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The king exchanged a look of intelligence with Phanes, and asked: "Why did not you keep the girl longer with you?" "When she had received the ear-rings I, as priest, thought it more suitable to send such a young girl away from my house, and to put her in a position to earn her own living." "Has she seen your brother since she has been grown up?" "Yes, my King.
Phanes was radiant with delight; Croesus full of care and thought. "Have you duly reflected," said the latter, "on the burning brand that you have just flung out into the world?" "It is only children and fools that act without reflection," was the answer. "You forget those who are deluded by passion." "I do not belong to that number." "And yet revenge is the most fearful of all the passions."
They all then left the hall, and Cambyses, summoning his dressers, proceeded for the first time to exchange his mourning garments for the splendid royal robes. Croesus and Phanes went into the green and pleasant garden lying on the eastern side of the royal palace, which abounded in groves of trees, shrubberies, fountains and flower-beds.
As soon as Phanes heard this he warned the doomed men, who at once, instead of sailing to join the Persian forces, returned to Samos and attempted to overthrow Polykrates. They were defeated, however, on land, and escaped to Sparta to ask help against the tyrant.
The Athenian bounded lightly from the boat, the Spartan following with a heavier, firmer tread. Aristomachus had a wooden leg, but his step was so firm, even when compared with that of the light-footed Phanes, that it might have been thought to be his own limb. The garden of Rhodopis was as full of sound, and scent and blossom as a night in fairy-land.
The next morning, as usual, what had been resolved on in intoxication was reconsidered by sober heads; after several opinions had been given, Phanes asked permission to speak, and spoke I should think for an hour. But how well! It was as if every word he said came direct from the gods. He has learnt our language in a wonderfully short time, but it flowed from his lips like honey.
He received the strangers with charming politeness and asked in what way he could be of use to them, on which Bartja, having first convinced himself that no unwished for listeners were present, gave him the roll he had received from Phanes at parting.
I think we had better separate now: you've heard the best, and have something to dream about What, you will not? Then, in the name of Mithras, I must go on, though it should make my heart bleed. "I'll begin with the king. As long as Phanes was in Babylon, he seemed to forget his grief for Nitetis. "The Athenian was never allowed to leave him. They were as inseparable as Reksch and Rustem.
Had Phanes been murdered in Egypt, this hour might have seen our sons executed." And as he said this he embraced Hystaspes; both shared one feeling; their sons had been as dead and were now alive.
Phanes began: "When Rhodopis was a little child playing with her companions on the Thracian sea-shore, she was stolen by some Phoenician mariners, carried to Samos, and bought by Iadmon, one of the geomori, or landed aristocracy of the island. The little girl grew day by day more beautiful, graceful and clever, and was soon an object of love and admiration to all who knew her.
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