Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-23

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 E. udcmSs WentS tno Ju1ce yA of the green herbs 1 IT, which the old wife, &@ Atoua, had placed ! S upon my wounds
 caused me much smart,
 Y but presently the pain l
 ceased. And of truth,
 z believe that there was
 J FFV virtue in then, for with l d in two days my flesh healed up, 50 that after time HakR&M no marks remained. Hut be- 15Esa thought mo that Asd dis
 ~ obeyed tho word sf the old High Priest, Amenemhat. who was called my father. For till today knew not that he was in truth my father according to tho flesh, having been taught that his swn son was slain, as have written, and that he had been pleased, with the sanction of tho Di- vine ones, to take me as an adopted son and rear me up, that might in due season fill an office about the temple. Therefore was sore troubled, for I feared tho old man, who was very terrible in his anger, and spake ever with the cold voice of Wisdom Nevertheless, determined to go in to him and confess my fault and bear such pun ishment as he should be pleased to put upon me. So, even with tho red spear in my hand and, the red wounds on my breast, pessed through the outer court of the great temple and came to the door of the chamber where tho High Priest dwelt. It is great chamber sculptured round about with the images of the solemn gods, and the light of Ra (the sun) came to it in the daytime by an opening cut through the stone of the massy roof. But at night 1t was lit by a swinging lamp of bronze. Ipassed in with out noise, for the door was not altogether shut, and pushing my way through the hAauu c1rtaina hornpS 1afo with a beating heart within tho chamber
 Tho lamp was lit, for the darkness had fallen, and by its light saw tho old man seated in chair of ivory and ebony at . table of stone, whereon were spread tho mystic writings of tho words of Life and Death. But he read no moro, for beholdl he slept, and his long, white beard rested upon the table like tho beard of dead man. The soft light from the lamp fell on upon his hand, where were graven the symbols of the Invisible One, but all around was shadow. It fell on the shaven head, on the white robe, on the cedar stan of priesthood at his side, and on the ivory of the lion n-footed chair; 1t showed the mighty brow of power, the features cut in kingly mold, the white eyebrows and the dark hollows Of the deep set eyes. I looked and trembled, for there was about HUI eA0t WAACu was uOI0 LudU tue OlSulty of man. So long had he lived with the gods, and so long kept company with them and with thoughts divine, so deeply was he versed in all those mysteries which we do but faintly discern, here In this upper air, that even now, before his time, he partook of the nature of the Osiris, and was . thing to shake humanity with fear.
 I stood and gazed, and as stood he opened his dark eyes, but looked not on me, nor turned his head; and yet he saw mo and spoke.
 O my sonf" he said. 'How came 1t that thou wentest forth against the lion when I bade thee not7"
 ''How knowest thou, my father, that went forth1" asked in fear.
 "How know n Are there, then, no other ways of knowledge than by the sensesa O ignorant child was not my spirit with thee when tho lion sprang upon thy con- panionl Did not pray those set about thee to protect thee to make sure thy thrust when thou didst drive tho spear into the lions throati How came 1t that thou wentest forth. o my soni"
 ''The boaster taunted me-" I answered, "apd went"
 "Yes, know 1t; and because of tho hot blood of youth, I forgive thee, Harmachis. But now listen unto me, and let my words sink into thy heart like tho waters of Siho1 into thirsty sand at the rising of Sirius. Listen unto me. The boaster was sent un- to thee as temptation, as trial of thy strength was he sent, and sect 1t has not been equal to the burden. Therefore Is thy hour put back. Hadst thou been strong in | this matter, the path had been made plain to thee even now. But thou hast failed, and therefore is thy hour put back" ... a
 "I understand thee, not my father," I an- swered.
 ssWhat was it, then, my son, thst the old wife, Atoua, said to thee down by the bank l of the canalin
 And thereon told him all that the old wife had said.
 "And thou beievest, Harmachis, my sona"
 'Nay," answered.; "how should I be- lieve such tales. Surely she Is mad. All the people know her for mad"
 Then for the first time he looked toward me, who was standing in the shadow.
 "My sonl my sonr he cried, "thou art wrong. She is not mad, The woman spake the truth; she spake not of herself, but of the voice within her that can not He. For this Atoua is @ prophecies and holy. Now learn thou the destiny that the gods of be unto thee if by any weakness thou dost fail thereinl ListenI thou art no stranger adopted into my house and tho house of tho temple; thou art my very son, saved unto me by this same woman. But, O Harmachis. thou art more than this, for in thee and me alone doth flow the imperial blood of Egypt. Thou and alone of men alive are de ecended, without break or flaw, from that Pharaoh Nekt-nebf whom Oohua tho Per sian drove from Egypt. The Persian came and the Persian went, and then after tho Persian came the Macedonian, and now fog nigh upon three hundred years have the Lagidae usurped the double crown, defilina the land of Khem and corrupting the wor ship of his gods. And mark thou this; but now, but two weeks since, is Ptolemy Neua Dionysius, Ptolemy the Piper, who would have slain thee, dead; and but now hath the eunuch Pothinus, that very eunuch whe came hither, years ago, to cut thee od, sci ct uaught the will of his master tha deaI
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