"
"Here be two dreams, O Queen," said Abi. "Tell us now, which would you
follow, for both of them cannot be right?"
"How can I know, Pharaoh, and how can you know? Yet by your side stands
one who will know, for he is the first of magicians, and a chosen
interpreter of the heart of the gods. Grant that he may make this matter
clear," and she pointed to Kaku, who stood by the throne.
"Divine Lady," stammered Kaku, "the thing is too high for me. I have no
message, I cannot tell you----"
"You were ever over-modest, Kaku," said the Queen. "Command him, O
Pharaoh, to shed the light of his wisdom on us, for without doubt he
knows the truth."
"Yes, yes," said Abi, "he knows it, he knows everything. Kaku, delay
not, interpret the dream of her Majesty."
"I cannot, I will not," spluttered the old astrologer. "Ask my wife, the
Lady Merytra there, she is wiser than I am."
"My good friend Merytra has already told me her mind," said the Queen,
"now we wait for yours. A prophet must speak when the gods call on him,
or," she added slowly, "he must cease to be a prophet who betrays the
gods by hiding their high counsel.
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