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They will kiss the feet of the conqueror if they have to wade up to there through the blood of their children. Besides as it happens the hawk which old Hekt keeps as representing me is to-day pining and sick " "It will be all the prouder and brighter to-morrow if you are a man!" exclaimed Katuti, and her eyes sparkled with scorn. "You cannot now retreat.
"You know a great deal," said Ani meditatively, "and I would ask you one thing more; though indeed your story has supplied the answer but perhaps you know more now than you did in your youth. Is there in truth any effectual love-philter?" "I will not deceive thee, for I desire that thou should'st keep thy word to me," replied Hekt.
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.
"Creep through there," said the witch, "and see what is happening!" The child obeyed: Hekt turned her attention again to the bird, which no longer perched in her lap, but lay on one side, though it still tried to use its talons, when she took him up in her hand. "It is all over with him," muttered the old woman, "and the one I called Rameses is sleeker than ever.
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.
When he saw her sitting safe at the feet of old Hekt, who had made her way into the courtyard, he drew a deep breath of relief, and turned his attention to the wounded. "Did you knock down all that are lying here?" he whispered to his friend.
"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.
The children shouted for joy, the women called out, and one voice louder than the rest was heard exclaiming: "Come hither to the fore-court of the temple, and see the works of the great magician, who comes from the western oases of Libya and is endowed with miraculous gifts by Chunsu, the giver of good counsels, and by the great goddess Hekt."
"Hekt tasted the drops thou didst give her," said the old woman, "and agreed that they were good." "Then we are satisfied with each other," answered Nebsecht, with a smile of amusement. "We will carry you now into the open air, little maid; for the air in here is as heavy as lead, and your damaged lung requires lighter nourishment." "Yes, let me go out," said the girl.
Nor did she delay attending to the last wishes of old Hekt, and Bent-Anat easily persuaded her father, when he learnt how greatly he had been indebted to her, to have her embalmed like a lady of rank.
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