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For know, wonderful though it may seem, that just such plans as you have spoken have grown up in my own mind, only I wished to learn if you thought them wise." Then he laughed a little and Karema stretched her arms as one does who awakes from sleep, rubbed her eyes and asked if he would not eat more food. In an instant Tanofir was speaking again in a quick, clear voice.
Besides, I measure you by myself." "You at least should be happy, Karema, who are great and rich and beloved, and the wife of a King who is one of the best of men, and the mother of children." "Yes, Shabaka, I should be but I am not, for who can live on sweetmeats only, especially when they like what is sour? See now how strangely we are made.
"Call the maiden," he said. So Bes went out and brought her in. "Be seated, Karema, there in front of the altar, and look into my eyes." She obeyed and presently seemed to go to sleep for her head nodded. Then he said, "Wake, woman, look into the water in the bowl upon the altar and tell me what you see."
There were no women in their number. As the sun was sinking we were led at once to a very beautiful tent made of woven flax and ornamented as I have described, where we found food made ready for us in plenty, milk in bowls and the flesh of sheep and oxen boiled and roasted. Bes, however, was taken to a place apart, which made Karema even more angry than she was before.
"Will you not offer them something to eat, since they also must be hungry?" I asked of Karema. "Fool, be silent," she replied, looking on me with contempt. "Do the friends of Tanofir need to eat?" "I should have thought so after being beleaguered for a month in a starving town. If the master wants to eat, why should not his men?" I murmured. Then a thought struck me and I was silent.
Bes rolled his eyes and turning to Karema, asked, "What says the Karoon's wife?" Karema laid down the roll she had been studying and answered,
The other two will guide Shabaka and the archers along the road which Karema remembers so well; perhaps she trod it as a child. For my part I return to Amada to make sure that Pharaoh does his share and at the right time. For mark, unless all this is carried through to-night Amada will fall to-morrow, a certain priestess will die, and you, Bes, and your soldiers will never look on Ethiopia again.
Indeed this was certain since now I saw that over it floated his royal banner which I knew so well, I who had stolen the little White Signet of signets from which it was taken. Truly the holy Tanofir, or his Cup, Karema, or his messengers, or the spirits with whom he dwelt, I know not which, had a general's eye and knew how to plan an ambuscade.
Why if I did and harm came to you I should die of shame or hang myself and then Karema would never be a queen. So both her trades would be gone, since after marriage she cannot be a Cup, and her heart would break. But here are the gates of Memphis, so we will forget love and think of war."
"It is of the Ethiopians that you should be proud, Karema, since with one to five they have won a great battle." We came to the end of the second court where was a sanctuary. "Enter," said Karema and fell back. I did so and though the cedar door was left a little ajar, at first could see nothing because of the gloom of the place.
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