Fifty--oh! it seemed an age.
At length sixty fell from his lips.

He waited a while and all watched the Prince, not doubting but that he would fall dead.

But instead he turned to Kohath and asked quietly if this ordeal was now finished, as he desired to make an offering to the temple, which he had been invited to visit, and begone.
"Our God has given his answer," said Jabez.

"Accept it, men of Israel.
What this Prince did he did by chance, not of design." They turned and went without a word, and after I had laid the offering, no mean one, in the appointed place, we followed them.
"It would seem that yours is no gentle god," said the Prince to Kohath, when at length we were outside the temple.
"At least he is just, your Highness.

Had it been otherwise, you who had violated his sanctuary, although by chance, would ere now be dead." "Then you hold, Priest, that Jahveh has power to slay us when he is angry ?" "Without a doubt, your Highness--as, if our Prophets speak truth, I think that Egypt will learn ere all be done," he added grimly.
Seti looked at him and answered: "It may be so, but all gods, or their priests, claim the power to torment and slay those who worship other gods.