Luxor was becoming distinctly overcrowded. Fortunately Pharaohin Serrena came up with the excellent idea of restoring to me, Lord Taita, all the properties and rights that had been confiscated from me by the former, but now deceased, Pharaoh Utteric. This made me once more one of the richest men in Egypt. I was able to place my palaces and other suitable accommodations in the city at the disposal of King Hurotas and his wife, and also his minions the petty kings.
Pharaoh Rameses also elevated me to the rank of Lord High Chancellor and Chief Minister of his cabinet. His cabinet consisted almost entirely of the thirty-two officials selected by Utteric for execution who were waiting in the Garden of Joy, which had previously been known as the Gates of Torment and Sorrow. When Rameses sent for them, at my suggestion, they came trooping joyfully into the city of Luxor and went unerringly into their appointed offices in the palace of government to take up their duties under me.
Precisely six months after their triumphal return to Luxor I, as Lord High Chancellor, uplifted Pharaoh Rameses and his wife Pharaohin Serrena Cleopatra to the throne of Egypt for their formal coronation. Almost four hundred invitees packed the great hall of the palace. These included fourteen other emperors and kings from the lands surrounding the great Middle Sea.
Egypt was restored to her former glory and I could not forbear to smile as I placed the golden crowns on the heads of my two most favourite persons in all the world.
About the Author
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When The Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.
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Also by Wilbur Smith
The Egyptian Series
River God
The Seventh Scroll
Warlock
The Quest
Desert God
The Courtney Series
When the Lion Feeds
The Sound of Thunder
A Sparrow Falls
The Burning Shore
Power of the Sword
Rage
A Time to Die
Golden Fox
Birds of Prey
Monsoon
Blue Horizon
The Triumph of the Sun
Assegai
Golden Lion
The Ballantyne Series
A Falcon Flies
Men of Men
The Angels Weep
The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
Thrillers
The Dark of the Sun
Shout at the Devil
Gold Mine
The Diamond Hunters
The Sunbird
Eagle in the Sky
The Eye of the Tiger
Cry Wolf
Hungry as the Sea
Wild Justice (UK); The Delta Decision (US)
Elephant Song
Those in Peril
Vicious Circle
Predator
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