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Updated: May 6, 2025
"So you gave the name of Amada to the Great King, did you? Well, you could have done nothing else if you wished to go on living, and therefore cannot be blamed. Yet before all is finished I think it will bring you into trouble, Shabaka, since among many gifts, the gods did not give that of reason to women.
It told of the details of my journey to the East, of my coming to the royal city and the rest, all of which it is needless to repeat. Then I came to the lion hunt, to my winning of the wager, and all that happened to me; of my being condemned to death, of the weighing of Bes against the gold, and of how I was laid in the boat of torment, a story at which I noticed Amada turn pale and tremble.
But in front of us, separating us from the southern army of the King, stretched a swamp hard to cross, so that we could not hope to make an attack by night as there was no moon. Lastly, the main Eastern strength, to the number of two hundred thousand or more, lay to the north beyond Amada.
If you do not wish to send the lady Amada to the King, marry her to someone else, after which he will seek her no more." He looked at me shrewdly and said, "To whom then? I cannot marry her, being her uncle and already married. Do you mean to yourself, Shabaka?" "I have loved the lady Amada from a child, Prince," I answered boldly.
Then I remembered that they were vouched for by the holy Tanofir, my own great-uncle whom I trusted above any man on earth, and took heart again. How had he come into our tent, I wondered, and how, blind as he was, would he get back into Amada with Karema, if he took her? Well, who could account for the goings or the comings of the holy Tanofir, who was more of a spirit than a man?
"No; I had no orders to do so." "He tol' me call him at daylight. Here you, Amada; go wake up the Senor." The seaman disappeared grumbling, while LeVere crossed the poop deck, and stood beside me looking out across the expanse of sea. "No sail hey? We hav' bad luck too far north." "And west; we are out of the sea lanes; but if it keeps bright I'll take an observation at noon."
"It seems that Isis has a long arm," I said. "Without doubt a very long arm, my son, since Isis, by whatever name she is called, is a power that does not die or forget." "Well, Mother, in this case she can have no reason to remember, since never again will Amada be her priestess." "I think not, Shabaka. Yet who can be sure of what a woman will or will not do, now or hereafter?
And if she were granted some new quarrel would be picked and in the person of the royal Amada all of them be for ever shamed. Next he showed the seal, telling them that I who was known to many of them, at least by repute had brought it from the East, and repeating to them the plan that I had proposed upon the previous night.
And not a second ago I had been in a shrine with Amada dressed as Lady Ragnall was to-night, in circumstances so intimate that it made me blush to think of them. Lady Ragnall! Amada! Amada! Lady Ragnall! A shrine! A boudoir! Oh! I must be going mad! I could not disturb her, it would have been well, unseemly.
To the lady Amada also, and bid her study her beauteous face in a mirror and not be holy overmuch, since too great holiness often thwarts itself and ends in trouble for the unholy flesh. Still she loves pearls like other women, does she not, and even the statue of Isis likes to be adorned.
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