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COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.
First Edition

CONTENTS.

I. The Dream of Rima

II. The Messenger

III. The Escape

IV. The Temple of the Sphinx

V. The Swearing of the Oath

VI. Nefra Conquers the Pyramids

VII. The Plot of the Vizier

VIII. The Scribe Rasa

IX. The Crowning of Nefra

X. The Message

XI. The Fall

XII. The Spirit of the Pyramids

XIII. The Messenger from Tanis

XIV. The Sentence of Pharaoh

XV. Brother Temu

XVI. The Passing of Roy

XVII. The Fate of the Cliff-Climbers

XVIII. How Nefra Came to Babylon

XIX. The Four Brothers

XX. The March from Babylon

XXI. Traitor or Hero

XXII. Khian Returns to Tanis

XXIII. The Queen of the Dawn

Queen of the Dawn

CHAPTER I.
The Dream of Rima

There was war in Egypt and Egypt was rent in two. At Memphis in thenorth, at Tanis, and in all the rich lands of the Delta where by manymouths the Nile flows down to the sea, a usurping race held power,whose forefathers, generations before, had descended upon Egyptlike a flood, destroyed its temples and deposed its gods, possessingthemselves of the wealth of the land. At Thebes in the south thedescendants of the ancient Pharaohs still ruled precariously, againand again attempting to drive out the fierce Semitic or Bedouin kings,named the Shepherds, whose banners flew from the walls of all thenorthern cities.

They failed because they were too weak, indeed the hour of their finalvictory was yet far away and of it our tale does not tell.

Nefra the Princess, she who was named the Beautiful and afterwards wasknown as Uniter of Lands, was the only child of one of these ThebanAntefs, Kheperra, born of his Queen, Rima, daughter of Ditanah, theKing of Babylon, who had given her to him in marriage to strengt

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