Look, I will show you their journeyings on this scroll and you shall see where they eat you up yonder, yes, yonder over the Valley of dead Kings, though twenty years and more must go by ere then, and take this for your comfort, during those years you shine alone," and he began to unfold a papyrus roll.
Abi snatched it from him, crumpled it up and threw it in his face.
"You cheat!" he said.

"Do you think to frighten me with this nonsense about stars?
Here is my star," and he drew the short sword at his side and shook it over the head of the trembling Kaku.

"This sharp bronze is the star I follow, and be careful lest it should eclipse _you_, you father of lies." "I have told the truth as I see it," answered the poor astrologer with some dignity, "but if you wish, O Prince, that in the future I should indeed prophesy pleasant things to you, why, it can be done easily enough.

Moreover, it seems to me that this horoscope of yours is not so evil, seeing that it gives to you over twenty years of life and power, more by far than most men can expect--at your age.

If after that come troubles and the end, what of it ?" "That is so," replied Abi mollified.