At the least she has never been quite the same since, and I have thought it wise to make her swear by an oath, which I know she will never break, that now we are one she will not attempt to separate herself from me while we both have life." "Did he wish her to go away with him, Prince ?" "I do not know.

She never told me so.

Still I am sure that had he come with his evil talk before that day when you returned from Tanis, she would have gone.

Now I hope that there are reasons that will keep her where she is." "What then did he say, Prince ?" "Little beyond what he had already said to you, that great troubles were about to fall on Egypt.

He added that he was sent to save me and mine from these troubles because I had been a friend to the Hebrews in so far as that was possible.