LETTER XXIII.

Revelations--Letter from Mœris--His haughty demand--Is Remeses the son of Pharaoh's Daughter?--Another letter and another haughty demand from Mœris--Still another--A doubt!--An investigation--Amense never a mother!--Her descent to the Nile to bathe--The little ark of basket-work and beautiful child--The princess adopts it--A threat!--The Queen unfolds the terrible secret--Her agony of fear--Her touching story of the discovery of the infant Remeses--She gains resolution and defies Mœris--Remeses a Hebrew!--pp. 381-397.