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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.
She knows his father, who is a gardener, and knows a great deal about him. Only think! she says the poet cannot be the son of his parents, but a good spirit that has come down on earth perhaps a God. At first she was very timid, but when I spoke of Pentaur she grew eager; her reverence for him is almost idolatry and that vexed me."
"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?"
Make yourself easy; Pentaur will not escape punishment; but for to-day we must recall him to this temple, for we have need of him to-morrow for the solemnity of the feast of the valley. No one shall meet him as an enemy till he is condemned; I desire this of you, and charge you to repeat it to the others."
Then come forward, you, the youngest of us all, who are so highly trusted by this holy assembly." Pentaur rose and placed himself opposite to Ameni, in order to give, as he was required to do, a broad outline of the speech he proposed to deliver next day to the nobles and the people. The whole assembly, even his opponents, listened to him with approbation.
"The man is right," said Horus; and he led Kaschta to a cave in the rocks, where barley and dates for the horses, and a few jars of wine, had been preserved. They soon had lighted a fire, and while some of the men took care of the horses, and others cooked a warm mess of victuals, Horus and Pentaur walked up and down impatiently.
The man who stood by his side, and held the reins, could have informed him, for Ani had recognized Pentaur, and in his horror had given the reins a perilous jerk. The king did not return to the great pavilion till after sun-down; the banqueting hall, illuminated with a thousand lamps, was now filled with the gay crowd of guests who awaited the arrival of the king.
"Seek him," said Mesu, "and you will find him; for you have passed through misery and suffering, and on this spot on such a morning as this was He revealed to me." The stranger turned away, and disappeared behind a rock from the enquiring gaze of Pentaur, who fixed his eyes on the distance. Then he thoughtfully descended the valley, and went towards the hut of the hunter.
The bearers of her litter were thickly veiled, and she had requested to be conducted to the confession chamber. The servant handed Pentaur a token by which the high-priest of the great temple of Anion, on the other bank of the Nile, granted her the privilege of entering the inner rooms of the temple with the Rechiu, and to communicate with all priests, even with the highest of the initiated.
The old woman laughed and muttered: "There are plenty of folks to take care of her, it seems." The soldiers obeyed the command of their leader, took up the wounded, and went away with Pentaur, and the body of Pinem. Meanwhile, Bent-Anat and her party had with much difficulty reached the river-bank.
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