As they
tell, this was the command of that Queen--that he should submit himself
to the King of Napata to be judged for his crime. This he did, and the
King in his fury commanded that he should be hanged from the mast of the
sacred boat of Amen. The general answered that he was ready to be hanged
if the King could hang him. Then there was a war between the people of
Napata and the Egyptians, aided by many of the soldiers of the city who
hated their master and rebelled against his rule, which was ever cruel.
The end of it was that the Egyptians and the rebels won, and the King
having fallen in the fight, they crowned the Egyptian general in his
place.
"His name?--Oh, I forget it, he has so many, but he is a goodly man to
look at, and all love him although he is mad. See, the gates are open at
last. Farewell," and dragging her asses by the halter, the peasant woman
mingled with the crowd and was gone.
Tua and Asti also mingled with the crowd, and rode on up a wide street
till they came to a square planted round with trees, on one side of
which was built a splendid palace.
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