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Updated: June 9, 2025
"How did you find it yesterday?" the fan-bearer asked. "We followed the hag, and she, the girl. The pair of them were in sight of each other, as they ran." "How did they find it?" "Magic! Magic!" "There were three of you and one man overthrew you all?" the high priest commented suspiciously. "Holy Father!" the servant protested wildly, "he was a giant a monster for bigness.
The latter at length took his leave and returned to his inn. Later in the day some one knocked at his door. He looked out, and there, before the door, stood a person turbaned and gowned in purple, and carrying a bag slung from a stick across his shoulder. Li Dsing asked who it was and received the answer: "I am the fan-bearer of Yang Su!"
Hotep, who knew the provocation of his friend and interpreted the menace in his manner, walked swiftly over to Kenkenes, as if to caution or prevent. But the young sculptor undid the small hands of the king, clinging to his arm, and gave them to Hotep, halting, by that act, all interference from the scribe. Then he crossed the little space between him and the fan-bearer.
But since the past days had been so filled with momentous events, they were ready to expect a crisis at the slightest incident. The fan-bearer did not look at the king. It was Kenkenes who interested him. The young man's frame did not show a tremor, nor his face any excitement. There was an intense quiescence in his whole presence.
"The daughter of Har-hat!" he cried, retreating a step. "The daughter of mine enemy," she went on. "She found me here by accident and took me to her home in Memphis. There Deborah died. And there, eighteen days agone, I discovered who it was that sheltered me, and now I return to my people." "The fan-bearer did not find thee?" he demanded at once. "Nay. Unseen, I looked upon his man.
"If one came before thee seeking to insult innocence, and another begging leave to protect it, thou wouldst choose for him who would keep pure the undefiled. Have I not said, O my King? "Before thee, even now is such a choice. "Already thou hast given over the mastership of Rachel, daughter of Maai the Israelite, to thy fan-bearer, Har-hat.
Such inclosures were the delight of all Persians. In war he was attended with various officers in close attendance on his person, the stool-bearer, the bow-bearer, etc. In peace, there was another set, among whom was "the parasol-bearer," for to be sheltered by the parasol was an exclusive privilege of the king, the fan-bearer, etc.
He had saved the king and exposed Har-hat, but the accomplishing of this temporary good had forced the probable commission of a great evil. If death in some form did not overtake the fan-bearer he could enrich and strengthen himself from Israel.
He came along riding on a lame mule, threw down his leather bag on the ground in front of the hearth, took a pillow, made himself comfortable on a couch, and watched the fan-bearer as she combed her hair. Li Dsing saw him and grew angry; but the fan-bearer had at once seen through the stranger. She motioned Li Dsing to control himself, quickly finished combing her hair and tied it in a knot.
He would join the army and take the life of the fan-bearer, for the sake of all he loved, and Egypt. In the course of the day's events his motive had been exalted from the personal desire for revenge to the high intent of a patriot. He felt most confident that he would forfeit his own life in the act. Not an instant did he hesitate.
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