The maneuvers were declared finished. Prince Ramses with the minister and commanders went to the army near Pi-Bailos. There he greeted Nitager's veterans, took farewell of his own regiments, commanded them to march eastward, and wished success to them. Then, surrounded by a great suite, he returned by the highway to Memphis amid crowds from the land of Goshen, who with green garlands and in holiday robes congratulated the conqueror. When the highway turned toward the desert, the crowd became thinner, and when they approached the place where the staff of the heir had entered the ravine because of the scarabs, there was no one. Ramses nodded to Tutmosis, and pointing to the naked hill, whispered, "Thou wilt go to Sarah." "I understand." "Tell her father that I will give him land outside Memphis." "I understand. Thou wilt have her to-morrow." After this conversation Tutmosis withdrew to the troops marching behind the suite, and vanished. Almost opposite the ravine along which the army had passed in the morning, some tens of steps from the road, stood a tamarind-tree which, though old, was not large. At this point a halt was mad by the guard which had preceded the suite. "Shall we meet scarabs again?" asked Ramses, with a laugh. "We shall see," answered Herhor. They looked; on the slender tree a naked man was hanging. "What does this mean?" asked the heir, with emotion. Adjutants ran to the tree, and saw that the hanging man was that old slave whose canal they had closed in the morning. "He did right to hang himself!" cried Eunana among the officers. "Could ye believe it, that wretch dared to seize the feet of his holiness the minister!" On hearing this, Ramses reined in his horse, dismounted, and walked up to the ominous tree. The slave was hanging with his head stretched forward; his mouth was opened widely, his hands turned toward the spectators, and terror was in his eyes. He looked like a man who had wished to say something, but whose voice had failed him. "The unfortunate!" sighed Ramses, with compassion. On returning to the retinue he gave command to relate to him the history of the man, and then he rode a long time in silence. Before his eyes was the picture of the suicide, and in his heart was the feeling that a great wrong had been done, such a wrong that even he, the son and the heir of the pharaoh, might halt in face of it. The heat was unendurable, the dust dried up the water and pierced the eyes of man and beast. The division was detained for a short rest, and meanwhile Nitager finished his conversation with the minister. "My officers," said the old commander, "never look under their feet, but always straight forward." "That is the reason, perhaps, why no enemy has ever surprised me." "Your worthiness reminds me, by these words, that I am to pay certain debts," remarked Herhor; and he commanded the officers and soldiers who were near by to assemble. "And now," said the minister, "summon for me Eunana."