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Updated: June 16, 2025
"That you must explain," cried a voice from the table of the military officers. "It makes young men of the old," laughed the octogenarian, "and children of the young." "He has you there, you youngsters," cried Gagabu. "What have you to say, Septah?" "Wine is a poison," said the morose haruspex, "for it makes fools of wise men." "Then you have little to fear from it, alas!" said Gagabu laughing.
In a few moments they both entered the great hall, which was brilliantly lighted. Not one of the chiefs of the House of Seti was absent. Ameni sat on a raised seat at a long table; on his right hand was old Gagabu, on his left the third Prophet of the temple.
If I had been the princess's horse I would rather have trodden him down than a poor little girl." "So would I," said Pentaur laughing, and left the room to request The second prophet Gagabu, who was also the head of the medical staff of the House of Seti, to send the blind pastophorus Teta, with his friend as singer of the litany.
There Pentaur found his old friend Gagabu, who wept with delight at his safety. All that his master had accused him of seemed to be forgotten. Ameni had him clothed in a fresh white robe, he was never tired of looking at him, and over and over again clapped his hand upon his shoulder, as if he were his own son that had been lost and found again.
"Spoken to my very soul!" cried the treasurer of the temple, "Ameni initiated this boy too early into the mysteries." "In my opinion, and I am his teacher," said Gagabu, "our brotherhood may be proud of a member who adds so brilliantly to the fame of our temple. The people hear the hymns without looking closely at the meaning of the words.
"And if you accept them, knowing why they are offered, you do unwisely and wrongly," exclaimed Gagabu. "If I were a layman, I would take good care not to worship a Divinity who condescends to serve the foulest human fiends for a reward. But the omniscient Spirit, that rules the world in accordance with eternal laws, knows nothing of these sacrifices, which only tickle the nostrils of the evil one.
Ameni left the pavilion to go to see old Gagabu, who had stood so long in the heat of the sun during the ceremony of receiving the conqueror, that he had been at last carried fainting to the tent which he shared with the high-priest, and which was not far from that of the Regent.
A murmur of disapproval arose at these words. The chief of the haruspices stamped his foot, and Gagabu asked: "What do you mean to do?" "To prepare to obey the commands of the king," answered Ameni, "and to call the heads of the temples of the city of Anion here without delay to hold a council. Each must first in his holy of holies seek good counsel of the Celestials.
"You speak like a Seer," cried old Gagabu, "and what you say is perfectly true. We are still called priests, but alas! our counsel is little asked. 'You have to prepare men for a happy lot in the other world, Rameses once said; 'I alone can guide their destinies in this." "He did say so," answered Ameni, "and if he had said no more than that he would have been doomed.
The second prophet, Gagabu, who was to-day charged with the conduct of the feast by Ameni who on such occasions only showed himself for a few minutes was a short, stout man with a bald and almost spherical head. His features were those of a man of advancing years, but well-formed, and his smoothly-shaven, plump cheeks were well-rounded.
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