"How can she have fled through a triple line of guards ?" "Search, then, and see, O Pharaoh." So Abi searched, but though none had seen her pass, and none had gone with her, the Queen could not be found.
It was midnight, and while they still searched, by the light of the moon a tall figure clad in tattered robes, who bore a thornwood staff in his hand, and had a white beard that fell down below his middle, was perceived walking to and fro about the camp.
"Who is that fellow ?" asked Abi, and as he spoke the figure cried aloud in a great voice: "Listen, Councillors, Captains, and Soldiers of Egypt, to the command of Amen, spoken by the lips of his messenger, Kepher the Wanderer.

Lift no sword against Rames, Lord of Kesh, for he is my servant, and shall be Pharaoh over you, and husband of your Queen, and father of kings to come.

Seize Abi the usurper, the murderer of Pharaoh, his brother, and Kaku the sorcerer, and Merytra the traitress, and lead them at the dawn to my temple upon yonder hill, where I will declare my commands to you in the sanctuary of the temple.

So shall peace be upon you and all Egypt, and the breath of life remain in your nostrils." Now hearing these fearful words, and remembering dead Pharaoh's prophecy of a Beggar who should bring a message to him, Abi drew his sword and rushed at the man.

But ere ever he came there, the Wanderer was gone, and lo! they heard him repeating his message far away.