28/34 Rising slowly, she looked at them; then passed to the door and out of it without a parting word. She walked rapidly, and was gone before Esther could decide what to do. Nevertheless, he set out immediately and hunted for her vainly; they never saw her more, or heard of her. Had it a tongue, it might tell us of the Egyptian. In the tenth year of Nero's reign, he gave up the business so long centred in the warehouse at Antioch. |