"Some one else sent you then?" said Boges becoming more attentive.
"Yes, some one else."
"Ah! the Egyptian has sent a message to her brother-in-law?"
"Who told you that?"
"Nitetis spoke to me about it. Here, give me what you have; I will give it to Bartja at once."
"I was not to give it to any one but the prince himself."
"Give it to me; it will be safer in my hands than in yours."
"I dare not."
"Obey me at once, or—"
At this moment the king came up. Boges thought a moment, and then called in a loud voice to the whip-bearers on duty at the palace-gate, to take the astonished boy up.