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"Thou hast said." "I will ask the high-priest to send the best leech for outward wounds immediately to the child. But where is the house of the paraschites Pinem? I do not know it." Besides, I want to know early in the morning how the child is doing. Paaker."
What is the man's name?" "Pinem." "There will be nothing to be done with him," muttered the student, "however who knows?" With these words he rose, and opening a tightly closed flask he dropped some strychnine on the nose and in the mouth of the rabbit, which immediately ceased to breathe. Then he laid it in a box and said, "I am ready." "But you cannot go out of doors in this stained dress."
The dwarf seemed doubtful about answering; but Hekt went on: "Speak without fear the dead are sure to be silent." The dwarf, trembling with agitation, shook off his hesitation, and said: "I have found Uarda, the grandchild of Pinem, who had disappeared, and I decoyed her here, for she and no other shall be my wife, if Ani is king, and if Katuti makes me rich and free.
The priest coldly saluted the lady, and went into the house of a weaver in which he had business, and the widow got into her litter which was waiting at the gate. The old paraschites Pinem had joined with his fellows in the lamentation for the sacred beasts, and was now sitting on the hard pavement of the dissecting room to eat his morsel of food for it was noon.
During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. One of them, old Pinem, whom we have seen tending his grandchild, requested the other from time to time to consider the sick girl and to work less noisily.
The chief of the taricheutes asked him whether he had opened the body of the dead priest. Pinem stammered out "Yes." Whether this was his heart? The old man nodded affirmatively.
Whatever other blunder Meneptah might have made, he had redeemed himself in the wisdom he displayed in choosing his scribe. Kenkenes had been led to ask how Hotep had come to his place. "My superior, Pinem, died without a son," the scribe had explained; "and as my record was clean, and the princes had ever been my patrons, the Pharaoh exalted me to the scribeship."
He gave me a ring too, and said that he would pay the money to him, who took the ring to him from me. Then he read this letter to me." Rameri took the letter and read. "Nebsecht to the fair Uarda." "Nebsecht greets Uarda, and informs her that he owed her grandfather in Osiris, Pinem whose body the kolchytes are embalming like that of a noble a sum of a thousand gold rings.
The three companions had labored on as far as the hovel of the paraschites Pinem, but here they were forced to pause, for guards drove back the crowd to the right and left with long staves, to clear a passage for the procession as it approached. "See, Rameri," said Bent-Anat, pointing out the little yard of the hut which stood only a few paces from them.
What is the man's name?" "Pinem." "There will be nothing to be done with him," muttered the student, "however who knows?" With these words he rose, and opening a tightly closed flask he dropped some strychnine on the nose and in the mouth of the rabbit, which immediately ceased to breathe. Then he laid it in a box and said, "I am ready." "But you cannot go out of doors in this stained dress."
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