"Go to him, offer him your hand, beg him to be less severe, and perhaps he will let you remain." Rameri answered only "No." But that "No" was so decided that all who knew him understood that it was final.
Before the sun set he had left the school.

Ameni gave him his blessing; he told him that if he himself ever had to command he would understand his severity, and allowed the other scholars to accompany him as far as the Nile.

Pentaur parted from him tenderly at the gate.
When Rameri was alone in the cabin of his gilt bark with his tutor, he felt his eyes swimming in tears.
"Your highness is surely not weeping ?" asked the official.
"Why ?" asked the prince sharply.
"I thought I saw tears on your highness' cheeks." "Tears of joy that I am out of the trap," cried Rameri; he sprang on shore, and in a few minutes he was with his sister in the palace.
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