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"But it will be truth," cried Katuti, "as soon as the Gods allow you to be as you are the real king of this country." "Strange!" said Ani smiling, Ameni, "this very day, used almost exactly the same words. The wisdom of priests, and that of women, have much in common, and they fight with the same weapons.
Bent-Anat then had recourse to Ani; but, though he promised to mediate for her, he came late in the evening to tell her that Ameni was inexorable. The Regent at the same time, with every appearance of regret, advised her to avoid an open quarrel, and not to defy Ameni's lofty severity, but to remain absent from the festival.
She looked as a hyaena might when creeping to seize its prey, and Ani felt a cold shiver and he heard her hoarse voice addressing him to greet him and to represent that he had chosen a strange hour for requiring her to speak with him.
"But who shall set the brand to the room which Nemu and the slave have filled with straw and pitch?" asked Ani. "I," said Katuti decidedly. "And one who has nothing to look for from Rameses." "Who is that?" "Paaker." "Is the Mohar here?" asked the Regent surprised. "You yourself have seen him." "You are mistaken," said Ani. "I should "
Ani addressing a hawk, before which are a table of offerings, a statue, three ovals, and the legend, "Being at peace in the Field, and having air for the nostrils." The name of the first boat is Behutu-tcheser, and that of the second Tohefau.
He supposed himself beloved by Mena's wife, his heart was full of triumph, he proposed rewarding Hekt with gold, and went to the palace without delay to crave of Ani a mission to Syria. There it should be brought to the test he or Mena.
Many inquisitive listeners stood round him while he related that the Regent Ani, in his joy at the victory of his troops in Ethiopia, had distributed wine with a lavish hand to the garrison of Thebes, and also to the watchmen of the temple of Anion, and that, while the people were carousing, wolves
Even the temple-servants, and the miserable troops from Upper Egypt-ground down by the long war, and bought over by Ani were carried away by the universal enthusiasm, and joyfully hailed the hero and king who had successfully broken the stiff necks of his enemies.
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