Ascend the Nile to Thebes, and lay this body of mine in the splendid tomb which I have made ready and sit in my seat, and do those things which that Royal Loveliness you have wed, commands to you, for It you shall obey.

But hasten, hasten, Abi, to hollow for yourself a grave, and let it be near to mine, for when you are dead this my Ka would come to visit you, as it does to-night.' "Then the Ka or the body of Pharaoh--I know not which it was--ceased from speaking, and lay there a while staring at me with its cold eyes, till at length the spirits of my four sons who are dead entered the chamber and, lifting up the shape, carried it away.

I awoke, shaking like a reed in the wind, and ran hither up a thousand steps to find you brawling with this low-born slut, dead Pharaoh's worn-out shoe that in bygone years I kicked from off my foot." Now Merytra would have answered, for she loved not such names, but the two men looked at her so fiercely that her rage died, and she was silent.
"Read me this vision, Man, and be swift, for the torment of it haunts me," went on Abi.

"If you cannot I strip you of your offices, and give your carcase to the rods until you find wisdom.

It was you who set me on this path, and by the gods you shall keep me safe in it or die by inches." Now, seeing his great danger, Kaku grew cold and cunning.
"It is true, O Prince," he said, "that I set you on this path, this high and splendid path, and it is true also that from the beginning I have kept you safe in it.