It was he who had met Tua and Asti in the wilderness and eaten up their
food. It was he who had saved them in the palace of the desert king. It
was he who but last night had walked the camp of Abi.
"I am that Messenger whom men from the beginning have called Kepher,"
he said. "I am the Dweller in the wilderness whom your fathers knew, and
your sons shall know. I am he who seeks for charity and pays it back in
life and death. I am the pen of Thoth the Recorder, I am the scourge of
Osiris. I am the voice of Amen, god above the gods. Hearken you people
of Egypt--not for a little end have these things come to pass, but that
ye may learn that there is design in heaven, and justice upon earth,
and, after justice, judgment. Pharaoh, the good servant of the gods, was
basely murdered by his own kin whom he trusted. Neter-Tua, his daughter,
and daughter of Amen, was condemned to shame, Rames of the royal race
was sent forth to danger or to death, far from her he loved, and who
loved him by that divine command which rules the hearts of men.
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