Still we do not understand.

Tell us the tale, O Asti." So Asti stood forward, and told that tale, omitting nothing, and then Rames told his tale, whereto Tua the Queen added a little, and, although ere they finished the sun was high, none wearied in listening save only Abi, Kaku, and Merytra, who heard death in every word.
It was done at length, and a great silence fell upon the place, for the tongues of men were tied.

Presently, the High-Priest, who all this while had stood with bent head, lifted up his eyes to heaven, crying: "O Amen, Father of the Spirit of this Queen, show now thy will, that we may learn it and obey." For a while there was silence, till suddenly a sound was heard in the dark sanctuary where stood the statue of the god, a sound as of a stick tapping upon the granite floor.

Then the curtains of that sanctuary were drawn, and standing between them there appeared the figure of an ancient, bearded man, with stony eyes, who was clad in a beggar's robe.
It was he who had met Tua and Asti in the wilderness and eaten up their food.

It was he who had saved them in the palace of the desert king.