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No less a personage than the Patriarch had arrived on a visit, and was now in conference with Neforis. Sebek, the steward, informed Orion that he had asked for him, and that his mother wished that he should immediately join them and pay his respects to the very reverend Father. "She wished it?" asked the young man, as he tossed his riding-hat to a slave, and he stood hesitating.
Cecilia?" asked Orion eagerly; and when Sebek had replied in the affirmative and vanished again indoors, the young man, overwhelmed with painful forebodings, sank on his knees near a column to which a crucifix was hung, and lifted up his hands and soul in fervent prayer.
Sebek, the steward awaited his master's orders, in the background in the attitude of humility which was torture to his old back, but in which he was never required to remain: Orion now signed to him to stand up: The Arab's mild features wore a look of extreme gravity, and deep vexation could be read in his kindly eyes. As the young man entered he bowed slightly; they had already met that morning.
Sebek nodded eagerly as if Mastor were speaking of a matter of which he had heard great things and expected much, and Mastor went on in a low voice "Come early to-morrow before sunrise to the pavement-workers in the 'court, and there you will hear of One who comforts the weary and heavy-laden."
At Kom Ombos there are two sanctuaries, one dedicated to Sebek, the other to Heru-ur, or Haroeris, a form of Horus in Egyptian called "the Elder," which was worshipped with Sebek here by the admirers of crocodiles. Each of them contains a pedestal of granite upon which once rested a sacred bark bearing an image of the deity.
Yesterday I told you that henceforth we shall attract greater attention than hitherto, and really if we appear with that black scarecrow at our heels in the streets or elsewhere " "Certainly we cannot make much show Sebek," interrupted Arsinoe, "but we can leave him at home for the future." "Child, child!" exclaimed Keraunus reproachfully, "will you never remember who and what we are.
The tablinum was open." "I locked it yesterday; you saw me do it, Sebek..." "So I told the mistress," replied the steward. "I perfectly recollect hearing the snap of the strong lock."
+Mentu+ was the hawk-god of Erment south of Thebes, who became in the eighteenth to twentieth dynasties especially the god of war. He appears with the hawk head, or sometimes as a hawk-headed sphinx; and he became confused with Ra and with Amon. +Sebek+ is figured as a man with the crocodile's head; but he has no theologic importance, and always remained the local god of certain districts.
"Then you must be glad to leave him." "No, no," groaned Sebek. "You foolish old owl," said Mastor. "Why do you care then for that grumpy niggard?" The negro did not answer for some time, then his lean breast heaved and fell, and, as if the dam were broken through that had choked his utterance, he burst out with a mixture of loud sobs: "The children, the little ones, our little ones.
"Then you must be glad to leave him." "No, no," groaned Sebek. "You foolish old owl," said Mastor. "Why do you care then for that grumpy niggard?" The negro did not answer for some time, then his lean breast heaved and fell, and, as if the dam were broken through that had choked his utterance, he burst out with a mixture of loud sobs: "The children, the little ones, our little ones.
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