I have got both of them now, and must take some medicine,"
and filling two goblets from a flask, he handed her one of them, saying,
"drink it, you don't get wine like that in Thebes."
"It is very good," said Merytra when she had drunk, "but heavy. If I
took much of that I think I should have 'rheumatism,' too. Now tell me,
old friend, am I safe, in this place? No, not from Pharaoh, he trusts
me and lets me go where I will upon his business--but from his royal
brother. He used to have a long memory, and from the look of him I do
not think that his temper has improved. You may remember a certain slap
in the face and how I paid him back for it."
"He never knew it was you, Merytra. Being a mass of self-conceit, he
thought that you ran away because he had banished you from his royal
presence and presented you--to me."
"Oh, he thought that, did he! What a vain fool!"
"It was a very dirty trick you played me, Merytra," went on Kaku with
indignation, for the rich wine coursing through his blood revived the
sting of his loss.
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