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The Ancient Allan

CHAPTER XIII
12/29

But what do you mean?
Doubtless she prepares herself for the feast where I shall meet her." "Doubtless.

Tell me, what passes at the temple of Isis?
As I crept past the pylon feeling my way with my beggar's staff, I thought--but how can you know who have only been in Memphis an hour?
Yet surely I heard voices just now calling out that you, Shabaka, should be named as the next successor to the throne of Egypt.

Was it so ?" "Yes, holy Tanofir.

That is why I have left who was vexed and am sworn to seek no such honour, which indeed I do not desire." "Just so, Nephew.

Yet gifts have a way of coming to those who do not desire them and the last vision that I saw before my Cup left me, or rather that she saw, was of you wearing the Double Crown.


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