ely
funeral.

"As the steed bore him away, he turned back towards Cleopatra; he could
not have saluted Arsinoe, for she had rushed into the garden, and her
swollen face betrayed that she had shed burning tears.

"From that hour she bitterly hated Cleopatra.

"On the day appointed, the King brought the princesses to the city with
regal splendour. The Alexandrians joyously greeted the royal sisters, as,
seated on a golden throne, over which waved ostrich-feathers, they were
borne in state down the Street of the King, surrounded by dignitaries,
army commanders, the body-guard, and the senate of the city. Cleopatra
received the adulation of the populace with gracious majesty, as if she
were already Queen. Whoever had seen her as, with floods of tears, she
bade us all farewell, assuring us of her gratitude and faithful
remembrance, the sisterly affection she showed me--I had just been
elected commander of the Ephebi--" Here Archibius was interrupted by a
slave, who announced the arrival of the messenger, and, rising hurriedly,
he went to Leonax's workshop, to which the man had been conducted, that
he might speak to him alone.

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CLEOPATRA

By Georg Ebers

Volume 3.

CHAPTER VI.

The men sent by Archibius to obtain news had brought back no definite
information; but a short time before, a royal runner had handed him a
tablet from Iras, requesting him to visit her the next day. Disquieting,
but fortunately as yet unverified tidings had arrived. The Regent was
doing everything in his power to ascertain the truth; but he (Archibius)
was aware of the distrust of the government, and everything connected
with it, felt by the sailors and all the seafaring folk at the harbour.
An independent person like himself could often learn more than the chief
of the harbour police, with all his ships and men.

The little tablet was accompanied by a second, which, in the Regent's
name, authorized the bearer to have the harbour chains raised anywhere,
to go out into the open sea and return without interference.

The messenger, the overseer of Archibius's galley slaves, was an
experienced man. He undertook to have the "Epicurus"--a swift vessel,
which Cleopatra had given to her friend--ready for a voyage to the open
sea within two hours. The carriage should b