If so, I do not know that I would refuse, since Ethiopia will not run away and there is much of the world that I should still like to visit.

Only then there is Karema to be thought about, who expects, or, when she learns all, soon will expect, to be a queen," he added doubtfully.
"No, Bes, I am too tired to make new plans, so let us go to Ethiopia and not disappoint Karema, who after holding a cup so long naturally would like to try a sceptre." "I think that is wisest, Master; at any rate the holy Tanofir thinks it wisest, and he is the voice of Fate.

Oh! why do we trouble who after all, every one of us, are nothing but pieces upon the board of Fate." Then he turned and left me and I entered the house where I found my mother sitting, still in her festal robes, like one who waits.

She looked at my face, then asked what troubled me.

I sat down on a stool at her feet and told her everything.
"Much as I thought," she said when I had finished.