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Morning Star

CHAPTER XVII
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Hearken: Return to Thebes, and tell a false tale in the ears of Abi and his councillors.
Say that Rames the Egyptian, who has seized the rule of Kesh, has declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt by right of race, and your husband by the promise of him who ruled before you whom Abi did to death.

Cause this Abi to gather a great army, and to march southward to make an end of Rames.

But secretly whisper into the ears of the generals of this army, that it is true the divine Pharaoh who is gone promised you in marriage to Rames with your own consent, and by the command of Amen, Father of the Gods, and of your Spirit.

Whisper to them that Amen is wrath with Abi because of his crime, as he will show them in due season, and that those who rebel against him shall have his love and favour.

At the Gateway of the South, whence the Nile rushes northward between great walls of rock, Rames shall meet the army of Abi.


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