I awoke, trembling in my limbs.
Interpret me this dream if you can, O Ki, Master of Magic." "Where is the need, Lady," he answered, awaking as though from sleep, "when the dreamer is also the seer?
Shall the pupil venture to instruct the teacher, or the novice to make plain the mysteries to the high-priestess of the temple?
Nay, Lady, I and all the magicians of Egypt are beneath your feet." "Why will you ever mock me ?" she said, and as she spoke, she shivered.
Then Bakenkhonsu opened his lips, saying: "The wisdom of Ki has been buried in a cloud of late, and gives no light to us, his disciples.

Yet the meaning of this dream is plain, though whether it be also true I do not know.

It is that all the host of Egypt, and with it the gods of Egypt, are threatened with destruction because of the Israelites, unless one to whom they will hearken can be found to turn them from some purpose that I do not understand.

But to whom will the mad hearken, oh! to whom will they hearken ?" and lifting his great head, he looked straight at the Prince.
"Not to me, I fear, who now am no one in Egypt," said Seti.
"Why not to you, O Prince, who to-morrow may be everyone in Egypt ?" asked Bakenkhonsu.

"Always you have pleaded the cause of the Hebrews, and said that naught but evil would befall Egypt because of them, as has happened.