So much for your interpretation of dreams, O Cheat."
"Wait till you are sure before you call me such names, Prince," replied
Kaku indignantly. "Let us search the temple, she may be elsewhere."
So they searched it court by court, and chamber by chamber, till they
came to that inner hall in front of the Sanctuary where Pharaoh had set
up his throne while he sojourned at Memphis. This hall was a dark place,
into which light flowed only through the gratings in the clerestory,
being roofed in with blocks of granite laid upon its lotus-shaped
columns. Now, at the hour of sunrise, the gloom in it was still deep,
so deep that the searchers felt their way from pillar to pillar, seeing
nothing. Presently, however, a ray of light from the rising sun sped
through the opening shaped like the eye of Osiris in the eastern wall,
and as it had done for thousands of years, struck upon the shrine of
the goddess, and the throne that was set in front of it, revealing the
throne, and seated thereon Neter-Tua, her Majesty of Egypt.
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