"It was thou who soon after his birth didst tell my husband that he was born under a lucky star, and would grow to be an honor and an ornament to his house and to his country.

And now--now he will ruin himself in this world, and the next." "What I foretold of your son," said Ameni, "shall assuredly be fulfilled, for the ways of the Gods are not as the ways of men." "Thy words do me good!" cried Setchem.

"None can tell what fearful terror weighed upon my heart, when I made up my mind to come here.

But thou dost not yet know all.

The great masts of cedar, which Paaker sent from Lebanon to Thebes to bear our banners, and ornament our gateway, were thrown to the ground at sunrise by the frightful wind." "Thus shall your son's defiant spirit be broken," said Ameni; "But for you, if you have patience, new joys shall arise." "I thank thee again," said Setchem.