Naturally they will, next year, choose Pentaur, set him at liberty--and I shall be laughed at." "Well considered!" said aid Hekt.
"I have taken counsel with myself, with Katuti, and even with Nemu," continued Ani, "but all that they have suggested, though certainly practicable, was unadvisable, and at any rate must have led to conjectures which I must now avoid.

What is your opinion ?" "Assa's race must be exterminated!" muttered the old woman hoarsely.
She gazed at the ground, reflecting.
"Let the boat be scuttled," she said at last, "and sink with the chained prisoners before it reaches Chennu." "No-no; I thought of that myself, and Nemu too advised it," cried Ani.
"That has been done a hundred times, and Ameni will regard me as a perjurer, for I have sworn not to attempt Pentaur's life." "To be sure, thou hast sworn that, and men keep their word--to each other.

Wait a moment, how would this do?
Let the ship reach Chennu with the prisoners, but, by a secret order to the captain, pass the quarries in the night, and hasten on as fast as possible as far as Ethiopia.

From Suan,--[The modern Assuan at the first cataract.]--the prisoners may be conducted through the desert to the gold workings.

Four weeks or even eight may pass before it is known here what has happened.