Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-24

| " inf= her mind, each, as clouds scud
ding DER the sea, for mo-
ment casting q shadow in her deep eyes.
so thou art come, Harmachis," she said
resting for awhile, as she took my hand
Counsel me, for never did / need counsel
more. Oh, what days have the Gods meas
| ured out to me-days restless as the ocean
No peace have known from childhood up,
and it seems none shall everknow. Scarce
by very little have escaped thy dagger
point, Harmachis, when this new trouble,
that, like a storm, has gathered beneath the
horizons rim, bursts sudden DER me. Didst
mark that tigrish fop2 Well should love
cat he purred, and all the time he
stretched his claws Didst mark the letter,
TOO! It has an ugly look. I know
this Antony. When was but a child bud
ding into womanhood, I saw him; but my
eyes were ever quick and I took his measure.
Half Hercules and half fool, with q dash
Of genius veining his folly through. Easily
led by those who enter at the gates of his
voluptuous sense; but if crossed, an iron
foe. True to his friends. if, indeed, he
loves them, and oftenttmes false to his own
interest. Generous, hardy and In adversely
= man of virtue; in prosperity a sot and a
slave to women. How deal with such q man,
whom Fate and Opportunity have, despite
himself, set on the crest OF fortunes wave!
One day twill o'erwhelm him; but till that
day he sweeps across the world and laughs
At those who drown
s.Antony is but q man." answered, land
man with many foes; and, being but a
man, he can be o'erthrown."
GAY he can be o'erthrown; but he is one
Of three, Harmachis- Now that Cassius has
gone where all fools 20, Rome has thrown
out hydra head. Crush one and another
Misses IN thy face There's Lepidus, and
with him that young Octavfanus, whose
cold eyes may yet with a smile of triumph
look on the murdered forms of empty,
worthless Lepidus, of Antony, and of Cleo
patra. If go not to Cillcis, mark thou !!
Antony viii knit mp peace with these
Parthians, and taking the tales they tell of
me for truth-aad indeed there is truth in
khem-will fall with all his force on Egypt.
And how thena"
allow thens. Why, then we'll drum him
back to Rome"
"Ahl Thou sayest so, and perchance,
Harmachis, had I not won that game we
PLAYED together some twelve days gone,
thou, being Pharaoh, highest well have
done this thing, for round thy throne old
Egypt would have gathered. But Egypt
loves not me nor my Greek blood; and but
now have 1 scattered that great plot of
thine, wherein half the land was meshed.
Will these men, then, arise to succor mel
hold my own against all the force that Rome
may bring; but Egypt hates me, and had as
lief be ruled by the Roman as the Greek.
Still might make defense had the gold,
for with money soldiers can be bought
wherewith to feed the nav of mercenary
battle. But I have none; my treasures are
dry, and though there Is wealth IN the land,
yet do debts perplex me. These wars have
brou ght me ruin, and / know not how to
find a talent Perchance, Harmachls, thou
who art, by hereditary right, Priest of the
Pyramids" and she drew near and looked
me in the eyes, ''perchance, if long descend
ed rumor does not lie, thou canst tell me
where can touch the gold to save thy land
from ruin and myself from the grasp OF An
tonya Say, is it soa''
thought awhile, and then answered:
ssAnd if such tale were true, and If I
could show thee treasure stored by the
mighty Pharaohs of the most far-oR age
against tho needs of Khem how can know
that thou wouldst indeed make use Of that
wealth to those good ends9'
ssIs there, then, a treasurer she asked,
curiousfy. ssNay, fret me not, Harmachis;
for of q truth the very name OF gold at this
time of want Is like the sight Of water in
the desert"
ssI believe said, ssthat there is such q
treasure, though myself have never seen it
But this know, that If it still lie in the
place where it was set, tits because 20
heavy n curse shall rest upon him who
wickedly and for selfish ends shall lay
hands thereon that none OF those Pharaohs
to whom it hath been shown have dared to
touch II, whatever their need"