They shall guard the camp tomorrow; they will be equal to that when it is made clear to their understanding that, if they let the tents be taken, the bread, meat and wines-skins will also fall into the hands of the enemy.

If Kadesh is taken by storm, the temples of the Nile shall have the greater part of the spoil, and you yourself, my young high-priest of Memphis, shall show your colleagues that Rameses repays in bushels that which he has taken in handfuls from the ministers of the Gods." "Ameni's disaffection," replied Chamus, "has a deeper root; thy mighty spirit seeks and finds its own way--" "But their lordships," interrupted Rameses, "are accustomed to govern the king too, and I--I do not do them credit.

I rule as vicar of the Lord of the Gods, but--I myself am no God, though they attribute to me the honors of a divinity; and in all humility of heart I willingly leave it to them to be the mediators between the Immortals and me or my people.

Human affairs certainly I choose to manage in my own way.

And now no more of them.