and Antony.
The ships of Antony and Cleopatra bore down upon the ships of Caesar, and
drove them on, for victory inclined to Antony.

I looked again. There sat Cleopatra in a gold-decked galley watching the
fight with eager eyes. Then I cast my Spirit on her so that she seemed
to hear the voice of dead Harmachis crying in her ear.

"_Fly, Cleopatra,_" it seemed to say, "_fly or perish!_"

She looked up wildly, and again she heard my Spirit's cry. Now a mighty
fear took hold of her. She called aloud to the sailors to hoist the
sails and make signal to her fleet to put about. This they did wondering
but little loath, and fled in haste from the battle.

Then a great roar went up from friend and foe.

"Cleopatra is fled! Cleopatra is fled!" And I saw wreck and red ruin
fall upon the fleet of Antony and awoke from my trance.

The days passed, and again a vision of my father came to me and spoke,
saying:

"Arise, my son!--the hour of vengeance is at hand! Thy plots have not
failed; thy prayers have been heard. By the bidding of the Gods, as she
sat in her galley at the fight of Actium, the heart of Cleopatra was
filled with fears, so that, deeming she heard thy voice bidding her fly
or perish, she fled with all her fleet. Now the strength of Actium is
broken on the sea. Go forth, and as it shall be put into thy mind, so do
thou."

In the morning I awoke, wondering, and went to the mouth of the tomb,
and there, coming up the valley, I saw the messengers of Cleopatra, and
with them a Roman guard.

"What will ye with me now?" I asked, sternly.

"This is the message of the Queen and of great Antony," answered the
Captain, bowing low before me, for I was much feared by all men. "The
Queen commands thy presence at Alexandria. Many times has she sent, and
thou wouldst not come; now she bids thee to come, and that swiftly, for
she has need of thy counsel."

"And if I say Nay, soldier, what then?"

"These are my orders, most holy Olympus; that I bring thee by force."

I laughed aloud. "By force, thou fool! Use not such talk to me, lest I
smite thee where thou art. Know, then, that I can kill as well as cure!"

"Pardon, I beseech thee!" he answered, shrinking. "I say but those
things that I am bid."

"Well, I know it, Captain. Fear not; I come."

So on that very day I departed, together with the aged Atoua. Ay, I went
as secretly as I had come; and the tomb of the Divine Rameses knew me no
more. And with me I took