And now Peroa has determined to rebel against the King, which also is well done.

Oh! trouble not to tell me of that business for I know all.

But what would you learn of me, Shabaka ?" "I am instructed to learn from you the end of these great matters, my Uncle." "Are you mad, Shabaka, that you should think me a god who can read the future ?" "Not at all, my Uncle, who know that you can if you will." "Call the maiden," he said.
So Bes went out and brought her in.
"Be seated, Karema, there in front of the altar, and look into my eyes." She obeyed and presently seemed to go to sleep for her head nodded.

Then he said, "Wake, woman, look into the water in the bowl upon the altar and tell me what you see." She appeared to wake, though I perceived that this was not really so, for she seemed a different woman with a fixed face that frightened me, and wide and frozen eyes.

She stared into the silver bowl, then spoke in a new voice, as though some spirit used her tongue.
"I see myself crowned a queen in a land I hate," she said coldly, a saying at which I gasped.