CHAPTER X
THE COMING OF THE KA
Now it was morning, and while the physicians embalmed the body of
Pharaoh as best they could, Tua consulted with her officers. Long and
earnest was that council, for all of them felt that their danger was
very great. Abi had escaped, and if he were re-taken, none knew better
than he that his death and that of all his House would be the reward of
his crimes and sorceries which could only be covered up in one way--by
marriage with the Queen of Egypt. Moreover, he had thousands of soldiers
in the city and around it, all of them sworn to his service, whereas the
royal guard was but five companies, each of a hundred men, trapped in a
snare of streets and stone.
One of them suggested that they should break a way through the wall of
the temple, and escape to the royal barges that lay moored on the Nile
beneath them, and this plan was approved. But when they went to set
about the work it was seen that these barges had been seized and were
already sailing away up the river.
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