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Even Heliopolis and Memphis are behind you; and if I, my humble self, nevertheless venture boldly among you, it is because I ascribe your success as much to the active influence of the Divinity in your temple, which may promote my acquirements and achievements, as to your great gifts and your industry, in which I will not be behind you. I have already seen your high-priest Ameni what a man!
"It is a complete rebellion," cried Katuti. "Take care, you lordlings; Ameni and the other prophets are not to be trifled with." "Nor we either," said Rameri laughing, "If Pentaur is kept in banishment, I shall appeal to my father to place me at the school at Heliopolis or Chennu, and the others will follow me. Come, Bent-Anat, I must be back in the trap before sunset.
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, and threw a leopard-skin, with its head and claws overlaid with gold-leaf, over his shoulders. A second servant held a metal mirror before Ameni, in which he cast a look as he settled the panther-skin and head-gear.
None have yet returned from thence. My father's and my brother's bones have bleached there." "But Ameni will never believe in the mistake," cried Ani, anxiously interrupting the witch. "Then admit that thou gavest the order," exclaimed Hekt.
"My presence will be your safe-guard," said Ameni. "But-no, of course you wish to speak with her alone. You shall be conducted to a room, which is protected against all witchcraft by sacred texts. My brother," he continued to one of the serving-priests, "let the witch be taken into one of the consecrated rooms, and then, when you have sprinkled the threshold, lead my lord Ani thither."
A quickly-formed tie, he felt, linked their souls, and the look which he saw them exchange startled him. The rebellious princess had glanced at the poet as though claiming approbation for her triumph, and Pentaur's eyes had responded to the appeal. One instant Ameni paused. Then he cried: "Bent-Anat!" The princess turned to the priest, and looked at him gravely and enquiringly.
Ani feigned great astonishment, and agreed with the high-priest that Paaker should not for the present be informed of his true origin. "He is a strangely constituted man," said Ameni, "and he is not incapable of playing us some unforeseen trick before he has done his part, if he is told who he is."
The priests were placed with strict regard to their rank, and the order of initiation. Pentaur's was the lowest place of all. No discussion of any importance had as yet taken place, for Ameni was making enquiries, receiving information, and giving orders with reference to the next day's festival.
Again a shadow passed over the smile on the Regent's countenance. He looked meditatively on the ground, and then said: "To-morrow I will visit the House of Seti; till then I beg that this affair may be left to rest." Ameni bowed, and the Regent left the hall to withdraw to a wing of the king's palace, in which he dwelt. On his writing-table lay sealed papers.
An eager movement stirred the assembly, but Ameni went on: "Perhaps it was not unlike him, but he certainly was the One; he had the features of the true and legitimate descendants of Ra, to whom Rui was faithful, in whose breast the heart of the sacred ram found a refuge. To-morrow this pledge of the divine grace shall be shown to the people, and another mercy will also be announced to them.
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