The Iola register., 1890-05-09

- and whose sin shall outlive the
HKT solid mass Of mighty pyramid that
lowered over usi The heaviness of her
swoon had smoothed away all the false
ness of her face, and naught was left
but the stamp divine OF woman's richest
loveliness, softeued by shadows of the night
and dIgnifed by the cast of deathlike sleep.
gazed upon her and all my heart went out
to her; it seemed that 1 did but love her
more because of the depth of the treasons
wherein had sunk TO reach her, and be-
cause of the terrors we had outfaced TO-
gether. Weary and spent with fears and
the pangs of guilt my heart sought hers
for rest, for now she alone was left to me.
She had sworn to wed me also, and with
the treasure we had won we would make
Egypt strong and free her from her foes,
and all should yet be well Ali could /
have seen the picture that was to be, how,
and in what place and circumstances, once
again this very woman's head should be
laid upon my knee, pale with that cast of
DEATH All! could have seen!
Ichafed her hand between my hands
bent me and kissed her on the lips, ana she
woke. She woke with little sob Of fear
a shiver ran down her delicate limbs; and
with wide eyes she stared upon my face.
stAh. 1t Is thour' she said. 81 mind me
thou hast saved me from that horror
haunted placer' And she threw her arms
about my neck and drew me to her and
kissed me. "Come, love-" she said, '1et US
be going! I am sore athirst, and-ah!
so very wearyI The gems, too, they chafe
my breasti Never was wealth so hardly
wonl Come, let US be going from the
shadow of this ghostly spot! See the faint
lights glancing from the wing of Dawn!
How beautiful they are, and how sweet to
behold! Never, in those Halls Of Eternal
Night, did 1 think to look upon the blush of
dawn again! All! l can see the face of
that dead slave yet, with the Horror hang
ing TO his besrdless chin, Bethink thee!-
there he'n SIT forever-there-with the
horror! Come; where may we find waters
would give an emerald for acupof water!"
"At the canal at the borders of the titled
and below the temple of Horemku-it is
close at hand" / answered. 'If any see
US, we viii say that we are pilgrims who
have lost our way at night among the
tombs. Vail thyself closely, therefore,
Cleopatra; and beware lest thou dost show
aught of those gems about thee"
So she vailed herself, and lifted her on
to the ass which was tethered close at hand.
We walked slowly through the SAND till we
came to the place where the symbol of the
God Horemku, fashioned as mighty sphinx
(whom the Greeks call Harmachis), and
crowned with the royal crown of Egypt,
looks out in majesty across the land, his
eyes ever liked upon the East. Even as we
walked the first arrow of the rising sun
quivered through the gray air, striking
upon Horemku's lips of holy calm. Then the
light gathered and grew upon the cleaning
sides of twenty pyramids, and, like prom
ise of Life to Death rested on the portals of
ten thousand tombs. Then from his horizon
oed Royal Ra rose up in pomp, and it was
day.
And passing the temple of granite and of
alabaster that was built before the days of
Chufu, TO the glory of the majesty CT Hor-
ernku, we descended the slope and came to
the water of the canal There we drank;
and sweeter was that draught of muddy
water than ali the choicest wine of Alex
andria. Also we washed the mummy dust
and CRIME from our hands and brows and
made US clean. And as she bathed her
neck. STOPPING over the water, one of the
great emeralds slipped from Cleopatra's
breast and fell into the water, and 1t was
but by chance that at length found it in
the mire. Then, once more, 1 lifted Cleo
pasra on to the beast, and slowly, for was
very weary, we marched back to the banks
CT Sihor, where our craft was. And having
ct length come thither, seeing no one save
some few peasants going out to labor on the
lands, turned the ass loose in that same
field where we had found him, and we
boarded the craft while the crew were yet
sieeping. Then, waking them, we bade
them make al sail, saying that we had left
the eunuch to sojourn awhile behind US, as
in truth we had. So we sailed, and the
gems, with such Of the ornaments Of god
as we cclld bring hither, we hid away.
Four days and more we spent in coming
70 Alexandra, for the wind was for the
most part against rs; and they were happy
dsysis At first indeed. Cleopatrs was
somewhat silent and heavy at heart, for