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As The Chief turned away, Anketam said: "Thank you, sir and good luck to you, sir." Chief Samas turned back again. "By the way," he said, "there's one more thing. I know that men don't always agree on everything. If there is any dispute between you and Kevenoe, submit the question to my wife for arbitration." He hesitated. "However, I trust that there will not be many such disputes.

The officer stared at it, then leapt from his horse and flung himself face downwards on the ground, crying, "It is the ancient signet of the Kings of the East, given to their first forefather by Samas the Sungod, on which hangs the fortunes of the Great House! Pardon, my lord Shabaka." "It is granted," I answered, "because what you did you did in ignorance.

"Sure you can. You mean to say you've never had brandy before? Why, down in Algia, our Chief " He stopped. Anketam didn't look at him. "Sure, Russ; sure. I'll bet Chief Samas gives a drink to his secretary, too, now and then." He turned around and winked. "But this stuff is for brain work, not farming." He knew Russat was embarrassed.

Samas, the sun, and Sin, the moon-god, played an important rôle in their religion and theology, but it does not appear that the gods of the other five planets were inferior to them in rank. The chief atmospheric phenomena were also personified; of this we may give one example.

Twice, he had been brought up before The Chief's court because of the severe beating he had given to men bigger than he, and he had finally killed a man with his fists. Chief Samas had given him Special Punishment for that, and a final warning that the next fight would be punished by death.

It comes from Abou-Abba, about sixteen miles south-west of Bagdad, and is in a marvellous state of preservation. Abou-Abba has been recognized as the site of the ancient Sippara, one of the oldest of Chaldæan towns. Its sanctuaries, in which the sun-god, Samas, was chiefly adored, always maintained a great importance.

Word had come back that Chief Samas had accompanied General Eeler in the fatal expedition towards the Invader base, and The Chief had been buried there in the Frozen Country. Lady Samas had nowhere else to stay. Kevenoe was dead, his skull crushed by by someone.

Anketam stepped aside to let the officer enter. "Lady Samas?" he asked. She nodded. "I am." The colonel removed his hat. "Madam, I am Colonel Jamik Fayder, of the Union army. You are the owner of this land?" "Until my son returns, yes," said Lady Samas evenly. "I understand." The colonel licked his lips nervously. He was obviously ill at ease in the presence of the Lady Samas.

One generation of watchers succeeded another, scanning the heavens nightly from our ziggurats, and we have learned the laws of the constellations; the laws of Sin the moon, the laws of Samas the sun, the laws of the planets, the laws of the fixed stars. Their motions and their influence on the affairs of men our fathers discovered, and have handed their wisdom down to us."

For the first time, Anketam felt a touch of apprehension. He got his crew together, and they walked to the castle in silence, wondering what it was that The Chief had to say. All the men of the barony, except those who couldn't be spared from their jobs, were assembled in front of Chief Samas' baronial castle. The castle itself was not a single building.