If Rames or the foul Beggar brings you any message it will be that you are King of Kesh as well as of Egypt, and then you can kill him and take the heritage.

A fig for Rames and its stalk for the Beggar!" "Perhaps," replied Abi more cheerfully, "at any rate I do not fear that risk; but how about all Pharaoh's talk of tombs ?" "Being dead, Prince, it is natural that the mind of his Ka should run on tombs, and his own royal burial, which as a matter of policy we must give to him.

Besides there the prophesy was safe, since to these same tombs all must come, especially those of us who have seen the Nile rise over sixty times--as I have," he added hastily.

"When we reach the tomb it will be time to deal with its affairs; till then let us be content with life, and the good things it offers, such as thrones, and find the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, and the rest.

Harvest your corn when it is ripe, Prince, and do not trouble about next year's crop or whether in his grave Pharaoh's Double eats white bread or brown.
Pharaoh's daughter--or Amen's--is your business, not his ghost." "Yes, good soothsayer," said Abi, "she is my business.