"Now go in peace," he said, "and to-morrow you shall both strive to win a fresh mark of honor." When his sons had left the tent, Rameses turned to his charioteer and said: "I have to speak to you too before the battle.

I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here.

What has happened in Thebes ?" Mena looked frankly, but sadly at the king: "My mother-in-law Katuti," he said, "is managing my estate very badly, pledging the land, and selling the cattle." "That can be remedied," said Rameses kindly.

"You know I promised to grant you the fulfilment of a wish, if Nefert trusted you as perfectly as you believe.

But it appears to me as if something more nearly concerning you than this were wrong, for I never knew you anxious about money and lands.