Thirty-fifth birthday of Prince Remeses--Queen Amense proposes to abdicate in his favor--The Hebrew page, Israel--Melancholy of the Queen--Prince Mœris--Moving interview between the Queen and Remeses--He declines the throne of Egypt--A secret!--Prince Mœris seeks the ruin of Remeses--A bribe!--Suspicion!--Terrible agitation of the Queen--Attempt of Mœris to poison Amense at a banquet--Another bribe--A mystery!--Remeses consents to accept the sceptre--pp. 347-363. LETTER XXII. Remeses prepares for his coronation by an initiation into the mysteries of the temple--Power and influence of Egyptian priesthood--Daily public duties of the Queen--Her attire--Her bathing and dressing rooms--Skilful adornment of their hair by Egyptian ladies--The Queen acts as chief priestess--Her delightful hospitalities--Beautiful trait of character--Proposed succession of Remeses--Solemn vigil, and other ceremonies of initiation--Remeses shut out from the world in the gloom of the mysterious temple-- Israelisis with a message from the Queen--The Celestial Sea--A courier from Mœris--Great distress and singular manner of the Queen--A terrible secret--An impatient follower--pp. 364-380. LETTER XXIII. Revelations--Letter from Mœris--His haughty demand--Is Remeses the son of Pharaoh's Daughter?--Another letter and another haughty demand from Mœris--Still another--A doubt!--An investigation--Amense never a mother!--Her descent to the Nile to bathe--The little ark of basket-work and beautiful child--The princess adopts it--A threat!--The Queen unfolds the terrible secret--Her agony of fear--Her touching story of the discovery of the infant Remeses--She gains resolution and defies Mœris--Remeses a Hebrew!--pp. 381-397. LETTER XXIV. Mournful reflections--Sacred poem by Remeses, being scenes in the life of Job--Remeses discovers all--A sirocco of the soul--He narrates the mysterious scenes of his initiation--Startling spectacles--Overwhelming displays of enchantment and magic--Mysterious journey beneath the pyramids--Labyrinthine catacomb--March of Time through the heavens--Remeses alone beside the altar--Amense not his mother!--His vision in the dark chamber of the pyramids--The massacre of the Hebrew infants--Scene in the Hebrew hut--The mother and child--The babe committed to the Nile--The little maid--The beautiful lady, Pharaoh's Daughter--The Hebrew nurse--The image-caster--pp. 398-414. LETTER XXV. Continuation of vision of Remeses--Himself the child of his vision--Mysterious voices in the vaulted chamber of the pyramid--Mocking eyes--He flees--Tender interview between the Queen and Remeses--He narrates his vision--The secret fully unveiled-- Discovery of a father, mother, brother, sister--Illness of the Queen--She assembles the councils of the nation--Remeses renounces the throne--Amense adopts Mœris--Her death--Amram--The mother of Remeses--Miriam--Aaron--Egypt in mourning--Remeses assumes his Hebrew name, Moses--Arts of magicians and sorcerers--pp. 415-431.