"Follow me, friend Ana, if you have the strength.
Nay, lean upon my shoulder." So resting upon the shoulder of the Prince, for I was bruised and breathless, I walked with him a hundred paces or more to the steps of the great temple where we climbed to the platform at the head of the stairs.

After us came the prisoner, and after him all the multitude, a very great number who stood upon the steps and on the flat ground beyond.

The Prince, who was very white and quiet, sat himself down upon the low granite base of a tall obelisk which stood in front of the temple pylon, and said: "As Governor of Tanis, the City of Rameses, with power of life and death at all hours and in all places, I declare my Court open." "The Royal Court is open!" cried the multitude in the accustomed form.
"This is the case," said the Prince.

"Yonder man who is named Khuaka, by his dress a captain of Pharaoh's army, is charged with the murder of a certain Hebrew, and with the attempted murder of Ana the scribe.

Let witnesses be called.