The steward declared that the good Pentaur was wicked, and stood in his way, and he said that Ameni was going to send him to the quarries at Chennu, but that that was much too small a punishment.

Then Hekt advised him to give a secret commission to the captain of the ship to go beyond Chennu, to the frightful mountain-mines, of which she has often told me, for her father and her brother were tormented to death there." "None ever return from thence," said the prince.

"But go on." "What came next, I only half understood, but they spoke of some drink that makes people mad.

Oh! what I see and hear!--I would he contentedly on my board all my life long, but all else is too horrible--I wish that I were dead." And the child began to cry bitterly.
Uarda, whose cheeks had turned pale, patted him affectionately; but Rameri exclaimed: "It is frightful! unheard of! But who was the steward?
did you not hear his name?
Collect yourself, little man, and stop crying.

It is a case of life and death.