And it was accomplished in the following manner:--Prince Rameses, when moving from Pi-Bast with the army, had not left the palace when the chief of the police learned of the murder of Sarah's child, and the flight of Kama, and this, too,--that Sarah's servants saw the prince entering her house in the night time. The chief of police was a very keen person; he pondered over this question, Who could have committed the crime? and instead of inquiring on the spot, he hastened to pursue the guilty parties outside the city, and forewarned Hiram of what had happened. While Mefres was trying to extort a confession from Sarah, the most active agents of the Pi-Bast police, and with them every Phœnician under the leadership of Hiram, were hunting the Greek Lykon and the priestess Kama. So three nights after the prince had departed, the chief of police returned to Pi-Bast, bringing with him a large cage covered with linen, in which was some woman who screamed in heaven-piercing accents. Without lying down to sleep, the chief summoned the officer who had made the investigation, and listened to his report attentively. At sunrise the two priests, Sem and Mefres, with the nomarch of Pi-Bast, received a most humble invitation to deign immediately, should such be their will, to come to the chief of police. In fact, all three entered at the very same moment; so the chief, bending low, implored them to tell all that they knew concerning the murder of the son of the viceroy. The nomarch, though a great dignitary, grew pale when he heard the humble invitation, and answered that he knew nothing. The high priest Sem gave almost the same answer, adding, for himself, the reflection that Sarah seemed to him innocent. When the turn came to the holy Mefres, he said,-- "I know not whether thou hast heard, worthiness, that during the night of the crime one of the prince's women escaped; her name was Kama." The chief of police feigned to be greatly astonished. "I know not," continued Mefres, "whether they have told thee that the heir did not pass the night in the palace, but was in Sarah's house. The doorkeeper and two servants recognized him, for the night was rather clear. It is a great pity," finished the high priest, "that thou hast not been here these two days past." The chief bowed very low to Mefres, and turned to the nomarch,-- "Wouldst thou be pleased, worthiness, to tell me, graciously, how the prince was dressed that evening?" "He wore a white jacket, and a purple apron with gold fringe," answered the nomarch. "I remember very well, for that evening I was one of the last who spoke with him." The chief of the police clapped his hands, and Sarah's doorkeeper entered the chamber. "Didst thou see the prince," inquired he, "when he came in the night to the house of thy lady?" "I opened the door to his worthiness,--may he live through eternity!" "And dost thou remember how he was dressed?"