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Updated: June 1, 2025
Why, to-day that blind beggar whining on the temple steps means more to Egypt than all the mummies of all the Pharaohs, unless they can be robbed. Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble." "That is a mean faith, Bakenkhonsu." "Very mean, Ana, like all else that we can taste and handle.
Kherheb Ki and Bakenkhonsu, doubtless you are great magicians and strong in wisdom, but there are greater than you who rule the world, and there is a wisdom to which yours is but as a drop of water to the Nile. I thank you for your warnings, but to-morrow I go down to the land of Goshen to fulfil the commands of Pharaoh. If I come back again we will talk more of these matters here upon the earth.
A mean faith suited to mean hearts, among whom should be reckoned all save one in every thousand. Yet, if you would prosper, follow it, and when you are dead I will come and laugh upon your grave, and say, 'Here lies one of whom I had hoped higher things, as I hope them of your master." "And not in vain, Bakenkhonsu, whatever may happen to the servant."
Now all were gone and I was telling Bakenkhonsu everything I had witnessed like a man who speaks in his sleep, not by his own will. Suddenly I woke up and laughed at my own foolishness. But the other two did not laugh; they regarded me very gravely. "I thought that you were something of a seer," said the old priest, "or rather Ki thought it.
Man, cease smiling at me with your face and piercing me through with your sword-like eyes. You can command all things, what boon then do you seek from me?" "To lodge here a little while, Prince, in the company of Ana and Bakenkhonsu. Hearken, I am no more Kherheb.
Some said they went this way and some that, but Bakenkhonsu, who knew everything, declared that they were heading for the Lake of Crocodiles, which others name Sea of Reeds, whereby they would cross into the desert beyond, and thence to Syria. I asked him how, seeing that at its narrowest part, this lake was six thousand paces in width, and that the depth of its mud was unfathomable.
A crowd thrust the guard aside, broke down the gates and burst into the palace, humbly demanding that the lady Merapi would come to pray for them, yet showing by their mien that if she would not come they meant to take her. "What is to be done?" asked Seti of Ki and Bakenkhonsu.
This strange pair bowed to the Prince and seated themselves at a sign from him, Bakenkhonsu upon a stool because he found it difficult to rise, and Ki, who was younger, scribe fashion on the ground. "What did I tell you, Bakenkhonsu?" said Ki in a full, rich voice, ending the words with a curious chuckle.
Is this army to sit still while these slaves depart into the desert there to rouse our enemies of Syria against us and return with them to butcher us?" "At these words," continued Bakenkhonsu, "from all that multitude there went up a shout of 'No." "The people say No. What saith Pharaoh?" cried Userti.
Here it is," and from the breast of her garment, she drew out a roll and gave it to me upon whom she rested all this while. I opened it, and by the light of torches the Prince, Bakenkhonsu, and I read. It was as she had told us in what seemed to be my writing, and signed and sealed as she had said. The words ran: "To Merapi, Moon of Israel, in my house at Memphis.
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