Therefore suddenly he went, or pretended to go, for how can one tell where such a man may really be?
But he will come back again.

Bethink you, Ki was the greatest magician in Egypt; even old Bakenkhonsu can remember none like to him.

Then he matches himself against the prophets of my people and fails." "But did he fail, Lady?
What they did he did, sending among the Israelites the plagues that your prophets had sent among us." "Yes, some of them, but he was outpaced, or feared to be outpaced at last.

Is Ki a man to forget that?
And if Ki chances really to believe that I am his adversary and his master at this black work, as because of what happened in the temple of Amon thousands believe to-day, will he not mete me my own measure soon or late?
Oh! I fear Ki, Ana, and I fear the people of Egypt, and were it not for my lord beloved, I would flee away into the wilderness with my son, and get me out of this haunted land! Hush! he wakes." From this time forward until the sword fell there was great dread in Egypt.

None seemed to know exactly what they dreaded, but all thought that it had to do with death.