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Here she wore a cow's head, and here the face of a woman, but she always bore in her hands the lotus-headed staff and the holy token of life, and her neck was encircled with the collar of the gods. "Here dwells that Strange Hathor to whom thou didst drink last night, Eperitus," said Rei the Priest. "It was a wild pledge to drink before the Queen, who swears that she brings these woes on Khem.
The great veins swelled upon his neck and forehead, and he struggled so fiercely that he fell from the litter to the ground. But he might not rise because of the fetters, nor speak because of the gag, so they lifted him again and bore him thence. And after him went all the multitude save Rei alone.
Get you gone swiftly, and let Khem see your face no more." The people heard, and the living left the hall, and silence fell on the city, and on the dead who died of the sword, and the dead who died of the pestilence. Silence fell, and sleep, and the Gods' best gift forgetfulness. Even out of this night of dread the morning rose, and with it came Rei, bearing a message from the King.
"Whither goest thou, Rei?" she asked, "and why is thy face so sad?" "I go about my business, Queen," he answered, "and I am sad because no tidings come of Pharaoh, nor of how it has fared with him and the host of the Apura." "Perchance thou speakest truth, and yet not all the truth," she answered. "Enter, I would have speech with thee."
The woman waited awhile, looking down the moonlit road between the black rows of sphinxes, but the road lay white and empty, and she turned and hid herself in the shadow of the pylon, where Rei could see nothing of her except the red star that gleamed upon her breast. Now a great fear came upon the old man, for he knew that he looked upon the strange and deadly Hathor.
"My death may come, as come it must; but know this, Rei, I do not seek the love of Meriamun." "Then it well may chance that thou shalt find it, for ever those who seek love lose, and those who seek not find." "I am come to seek another love," said the Wanderer, "and I seek her till I die." "Then I pray the Gods that thou mayest find her, and that Khem may thus be saved from sorrow.
Rei heard and knew that he could hide himself no longer. Therefore he came forward trembling, and knelt before her, saying: "Oh, mighty Queen, I am not that man whom thou didst name, nor am I hid in any wrappings of disguise.
Si placet audire, dicam cur hic Imperator sit appellatus Grand Can. Audieram ego in partibus Ierosolymorum hunc esse sic dictum, a filio Noe, Cham: sed in terra Cathay accepi et aliam, et meram huius rei veritatem. Nam et scribendo haec duo nomina habent differentiam, quod filius Noe Cham scribitur quatuor elementis, quorum vltimum est M. et iste Can tribus tantum, quorum vltimum est N.
And in the following proposition, the seventh, of the same part, he adds: conatus, quo unaquoeque res in suo esse perseverare conatur, nihil est proeter ipsius rei actualem essentiam that is, the endeavour wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being is nothing but the actual essence of the thing itself.
But he did not find the Wanderer in his chamber. The Palace eunuchs said that he had risen and had asked for Kurri, the Captain of the Sidonians, who was now the Queen's Jeweller. Thither Rei went, for Kurri was lodged with the servants in a court of the Royal House, and as the old man came he heard the sound of hammers beating on metal.
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