The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-11

Alas. No. My jewels, my rings, my
bags of gold and silver have ali been
stolen from me-" replied the Princess
Hermouthis with a sigh.
Il r-ncess," l cried, II have never un-
justly kept the foot of any one. Even
though you have not the five louis which
1t cost me, 1 surrender il to you with a
gCcd grace. l would be despicable to make
SO beautiful a princess as Hermouthis
lame"
l delivered this little speech in tone
50 reverential and courteous that it sur
prised the lovely Egyptian
she turned upon me a glance full of
gratitude. and her eyes flashed with blu
ish fire. She took her foot, which this
Tune yielded itself to her, and, like a
woman putting on her sock adjusted il
to her limb with much dexterity Sh..
tier took two three steps about the
roc m to assure herself that she really was
not lame.
( "Ah. how happy my father win be--he
VINO was so grieved at my mutilation. and
who had since the day of nv birth a
whole people at work digging deep
tomb that l might rest undisturbed until
that supreme day when souls must be
weighed in the balances of Amenthi. Come
with me to my fathers house He viii
gladly receive you. because you have re-
turned my foot to me-
This seemed a most natural proposition.
/ donned flowery morning-robe which
gave me "A very Pharaonesque aSr. / hast
.lly put on some Turkish slippers. and
tben said to the Princess Hermouth!s
that j was ready TO follow her.
Before, leaving, Hermouthis detached
from her bosom the little figure of greer
paste and placed il upon the leaves which
covered the desk . 1T is only lust" she
said, that / replace your paper-weight.
She held out her hand to me-soft ant
colc as an adder's skin--and we departed
For some time we shot with the swift
ness of an arrow through grayish space
We saw only sea and sky. Then obelisk
began to come into view, and the Sphin,
became distinguishable against the hori
izon.
We had arrived.
The Princess led me to a mountain O
! rose granite. where there appeared al
opening so narrow and so straight tina
was difhcult to distinguish It from tn
.. Mss ures OF the rocks. except that tw
sCulptured obelisks pointed it out.
f Hermouthis lighted torch and bega
to walk before me. In this living roc
were corridors the walls of which wer
covered with hieroglyphics and alIegor
, cal professions. The work must have OF
u cupied thousands of men for thousand
: OK years. These corridors, almost inteI
: minable in length, led to a square chan
y her, in the center of which were gre;
wells. These We descended by means
v winding stairways leading to other chan
a bers, from which more corridors brancl
N ed The walls here were also covert
: with prodigious marks which no livir
le eye could see, and which the dead alol
l. had time to read during eternity
= We finally entered salon so vast,
!. nigh, SO immeasurable, that We could n
fa Thorn its limits. Rows of monstrous &C
: urirs extended as far as eye could reac
= between which trembled livid jets of v,
:. low fame. the brilliant lights revealil
= all about incalculabIe depths
The Princess Hermouthis held me
oHthe hand, as she saluted graciously t
!, mCmmies of her acquaintance NV ey
!, becoming accustomed to the crepuscul
"a =, halliday, / began to discern the objec
l saw. seated upon their thrones, t
ho Kings of the subterranean races; tn
"a were grand old men, shriveled and bla
&c with naphtha and bitumen; their hea
~ We're crowned with golden ornamen
a., they we're hedizened with breast-pla
GA arc neck-pieces. blazing with precie
- stones. Their eyes had the fixity of
a SPHINX, and their boards were whittier
~ b. the SHOWS of ages. Behind the
- their embalmed subjects appeared,
"a right in the stiff, cramped postures
- Egyptian art-preserving eternally the
Z. titude prescribed in the hierarchical CO
a., Behind these subjects mewed, tapped q
s3eered the cats, ib.ses and crocodi
- made more monstrous still by III
1 swathing of bands.
70, All the Pharaohs were there-Cheo
Cbephrenes, Psammetichus, Sesost
a., Amenoteph-all the dusky rulers of
- pyramids. On still higher platform W
49,. seated the kings contemporaneous with
~ deluge-Chronos and Xisouthros-and
bal Cain, who preceded it.. The beard
Xisouthros had grown to such a len
A., hat it had already made seven times
- turn of the granite slab on which
&C., leaned. pensive and drowsy.
Further back, through the misty fot
fee eternites, / vaguely distinguished
ur- scventy-two kings destined never to
her appear-with their seventy-two people
ack After allowing me some minutes to
her joy this strange scene, the Princess +
ire mouths presented me to Pharaoh,
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