It was that man who had mocked the Queen and turned faint beneath her gaze.
Through the western ruin of the hall those who were left alive within it fled out, a maddened mob, trampling each other to death by scores, fighting furiously to escape the vengeance of Amen and his daughter.
Within the enclosure the priests lay prostrate on their faces, each praying to his god for mercy.

In front of the throne, upon his knees, the royal crown shaken from his head, Abi grasped the feet of Neter-Tua and screamed to her to forgive and spare him, whilst above, shining like fire, That which sat upon the throne pointed with her sceptre at the ruin and the rout, and laughed and laughed again.
Soon all were gone save the mumbling priests, the dying, the dead, and Abi with his officers.
The clouds rolled off, the moon and the stars shone out, filling the place with gentle light.

Then Tua spoke, looking down at the wretched Abi who grovelled before her.
"Say, now, Husband," she asked, "who is god in Egypt ?" "Amen your father," he gasped.
"And who is Pharaoh in Egypt ?" "You, and no other, O Queen." "Ah!" she said, "it was over that matter that we quarrelled, did we not?
which forced me, whom you thought so helpless, to find helpers.

Look, there are their footsteps; they walk heavily, do they not, my Uncle ?" and she nodded towards the huge fragments of the broken obelisks.
He glanced behind him at his ruined hall, at the dying and the dead.
"You are Pharaoh and no other," he repeated with a shudder.

"Give breath to your servant, and let him live on in your shadow." "The first is not mine to give," she answered coldly, "though perchance it may please Amen to hold you back a little while from that place where you must settle your account with him who went before me, and his companions who died in your streets.