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Updated: June 3, 2025
The officer bowed, but remained standing at the door of the tent while she arranged her black hair, set her diadem on her brow, opened her little ointment chest, and took from it a small phial of the rapid poison strychnine, which some months before she had procured through Nemu from the old witch Hekt. "My mirror!" she called to a maid servant, who squatted in a corner of the tent.
The dwarf seemed doubtful about answering; but Hekt went on: "Speak without fear the dead are sure to be silent." The dwarf, trembling with agitation, shook off his hesitation, and said: "I have found Uarda, the grandchild of Pinem, who had disappeared, and I decoyed her here, for she and no other shall be my wife, if Ani is king, and if Katuti makes me rich and free.
I wish he would make up his mind to come and seek me in disguise, of course I would " "He is very timid, and it would not suggest to him anything so unpracticable." "Hm " said Hekt, "perhaps you are right, for when we have to demand a good deal it is best only to ask for what is feasible. One rash request often altogether spoils the patron's inclination for granting favors."
The one that is moulting, with closed, grey eyelids, is Rameses; the smart, smooth one, with shining eyes, is thyself. It comes to this which of you lives the longest. So far, thou hast the advantage." Ani cast an evil glance at the king's sick hawk; but Hekt said: "Both must be treated exactly alike. Fate will not be done violence to."
A few hours before he had laughed loud and suddenly, and his wife, greatly alarmed, had gone at once to fetch the physician Nebsecht. During her absence Uarda was to rub her grandfather's temples with the leaves which the witch Hekt had laid on her bruises, for as they had once proved efficacious they might perhaps a second time scare away the demon of sickness.
"An old witch, Hekt by name, a neighbor of Pinem's, took her and her grandmother into her cave," answered the poet; who was then, by the high- priest's order, taken back to the temple-prison. Scarcely had he disappeared when the Regent exclaimed: "A dangerous man! an enthusiast! an ardent worshipper of Rameses!" "And of his daughter," laughed Ameni, but only a worshipper.
"Aye, aye!" said Hekt. "You will have to keep an eye upon her when she is your wife." "I will treat her like the wife of a noble," said Nemu. "And pay a real lady to guard her. But by this time Katuti has brought home her daughter, Mena's wife; the stars are sinking and there that was the first signal. When Katuti whistles the third time we are to go to work. Lend me your fire-box, mother."
She bowed before him with a demeanor that was more like the singer Beki than the sorceress Hekt, and begged him to take the only seat she possessed. When, with a wave of his hand, he declined to sit down, she said: "Yes yes be seated! then thou wilt not be seen from the valley, but be screened by the rocks close by. Why hast thou chosen this hour for thy visit?"
Feel how my heart hammers and beats. I believe it will never rest again till you yes, Uarda till you let me give you one, only one, kiss." The girl drew back. "Now," she said seriously. "Now I see what you want. Old Hekt knows men, and she warned me." "Who is Hekt, and what can she know of me?" "She told me that the time would come when a man would try to make friends with me.
Rameri at once freed the little prisoner, and heard from him that it was old Hekt who, before her death, had sent Kaschta and his daughter to the rescue of the king, that he himself had helped to rouse the troops, that now he had no home and wished to go to Uarda.
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