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She felt that she had allowed the dwarf too much freedom, and ordered him to leave her alone. Nemu kissed her robe and asked timidly: "Shall I forget that thou hast trusted me, or am I permitted to consider further as to thy son's safety?" Katuti stood for a moment undecided, then she said: "You were clever enough to find what I carelessly dropped; perhaps some God may show you what I ought to do.
"But who shall set the brand to the room which Nemu and the slave have filled with straw and pitch?" asked Ani. "I," said Katuti decidedly. "And one who has nothing to look for from Rameses." "Who is that?" "Paaker." "Is the Mohar here?" asked the Regent surprised. "You yourself have seen him." "You are mistaken," said Ani. "I should "
She will contrive that Paaker shall be the ruin of Mena, as sure as I have ears to hear with, for that woman is capable of playing any tricks with her daughter, and would marry her to that lame dog yonder if it would advance her ambitious schemes." "But Nefert!" said Nemu. "You should have seen her. The dove became a lioness."
Suddenly she paused in front of Nemu, and said so hoarsely that Nemu shuddered: "I wish she were a widow." "The little man made a gesture as if to protect himself from the evil eye, but at the same instant he slipped down from his pedestal, and exclaimed: "There is a chariot, and I hear his big dog barking. It is he. Shall I call Nefert?"
"I belong to his neglected wife, the lady Nefert. I can only cover the road very slowly with my little legs, while the hoofs of your horses devour the way-as a crocodile does his prey." "Get up!" said Paaker. "Did you come here on foot?" "No, my lord," replied Nemu, "on an ass; but a demon entered into the beast, and has struck it with sickness. I had to leave it on the road.
Thus speaking they entered the veranda, in which Nemu had remained, and he now hid himself as usual behind the ornamental shrubs to overhear them. They sat down near each other, by Nefert's breakfast table, and Ani asked Katuti whether the dwarf had told her his mother's secret.
She hoped that the Pharoah would refuse, and personally offend the Regent, and so make him more inclined to tread the dangerous road which she was endeavoring to smooth for him. The dwarf Nemu was her pliant tool.
A tiny man hurried up to him, and, as soon as he had recognized in him the dwarf Nemu, he cried angrily: "Is it for you, you rascal, that I stop my drive? What do you want?" "To crave," said the little man, bowing humbly, "that, when thy business in the city of the dead is finished, thou wilt carry me back to Thebes." "You are Mena's dwarf?" asked the pioneer. "By no means," replied Nemu.
When we are plotting against a man we are inclined to regard him as an enemy, and if he offers us a rose we believe it to be for the sake, not of the perfume, but of the thorns. The dwarf Nemu was brought before the Regent and threw himself on the ground at his feet. Ani ordered the attendants to leave him, and said to the little man "You compelled me to put you in prison. Stand up!"
With these words he took leave of Katuti, who, as he disappeared in the garden, muttered to herself: "He was wonderfully clear and decided to-day; but jealousy is already blinding him and will soon make him feel that he cannot get on without my sharp eyes." Nemu had slipped out after the Regent.
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