"Thou wilt go to Sarah."
"I understand."
"Tell her father that I will give him land outside Memphis."
"I understand. Thou wilt have her to-morrow."
After this conversation Tutmosis withdrew to the troops marching behind the suite, and vanished.
Almost opposite the ravine along which the army had passed in the morning, some tens of steps from the road, stood a tamarind-tree which, though old, was not large. At this point a halt was mad by the guard which had preceded the suite.
"Shall we meet scarabs again?" asked Ramses, with a laugh.
"We shall see," answered Herhor.
They looked; on the slender tree a naked man was hanging.
"What does this mean?" asked the heir, with emotion.