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Who can tell?" answered Kama, with a challenging expression. "May those who in future wish to surprise me not expose their own necks to the axe or the halter; if they do, they will surprise themselves more than me." The smile grew cold on Kama's half-open lips; Hiram, now pale, answered humbly, "How have we earned the anger of our lord and guardian?"
"I am certain that the gods will discover and punish the real murderer." At the garden gate the steward of Kama's villa stood in the road before them. "The Phoenician woman is gone. She disappeared last night." "A new misfortune," whispered the nomarch. "Have no fear," said Mefres; "she followed the prince."
A wretched fate to be heir to the throne of Egypt!" laughed the viceroy. When he grew calm, at the repeated request of Tutmosis, he commanded to transfer Sarah from the servants' house to Kama's first villa. The servants were delighted at this change; all the serving and slave women, and even the scribes conducted Sarah to her new dwelling with music and shouts of pleasure.
"And still Thou wilt be mine, and Phoenician gods will not kill thee, if they regard their own priests and temples." Barely had Ramses left Kama's villa, when into the chamber of the priestess rushed a young Greek who was strikingly beautiful, and strikingly similar to Ramses. Rage was depicted on his face. "Lykon!" cried the terrified Kama. "What art Thou doing here?"
When the prince came out from among trees, he saw that Kama's house was more brightly lighted and more noisy than usual. In fact, the terrace and the rooms were filled with guests, and around the villa were throngs of people. "What band is this?" thought Ramses. It was an uncommon assemblage. Not far from the house was an immense elephant, bearing on his back a gilded litter with purple curtains.
The nights were dark, the effects of light were gone; but in spite of this Ramses continued to see that brightness of the first night, and he heard the passionate strophes of the Greek singer. More than once he rose from his bench to go directly to Kama's dwelling, but shame seized him.
It is too much for the sepoy: he smiles and tramps off, and she holds her position undisturbed. If she be a Hindu, you will probably notice the bright-red mark on her forehead, joining brow to brow, or, in the words of a Persian poet, uniting two Parthian or Tartar bows into Kama's Long-bow.
He will gain skill himself in warfare, while the idle warriors will find their own proper work to do." The other correspondence Mentezufis carried on with the holy father Mefres and that seemed to him of more importance. Mefres, offended formerly by the prince, had recently, in the case of Sarah's child, accused the prince directly of infanticide, committed under Kama's influence.
Resembling the full moon, of unchanging youth, of well-rounded breasts, illumining all sides by her splendour, possessed of large eyes like beautiful lotuses, like unto Kama's Rati herself the delight of all the worlds like the rays of the full moon, O, she looketh like a lotus-stalk transplanted by adverse fortune from the Vidarbha lake and covered with mire in the process.
Never was he more a god in Kama's mind than in the last days of the south-bound traverse, as the failing Indian watched him, ever to the fore, pressing onward with urgency of endurance such as Kama had never seen nor dreamed could thrive in human form.
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