“How will you show me that, diver?”
“Though you speak strongly, yet will you act as the jealous act,” thought Sadyattes, “and as the fearful and the proud!” Aloud he said, “You have sent messages of love by swift horsemen to Meranes. None have come back to you.”
“I might know that the governor of the city would know that. Meranes saves his love words till he comes. I shall hear them falling, falling beside the fountain!”
“Nitetis sent also. He has sent love words back to Nitetis.”
“Ah!”
“Then she sent again to him. And with her love words went words of poison.”
“Against me?”
“Against you and against Alyattes.”
Aryenis laughed. “The Nile uncleanness!—But Meranes listened not!”
“Oh, Egypt is subtle, Aryenis!”