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He is too stupid for commissions of that sort. But a heavy hand may be used in case of necessity. Well, now, tell me what inclined thee to such cautiousness?" "I know, almost, the road to the treasure chambers in the labyrinth," said Samentu. The pharaoh shook his head. "That is a difficult task," said he in a low voice.
He opened one column and took a large pot from it. The pot had a' cover sealed with wax, also an opening through which passed a long slender cord; it was unknown where this cord ended inside the column. Samentu cut off a piece, touched the torch with it and saw that the cord gave out a hiss and burned quickly.
"This man is a traitor!" screamed the queen. "A priest himself, he persuades thee to violence against the priesthood." In the face of the messenger no muscle quivered. "Worthy lady," replied he, "if Mefres destroyed my guardian and master, Samentu, I should be a dog if I sought not revenge. Death for death!" "This young man pleases me," whispered Hiram.
Indeed a fresher air seemed to move in the assembly. Generals straightened themselves; civilians looked at the priest with curiosity; even the pharaoh's face became livelier. "Listen not to him, my son," implored Queen Niort's. "What dost Thou think," asked the pharaoh on a sudden; "what would the holy Samentu do now were he living?"
We must also examine the interior of the edifice and discover how Samentu got into it, though I am sure that he will have no followers in the near future." A couple of hours later six men had set out for Memphis. ON the eighteenth day of Paofi chaos had begun.
Command me to the extent of thirty thousand talents." He fell on his face again and then withdrew, promising that Samentu would present himself straightway. In half an hour the high priest appeared. As became one who honored Set he did not shave his red beard and shaggy hair; he had a severe face, but eyes full of intellect.
Meanwhile the torch-bearers were examining columns most carefully, and also every corner; they had passed through half the immense hall. Samentu saw even the points of their lances, and noted that the men hesitated and advanced with alarm and repulsion. A few steps behind them was another group of persons to whom one torch gave light.
"His garrulousness irritated me," said Ramses. "I must teach Egyptian soldiers and officers to speak briefly, not like learned scribes." "May the gods grant that to be his only failing," whispered Tutmosis, on whom Eunana had made a bad impression. Ramses summoned Samentu. "Be at rest," said he to the priest. "That officer who came after thee was not following.
"How was it possible how could I decide to come in here?" thought Samentu. "Had I not food to eat, a place on which to lay my head? It is a simple thing, I am discovered! The labyrinth has a multitude of overseers as watchful as dogs, and only a child, or an idiot, would think of deceiving them. Property power!
He had in his hand a bundle of torches, one of which was burning, and on his back he carried tools in a small basket. Samentu passed very easily from hall to hall, from corridor to corridor, pushing back with a touch stone slabs in columns and in walls where there were secret doors.
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