Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-01-18

worthy offspring of that noble sire,
Mentu. If he offended, he hath suf
fered sufficiently. Let him 20, pray
thee"
1T is my word against her srrmises,
o Meneptah,' Har-hat insisted.
The king frowned more and stroked
his cheek.
"Thine anger should be abated by
this time, Har-hat," he said feebly.
His rebellion is not yet broken.
have not the slave yet" the fan bearer
retorted.
"Mayhap he is ready to surrender
her now"
"Not sov' the princess put in. "He
hath endured eight months. If it were
800 years his silence would be the
same. 1t is proof Of my boast that he
loves her. No man who would comfort
his flesh alone would suffer such
lengths of modification of flesh! Let
him go, my king, and give the clean
souled fan bearer another Israelite for
his daughter
"Have 1t thy way, Ta-user. Come to
me in an hour" Meneptah said as he
wrote
"Now promise that the signet shall
go back to Mentu," she continued,
LAS thou wilt, Ta-user," the king re-
piled.
She caught up the roll, hesitated for
a moment and then kissed his cheek
deliberately and was gone
CHAPTER Xxx.
RACHEL's REFUGE.
Ia 1ACHEL stood by the parapet on
All the top of the Memphian house
I'M Of Har-hat About her were no
evidences of her former serf-
dom. She wore an ample robe Of white
linen, with blue selvages heavily firing
ed. About her neck was the collar OF
gold. The costume was distinctly IS
raelitish, elaborated somewhat at the
suggestion of Aasanath, to whom RAJ
chefs golden beauty was never less
ening wonder. Compared to the tiny
gorgeous lady, Rachel was as tall lily
to a mimosa.
Masanath was comfortably pillowed
Oh cushions close to the Israeiite. The
rose leaf flush on her little face was
subdued, and her dark eyes We're larger
than usual. The physical discomforts
of the plaques had overtaken her, and
Rachel, the only one of all the house
hold who had passed unscathed through
the troublous time, had been so tender
a nurse that Masanath recovered with
reluctance.
Deborah had survived the removal to
comfort in Memphis only month. The
brutal injuries inflicted by the servants
of Har-hat had been too severe for her
age enfeebled frame to repair. So she
died, blessing the two young girls who
had attended her and promising peace
and happiness to come. Then they
laid her in new tomb cut in the rock
face Of the Libyan hills and wrote on
her sarcophagus:
"She departed out of the land Of Miz-
rain before her people,"
And this was prophecy.
So the Nile rose and subsidized, the
winter came and went and now it was
near the middle Of March. Masanath
forgot Kenkenes and remembered her
own sorrow, now that it's consumma-
ton was surely approaching. During
the hours that darkened gradually
Rachel was to her an ever responsive
comforter.
So the little Egyptian came to love
the Israelite with the love that de-
mands rather than gives-the love of
a child for the mother, Of the benefited
for the benefactor. Gradually Rachel
lost sight Of her own trouble in her
devotion to Masanath. She had no
time for her own thoughts. Each pass
tyrdom nearer, and Rachels uses hour
ly increased.
This day Masanath, who had been i'll,
was unusually downcast.
1T may be-" she said, with more
cheer in her tones than had been in
her previous remarks, that shall die
before they can wed me to Rameses."
NAY, why not say that the Lord
God will interfere before that time?"
Masanath shook her head and looked
away. From the stairway Mari ap-
preached. ~~--~~
"Unas hath come from Tanis, my
lady," she said, with suppressed ex-
element. Masanath sat up, trem-
bling.
Isis grant he hath not come to take
thee to marriage" the waiting woman
breathed. Rachel laid an inquiring
hand on the little Egyptians arm.
my fathers COURIER she explained.
LET him come up" she continued to
Mari. The waiting woman bowed and
left her.
Rachel arose and took place on the
farther side of the hypostyle, with the
screens Of mating between her and
Masanath. She was still in hiding.
The fat servitor came up presently.
Masanath, dreading the news, asked
after it at once. Men have killed them
selves for fear Of death. II
'"Thou hast come to conduct me- to
court?''
THAT is the gracious will Of my