Rise up now and adorn
yourself, for this is your day of victory and marriage."
As the sun rose Tua went forth more beautiful than the morning, and at
the gates of the temple found Rames awaiting her, clad in his armour,
while from the mists below came a sound as of an army approaching.
"What passes?" asked Tua, looking at him, and there was more love in her
blue eyes than there is water in the Nile at flood.
"I think that Abi attacks us, Lady," he said, bowing the knee to her,
"and I am fearful for you, for our men are few, and his are many."
"Be not afraid of Abi, or of anything, O Rames, though it is true that
this day you must lose your liberty," she answered with a sweet and
gentle smile, and he wondered at her words.
Then, before he could speak again, two of the captains of his outposts
ran in and reported that without were priests and heralds, who came in
peace from the army of Abi.
"Summon the officers, and let them be admitted," said Rames, "but be
careful, all of you, lest this embassy should hide some trick of war.
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