CHAPTER XV.
TUA AND THE KING OF TAT In the morning, after Tua and Asti had put on the clean robes that lay to their hands, and eaten, suddenly they looked up and perceived that Kepher, the ancient beggar of the desert, was in the room with them, though neither of them had heard or seen him enter.
"You come silently, Friend," said Asti, looking at him with a curious eye.

"A Double could not move with less noise, and--where is your shadow ?" she added, staring first at the sun without, and then at the floor upon which he stood.
"I forgot it," he answered in his deep voice.

"One so poor as I am cannot always afford a shadow.

But look, there it is now.

And for the rest, what do you know of Doubles which those who are uninstructed cannot discern?
Now I have heard of a Lady in Egypt who by some chance bore your name, and who has the power, not only to see the Double, but to draw it forth from the body of the living, and furnish it with every semblance of mortal life.