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

officer took Phanes to the presence Of
Cambyses and there passed from lip
TO lip through the crowd the rumor
that BartJa was saved.
After his fight from Egypt Planes
had passed some time in the island of
Samos. and then had started for Baby
lon with the intention of seeking SER
vice under Cambyses. As liz was COM
ing along the highway leading 10 the
capital and was making his last stage
at night he had seen three r~uffians
tear a young man from his horse.
stun him with blows and o TO
throw him into the EuphrateS. Phanes
and his attendants had rushed to the
rescue and after driving off the as
sassins had taken the unconscious
youth to the nearest post house. In
this wounded youth Phanes, TO his
horror thought he recognized the
noble Bartja.
But it was Gaumata. and when the
young ma recovered sufficiently TO
talk he told his reScuer the whole
story of his visit to the hanging gar
dens and Of how he had been lured
by & letter to the spot where the ruff
fans had attacked him. He believed
now h a the whole thing had been a
plot Of BOges, and that the eunuch
had attempted to kill him in order
that evidence Of his crime might per-
ish with him. When Cambyses was
Informed by the strange that he was
that Planes who conquered Cyprus for
| Amasis he listened to his story, AMI
then ordered that Mundane be rough
before him. The terrified girl con-
fessed all. The eunuch, hearing how
matters were going, had fled and could
not be found. OrOpastes was sum-
mO1ed and acknowledged that he hk
a brother vino bore a striking likeness
to Rartja-but he had supposed him
~ tho fpontSnr M nc ~~-
unraveled but a sudden thought struck
the King. When was Croesus exc
cuted?' he asked. The captain Of the
guards, the perspira ton standing on
his brow, stammered out that he had
not cheyed the 7 gal order. ''Thi time
you shall be forgiven said the King,
go and bring all the prisoners be-
fore me-"
There was much rejoicing at the
~acquittal Of the accused ones, and
Cassandane was sent to bear the good
news to Nitetis. But she came too
late. When the eunuch had read to
NitetiS the decree of the king for her
humiliation and death the princess had
taken the poison contained in her
ointment box. After lingering some
days she died in the arms of Cambyses,
happy in the knowledge Of his love.
After the death Of Nitetis Planes n
the oculist, Nebencharl, determined
upon revenge upon Psamtik and
Egypt, Planes because of the murder
of his son and the oculist because Of
the news which Planes brought him
of the burning, by order of the Egypt
ian prince. OF a chest containing his
works upon the science to which he
had devoted his life. They revealed
to CambySes the truth concerning the
birth Of Nitetis, and the Persian king.
claiming h throne of Egypt by in
he,itance from his wife, marched a
vast army to h Nile and conquered
the land Of the Pharaohs.
Rartia married the fair SaDpho. but
was soon after secretly murdered. the
king having given the order for his
execution in one Of his fits of insanity.
When, finally, drink and epilepsy had
killed Cambyses Darius married Atossa
and reigned as king over half of the
world. To Nitetis there was erected
near Babylon a great tomb, the ruins
Of which to this day form one of the
wonders of Persia.