"Who is that man?" she whispered presently to Asti, who waited on her.
"The famous astrologer, Kaku, Queen. I have seen him before when he
visited Thebes with the Prince before your birth. I will tell you of him
afterwards. Watch him well."
So Tua watched and discovered several things, among them that Kaku
observed everything that she and Pharaoh did, what they ate, to whom
they spoke, and any words which fell from their lips, such as those that
she had uttered about the god Osiris. All of these he noted down from
time to time on his waxen tablets, doubtless that he might make use of
them afterwards in his interpretation of the omens of the future.
Now, among the ladies of the Court who fanned Pharaoh and waited on him
was that dancing girl of Abi's who many years before had betrayed him at
Thebes, Merytra, Lady of the Footstool, now a woman of middle age, but
still beautiful, of whom, although Tua disliked her, Pharaoh was fond
because she was clever and witty of speech and amused him.
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