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For when they are in retreat we will fall on them and destroy them, and declare you, O Prince, Pharaoh of Egypt, though what will happen afterwards I do not know." When they heard this all gasped. Only Amada whispered, "Well said!" and Bes clapped his big hands softly in the Ethiopian fashion. "A bold counsel," said Peroa, "and one on which I must have the night to think.
Here is a pretty tangle, Shabaka, and rather would I be without all that gold and those priceless pearls than have the task of its unravelling." Before I could answer and explain all the truth to her, the curtain was swung aside and through it came a messenger from the Prince Peroa, who bade me come to eat with him at once at the palace, since he must see me this night.
"These over-learned women are strange fish to catch and hold, and too much soul is like too much sail upon a boat when the desert wind begins to blow across the Nile. Well, do not let us blame her or Bes, or Peroa who is already anxious for his dynasty and would rather that Amada were a priestess than your wife, or even the goddess Isis, who no doubt is anxious for her votaries.
"And I think, my son, it was Bes who told Peroa and his guests that he and not you had given the King her name, which you do not seem to have denied. Well, doubtless both of you are to blame for foolishness, no more, since well I know that you would have died ten times over rather than buy your life at the price of the honour of the Lady of Egypt.
The Easterns laughed when they saw us coming down the slope, for they thought that we were mad and that they would kill us every one, believing as they did that Peroa had no other army. When we were within bowshot we began to shoot, though sparingly, for but few arrows were left. Galled by our archery they marshalled their ranks to charge us again.
"Let him go," said Peroa, and the man rose, rubbing himself and weeping in his pain. "Now, Butler," he went on, "return to your master with a grateful heart, since you have been spared much that you deserve. Say to him that he cannot steal the Signet, but that if he is wise he will obey it, since otherwise his fate may be worse than yours, and to all his servants say the same.
I pray you, O Prince, that I may be given another cup." So a new goblet was brought to him, Peroa trying to pass the matter off as a jest by appealing to me to tell the story of the cup. Then I said while all listened, "O Prince, the most high Satrap is mistaken.
Then he turned his back upon the prince, as one does on an inferior, and walked away, accompanied by the herald. When they were gone and the doors had been shut, Peroa spoke in a voice that was thick with fury, saying, "Hearken, all of you, to the words of the writing." Then he read it. "From the King of kings, the Ruler of all the earth, to Peroa, one of his servants in the Satrapy of Egypt,
"Look, O Prince," he said, "you may have noted last night, when that man entered the hall, that there hung about his neck this chain to which was tied a silver key." "I noted it," said Peroa. "Then ask him, O Prince, where is the key now." "What is that to you, Dwarf?" broke in the man. "The key is my mark of office as chief butler to the High Satrap. Must I always bear it for your pleasure?"
"Then, O King, it is of little use for me to match myself against you, seeing that I have met men who can shoot better than I do, or, since in the East all must speak nothing but the truth, not being liars as the dead prince said we Egyptians are, one man." "Who was that man, Shabaka?" "The Prince Peroa, O King." The King frowned as though the name displeased him, then answered,
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