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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Dear me!" the Professor heard himself say as he sat up and rubbed his eyes, "what on earth can be the matter with me? Egypt the Queen Palace of Pepi bridal feast of Nitocris and Menkau-Ra yes, yes, of course I remember it all now.
"Nout, thy Mother, wraps thee in the spell of Her holy name. "The name of thy Mother, Nout, is the mystery of Heaven. "Nout, thy Mother, gathers thee to the number of the Gods. "Nout, thy Mother, breathes on thy foes and utterly destroys them. "O Pharaoh Menkau-ra, who livest for ever!" "Where, then, is the treasure?" she asked again.
As there is nothing liker Heaven than a woman's love, so there is nothing liker Hell than a woman's hate. So saith the Ancient Wisdom, O Nitocris; and therefore, as thou hast loved Nefer the Prince, so shalt thou also hate Menkau-Ra and Anemen-Ha, his murderers and the destroyers of his promised happiness."
I mind it!" he gasped; "then didst thou drink the pearl in wanton play, and then did that astrologer of thine call out his hour 'The hour of the coming of the curse of Menkau-ra. Through all the after-days those words have haunted me, and now at the last they ring in my ears." "He is long dead, my love," she whispered. "If he be dead, then I am near him. What meant he?"
Now to thee, who, sleeping in the womb of Nout, yet shall upon a time stand over me and read, I say, judge thou! and if thou judgest evilly, on thee shall fall this the curse of Menkau-ra from which there is no escape. Greeting and farewell." "Thou hast heard, O Cleopatra," I said solemnly; "now search thy heart; judge thou, and for thine own sake judge justly." She bent her head in thought.
And have I not sworn to thee that I will wed thee and defy the Roman; and do I not swear it again yes, even in this solemn hour, with my hand upon dead Pharaoh's heart? Why, here is that occasion of which the Divine Menkau-ra dreamed. Thou seest it is so, for else Hat-shepsu or Rameses or some other Pharaoh had drawn forth the gems.
We passed round between the Temple of the Worship of his Divine Majesty, Menkau-ra, the Osirian, and in the base of the pyramid till we came to the north side. Here in the centre is graved the name of Pharaoh Menkau-ra, who built the pyramid to be his tomb, and stored his treasure in it against the need of Khem.
He looked up, and, to his utter amazement, he saw Queen Nitocris, arrayed exactly as she had been on that terrible night of her bridal with Menkau-Ra, walking towards him; a perfect incarnation of beauty, but "Oh dear me!" said the Professor, "this will never do.
There was the majesty of Menkau-ra, crowned with the uræus crown; there was grave Sepa, his flesh all torn by the torturer's hooks; there were those poisoned slaves; and there were others without number, shadowy and dreadful to behold! who, thronging that narrow chamber, stood silently fixing their glassy eyes upon the face of her who slew them! "Behold! Cleopatra!" I said.
On thee also must fall the curse of Menkau-ra, thou false priest! thou forsworn patriot! thou Pharaoh shameful and discrowned! Here, where we set the Double Crown upon thy head, we doom thee to the doom! Go to thy dungeon and await the falling of its stroke!
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