"
Now Kaku could find no way of escape, so, since he feared the very name
of Rames, within himself he determined that he would interpret the
dream in the sense that Pharaoh should await the attack of this Rames at
Thebes, and while every ear listened to him, thus began his tale. Yet as
he spoke he felt the glittering eyes of that spirit who was called the
Queen, fix themselves upon him and compel his tongue, so that he said
just what he did not mean to say.
"A light shines in me," he cried, "and I see that the second vision of
her Majesty is the true vision. You must go up with your army to the
Gate of the South, O Pharaoh, and there meet this usurper, Rames, that
these matters may be brought to their appointed end."
"Their appointed end? What appointed end?" shouted Abi.
"Doubtless that which her Majesty dreamed," answered Kaku. "At least,
it is laid upon me to tell you that you must go up to the Gate of the
South."
"Then I wish that the Gate of the South were laid upon you also, O Evil
Prophet," exclaimed Abi.
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