Now the guard
formed into line to enter this street also, when suddenly, barring the
mouth of it, appeared great companies of men who had been hidden in
other streets.
A voice cried "Halt!" and while the guards re-shaped themselves into a
square about the person of the Queen, an embassy of officers, among whom
were recognised the four lawful sons of Abi, advanced and demanded in
the Prince's name that her Majesty should be given over to them,
saying that she would be treated with all honour, and that those who
accompanied her might go free.
"Answer that the Queen of Egypt does not yield herself into the hands of
rebels, and of murderers; then fall on them, and slay them all," cried
Neter-Tua when Mermes, her captain, had given her this message.
So he went forward and returned the answer, and next moment a flight of
arrows from the Queen's guard laid low the four sons of Abi, and most of
those who were with them.
Then the fight began, one of the fiercest that had been known in Egypt
for many a generation.
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