Now as to this dream of yours, I find its meaning good. How did Pharaoh
come to you? Not as a living spirit, but in the fashion of a dead man,
and who cares for dead men?"
"I do, for one, when they cut my mouth with broken crystals,"
interrupted Merytra, who was bathing her wounds in a basin of water.
"Would that they had cut your tongue instead of your lips, Woman,"
snarled Abi. "Continue, Kaku, and heed her not."
"And what was his message?" went on the magician. "Why, that you shall
marry the Majesty of Egypt, and rule in her right and sit in the seat
of kings. Are not these the very things that you desire, and have worked
for years to win?"
"Yes, Kaku, but you forget all that about one Rames, and the tomb that I
must hollow, and the rest."
"Rames? Merytra here can tell you of him, Prince. He is the madcap young
Count who killed the Prince of Kesh, and was sent by Neter-Tua far to
the South-lands, that the barbarians there might make an end of him
without scandal. If ever he should come back with the Beggar-man and
his message, which is not likely, you can answer him with the halter he
deserves.
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