Pharaoh, as you
know, I have skill in divination, the spirits of the dead whisper at
times in my ears of things that are to be. It seemed to me just now when
having left the presence of the Queen, my foster-child, I stood a while
alone in the darkness, that the divine Majesty of the great lady, the
royal wife, Ahura, who was my friend and mistress, stood beside me and
said:
"'Go, Asti, to Pharaoh, and say to Pharaoh that great danger threatens
him and our royal daughter. Say to him--Fly from Memphis, lest there he
should be prepared for burial, and the Star of Amen hidden by a cloud of
shame. Bid him beware of one about his throne, and of that evil magician
with whom she made a pact last night.'"
Now Pharaoh looked at Asti and said:
"O dreamer of dreams, interpret your own dream. Who is she about my
throne of whom I should beware, and who is the magician with whom she
made a pact?"
"The divine Queen did not tell me, Pharaoh," answered Asti stubbornly,
"but my own skill tells me. She is Merytra, your favourite, and the
magician is Kaku, whom she visited last night.
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