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"How can I who am still young have known a woman and a man for thousands of years?" Ki considered him with his strange eyes, and answered: "You have many titles, Prince. Is not one of them 'Lord of Rebirths, and if so, how did you get it and what does it mean?" "It is. What it means I do not know, but it was given to me because of some dream that my mother had the night before I was born.
On the top landing, beside the great clothes-baskets, she collided with Chinky, who was coming primly down. "O ki, John!" she greeted her, being in a vast good-humour. "What do you look so black for?" "Dunno. Why do you never walk with me nowadays, Laura? I say, you know about that ring? You haven't forgotten?" "Course not. When am I to get it? It never turns up."
"Then I pray you bide where you are, Merapi," said the Prince, laughing a little, "since it is certain that where you go I must follow, who have no desire to wander in the wilderness with your Hebrew folk. Well, it seems that as you do not wish to leave Memphis and will not come with me, I must stay with you." Ki fixed his piercing eyes upon the pair of them.
I asked, who grew bewildered with his dark talk, but there was no answer, for he had gone. Near to my lodging another man met me, and the moonlight shining on his face showed me the terrible eyes of Ki. "Scribe Ana," he said, "you leave for Memphis to-morrow at the dawn, and not two days hence as you purposed." "How do you know that, Magician Ki?"
"My lord, I answered to Ki what I have often told him before, that I had no magic to reveal to him, I who knew nothing of the black arts of sorcery, seeing that it was not I who destroyed the statue of Amon in the temple at Tanis, but that same Power which since then has brought all the plagues on Egypt.
Now there was great distress in Egypt, but Ki smiled and said that he knew it would be so, and that there was much worse to come, for which I could have smitten him over the head with his own staff, had I not feared that, if I did so, it might once more turn to a serpent in my hand. Old Bakenkhonsu looked upon the matter with another face.
What I would know is who or what guides her hand and gives her the might to shield or to destroy." "The question is wide, Ki, or so it seems to me who, as you say, have little wisdom, and whoever can answer it holds the key of knowledge. Your magic is but a small thing which seems great because so few can handle it.
Now this was exactly what Ki Ki had foreseen would happen. There were a hundred places along the thrush's route where an ambush might have been placed, as well as in the glade, but Ki Ki had observed that a trap was set upon the old dead oak, and ordered his servant to strike the thrush there, so that he might step into it afterwards, thus killing two birds with one stone.
Because of much beating and overloading, they are generally a sorry-looking lot of animals. Ki Pak had to engage ponies for himself, Yung Pak, and Wang Ken. He was also obliged to employ a cook for the journey, who had to have a pony to carry along the kettles and pans and other utensils.
With great courtesy and hospitality Ki Pak invited the stranger within the house. "I thank you for your kindness," said the visitor. "I am a stranger in your city, a monk from a monastery in Kong-chiu. Your peculiar law not allowing men upon the street after nightfall compels me to seek shelter."
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