Afterwards, with Asti and a small guard of the Arab chiefs of the desert, she mounted a dromedary and rode round them in the moonlight, hoping that she would meet the ghosts of those kings, and that they would talk with her as the ghost of her mother had done.

But she saw no ghosts, nor would Asti try to summon them from their sleep, although Tua prayed her to do so.
"Leave them alone," said Asti, as they paused in the shadow of the greatest of the pyramids and stared at its shining face engraved from base to summit with many a mystic writing.
"Leave them alone lest they should be angry as Amen was, and tell your Majesty things which you do not wish to hear.

Contemplate their mighty works, such as no monarch can build to-day, and suffer them to rest therein undisturbed by weaker folk." "Do you call these mighty works ?" asked Tua contemptuously, for she was angry because Asti would not try to raise the dead.

"What are they after all, but so many stones put together by the labour of men to satisfy their own vanity?
And of those who built them what story remains?
There is none at all save some vain legends.

Now if _I_ live I will rear a greater monument, for history shall tell of me till time be dead." "Perhaps, Neter-Tua, if you live and the gods will it, though for my part I think that these old stones will survive the story of most deeds." On the morrow of this visit to the Pyramids Pharaoh and the Queen his daughter made their state entry into the great white-walled city of Memphis, where they were royally received by Pharaoh's brother, the Prince Abi, who was still the ruler of all this town and district.