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Updated: June 2, 2025
Presently the girl's lips moved: with returning consciousness all she had seen and suffered during the last hour or two recurred to her mind; she felt herself rushing through the camp with her father, hurrying through the corridor to the princess's rooms, while he broke in the doors closed by Katuti's orders; she saw Bent-Anat as she roused her, and conducted her to safety; she remembered her horror when, just as she reached the door, she discovered that she had left in her chest her jewel, the only relic of her lost mother, and her rapid return which was observed by no one but by the leech Nebsecht.
In the earliest glimmer of dawn the following clay, the physician Nebsecht having satisfied himself as to the state of the sick girl, left the paraschites' hut and made his way in deepest thought to the 'Terrace Temple of Hatasu, to find his friend Pentaur and compose the writing which he had promised to the old man. As the sun arose in radiance he reached the sanctuary.
"It is well that thou hast not brought back the other with thee, who tormented me with his vows." "You mean blind Teta," said Nebsecht, "he will not come again; but the young priest who soothed your father, when he repulsed the princess, will visit you. He is kindly disposed, and you should you should " "Pentaur will come?" said the girl eagerly. "Before midday. But how do you know his name?"
Who that lives here behind the hill is of so much importance, that a leech from the House of Seti sacrifices his night's rest for him?" "The one I visit is mean, but the suffering is great," answered Nebsecht.
"It grows here in many places; here it is. Only smell how sweet it is if you bruise the fleshy stem and leaves. My little verse is simple enough; it occurred to me like many other songs of which you know all the best." "They all praise the same Goddess," said Nebsecht laughing. "But let us have the verses," said Bent-Anat.
"I thank you," said Bent-Anat, towards whom the old man raised his hand in blessing. Then she turned to Nebsecht, and ordered him to take anxious care of the sick girl; she bent over her, kissed her forehead, laid her gold bracelet by her side, and signing to Pentaur left the hut with him.
He expected to hear the morning song of the priests, but all was silent. He knocked and the porter, still half-asleep, opened the door. Nebsecht enquired for the chief of the Temple. "He died in the night," said the man yawning. "What do you say?" cried the physician in sudden terror, "who is dead?" "Our good old chief, Rui." Nebsecht breathed again, and asked for Pentaur.
Thou hast saved my child good! Life for life. I sign myself thy blood-ally there." With these words he drew his poniard out of his girdle. He scratched his arm, and let a few drops of his blood run down on a stone at the feet of Nebsecht "Look," he said. "There is my bond, Kaschta has signed himself thine, and thou canst dispose of my life as of thine own. What I have said, I have said."
"During the voyage," said Nebsecht, "I was uneasy about Pentaur, for I saw how he was pining, but in the desert he seemed to rouse himself, and often whispered sweet little songs that he had composed while we marched." "That is strange," said Bent-Anat, "for I also got better in the desert." "Repeat the verses on the Beytharan plant," said Nebsecht. "Do you know the plant?" asked the poet.
When he had convinced himself that all was going on well he desired one of the priests to call Pentaur. After the departure of the exiled prince Rameri, the young priest had gone to the work-room of his friend Nebsecht. The leech went uneasily from his phials to his cages, and from his cages back to his flasks.
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