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Updated: May 14, 2025
Before him opened a noble amphitheatre of lofty lime-stone peaks, the background of the stately terrace-temple which the proud ancestress of two kings of the fallen family, the great Hatasu, had erected to their memory, and to the Goddess Hathor. Nemu left the sanctuary to his left, and rode up the steep hill-path which was the nearest way from the plain to the valley of the tombs.
The officer bowed, but remained standing at the door of the tent while she arranged her black hair, set her diadem on her brow, opened her little ointment chest, and took from it a small phial of the rapid poison strychnine, which some months before she had procured through Nemu from the old witch Hekt. "My mirror!" she called to a maid servant, who squatted in a corner of the tent.
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.
"What?" said Nemu. "Who her mother was for she was not one of us. She came here from foreign parts, and when she died she left a trinket with strange letters on it. We must show it to one of the prisoners of war, after you have got her safe; perhaps they could make out the queer inscription.
"No," said Katuti, "but Nemu has sworn to reveal to you alone all that he knows. He is wholly devoted to us." "Well and good," said Ani thoughtfully, but he too is imprudent much too imprudent. You are like a rider, who to win a wager urges his horse to leap over spears. If he falls on the points, it is he that suffers; you let him lie there, and go on your way."
The old woman laughed; but Nemu bit his lips, and said: "If you had sent me to school, and if I were not the son of a witch, and a dwarf, I would play with men as they have played with me; for I am cleverer than all of them, and none of their plans are hidden from me.
The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle which she could only decipher with difficulty which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. Nemu squatted on the earth near her, and followed all her movements.
The beasts of Anubis will have a better supper than we to-night." "Things are not done handsomely then at your mistress's house?" asked Paaker. "We still have bread," replied Nemu, "and the Nile is full of water. Much meat is not necessary for women and dwarfs, but our last cattle take a form which is too hard for human teeth."
Before him opened a noble amphitheatre of lofty lime-stone peaks, the background of the stately terrace-temple which the proud ancestress of two kings of the fallen family, the great Hatasu, had erected to their memory, and to the Goddess Hathor. Nemu left the sanctuary to his left, and rode up the steep hill-path which was the nearest way from the plain to the valley of the tombs.
"We have reached the end," echoed the little man with meaning. "There is only a narrow bridge to step over." When they both stood on the shore, the dwarf said, "I have to thank thee for thy hospitality, and when I can serve thee command me." "Come here," cried the pioneer, and drew Nemu away with him under the shade of a sycamore veiled in the half light of the departing sun.
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