She rushed through the courts of the palace, and out into the streets, crying like a mad woman "I am free! I am free!" She, had scarcely left the hall, when Datis, the "king's eye" reappeared with the news that the chief of the eunuchs was nowhere to be found.

He had vanished from the hanging-gardens in an unaccountable manner; but he, Datis, had left word with his subordinates that he was to be searched for and brought, dead or alive.
The king went off into another violent fit of passion at this news, and threatened the officer of police, who prudently concealed the excitement of the crowd from his lord, with a severe punishment, if Boges were not in their hands by the next morning.
As he finished speaking, a eunuch was brought into the hall, sent by the king's mother to ask an interview for herself with her son.
Cambyses prepared at once to comply with his mother's wish, at the same time giving Phanes his hand to kiss, a rare honor, only shown to those that ate at the king's table, and saying: "All the prisoners are to be set at liberty.

Go to your sons, you anxious, troubled fathers, and assure them of my mercy and favor.

I think we shall be able to find a satrapy a-piece for them, as compensation for to-night's undeserved imprisonment.

To you, my Greek friend, I am deeply indebted.