"What have you here, Amyntas?" he asked.
"Three men who seemed to be wandering about the Country," Amyntas replied. "They are Greeks, but they refuse to give any account of themselves excepting to Alexander."
One of the three prisoners, short and strong of build, stood forward and saluted. Alexander looked hard at him and then at the other two. His face cleared and he laughed aloud.
"Order a halt," he said. "Let the men rest and eat. Leave the prisoners to me."
He gave his horse to a groom and led the way to a wide-spreading oak tree a short distance from the road.
"I thought you had been either killed or captured," he said to the prisoners. "Leonidas, what have you learned?"
"Everything," the Spartan replied.
"How many soldiers has Memnon?" the young king asked.
"Twenty thousand," was the reply.
"Will they fight?" Alexander inquired.