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So he returned, and told Abi, who shouted: "By Ptah, great Lord of Memphis! either she has escaped to raise Egypt on me, or she has sought death in the Nile to raise the gods upon me, which is worse. So much for your interpretation of dreams, O Cheat." "Wait till you are sure before you call me such names, Prince," replied Kaku indignantly. "Let us search the temple, she may be elsewhere."
"I cannot do it," she said, "it is black sorcery against one who is a god, and will bring my soul to hell. Find some other instrument, or place the waxen imp in the bed of Pharaoh yourself, Kaku." The face of the magician grew fierce and cruel. "Come with me, Merytra," he said, and taking her by the wrist he led her to the open window-place whence he observed the stars.
More, I must chastise the Bedouin who have ever been my friends, and next month undertake a war against that King of Khita, with whom I made a secret treaty, and whose daughter that I married has been sent back to him because I loved her." "And then?" asked Kaku.
"You have tricked me, Wizard, I promised to help you to lame Pharaoh, not to murder him!" "Hush! Beloved," said Kaku nervously, "murder is an ugly word, and murderers come to ugly ends sometimes. Is it your fault if an accursed fool of a priest chose to burn the mannikin upon an altar, and thus bring this god to his lamented end?"
It seems that the Prince struck her for some fault, and being clever she determined to be revenged upon him. Soon she got her chance, for she heard Abi disclose to the astrologer Kaku, that same man whom you saw to-night talking with her, a plan that he had made to murder Pharaoh and declare himself king, from which Kaku dissuaded him.
Thither they ran also, but now the words of doom were being called upon the ships, and on their prows they saw his tall shape stand first on this and then on that. "It is the gods who speak," cried the priests, "let us obey the gods!" and suddenly they flung themselves upon Abi and bound him, and Kaku and Merytra they bound also, waiting for the dawn.
With Abi were his astrologer, Kaku, his two eldest sons, and a few of the great officers of his government, also the high-priests of the temples of Memphis, and three powerful chiefs of the Desert tribes. "What is your prayer, my brother?" asked Pharaoh, as soon as the doors were closed.
Oh! never mind the rest of the papers, go at once. Your robe is full of rolls as it is." "Yes," answered Kaku as he ran to the ladder, "but the question is, how will he like what is in the rolls?" "The gods be with you!" cried one of the girls after him, "you will need them all." "And if you get back alive, don't forget your promise about the fortunes," said the other.
"At least they will have no share in it, Kaku, for they are dead," said Abi with a groan, for he had loved his sons. "What of that, Prince? They died bravely, and we mourn them, but here again Fortune is with you, for had they lived trouble might have arisen between them and those other sons which the Queen of Egypt shall bear to you."
The names of the three children are a play upon the names of the first three kings of the Vth Dynasty. User-kaf is made into User-ref; Sahu-ra is written Sah-ra; and Kaka is Kaku; thus making allusions to their births.
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