But this I say to you, that if you break the spirit of your bond and suffer yonder Shabaka to go hence with a bitter heart, trouble shall come on you.

All the Great King's armies did not die yonder by the banks of Nile, and mayhap one day he will journey to bury the bones of those who fell, and with them _yours_, O Pharaoh.

I do not think that you will listen to me to-night, and I am sure that yonder lady, full of the new-fanned flame of the jealous goddess, will not listen.

Still let her take counsel and remember my words: In the hour of desperate danger let her send to Shabaka and demand his help, promising in return what he has asked and remembering that if Isis loves her, that goddess was born upon the Nile and loves Egypt more." "Too late, too late, _too late!_" wailed Amada Then she burst into tears and turning fled away with the high priest.
Pharaoh went also leaving me and Bes alone.

I looked for the holy Tanofir to speak with him, but he too was gone.
"It is time to sleep, Master," said Bes, "for all this talk is more wearisome than any battle.