"If that is your will, Lord," said Kaku in a strained voice, "bide
here."
"Why, man?" asked Abi.
"Because her Majesty comes," he answered, "and this chamber is quiet and
fitting. None enter it save myself."
As he spoke the words the door opened, and closed again, and before them
stood Neter-Tua, Star of Amen.
In the dusk of that room the first thing that seemed to catch her eye
was the bared blade in Abi's hand. For a moment she looked at it and
him, also at Kaku crouching in the corner, then asked in her quiet
voice:
"Why is your sword drawn, O Husband?"
"To kill you, O Wife," he answered furiously, for his rage mastered him.
She continued to look at him a little while and said, smiling in her
strange fashion:
"Indeed? But why more now than at any other time? Has Kaku's counsel
given you courage?"
"Need you ask, shameless woman? Does not this window-place open on to
yonder garden?"
"Oh! I remember, that captain of yours--he who slew Mermes, your
daughter's husband who made love to me--so well that I rewarded him with
a funeral flower, knowing that you watched us.
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