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Seize Abi the usurper, the murderer of Pharaoh, his brother, and Kaku the sorcerer, and Merytra the traitress, and lead them at the dawn to my temple upon yonder hill, where I will declare my commands to you in the sanctuary of the temple. So shall peace be upon you and all Egypt, and the breath of life remain in your nostrils."
Now, if he fell sick, and he has been sick before, and could not stir, it would give us time to bring about the marriage, would it not? Oh! I know that he is well at present for him, but look here, Merytra, I have something to show you."
"Why do you look so disturbed?" asked the astrologer of his accomplice who glanced continually over her shoulder, and seemed very ill at ease. "All has gone well. If Set himself had fashioned that image, it could not have done its work more thoroughly." "Thoroughly, indeed," broke in Merytra in an angry voice.
"Awkward cat," he cried, "do that again and you shall be flogged until your robe sticks to your back!" "Pardon, mighty Lord," she said, beginning to weep, "it was an accident; the wind caught my fan." "So the rod shall catch your skin, if you are not more careful, Merytra. Stop that snivelling and go send Kaku the Astrologer here. Go, both, I weary of the sight of your ugly faces."
Still we do not understand. Tell us the tale, O Asti." So Asti stood forward, and told that tale, omitting nothing, and then Rames told his tale, whereto Tua the Queen added a little, and, although ere they finished the sun was high, none wearied in listening save only Abi, Kaku, and Merytra, who heard death in every word.
I awoke, shaking like a reed in the wind, and ran hither up a thousand steps to find you brawling with this low-born slut, dead Pharaoh's worn-out shoe that in bygone years I kicked from off my foot." Now Merytra would have answered, for she loved not such names, but the two men looked at her so fiercely that her rage died, and she was silent.
The girl rose, and with her fellow slave ran swiftly to the ladder that led to the waist of the ship. "He called me a cat," Merytra hissed through her white teeth to her companion. "Well, if so, Sekhet the cat-headed is my godmother, and she is the Lady of Vengeance." "Yes," answered the other, "and he said that we were both ugly we, whom every lord who comes near the Court admires so much! Oh!
Well, I believe that after I had warned Pharaoh of what I knew, never mind how, he sent for Merytra, who laughed the tale to scorn, and told him that Abi his brother had long ago abandoned all ambitions, being well content with his great place and power which one of his sons would inherit after him.
Then suddenly a clear and silvery voice spoke above him, asking: "What do you here, Lord of Memphis? Why are you not in the cell where Pharaoh bound you? Oh! I remember the footstool-bearer, Merytra, your paid spy, let you out, did she not? Why is she not here with Kaku the Sorcerer, who fashioned the enchanted image that did Pharaoh to death?
Merytra uttered a cry, and fell backwards to the floor, while Kaku sprang from his chair as though to run away, then thought better of it, and stood still, shivering with fear. "What was that?" said Merytra, rising from the ground, and wiping the blood from her cut mouth. "I do not know," answered Kaku, in a quavering voice.
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