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"But . Dost thou ? Atsu is naught to me," she cried, her grave face brightening. The blood surged back to his cheeks and the life into his eyes. He leaned toward her, ready to ask for more enlightenment concerning her conduct, when she went on dreamily: "But he is wondrous kind and hath made the camp bright with his humanity. Israel loveth Atsu." Kenkenes turned again to the perplexity in hand.

Presently the girl asked, coloring painfully: "Was Atsu commanded to hold me for this guest of Merenra's ah!" she broke off, "did Atsu name him?" "Not by the titles by which the man would as lief be known," Deborah answered grimly, "but I remember he called him 'the governor." There was a brief pause. "Not so," she resumed, answering Rachel's first question.

The man who had died to save Rachel he could not bury uncoffined in a grave of sand, where the natural processes of dissolution would destroy him utterly. His and Rachel's debts to Atsu were great, and the demand was made upon him now to discharge all that was possible in the one act of caring for the dead soldier's remains.

If I go to Atsu I take certain danger to him; if I stay with thee the peril must wander ere it overtakes us. But I would not burden either. Is there no other way?" He shook his head. "It lies between me and Atsu to care for you, and the peril for you and for us is equal. My name is as good as published, for I am gifted with a length of limb beyond my fellows.

His next move was to bring to the notice of the Pharaoh that the taskmaster Atsu was pampering the Israelites of Masaarah and defeating the ends of the government. Furthermore, the overseer had treated with contempt the personal commands of the fan-bearer.

"How is he favored?" he asked at last. "He is tall, half a palm taller than his fellows; comely of countenance; young; in manner, amiable and courteous ." Atsu interrupted him with a wave of his hand. "I saw him once good three months agone, but not since." The reply baffled Hotep for a moment. He realized that to find Kenkenes he must begin a search for Rachel.

Summoning all the patience at his command, he recounted the events in the apartments of the ancient hierarch of Amen. "There were two Scrolls," he explained; "one to the Servant of Ra at On, the other to Atsu. The holy father sealed them both before he addressed them and confused the directions.

"They are scarce three hours old. Who reached thee with them before me?" Atsu interposed and explained the interchange of letters. "Oh," said Horemheb. "So the correct message came to thee, nevertheless, good Atsu. But I can not tell thee aught of the other. It is lost." "Lost!" Ranas shrieked. "Gods! old man. It was only pigment and papyrus, not gold or jewels.

"Naught naught of any lasting hurt," the newcomer replied carelessly. "We were set upon by a troop of murdering Bedouins this side of Bubastis and had a pretty fight." "Aye, thou hast the stamp of its beauty upon thy face. A slave, here, with some balsam," Atsu continued, addressing the sentry, "and a captain of the constabulary next. We will cure these Bedouins and their hurt at once."

The drivers disappeared into the narrow ways of the encampment, and Atsu, with the scribes at his wheels, drove out where the avenue of sphinxes would have led to the temple of Imhotep. Here was room for three thousand. He alighted and, with the scribes who stood, tablets in hand, awaited the coming of the Israelites. The camp emptied its dwellers in long wavering lines.