But no answer came, no deity appeared, no voice spoke.

At length Asti rose, and coming to her, whispered in her ear: "Let us depart ere the watching spirits, whose rest we have broken, grow wrath with us.

The god has shut his ears." So Tua rose, clinging to Asti, for now, she knew not why, her fear grew and deepened.

For a moment she stood upon her feet, then sank to her knees again, for there at the far end of the great tomb, near to the door by which they had entered, appeared a glow upon the darkness.
Slowly it took form, the form of a woman clad in the royal robes of Egypt, and bearing in its hand a sceptre.

The figure of light advanced towards them, so that presently they saw its face.