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So after a while he called, saying: "O Queen, cease to starve yourself in this miserable abode, and come down to dwell in plenty with your faithful subject." He called it once, and twice, and thrice, but there was no answer. Now Abi grew afraid. "She must have perished," he said, "and Egypt will demand her blood at my hands. Kaku, go up and see what has happened.
Your magic may be strong, but hers is stronger, for she is a great priestess and draws it from gods not devils." So it came about that at dawn Prince Abi, clad in magnificent robes, and accompanied by Councillors, among them Kaku, and by a small guard, was carried in a litter to the gates of the old temple of Sekhet, being too heavy to walk so far, and there descended.
At the head of the hall were set two thrones, the greater and the richer throne for Abi the Prince, the lesser throne for Neter-Tua the Queen. He had arranged it thus since Kaku the cunning pointed out to him that from the first he should show the people that it was he who ruled, and not Pharaoh's daughter.
Then Abi, who all this while had stood there hesitating, and now and again turning to hearken to Kaku who whispered in his ear, looked up at Tua and spoke. "You see and you hear, Queen," he said. "My people mistrust you, and they are a rough people, I cannot hold them back for long.
Kaku is baked breadfruit, with a sauce of cocoanut cream, which is made by beating up the soft pulp of the green nut with the juice, and is delicious." Although the Casco had been originally built solely for coast sailing, and was scarcely fit for battling with wind and wave on the open sea, it was decided to take the risk and lay their course for Tahiti through the Dangerous Archipelago.
But now this very evening as I slept in my pavilion, who can never sleep at night, there appeared to me the spirit of dead Pharaoh, of Pharaoh whom we slew by magic, and he said: 'Tell the murderer, Abi, and the wizard-rogue, Kaku, your husband, that I summon both of them to meet me ere another sun is set, and Woman, come you with them. Death is at our door, Abi, death and the terrible vengeance of the god!" and Merytra fell down foaming in a fit.
This is the command of the gods Let these twain be wed and take Egypt as their heritage, and call down upon it peace and greatness. But as for these murderers and wizards" and he pointed to Abi, to Kaku, and to Merytra "let them be placed in the sanctuary of Amen, to await what he shall send them."
Oh!" went on Kaku, simulating an enthusiasm that in truth did not glow within his breast, "great and glorious is your lot, King of the world, and splendid the path which I have opened to your triumphant feet. It was I who showed you how Pharaoh might be trapped in Memphis, being but a poor fool easy to deceive, and it was I or rather Merytra yonder who rid you of him.
"To-morrow Pharaoh will go up against him and make an end of this matter. Is it not so, Pharaoh?" and she looked at him with her glittering eyes. "Yes, yes," answered Abi, "the sooner the better, for I am worn out, and would return to Thebes. Yet," he added in a weak, uncertain voice, "I misdoubt me of this war, I know not why. What is it that you stare at in the heavens so fixedly, O Kaku?"
"Nay, Kaku," he answered, "I dare not. Let us live while we may, knowing what awaits us beyond the gate." "Aye," moaned Kaku, "beyond the Gate of the South, where we shall find Rames the Avenger, and that Beggar who is charged with a message for us."
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