"Is it possible?"
"He calls the supreme council traitors."
"But."
"But from whom did he learn of the coming of Beroes, even of his interview with Mefres, Herhor, and Pentuer, in the temple of Set?"
The high priest Sem, seizing his head with both hands, walked up and down through the cell.
"Impossible!" said he. "Impossible! Has any one cast a spell over that young man? Perhaps the Phoenician priestess, whom he stole from the temple."
This consideration seemed to Mentezufis so apposite that he looked at Mefres. But the angry high priest would not be turned aside for an instant.
"Let us see," said he. "But first we must investigate and learn what the prince was doing day by day, after his return from the temple of Hator. He had too much freedom, too many relations with unbelievers and with enemies of Egypt. But Thou wilt help us, worthy Sem."
Because of this decision, the high priest Sem ordered to summon for the following day a solemn service at the temple of Ptah.
So they stationed on squares and at street comers, even in the fields, heralds of the priests, and called all the people with flutes and trumpets.