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Updated: June 16, 2025
Pentaur thought of the verdict which Gagabu, only two evenings since, had passed on the Mohar, and it occurred to him that he would test how far the man's superstition would lead him. So he asked, while he suppressed a smile: "And if I can foretell nothing bad, but also nothing actually good?" "An antelope, and four geese," answered Paaker promptly.
"All that may be considered Ameni said, interrupting the old enough to think of at present." "And even more to consider later," retorted Gagabu. "We have entered on a dangerous path.
Come here, Gagabu, and examine Paaker's wound, which is no disgrace to him for it was inflicted by a prince." The old man loosened the bandage from the pioneer's swollen hand. "That was a bad blow," he exclaimed; "three fingers are broken, and do you see? the emerald too in your signet ring."
"I know," replied the poet with a dark expression, "that the heart which the crowd will approach and bow to, before which even the Initiated prostrate themselves as if it had been the incarnation of Ra, was torn from the bleeding carcass of a common sheep, and smuggled into the kanopus which contained the entrails of Rui." Ameni drew back a step, and Gagabu cried out "Who says so?
"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.
Follow me into the great court. Let the gong be sounded, Gagabu, four times, for I wish to call all the brethren together." The gong rang in loud waves of sound to the farthest limits of the group of buildings. The initiated, the fathers, the temple-servants, and the scholars streamed in, and in a few minutes were all collected.
The choice is easy: I have chosen, and I always carry through what I have once begun! Now you know all, and you will second me." "With body and soul!" cried Gagabu. "Strengthen the hearts of the brethren," said Ameni, preparing to go. "The initiated may all guess what is going on, but it must never be spoken of."
"But must the child always resemble its parents?" asked Pentaur. "Among the sons of the sacred bull, sometimes not one bears the distinguishing mark of his father." "And if Paaker's father were indeed an Apis," Gagabu laughing, "according to your view the pioneer himself belongs, alas! to the peasant's stable."
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.
"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.
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