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Updated: September 2, 2025
So spoke Kepher the Messenger, and departed whence he came, nor in that generation did any see him more. Then they took up Abi, Kaku, and Merytra, and cut their bonds. They threw them into the dark sanctuary before the great stone image of the god.
That is no secret, I will tell it you it is as to the carving of all the history of his murder and betrayal in the first chamber of the Pharaoh's tomb." Now at these magical and ill-omened words the courage of the company left them, so that they began to walk backwards towards the door, Abi going with them. "What!" cried the Queen in a voice of sorrow that yet seemed laden with mockery.
At the muttered, holy words wild voices cried through the night, the solid pylon rocked, and in the city the crystal globe into which Kaku and Merytra gazed was suddenly shattered between them, and, white with terror at he knew not what, Abi sprang from his couch. Then Asti also sank into sleep or swoon, and all was silent in that chamber, silent as the grave. Neter-Tua awoke.
Abi, will you be a prisoner until Osiris calls me, or will you swear an oath?" "I will swear an oath," answered the Prince hoarsely, for he knew his shame and danger. "Then kneel here, and by the dreadful Name swear that you will lift no hand and plot no plot against me. Swear that if a child, male or female, should be given to me, you will serve such a child truly as your lord and lawful Pharaoh.
"Let aught that is for the welfare of Egypt be heard by Egypt." "Your Majesty has told me," replied Abi bowing, "that the gods, being wrath, have denied you children. Not so much as one girl of your blood have they given to you to fill your throne after you when in due season it pleases you to depart to Osiris.
Remember the leap to death and the Boat of Ra, and those by whom it was captained. Remember and trust in the gods." "I trust in truth I trust, Asti, but yet oh! let us talk of something else. I wonder what has chanced in Memphis since we left it in so strange a fashion? Do you think that awful Ka of mine queens it there with Abi for a husband?
Rushing at him, he seized the astrologer by the beard and smote him on the ears, saying: "Dog, is it thus that you speak to your king? Well, on you at least I can revenge myself." "Pardon, your Majesty," said Kaku, "I did not know you in these shadows. Your Majesty is changed of late." "Changed!" said Abi, letting him go.
Send now to Abi, who I have heard rules as Pharaoh in Egypt, and ask a daughter of his blood, for they say that he has several; or to some of the princes of Syria, or to the King of Byblos by Lebanon, or to the lords of Kesh, or across the desert to the Emperor of Punt, and let this poor singing-girl go her ways."
Now they were ascending the steps, and now Prince Abi was welcoming them to his "humble house," giving them their throne names, and saying how rejoiced he was to see them, his sovereigns, within the walls of Memphis, while all the time he stared at Tua.
Then when he stopped exhausted, at last she spoke, saying: "What! do you love now more greatly than you fear, as the divine Prince of Kesh loved after Amen's Star had sung to him. May your fate be happier, O noble Abi, but that, since it is not lawful that I should tell it to you, you shall discover.
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