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." "No conditions to the king! Have you had much practice in hunting ?" "In the Libyan desert I have killed many a lion." "Then come, follow me." In the thought of the chase the king seemed to have thrown off all his weakness and roused himself to action; he was just leaving the hall, when Hystaspes once more threw himself at his feet, crying with up-raised hands: "Is my son--is your brother, to die innocent?
By the soul of your father, who used to call me his truest friend, I conjure you to listen to this noble stranger." Cambyses stood still.

The frown gathered on his brow again, his voice sounded like a menace and his eyes flashed as he raised his hand and said to the Greek: "Tell me what you know; but remember that in every untrue word, you utter your own sentence of death." Phanes heard this threat with the greatest calmness, and answered, bowing gracefully as he spoke: "From the sun and from my lord the king, nothing can be hid.

What power has a poor mortal to conceal the truth from one so mighty?
The noble Hystaspes has said, that I am able to prove your brother innocent.

I will only say, that I wish and hope I may succeed in accomplishing anything so great and beautiful.