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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Not so, Mermes; it would have been upon the hands of the gods. You spring from a royal line; say, what would you have thought of your son if after being struck by that fat Nubian, he had cowered at his feet and prayed for his life like any slave?" Mermes flushed and smiled a little, then said: "The question is rather -What would you have thought, O Queen?" "I?" answered Tua.
The Shadow looked from her to Asti, who answered briefly: "Where my Lady goes there I follow, knowing that Mermes always waits. What shall we do?" The Ka motioned to them to stand together in the narrow winding-place, and this they did, their arms about each other. Next she lifted her sceptre and spoke some word.
"Whence did she return?" "From the city, I suppose. She has Pharaoh's pass, and can go in and out when she will. I have caused Mermes to question the officer of the guard, and he says that she came to the gate accompanied by a tall man wrapped in a dark cloak, who spoke with her earnestly, and left her.
When Pharaoh heard these words, his heart was moved in him, and he stretched out his sceptre for Mermes to kiss, thereby granting to him life and protection. "Mermes," he said, "you are an honourable man, and my equal in blood if not in place. For their own purposes the gods raise up one and cast down another that at last their ends may be fulfilled.
When she recovered it was to find herself in the house of Mermes with the lady Asti bending over her and weeping. "Why do you weep, Nurse?" she asked, "seeing that I am safe?" "I weep for my son, Princess," she answered between her sobs. "Is he dead of his wounds, then, Asti?" "No, O Morning Star, he lies sick in his chamber.
"Lies, every one of them, Prince. She would have executed him at once had it not been for the influence of Mermes, and her foster-mother, Asti. This Rames has in him the royal blood of the last dynasty, and the Star of Amen is not one who will share her sky with a rival star, unless he be her lawful Lord, which is your part.
"Yes, I remember," said Tua. "But then why is not Mermes King of Kesh?" "Because the people of the city of Napata raised up another house to rule over them, of whom Amathel is the heir." "A usurping heir, surely, my father, if there be anything in blood." "Say not that, Tua," replied Pharaoh sharply, "for then Mermes should be Pharaoh in our place also."
At the little landing between the rooms of the Queen and Asti while the assailants paused a moment, the Captain Mermes, mad with grief and pain, turned and kissed his wife. Next he bowed before the Queen, saying: "What a man may do, I have done to save your Majesty.
But I do remember the name of the spirit, for he told it to me; it was Mermes." Now Asti gave a little cry, and, springing up, searched Kepher's face with her eyes, nor did he shrink from her gaze. "I perceive," she said slowly, "that you who seem to be a beggar are also a seer." "Mayhap, Asti," he answered.
As was well known, this Mermes was by right and true descent the last of that house of Pharaohs which had filled the throne of Egypt until their line was cast down generations before by the dynasty that now ruled the land, whereof the reigning Pharaoh and his daughter Neter-Tua alone remained.
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