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"The labor?" "How shall we divide that?" Ashe hesitated. "My idea," he said, "was that I should do what I might call the rough work; and " "You mean you should do the actual taking of the scarab?" "Exactly. I would look after that end of it." "And what would my duties be?" "Well, you you would, as it were how shall I put it? You would, so to speak, lend moral support."
'Hadn't they an especial regard for some sort of a wasn't it some sort of a beetle? 'You mean Scarabaeus sacer, according to Latreille, Scarabaeus Egyptiorum? Undoubtedly, the scarab was venerated throughout Egypt, indeed, speaking generally, most things that had life, for instance, cats; as you know, Orisis continued among men in the figure of Apis, the bull.
Remember your verse now, and I'll come slowly." Solemnly he began: "Scarab, tarantula, neurop " "'Doodle-bug," she prompted severely. " doodle-bug, flea," he concluded obediently. "Scarab, tarantula, doodle-bug, flea. Scarab, tarantula, doodle " "Oof! I I didn't think you'd be here so soon!" He scrambled to his feet, hardly less palpitating than on the occasion of their first encounter.
Nyoda put her hand in the pocket of her coat where she had put the scarab for safe keeping, and drew out, not the odd-looking beetle, but something that flashed in the light like a thousand rain-drops in the sunshine. It was a diamond necklace, with a diamond pendant at the end, the stones arranged in the form of a cross.
For instance, words that were spoken in this palace when an alabaster cup was broke. By the way, Scribe, that was a very good place you chose in which to hide one half of the cup in the false bottom of a chest in your chamber, a chest that is fastened with a cord and sealed with a scarab of the time of the second Rameses.
We have no information as to his personal character. "Then there is the complication of the scarab that was picked up in the grounds of his brother's house at Woodford. That seems to show that he visited that house at some time. But no one admits having seen him there; and it is uncertain, therefore, whether he went first to his brother's house or to Hurst's.
The girl listened entranced, touching the ring with finger-tips which felt as snow-flakes upon the man's hand. "What is an amulet of the heart?" "In the days of Ancient Egypt, when the heart had been taken from the dead body for purposes of preservation, an amulet, a scarab, sometimes heart-shaped, was placed within the body to ensure it life and movement in the new life."
His marriage with Gilu-khipa, the daughter of Sutarna, king of Aram-Naharaim, was celebrated on a scarab, where it is further related that she was accompanied to Egypt by three hundred and seventeen "maids of honour." Besides allying himself in marriage to the royal houses of Asia, Amenophis III. passed a good deal of his time in Syria and Mesopotamia, amusing himself with hunting lions.
He did not know what under the sun he could do next. Already that day he had done what he could. He had been out early and run down the one-eyed factotum loitering about the corner and under cover of a transaction over a scarab he had made a number of plans. He wanted the Captain followed every instant of the day.
I asked. "No," said Nyoda, "I didn't. It wasn't there when I started up to dinner. Besides," she added, "that scarab never came from a store in this town. Things like that are handled by dealers in curios in large cities, and by private collectors." Her brow was puckered into a bewildered frown. "However it got there," she said, "it doesn't belong there and I have no right to keep it.
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