The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-10

berry, but all saw. as plainly as If
it had been day, the face and figure of
the Prince Barfja. They stood aston
ished, while the euHuch ran into the
shrubbery a little way and came back
to say that the fugitive had escaped.
The eunuch carried the news OF the
nights happening to the King, add
ing that after he had seen Bartja dis
appear he had searched the pavilion
and found the Egyptian lying uncon
|sclous upon a couch. The fury OF
CambySes was such that he fell down
in one of those fits of epilepsy to
which he was more and more subject
as he grew elder and which finally
ended in at last partially destroying
his reason. When he had recovered
he ordered the arrest OF his brother,
and when Darius, Gyges and two other
mobiles swore hat the prince coulo
not have been in the hanging gar
Idens at the time specified, as he was
entertaining them at a feast in his own
gardens all hat night and had not
left them for a minute, they, too. We're
arrested. The testimony Of Croesus
was given with great reluctance, but
he could only say that he had seen
some one whom he took to be Bartja
at the window of Nite.is's house.
panions were ordered away, loaded
! with letters, placed in a strong prison
land ordered by the King that they
be executed next day.
While this judgment wa being
given by the Infatuated King a trena-
bling slave was dragged into the pres
ence OF Boges. The slave had a let
ter which, he said, had been given
him by his mistress, Nitetis. with in
structions to place it in the hands Of
Prince Rartja. The letter was torn
from him. It was in Greek, and in 1t
Nitetis reproched Bartia for his neg
lect Of her sisters love and begged
that lie would come to see her if pos
sible, as she had much to tell him.
1.-THE unfortunate letter was, however,
SO worded that it might easily be
construed as a reproach to Bartia for
throwing owe Nitetis herself for his
love for Sappho.
Insane with wrath, the King caused
1.-The head OF the unfortunate mes
senger to be stricken off at once, and
when Croesus ventured to expostu-
late with Cambyees he ordered hat
former king of Lydia to be AXE at
once to prison and to be executed at
sunrise. Then he issued this decree:
1.-The adulteress Nitetis. daughter of
the king of Egypt, is to be punished
for her evil deeds with all the sever
ity of the law, as follows: She shall
be placed astride an ass and led
!1nTOuSn the streets O1 bdOJlO1, SO IIldt
the people in the town may see that
Cambyses Furnishes a kings daughter
as severely as his judges punish the
meanest beggar omar When the sun
| sets the shameless m is to be
buried alive"
The condition Of Nitetis since she
left the banquet hall had been pitia-
bic. She felt that a net had been
woven about her from which she could
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not escape. II she couid only see the
king and plead her innocence-but
that was denied her. Yet in all her
suffering there came to her one
thought which brought with it a sense
of consolation: "CanbyseS kills me
because he loves mel" She had in her
bedroom a box Of ointment for the
skin. which she knew would cause
siderable quantity. She resolved to
take her own life rather h to suf-
fer a public humiliation.
Now. the plot Of Boges. he'd been
thus conducted. The youth Gaumata
was in person SO s~trikingly like Bartja
THAT if they were dressed alike it was
impossible for their most intimate
friends to tell one from the other a
a little distance or in a dim light. L
Twas Gaumata, dressed like Bartia
whom Boges had introduced into tn
hanging gardens by d secret trap door
Turing him there with the prospect O
an interview with his beloved Man
dane. AS Gaumata was coming from
this interview Boges had called thu
attention of tn group of noble:
around the blue lily to him, and tn
rest we know. GauTnata had, O.
course. scaped by the same secre
trap door through which he had en-
TERED the gardens.
The news Of what had happened AND
what was to happen spread all ove1
Babylon, and before the sun ha(
reached its zenith the streets Were
filled with a great mob. Prince Bartif
was most popular, and many people
shouted his name and denounced tn
king. The soldiers were called out
and there were several riots for then
to subdue. The hour was fast ap'