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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Now go to Ani, and if you are able to throw Paaker entirely into his power good I will give but what have I to give away? I will be grateful to you; and when we have gained our end I will set you free and make you rich." Nemu kissed her robe, and said in a low voice: "What is the end?" "You know what Ani is striving for," answered the widow. "And I have but one wish!" "And that is?"
"Then, if you come home again, let Katuti seek you out the prettiest wife in Egypt," said the Regent smiling. "She sees herself every day in her mirror, and must be a connoisseur in the charms of women." Ani rose with these words, bowed to Paaker with studied friendliness, gave his hand to Katuti, and said as he left the hall: "Send me to-day the the handkerchief by the dwarf Nemu."
Oh! they must embalm me I cannot bear to vanish, and rot and evaporate into nothingness!" While she was still speaking, the dwarf Nemu had come into the tent; Scherau, seeing the old woman senseless, had run to tell him that his mother was lying on the earth with her eyes shut, and was dying. The witch perceived the little man.
The princess understood her, pressed her hand, and said while she pointed to Nemu: "The dwarf is your own too: shall he come with you?" "I will give him to my mother," said Nefert. She let the little man kiss her robe and her feet, once more embraced Katuti, and quitted the garden with her royal friend.
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.
At this instant Nemu, who had not lost a word of the conversation, came in as if straight from the garden and said: "Pardon me, my lady; but I have heard a strange thing." "Speak," said Katuti. The high and mighty princess Bent-Anat, the daughter of Rameses, is said to have an open love-affair with a young priest of the House of Seti."
At these words the dwarf rose, turned to go, and said indifferently: "I would pick the stars carefully off my back, and send you the finest of the planets in return for your juicy bit of roast. But here come the chariots. Farewell! my lords, when the vulture's beak seizes one of you and carries you off to the war in Syria, remember the words of the little Nemu who knows men and noses."
Nemu bowed, and then went down the slope, disappointed, it is true, but sure of learning later what the two had discussed together. When the little man had disappeared, Ani asked: "Have you still a heart true to the old royal house, to which your parents were so faithfully attached?" The old woman nodded. "Then you will not refuse your help towards its restoration.
He leaped back into the room, which was now filling with smoke, snatched the king's bow and quiver, which he himself had hung up at the bed-head, took careful aim, and with one cry the incendiary fell dead. A few hours later the dwarf Nemu was found with the charioteer's arrow through his heart.
"He will not stir," said Nemu laughing. "For when I found him, I made him so drunk with Ani's old wine that he lies there like a mummy. It was from him that I learned where Uarda was, and I went to her, and got her to come with me by telling her that her father was very ill, and begged her to go to see him once more.
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