His command is that you come to him, that together you may flee away out of Egypt to a land where you will both be safe until all these troubles are finished.' "'How know I that you of the veiled face are a true messenger ?' I asked.
'Give me a sign.' "Then he held out to me that scarabaeus of lapis-lazuli which your Highness gave to me far away in the land of Goshen, the same that you asked back from me as a love token when we plighted troth, and you gave me your royal ring, which scarabaeus I had seen in your robe when you drove away with Ana." "I lost it on our journey to the Sea of Reeds, but said nothing of it to you, Ana, because I thought the omen evil, having dreamed in the night that Ki appeared and stole it from me," whispered the Prince to me.
"'It is not enough,' I answered.

'This jewel may have been thieved away, or snatched from the dead body of the Prince, or taken from him by magic.' "The cloaked man thought a while and said, 'This night, not an hour ago, Pharaoh and his chariots were overwhelmed in the Sea of Reeds.

Let that serve as a sign.' "'How can this be ?' I answered, 'since the Sea of Reeds is far away, and such tidings cannot travel thence in an hour.

Get you gone, false tempter.' "'Yet it is so,' he answered.
"'When you prove it to me, I will believe, and come.' "'Good,' he said, and was gone.
"Next day a rumour began to run that this awful thing had happened.

It grew stronger and stronger, until all swore that it had happened.