But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him.
Only his sister was now missing, but they would know how to find her.
"Possibly," Philip replied, coldly.

"As justice is blind, Injustice has no doubt all the sharper eyes." "Well said," laughed the Egyptian.

"A pinch of the salt which they give you at the Museum with your porridge--for nothing." Argutis had witnessed this scene; and when, half an hour later, the men-at-arms had left the house without discovering Melissa's hiding-place, he informed her that Alexander had, as they feared, given himself up of his own free-will to procure Heron's release; but the villains had kept the son, without liberating the father.

Both were now in prison, loaded with chains.

The slave had ended his tale some minutes, and Melissa still stood, pale and tearless, gazing on the ground as though she were turned to stone; but suddenly she shivered, as if with the chill of fever, and looked up, out through the windows into the garden, now dim in the twilight.