choked in her throat.
"Say not such evil-omened words," she sobbed, "since you know well that if he is taken hence for whose sake I endure all these things, then I must follow him over the edge of the world.