Yet, if you would prosper, follow it, and when you are dead I will come and laugh upon your grave, and say, 'Here lies one of whom I had hoped higher things, as I hope them of your master.'" "And not in vain, Bakenkhonsu, whatever may happen to the servant." "That we shall learn, and ere long, I think.

I wonder who will ride at his side before the next Nile flood.

By then, perchance, he will have changed Pharaoh's golden chariot for an ox-cart, and you will goad the oxen and talk to him of the stars--or, mayhap of the moon.

Well, you might both be happier thus, and she of the moon is a jealous goddess who loves worship.

Oho-ho! Here are the palace steps.