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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Now I wish I had remained a Cup," she said, "and the servant of the holy Tanofir who at least taught me many secret things, instead of coming to dwell among black barbarians in the company of a dwarf who, even if he be a king, it seems has no power to protect the wife whom he has chosen." "Why will women always grow wroth before there is need?" asked Bes humbly.
"Yes, I do," she answered with passion, "and what is more, I believe it is working still, which perhaps is why we have all come down in the world, you and I and George and Hans, yes, and even old Harut whom we knew in Kendah Land, who, I think, was the holy Tanofir.
Before they went, however, I was directed to wait upon my relative, the holy Tanofir, whom all acknowledged to be the greatest magician in Egypt, and to ask of him to seek wisdom and an oracle from his Spirit as to the future and whether in it we should fare well or ill. This I promised to do.
One is very well for a change, but not two or three. The stomach of a tall people would turn against them." I took Bes's hand and pressed it, understanding the depth of his love and sacrifice. Also some spirit doubtless it came from the holy Tanofir moved me to say, "Be comforted, Bes, for I am sure of this.
For know, my son, I have suffered much fear for you." "And not without cause, as you will say when I tell you all," I answered laughing. "But how Tanofir knew that I was coming is more than I can guess. Come, my mother, greet Bes here, for had it not been for him, never should I have lived to hold your hand again."
So I, Shabaka, or Allan Quatermain, just sat still feeling curiously comfortable, and tried to piece things together, when suddenly Amada I mean Lady Ragnall woke. "I wonder," she said without lifting her head from my shoulder, "what happened to the holy Tanofir.
"No, Bes, I am too tired to make new plans, so let us go to Ethiopia and not disappoint Karema, who after holding a cup so long naturally would like to try a sceptre." "I think that is wisest, Master; at any rate the holy Tanofir thinks it wisest, and he is the voice of Fate. Oh! why do we trouble who after all, every one of us, are nothing but pieces upon the board of Fate."
Then a torch was lit and lo! there before us, wrapped in his dark cloak sat the holy Tanofir. "Whence come you, my Great-uncle?" I asked amazed. "From less far than you do, Nephew," he answered. "Namely out of Amada yonder. Oh! ask me not how. It is easy if you are a blind old beggar who knows the path.
"But how can a woman be a man's cup and what kind of a wine does he drink from her?" "The wine of wisdom, O Bes," she replied colouring a little, for like many Arabs of high blood she was very fair in hue. "Wine of wisdom," said Bes. "From such cups most drink the wine of folly, or sometimes of madness." "The holy Tanofir awaits you," she interrupted, and turning, entered the doorway.
You see, Master, he thinks a great deal of priests and priestesses, and is so very old that he has forgotten all about love and that without it there never would have been a holy Tanofir." "The holy Tanofir thinks of souls, not of bodies, Bes." "Yes, Master.
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