Nor did she gaze alone, for every man in that vast hall turned himself
about, and stared at its departing glory. There in the red light they
stood, and stared, and since the place was open to the sky, the shadows
of the two towering obelisks without fell on them like the shadows of
swords whereof the points met together at the foot of Tua's throne. They
did not believe that anything would happen, no, not even the priests
believed it who here at Memphis, the city of Ptah, thought little of
Amen, the god of Thebes. They thought that this piteous prayer was but
a last cry of dying faith wrung from a proud and fallen woman in her
wretchedness.
And yet, and yet they stared, for she had spoken with a strange
certainty like one who knew the god, and was she not named Star of
Amen, and were there not wondrous tales as to her birth, and had not a
lotus-bloom seemed to turn to gold and jewels in the hand of this young,
anointed Queen who bore the Cross of Life upon her breast? No, nothing
would happen, but still they stared.
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