At length the icy terror seemed to be lifted from their hearts, and they
dared to glance up again, and saw that she was as she had been, a most
royal and lovely woman, but no more.
"What are you?" gasped Abi. "The goddess Sekhet in the flesh, or Isis,
Queen of Death, or but dead Tua's ghost sent here for vengeance?"
"All of them, or none of them, as you will, though, Man, it is true that
I am sent here for vengeance. Ask the Wizard yonder. He knows, and I
give him leave to say."
"_She is the Double of Amen's daughter_," moaned Kaku. "She is her Ka
set free to bring doom upon those who would have wronged her. She is
a ghost armed with the might of the gods, and all we who have sinned
against dead Pharaoh and her and her father Amen are given into her hand
to be tormented and brought to doom."
"Where, then, is Neter-Tua, who was Queen of Egypt?" gasped Abi, rolling
his great eyes. "Is she with Osiris?"
"I will tell you, Man," answered the royal Shape. "She is not dead--she
lives, and is gone to seek one she loves.
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