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Moon of Israel

CHAPTER X
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THE DEATH OF PHARAOH It was the appointed day and hour.

By command of the Prince I drove with him to the palace of Pharaoh, whither her Highness the Princess refused to be his companion, and for the first time we talked together of that which had passed in the temple.
"Have you seen the lady Merapi ?" he asked of me.
I answered No, as I was told that she was sick within her house and lay abed suffering from weariness, or I knew not what.
"She does well to keep there," said Seti, "I think that if she came out those priests would murder her if they could.

Also there are others," and he glanced back at the chariot that bore Userti in state.

"Say, Ana, can you interpret all this matter ?" "Not I, Prince.

I thought that perhaps your Highness, the high-priest of Anon, could give me light." "The high-priest of Amon wanders in thick darkness.


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