The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-04

Ueu VI oil possess, answered the
Princess, signing.
Then I cried aloud, unable to keep
silence: princess, I have never in my
life taken dishonesty the foot of any
living person; and, although you have
not the five louis dor which it cost me,
l willingly return it to you.. I should
be in despair if through me so charm
ing a person as the Princess Her.
mouthes should be lame."
l delivered this little Grafton with the
air of a troubadour, feeling that the
beautiful Egyptian must be impressed
by it.
She turned toward me, her face BEAM
ing with gratitude, her eyes glistening
with blush light.
She took up her foot, on this occa-
sion offering no objection, and, as wo-
man slips on her shoes, she skillfully
and easily fastened her foot to her
ankle.
This operation finished, she took two
or three steps as if to assure herself
that she was no longer lame.
"Ah how pleased my father will be.
ne who grieved so deeply over this mu
tilation, he who from the moment of
my birth placed an entire people upon
the labor of excavating for me burial
place so deep that could be preserved
intact until that SUI preme moment
when AL souls shall be weighed in the
balance. Come with me, come home
with me to my father; you will be
warmly welcomed by him, for you have
restored my foot"
This proposition appearing perfectly
natural, rose, wrapped myself in a
robe de chambre covered with large
figures, which I hattered myself was
quite Pharacbesque; and, Slipping nv
feet INTO 4 pair of Turkish babouches,
/ slgnitied to the Princess Hermouthes
that was quite ready to accompany
her.
Hermouthes, before leaving, took
from her neck the little porcelain idol
and placed it on the disordered papers
lying on the table.
" 1t is but right" she said with q
smile, .'that should replace your pa
per-weight."
She gave me her hand, soft and cold
as an adder, and we started on our
journey.
Only a moment and we saw nothing
save the sky and the ocean. Very
shortly obelisks began to appear; then
long flights of steps, with the Sphinx
on either side, and distinctly relieved
against the horizon. We had arrived.
The Princess led me to mountain
OF rosy granite, where we discovered
very narrow ODeninp
Hermouthes lighted torch and led
the way before me, through corridors
cut in the solid rock, covered with
panels of hieroglyphics and allegorical
professions, the labor of thousands of
hands for thousands of years. These
corridors, which appeared intermina-
bic, opened into large square halls, in
the center ofwhich were wells. which we
descended by a special staircase; these
halls leading into other halls; these in
their turn leading into other corridors
likewise ornamented with motley COL
lection of coiled serpents, sacred birds
and flowers and other mystic symbols
a prodigious work which no living eye
would ever see, interminable legends in
granite which the dead alone would
have the time to read through eterni-
ty.
Finally we emerged into hall so
vast, so measureless, that it's limits
were imperceptible. AS far as eye
could reach stretched line after line of
gigantic columns, between which
cleaned points of yellow light revealing
incalculable depths.
The Princess still held my hand
closely and gracefully, and easily rec
ognlzlng all the mummies of her &C
quaintance. My eyes soon becoming
accustomed to the dim light, began to
distinguish different objects
saw seated on thrones kings Of the
subterranean races; old men of enor-
NOUS size, wrinkled dry as parchment,
black with bitumen and naphtha, cov-
cred with precious stones, there eyes
fixed like those of the Sphinx, their
long boards white with their subjects,
standing in the stiff, constrained posi-
tons characteristic of Egyptian art,
keeping forever the attitude prescribed
by the hieratic pharmacopeia, and be-
hind these the ibis beat their wings,
the cats squalled, and huge crocodiles
doomed up in the darkness, appearing
still more monstrous and gigantic from
being swathed in bandages.
All the Pharaohs were there, Cheops
Chephren, Psammetieus and Sesostris;
all the dusky sovereigns of the pyra
mids. On a dais little raised sat
King Chronos, and Xixanthros, who
were reigning at the time Of the deluge,
and Tubal Cain, who was antediluvian.
The beard of King Xixanthros had
grown to such an immense length that
It was wound seven times around the
granite table, on which he leaned,
asleep and dreaming.
Farther on in the dusty atmosphere
distinguished vaguely through the
mist of ages eighty-two preadamite
kings, together with their eighty-t wo
l