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Updated: June 13, 2025
"'It is little to say, answered the Prince, throwing himself into a chair whence I had risen, 'it is little to say, but at the game of pieces I have enough wit to give thee a temple, a priest and five bowmen, and yet win, for these, O Wanderer, are the names of some of the pieces. "'I take the challenge, cried Meriamun, for now she had brought him where she wanted; 'but I will take no odds.
The light shone all about the white and dreadful shape that was placed upon his holy knees, the naked shape of lost Hataska who this night had died at the hand of Meriamun.
Ay, there I found her and led her to the Palace, and for that I am stripped of my rank and goods by Meriamun, and now the Lady of Beauty is returned to her shrine, grieving bitterly for thy faithlessness; though how she passed thither I know not." "Methought I heard her voice as those knaves bore me to my dungeon," said the Wanderer. "And she deemed me faithless!
"And the Ka said: 'Nay, Meriamun, that I cannot do, for I am but the Ka the Dweller in the Tomb, the guardian of what was Hataska whom thou didst slay, whom I must watch through all the days of death till resurrection is. Of the future I know naught; seek thou that which knows. "'Stand thou on one side, quoth the Queen, and the Dweller in the Tomb obeyed.
Nay, that I will not do, for never shall Helen work by shameful guile or magic. Nay but we will hence, Rei, we will go to the Palace where my rival dwells, there to learn the truth. Fear not, I will bring no ill on thee, nor on her whom thou servest. Lead me to the Palace, Rei. Lead me swiftly." Now the Wanderer slept in the arms of Meriamun, who wore the shape of Argive Helen.
There lies Pharaoh dead, and with no wound upon him to tell the manner of his end." Then Meriamun cried aloud with a great cry, and threw her hair about her face, while tears fell from her dark eyes. She passed into the chamber, and there, fallen on his back and cold, lay Pharaoh in his royal robes. Awhile the Queen looked upon him as one who is dumb with grief.
"Presently, as I sat, there came a knocking at the door, and a woman entered wrapped in a heavy cloak. She put aside the cloak, and before me was Meriamun in all her bridal robes. "'Heed me not, Rei, she said, 'I am yet free for an hour; and I would watch thee at thy labour.
Lead us to the Hathor's Shrine!" Rei the Priest saw and heard. Then turning, he stole away through the maddened throng of women and fled with what speed he might from the Temple. His heart was filled with fear and shame, for he knew full well that Pharaoh was dead, not at the hand of Hathor, but at the hand of Meriamun the Queen, whom he had loved.
"And as she came the changing faces shrunk away, leaving a space before her. And in the space there grew two arms, mighty and black, that stretched themselves towards her, until there was not the length of three grains of wheat betwixt the clutching fingers and her breast. "But Meriamun only laughed and drew back a space.
"Never have I refused thee aught, Meriamun, nor will I say thee nay. This only I ask of thee that if my Spirit comes back no more, thou wilt bury me in that tomb which I have made ready by Thebes, and if it may be, by thy strength of magic wring me from the power of the strange Wardens. I am prepared thou knowest the spell say it." He sank back in the carven couch, and looked upwards.
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