I am called her husband, yet she is still no wife to me, or to any, although all men love her, and by that love are ofttimes brought to doom.

Last night again she vanished from my side as I sat listening to her orders, and after a while, lo! there she was as before, only, as it seemed to me, somewhat weary.

I asked her where she had been and she answered: 'Further than I could travel in a year to visit one she loved as much as she hated me.

Now who can that be, Kaku ?'" "Rames, I think, Lord, he who has made himself King of Kesh," replied Kaku in an awed whisper.

"Without a doubt she loved the man when she was a woman, though whom she loves now the evil gods know alone.