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"I do not know," I answered, whereon Bes groaned, only Karema smiled a little as though to herself. "Then, having heard, obey," said the holy Tanofir, whereon the four veiled ones bowed again. "Will you not give them their orders, O most Venerable?" inquired Bes doubtfully. "I think it is needless," said Tanofir in a dry voice. "Why try to teach those who know?"
Be content with the present, man, and take what Fate gives you of good or ill, not seeking to learn what offerings he hides beneath his robe in the days and the years and the centuries to come." "Yet you have sought to learn those things, O Tanofir, and not in vain." "Aye and what have they made of me?
But," he added with a note of warning in his voice, "whether they happen or not, my counsel to you both is that you say nothing of them beforehand." "What then shall we report to those who bid me seek the oracle of your wisdom, O Tanofir?" "You can tell them that my wisdom declared that the omens were mixed with good and evil, but that time would show the truth.
"Have no fear, General," said the holy Tanofir from the other end of the tent. "If you and your men play their parts as well as the guides will play theirs, the ships are already burned together with their companies. Only take fire with you." So that general departed with the two guides, looking somewhat frightened, and soon was marching up Nile at the head of five thousand swordsmen.
Though things look very black, remember the vision of the holy Tanofir, who doubtless allows these things to happen to you to try your faith by direct order of the gods. Be sure that I will not leave you to perish, or if there should be no escape, that I will find a way to put you out of your misery and to avenge you.
So greatly did she long that she had recourse to the magic lore which she had learned from the holy Tanofir, and would sit for hours gazing into water in a crystal bowl, or sometimes into a ball of crystal without the water, trying to see visions therein that had to do with what passed in Egypt.
For Karema, too, there were messages from the holy Tanofir of the same meaning, saying that unless we appeared within a moon of their receipt, all was lost. We read and took counsel. Then we pressed forward by double marches, sending swift runners forward to bid Pharaoh and his army hold on to the last spear and arrow.
"Master, there were no other reasons, unless the Cup, when it is awake, remembers what it has held in trance, which I do not believe. I wooed her as I was, not telling her that I am also King of the Ethiopians, or any more than I seem to be. Moreover the holy Tanofir told her nothing, for he swore as much to me and he does not lie." "And what did she say to you, Bes?" I asked, for I was curious.
Pharaoh went also leaving me and Bes alone. I looked for the holy Tanofir to speak with him, but he too was gone. "It is time to sleep, Master," said Bes, "for all this talk is more wearisome than any battle. Why! what is this that has your name upon it?" and he picked a silk-wrapped package from the floor and opened it. Within were the priceless rose-hued pearls! "Where to?"
"The curse of the holy Tanofir is not a thing to mock at," said Bes, "as I who revere him, know as well as any man." "No, Husband, and therefore I leave for Egypt as soon as may be. It seems that my sister is dead, this year past, and the holy Tanofir has no one to hold his cup." "And what shall I do?" asked Bes. "That is for you to say, Husband.
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