The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-19

( ever. Who had ever heard Of such a
thing coming 70 pass? / was unnerved
! by my strange surroundings; the mys-
! ferrous atmosphere of this old land had
| affected me and made me, for a mo-
ment, think all things possible. I must
remember that nowadays we believe in
nothing that we cannot understand.
I looked again at the recubent figure.
lying In solemn state, This man had
/ been a power in the land I'm his dag,
and even death could not rob him of
/ his dignity. The Egyptian priests were
: divided into four classes, and Al Chm
dus must have belonged To the Nowto,
for he still wore the sign of his order
( the ffat ring or plase OF gold.
| Ny travelling clock chimed the hour
! of midnight, and. as the last blow fell.
culver passed over the notionless
/ form before me and slOWly-sioNfy the
| eyelids We're raised. met the fun gaze
| of his eyes and stopped short. as
| though hand had pressed me back,
( trembling with a sudden, unknown
I fear.
For an instant I tried TO meet those
/ awful eyes, While the blood grew cold
/ round my heart and my breath came in
! heavy g2sps between my parted Fps,
/ as though I had been running hard.
Then, unable TO bear that terrible look.
] sank 20 the floor with q low moan
and covered my face with my hands.
All that I had heard ana read of the
power OF the Evil Eye" was now
| brought home to me FOR the first time.
l realized that q glance may sITike like
! q blow. may penetrate 20 the heart of
ones being like a Viruient poison. rob-
/ bling one of all strength 10 resist l
/ grew sick with fear. / who was no tyrO
IN the world of evil. and trembled Ike
a child. Al Chindus had the fatal
/ double pupil which from time i'm
memorial has been recognized as giving
baletul power to the eye and in his
( life he must have cultivated this power
until il had become a deadly weapon
bringing death and disaster where it
fell. 1t was the essence of evil and
could strike with more fatal effect than
any weapon made by man. A weaker
nature than mine Would have hopeless
! ly succumbed, but I was protected TO a
certain extent by the life i had led.
Presently n voice sounded in the
silence. a voice that seemed to come
from my own lips, and yet whose every
| tone was unfamiliar to me, and it spoke
, OF things of which / knew naught.
II have become power in the land.
all the more powerful because secret.
Few see in me anything more than Al
:
the service of the gods and rarely Ven
I lures out into the world. But the king
cOnsultS me on every occasion. and my
, knowledge grows day by day The
| spirit that 1 hold at my command is as
/ wise as II is dangerous. but / can con-
{ troll il and why should I fear? Without
its aid I could have achieved little.
/ But il grows too eager for reward.
These constant sacrifices will attract
attention in time and may, besides.
give a strength greater than l could
desire.
Il had thought myself proof against
all human emotions except ambition,
and yet the sight of Nephthys Is begin
ming 10 trouble me. When I serve in
the Temple; when, alone at night. l
make my experiments; when
weary and exhausted, / throw myself
/ down on my bed, her face comes be-
tween me and my devotions, between
me and ms art. between me and my
rest. II is always before me, that