Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10

parties, in concert with Ruie, the venerable
high priest and chief prophet of Anon, the
pontiff of all the priesthood Of Egypt, who
combined in his OWE person the dignities OF
Chief Judge, Secretary and Viceroy Of the
realm, and who had come with the court
from Thebes to Tanis.
When she had been sent for to the audi
ence chamber she was winding q garland for
the beloved dead, and lotos flowers, lark
spurs, mallow and willow leaves were
handed to her as she required them. They
lay before her now on table and in her lap,
but she felt paralyzed, and her hand, as she
put it forth, refused its service.
Rule, the chief prophet OF Anon, sat on
his heels on a mat to the left of the King;
he was a very old man, long past his Goth
year. A pair of shrewd eyes, shaded by q
pent house of thick white eyebrows, looked
out of his brown face, which was as gnarled
and wrinkled as the bark of rugged oak,
like bright flowers from withered foliage
and their brilliancY was startling in such q
shrunken, huddled. STOPPING figure.
This old man had long since left all active
conduct Of affairs to the second prophet,
Bale, but he clung stoutly to his dignities,
to his place at Pharaoh's eide and his seat
in the council; and, rarely as he spoke. his
opinion more often carried the day than
that Of the eloquent, fiery and much younger
second prophet.
Since the pestilence had invaded the
palace the old man had not Quilted
Pharaoh's side, yet he felt more alive than
usual to-day, for the desert wind, which
made others languish, revived him. BE
was wont to shiYer continually in spite OF
the panther skin which covered his back
and shoulders, and the heat Of the day
warmed his sluggish old blood.
The Hebrew Mesu had been bis pupil,
and never had he had the guidance Of q
grander nature or the teaching of youth
more richly graced with all the gifts OF
the spirit. He had initiated the Hebrew
into all the highest mysteries, and had
expected the greatest results for Egypt
and the priesthood; and when Mesu
had one day slain an overseer who was un-
mercifully fogging one Of his fellow He
brews, and had fed into the desert, Rule
had bewailed the rash deed as deeply as if
his own son had committed it and was to
suffer the consequences. His intercession
had procured Mesu's pardon, but when
Mesu had returned to Egypt, and
that change had been wrought in him which
his friend in the temple called his apostasy,
he had caused his old master keener grief
than by his flight. II Rule had been young
er, he would have hated the man who had
cheated his dearest hopes but the old priest,
to whom the human heart was as an open
book, and whose sober impartiality enabled
him to put himself in the place Of his fell
low man, confessed to himself that it was
his own fault that be had failed to foresee
this falling away. Education and dogma
had made of Mesu, the Hebrew, an Egypt
ian priest after his own heart and pleasing
to the divinity, but when once he had raised
his hand to defend one of his own race
against those to whom he had been allied
only by human agencies, he was lost to the
Egyptians. He was henceforth true son
OF his people, and whithersoeVer this high
minded and strong-willed man might lead,
others must inevitably follow.
Aye, the high Priest knew full we'll what