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Moon of Israel

CHAPTER X
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This is but a fit which may pass.

Begone, every one, he must have quiet." So we went, but first Seti knelt down and kissed his father on the brow.
An hour later the Princess Userti broke into the room of his palace where the Prince and I were talking.
"Seti," she said, "Pharaoh still lives, but the physicians say he will be dead by dawn.

There is yet time.

Here I have a writing, sealed with his signet and witnessed, wherein he recalls all that he decreed in the Court to-day, and declares you, his son, to be the true and only heir of the throne of Egypt." "Is it so, wife?
Tell me now how did a dying man in a swoon command and seal this writing ?" and he touched the scroll she held in her hand.
"He recovered for a little while; Nehesi will tell you how," she replied, looking him in the face with cold eyes.

Then before he could speak, she added, "Waste no more breath in questions, but act and at once.


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