Is it not so, Pharaoh ?" and she looked at him with her glittering eyes.
"Yes, yes," answered Abi, "the sooner the better, for I am worn out, and would return to Thebes.

Yet," he added in a weak, uncertain voice, "I misdoubt me of this war, I know not why.

What is it that you stare at in the heavens so fixedly, O Kaku ?" Now the eyes of the Council were turned on Kaku the Vizier, and they perceived that he was much disturbed.
"Look," he said, pointing with a trembling finger towards the skies.
They looked, and saw hanging just above the evening glow a very bright and wonderful star, and near to it, another, paler star which presently it seemed to cover.
"The Star of Amen," gasped Kaku in a voice that shook, "and your star, O Pharaoh.

The Star of Amen eats it up, your star goes out, and will never be seen again by living man.

Oh! Abi, that which I foresaw years and years ago has come to pass.