"Where is Phanes ?" "I was to bid you farewell from them both." "Then they are gone .-- Whither?
How was it possible ?".

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"The Athenian and the Persian," began the slave, "had a slight dispute in the anteroom.

This over, I was told to divest both of their robes.

Phanes then put on the stranger's trousers, coat and girdle; on his own curls he placed the pointed Persian cap.