Nay, pity me not and answer not till I have
set out all the case as best I may, which I fear me is but ill. It is
certain that this will be said--aye, and believed, and we of Egypt all
called traitors, and that these men, who after all, however evil has
been their deed, are brave and upright, will be written in all the books
of all the lands as common murderers, and go down to Osiris with that
ill name branded on their brows. Yes, and their shame will cling to the
pure hands of Pharaoh and his councillors."
Now at this picture the people murmured, and some of the noble women
there began to weep outright.
"But," proceeded Tua with her pleading voice, "how if we were to take
another course? How if we commanded this Count Rames and his companions
to journey, with an escort such as befits the Majesty of Pharaoh, to the
far city of Napata, and there to lay before the great king of that land
by writings and the mouths of witnesses, all the sad story of the death
of his only son? How if we sent letters to this Majesty of Kesh, saying,
'Thou hast heard our tale, thou knowest all our woe.
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