together?"

"If you think that, Kaku, perhaps you will unlock the door and give me
an escort home, for we are only wasting time."

"I don't know what to think, for you are as cunning as you are
beautiful. Listen, woman," he continued in a savage whisper, and
clasping her by the wrist. "If you are false, I tell you that you shall
die horribly, for if the knife and poison fail, I am no charlatan, I
have arts. I can make you turn loathsome to the sight and waste away, I
can haunt you at nights so that you may never sleep a wink, save in
full sunshine, and I will do it all and more. If I die, Merytra, we go
together. Now will you swear to be true, will you swear it by the oath
of oaths?"

The spy looked about her. She knew Kaku's power which was famous
throughout Egypt, and that it was said to be of the most evil sort, and
she feared him.

"It seems that this is a dangerous affair," she replied uneasily, "and I
think that I can guess your aim. Now if I help you, Kaku, what am _I_ to
get?"

"Me," he answered.

"I am flattered, but what else?"

"After Pharaoh the greatest place and the most power in Egypt, as the
wife of Pharaoh's Vizier."