Afterwards Smith wrote to ask, but the
Director-General could only remember that he gave him one of the two
rings, and assured him that that inscribed "_Bes Ank, Ank Bes_," was
with Ma-Mee's other jewels in the Gold Room of the Museum.
Also Smith is wondering whether any other bronze figure of an old
Egyptian royalty shows so high a percentage of gold as, on analysis, the
broken image of Ma-Mee was proved to do. For had she not seemed to tell
him a tale of the melting of a golden chain when that effigy was cast?
Was it all only a dream, or was it--something more--by day and by night
he asks of Nothingness?
But, be she near or far, no answer comes from the Queen Ma-Mee, whose
proud titles were "Her Majesty the Good God, the justified Dweller in
Osiris; Daughter of Amen, Royal Heiress, Royal Sister, Royal Wife, Royal
Mother; Lady of the Two Lands; Wearer of the Double Crown; of the White
Crown, of the Red Crown; Sweet Flower of Love, Beautiful Eternally."
So, like the rest of us, Smith must wait to learn the truth concerning
many things, and more particularly as to which of those two circles of
ancient gold the Director-General gave him yonder at Cairo.
It seems but a little matter, yet it is more than all the worlds to him!
To the astonishment of his colleagues in antiquarian research, Smith has
never returned to Egypt.
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