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"I am sure," answered the priest, energetically, "that Samentu would go to the temple of Ptah and burn incense to the gods; but he would punish murderers and traitors." "And I repeat that Thou art the worst of traitors!" cried the queen. "I only fulfill my duty," said the priest, unmoved by her language. "This man is a pupil of Samentu indeed," said Hiram.
But how wilt Thou manage to make stones in the wall move apart before thee, and columns change into doors of entrance?" Samentu shrugged his shoulders contemptuously. "In my temple," replied he, "there are imperceptible entrances even more difficult to open than those in the labyrinth. Whoso knows the key to a mystery can go everywhere, as Thou hast said justly, O holiness."
I am here because I found plans in the temple of Set; Thou hast come by the grace of the immortal Ptah," concluded Samentu, laughing. "Bind that traitor and liar!" cried Mefres. Samentu moved back a couple of steps, drew forth quickly from under his garment a vial, and said, while raising it to his lips, "Mefres, Thou wilt be an idiot till death. Thou hast wit only when it is a question of money."
Among three thousand chambers and corridors this is impossible." "The worthy Samentu speaks truth," said Tutmosis. "And perhaps we employ too much keenness against these priestly reptiles." "Do not say that," replied the priest.
"And wilt Thou not be sorry for me?" "Why should I? I aim at a great object; I wish to occupy Herhor's place." "I swear that Thou shalt have it." "Unless I perish," added Samentu. "But if I go along precipices to mountain summits, and in that wandering my foot slips and I fall, what does it signify? Thou, lord, wilt care for the future of my children?" "Go forward," said Ramses.
In one of these the younger priests placed the sleeping Lykon with a bag on his head; in the other the high priest himself took his place and, surrounded by a party of horsemen went at a sharp trot in the direction of Fayum. On the night between the 14th and 15th Paofi the high priest Samentu, according to the promise given Ramses, entered the labyrinth by a corridor known to himself only.
"The sleeping man looks all the time as if he felt an enemy near him.." "Lykon?" thought Samentu. "Ah, that Greek who is like the pharaoh. What do I see? Mefres has brought him!" At this moment the sleeping Greek rushed forward and stopped at the column behind which Samentu was hidden. The armed men ran after him, and the gleam of their torches threw light on the dark figure of Samentu.
"Who is here?" cried, with a hoarse voice, the leader. Samentu stood forth. The sight of him made such a powerful impression that the torch-bearers withdrew. He might have passed out between them, so terrified were they, and no one would have detained him; but the priest thought no longer of rescue. "Well, has my man with second sight been mistaken?" said Mefres, pointing at his victim.
But if thou, sovereign, have our gold and our agents, with thy army and thy generals Thou wilt have as much trouble with the priests as an elephant with a scorpion. Thou wilt barely set thy foot on them and they will be crushed beneath it. But this is not my affair. The high priest Samentu is waiting in the garden, he whom Thou hast summoned. I withdraw; it is his hour. But I refuse not the money.
When I told the priests of my discovery they explained to me that they knew a great many monsters of that sort." Samentu drew breath, then continued, "Shouldst Thou desire to visit our temple at any time, holiness, I will show thee wondrous and terrible beings in coffins: geese with lizards' heads and bats' wings.
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