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And I will crave this boon of Pharaoh, that mine shall be the hand to torment thee night and day till at last thou diest, cursing the day that thou wast born." The Wanderer looked upon him and answered: "There thou liest, thou Sidonian dog, for this is written in thy face, that thou thyself shalt die within an hour and that strangely." Then Kurri shrank back scowling.
"What of him? Tell me, what of Kurri? This would I ask thee, Queen, that he be laid where I lie, and die the death to which I am doomed." "Gladly would I give thee the boon," she answered, "but thou askest too late. The False Hathor looked upon him, and he slew himself. Now I will away the night wanes and Pharaoh must dream dreams ere dawn. Fare thee well, Odysseus.
In his hand he held a small hammer, and he had a little anvil by him, on which lay one of the golden shoulder-plates of his armour. The other pieces were heaped beside the brazier. Kurri, the Sidonian, stood beside him, with graving tools in his hands. "Hail to thee, Eperitus," cried Rei, calling him by the name he had chosen to give himself. "What makest thou here with fire and anvil?"
He saved my own life when the crew would have cast me overboard. Let me pay my debt." "Let him be spared, as thou wilt have it so," spoke Pharaoh, "but revenge dogs the feet of foolish mercy, and many debts are paid ere all is done." Thus it chanced that Kurri was given to Meriamun to be her jeweller and to work for her in gold and silver.
Now among those who had run thither at the sound of the cries of Meriamun was that same Kurri, the miserable captain of the Sidonians, whose life the Wanderer had spared, and whom he had given to the Queen to be her jeweller.
She was alone save for Kurri the Sidonian, who followed her, and she walked wildly as one distraught who knows not where she goes nor why. Helen saw her also. "Who is this royal lady that draws near?" she asked of Rei. "It is Meriamun the Queen; she whom the Wanderer hath brought to shame." "Stay then, I would speak with her." "Nay, nay," cried Rei. "She loves thee not, Lady, and will slay thee."
But he did not find the Wanderer in his chamber. The Palace eunuchs said that he had risen and had asked for Kurri, the Captain of the Sidonians, who was now the Queen's Jeweller. Thither Rei went, for Kurri was lodged with the servants in a court of the Royal House, and as the old man came he heard the sound of hammers beating on metal.
Then, as the Wanderer cast down the bow and turned with a cry to spring on him who had cut the cord, for his eye had caught the sheen of the outstretched spear, Kurri lifted the covering of the purple web which lay upon the bed and deftly cast it over the hero's head so that he was inmeshed.
This then was the miserable end of Kurri the Sidonian, slain by the sight of the Beauty. "Thou seest, Lady," said Helen, turning from the dead Sidonian, "no man may harm me." For a moment the Queen stood astonished, while Rei the Priest muttered prayers to the protecting Gods. Then she cried: "Begone, thou living curse, begone!
Now all round the edge of the chamber were shadows, for the light was yet faint, and Kurri crept into the shadows, carrying a long spear in his hand, and that spear was hafted into the bronze point which had stood in the Wanderer's helm.
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