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BELSHAZZAR CHAPTER I RAMOSE AND HIS MOTHER Now when by the favour of the most high God, Him whom I worship, to whom every man is gathered at last, now, I say, when I am old, many have urged upon me that I, RAMOSE, should set down certain of those things that I have seen in the days of my life, and particularly the tale of the fall of Babylon, the mighty city, before Cyrus the Persian, which chanced when he whom the Greeks called Nabonidus being newly dead, Belshazzar his son was king.

Count Ramose, for our life is like the chapters of a book, and already at our birth Fate has stamped the titles of those chapters upon its clay, leaving it to Time to write the rest.

I think, Ramose, if you will but trust to me who am wise and strong in my fashion, and being alas!

Queen Atyra, if you can forgive him, would it please you that while you are here I should appoint this Ramose who stands yonder, to be your chamberlain to attend upon your wants and bear your wishes to me?

Know, Ramose, that we shall hold you to strict account for her safety and her welfare and that if aught of ill befalls her while she is in your keeping, you shall make answer for it to us.

Know, Ramose, that without you I shall go mad, and ere I die work woes at which the world will shudder.

I bid you farewell, Count Ramose, trusting that you who are young and were sorely tempted, will have learned a lesson which cannot be forgotten.

But Ramose was her guardian and chamberlain, and Pharaoh demands his life in payment for hers, so do her Syrians, or will ere long.

If the Syrians have aught against the Count Ramose, let them come hither and set out their case before me and my captains.

Count Ramose, for such eyes as yours were never given to a robber of the helpless.

If the Captain Ramose wishes for a child who he says that he has found upon the battlefield, let him take her and welcome, with all that is on her.

Now here I set few guards and if to-morrow when I make public search for the Count Ramose and Belus the Babylonian, that I may deliver them to Pharaoh, they cannot be found, am I to blame?

Perhaps, Ramose, this is what she teaches when she visits me in my sleep.

Nay, it is not possible, for had he lived Ramose who loved me as a child and for whose sake I tore myself away from the sight of him, would never have left me desolate all these long years, believing that he was dead.

I will, Ramose, but cannot you understand that there are others behind him, and that to me they are all--crocodiles and toads?