"
"Yes," she answered gravely, "the Prince Abi suggested it to you but
now, did he not, after you had suggested it to him, and you refused--for
your own reasons?"
Then the sword fell from Abi's hand, and there was silence in that
chamber.
"What were you talking of, Abi, before you peeped through the shutters
and saw that captain of yours and me together in the garden, and why did
you wish to kill this dog?" she went on presently. "Must I answer for
you? You were talking of how you might be rid of me, and you wished to
kill him because he did not dare to tell you why he could not do the
deed, knowing that if he did so he must die. Well, since you desire to
know, you shall learn, and now. Look on me, wretched Man, whom men name
my husband. Look on me, accursed Slave, whom Amen has given into my
hand to punish here upon the earth, until you pass to his yonder in the
Under-world."
He looked up, and Kaku looked also, because he could not help it, but
what they saw they never told. Only they fell down upon their faces,
both of them, and groaned; beating the floor with their foreheads.
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