"It seems that this is a dangerous affair," she replied uneasily, "and I
think that I can guess your aim. Now if I help you, Kaku, what am _I_ to
get?"
"Me," he answered.
"I am flattered, but what else?"
"After Pharaoh the greatest place and the most power in Egypt, as the
wife of Pharaoh's Vizier."
"The wife? Doubtless from what I have heard of you, Kaku, there would be
other wives to share these honours."
"No other wife--upon the oath, none, Merytra."
She thought a moment, looking at the wizened but powerful-faced old
magician, then answered:
"I will take the oath and keep my share of it. See that you keep yours,
Kaku, or it will be the worse for you, for women have their own evil
power."
"I know it, Merytra, and from the beginning the wise have held that the
spirit dwells, not in the heart or brain or liver, but in the female
tongue. Now stand up."
She obeyed, and from some hidden place in the wall Kaku produced a book,
or rather a roll of magical writings, that was encased in iron, the
metal of the evil god, Typhon.
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