[Moon of Israel by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMoon of Israel CHAPTER V 23/32
Yet I see written on the tablets the price he obtained for some house in a city that is not named--it is so much.
Also I see the sums he disbursed for himself, a servant, and the food of an ass at two inns where he stopped upon a journey.
They are so much and so much.
Also there is a list of papyrus rolls and the words, 'blue cloak,' and then an erasure." "Is that right, Ana ?" asked the Prince. "Quite right," I answered with awe, "only the words 'blue cloak,' which it is true I wrote upon the tablet, have also been erased." Ki chuckled and turned his eyes from the ceiling to my face. "Would your Highness wish me to tell you anything of what is written upon the tablets of this scribe's memory as well as upon those of wax which he holds in his hand? They are easier to decipher than the others and I see on them many things of interest.
For instance, secret words that seem to have been said to him by some Great One within an hour, matters of high policy, I think.
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