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After that, it was unknown whence, a decurion of the police appeared, and when he had conducted Asarhadon to a remote window, he conversed long with him. The worthy owner of the inn beat his breast, clasped his hands, or seized his head.
"In that case I will go to her," answered Phut, "for she is a wise and devout person, and has told me of many happenings. After sunset Thou wilt give me a guide, so that I may not go astray." "All the evil spirits have entered thy heart," said Asarhadon.
The Phoenician innkeeper himself, the noted Asarhadon, a man beyond fifty, dressed in a long tunic and a muslin cape, walked among the guests to see if each received what he had ordered. "Eat and drink, my sons!" said he to the Greek sailors, "for such pork and beer there is not in all the world as I have. I hear that a storm struck your ship about Rafia?
When he heard this, Asarhadon spat three times, and in a low voice repeated a charm against evil predictions. When he had moved away to the depth of the gallery, the priestess began to coquet with the Harran man. She gave him a rose from her crown, embraced him at parting, and went to the other tables. The traveler beckoned to the host. "I wish," said he, "that woman to come to me.
The worthy Asarhadon began to scratch his shoulder-blades. "Man of a distant region," continued he, in a lower voice, "ye Hittites and we Phoenicians are brothers, hence I advise thee sincerely not to turn to an Egyptian court, for it has only one door, that by which a man enters, but none by which he goes out." "The gods can conduct an innocent man through a wall," said the Hittite. "Innocent!
Usually two began to fight, and when a crowd had gathered around them and the police clubbed both spectators and quarrelers, other confederates in the art did the stealing. About half-way between the two ends of the street stood the inn of Asarhadon, a Phoenician from Tyre. In this inn, for easier control, all were forced to dwell who came from beyond the boundaries of Egypt.
"Give the poor fellows even ten drachmas." "Go in peace, Asarhadon, and beg the gods to return thee thy reason," answered the traveler, with the same unchanging calmness. The host sprang up, panting from anger. "The reptile!" thought he. "He has not come for a debt simply. He is doing some business here.
"In this place again our elders began to watch him, but discovered nothing; they divined simply that he must be a great lord, not a simple man of Harran. But Asarhadon discovered by chance, and did not even discover, he only came on traces, that this pretended Phut passed a whole night in the ancient temple of Set, which here is greatly venerated.
The worthy Asarhadon had not succeeded yet in calming himself when the sounds of a flute and a drum were heard on the street, and after a while four dancers, almost naked, rushed into the courtyard. The carriers and sailors greeted them with shouts of delight, and even important merchants in the galleries looked at them with curiosity and made remarks on their beauty.
"Then let Hiram speak and Thou wilt know." "Let him speak." "Dost Thou know, worthiness, what happened in the inn 'Under the Ship' to our brother Asarhadon?" began Hiram. "I have no brothers among innkeepers," interrupted Dagon, sneeringly. "Be silent!" screamed Rabsun, in anger; and he grasped the hilt of his dagger. "Thou art as dull as a dog barking in sleep."
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