"
"Is that all?" asked Kaku again.
"No, not all, for my power is taken from me. I who was great, after
Pharaoh the greatest in all the land, now am but a slave. From morning
to night I must work at tasks I hate; I must build temples to Amen, I
must dig canals, I must truckle to the common herd, and redress their
grievances and remit their taxes. More, I must chastise the Bedouin who
have ever been my friends, and--next month undertake a war against that
King of Khita, with whom I made a secret treaty, and whose daughter that
I married has been sent back to him because I loved her."
"And then?" asked Kaku.
"Oh! then when the Khita have been destroyed and made subject to Egypt,
then her Majesty purposes to return in state to Thebes 'to attend to the
fashioning of my sepulchre' since, so she says, this is a matter that
will not bear delay. Indeed, already she makes drawings for it, horrible
and mystic drawings that I cannot understand, and brings them to me to
see. Moreover, Friend, know this, out of it opens another smaller tomb
for _you_.
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