Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-06

the trusty eunuch, and, taking him aside,
 sWore hlm by tho living spirit of Him who sleeps at Abouthis that those things which he was about to sec he should not reveal. This he swore, trembling sorely, for he
 was much afraid. Nor, indeed, did he re- veal them.
 This being done. I clambered through the
 opening, taking with me coil of rope, which l wound around my middle, and beckoned to Cleopatra to come. Making
 fast the skirt of her robe, she came, and I drew her through the opening, so that at
 length she stood behind me in the passage
 which IS lined with slabs of granite. After her came the eunuch, and he also stood in the passage. And then, having taken
 counsel of the plan of the passage that
 l had brought with me, and which, in signs that none but the initiated can read, was copied from those ancient writ ings that had come down to me through one and forty generations of my predeces-
 sors, the priests of this pyramid of Her, and
 ot the worship of the Temple of the Divine Menka-ra, the Osirian, I led the way through that darksome place toward the utter sl-
 lence of the tomb Guided by the feeble light of our lamps we passed down the steep
 incline, gasping in tho heat and the thick, stagnated air. Presently we had left the reglon of the masonry and were slipping down gallery hewn in the living rock. For twenty paces or more it ran steeply Then | It's slope lessened, and shortly we found our selves in chamber painted white so low that l, being tall, had scarce room to stand, put ln length four paceS and in breadth three, and cased throughout with sculptu,-e ed
 panels. Here Cleopatra sank upon the floor and rested awhile, overcome by the heat | and the utter darkness. -
 "Rise," said. "Here we must not lin.
 ger, or we faint"
 So she rose, anA passing hand in hand
 through that chamber, we found ourselves
 face to face with mighty door of granite,
 let down from the roof in grooves. And
 once more 1 took counsel Of the plan,
 pressed with my foot upon u certain stone.
 and waited. Then, suddenly and softly. I
 know not by what means, the mighty mass heaved itself from its bed of living rock. We passed beneath, and found ourselves face to lace With second door of granite. Again pressed on certain spot, and of itself ! this door swung wide, and we went through, to find ourselves face to face with third door, yet moro mighty than the twain through which we had won our way. FollaWias the secret plan, this door struck Wltn my 1oot upon 8 certain spot, and slow ly 1t sank, as though at a word of magic, | till its head was level with the floor of | rock. We crossed and gained another | passage which, descending gently for lengtt. gf snnrteen paees, led us into great l chafnbcr paved with black marble, more | than nine cubits high, by nine cubits broad,
 and thirty cubits long. In this gNat mar ] bis fopF was sunk great sasenphAssus of granite, and an its lid were graved the | name and titles of the Queen of Menka-ra. | In this chamber, too, the air was more pure,
 though by what means it came thither
 know not, "fs the treasure here," gasped Cleopatra. "Nay," answered; follow me-" And
 led the way to gallery, which we entered
 through an opening in the floor of the great 1 chamber. 1t had been closed by trap
 door of stone, but the door was open | Creeping aiong this shaft, or passage, for i some ten paces, we came at length to a wr,i, in depth seven cubits. Making fast G., c.,t If the rope that ] had brought i a''-ul lny body, and the other to a ring in
 tho rock, was lowered, holding the lampin
 my hand, till I stood in the last resting r'..ce of tho divine Menka-ra. Then tHe l pc was drawn up, and Cleopatra, being l ;;s'sa fast thereto, was let down by the
 sui'li.'tl, s.E. 1 received her in my arms.
 But the eunueh, sorely against his will, for
 he fe"red to be left alone. bade wait our
 return it the mouth of the shaft For it was
 not lawful that he should enter whither we went.