Your word, Prince of Egypt." Seti looked at her standing before him so calmly with bowed head, and hands crossed upon her breast.

Then he looked at Userti, who wore a mocking smile upon her face.

She read the meaning of that smile as I did.

It was that she did not believe that he would allow this beautiful woman, who had saved his life, to risk her life for the sake of any or all the powers of heaven or hell.

For a little while he walked to and fro about the chamber, then he stopped and said suddenly addressing, not Merapi, but Userti: "Have your will, remembering that if this brave woman fails and dies, her blood is on your hands, and that if she triumphs and lives, I shall hold her to be one of the noblest of her sex, and shall make study of all this matter of religion.