"Forgive me, O my lord!" she said, in a whispering voice, drawing her veil about her head.

"It was my soul's desire to look upon thy face once more." "Whither didst thou go at Harrik's death?
I sent to find thee, and give thee safety; but thou wert gone, none knew where." "O my lord, what was I but a mote in thy sun, that thou shouldst seek me ?" Kaid's eyes fell, and he murmured to himself a moment, then he said slowly: "Thou didst save Egypt, thou and my friend"-- he gestured towards David"-- and my life also, and all else that is worth.

Therefore bounty, and safety, and all thy desires were thy due.

Kaid is no ingrate--no, by the hand of Moses that smote at Sinai!" She made a pathetic motion of her hands.

"By Harrik's death I am free, a slave no longer.