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Updated: June 15, 2025
If she still lives Merytra here will take her in charge and care for her. You are old friends, are you not, Merytra?" "Very," answered that lady with emphasis, "like the cat and the bird which were pets of the same master. Well, we shall have much to say to each other. Only, beware, Husband, Asti is no weakling.
"Hush!" whispered Merytra, "there is that knave of an astrologer, and he looks cross, too." Then, hand in hand, they went to this lean and learned man and humbly bowed themselves before him. "Master of the Stars," said Merytra, "we have a message for you.
"O Queen, the small gate was open, for people passed in and out of it continually, making preparation for to-morrow's march, it seems that about an hour ago the lady Merytra came to the gate and showed Pharaoh's signet to the officer, saying that she was on Pharaoh's business.
They say she is a daughter of Amen, and I believe it. I believe that the god dwells in her, and woe be to him whom she may chance to hate, if he comes to her as a husband." "That is Abi's business, is it not? Our business, Merytra, is to get him there. Now we may take it this will not be with her consent." "Certainly not, Kaku," she answered.
It may take the place, perhaps, of one that you have lost; was it not a certain woman slave whom your master gave to you last night after he had punished her for no fault?" Kaku prostrated himself before the glory of Pharaoh, understanding at last that it was the lost girl Merytra who had overheard and betrayed them. But heeding him no more, his Majesty went on.
Now press it to your heart, Merytra, and swear after me."
"I should only have hampered your life, dear Kaku, so I went into the household of that poor creature, Pharaoh, instead Pharaoh's Nunnery we call it. But you will not explain the facts to Abi, will you?" "No, I think not, Merytra, if we continue to get on as well as we do at present.
"I do, for one, when they cut my mouth with broken crystals," interrupted Merytra, who was bathing her wounds in a basin of water. "Would that they had cut your tongue instead of your lips, Woman," snarled Abi. "Continue, Kaku, and heed her not." "And what was his message?" went on the magician. "Why, that you shall marry the Majesty of Egypt, and rule in her right and sit in the seat of kings.
But now this very evening as I slept in my pavilion, who can never sleep at night, there appeared to me the spirit of dead Pharaoh, of Pharaoh whom we slew by magic, and he said: 'Tell the murderer, Abi, and the wizard-rogue, Kaku, your husband, that I summon both of them to meet me ere another sun is set, and Woman, come you with them. Death is at our door, Abi, death and the terrible vengeance of the god!" and Merytra fell down foaming in a fit.
Asti, you are high-born and wise, one whom I love, and honour much, as does the Queen, my daughter, but you can still be jealous, as I have noted long. Asti, be not deceived, it was jealousy of Merytra that whispered in your ears, not the spirit of the divine Ahura.
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