The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14


 Paaker administered the philter to Nefert and, such Is the power of be- lieving what we wish to believe, he imagined that she treated him more kindly. And now the father of Urada rough soldier returned from the wars and told to the leach Nebsecht the story of her mother. She had been captive whom he had purchased from among the spells after a great battle years ago, when he followed the fortunes of Rameses in war against the Greeks. Urada was their child and was like her mother
 In that visit of the Princess Bent Anat to the hut of the paraschites the foundation of another love story had been laid. Ramari, the younger broth CT of the princess, had seen Uarda and after that he loved her-he, the son of king loved the granddaughter of 8 paraschitesl
 While matters were in this state the lovers loving and the mighty ones conspiring-the came couriers with letters from the royal army warning iii far Asia. Among them was letter from Neferts brother who was with the army. When their mother read the let ter she was filled with a desperate de- sign. The Lady Katuti had, for the sake of her spendthrift son, made deep in roads into the fortune of the absent Mena, her son-in-law, and had inn poverished herself. In the love of Paak- CT for Nefert and in the use of Paak- CTS wealth which this might bring about she saw her only hope. For her son had committed one of the great est crimes known to the ancient Egyp- tian-he had pawned his fathers num- my to satisfy a gambling debt.
 And the young spendthrift, after a recent battle when there had been a division of spells, had passed by heaps of plunder and claimed for his share only female captive, the daughter of a Grecian prince. Paaker. for his love money to wipe out the family dis grace of the pawning of the mummy. Mena must be destroyed and Rameses dethroned. Was she herself not the counselor of the regent, who acted almost entirely by her advice? The present order of things wiped out, a new order instituted, and she as the guide and power of the throne upon which Ami desired to sit, she woulI have wealth enough at her command,
 Katuri had in her house dwarf. Nemu, the son of the old witch Hekt, who had sold the love philter to Paaker. Through him she learned of what had taken place. through him she stirred up the ambitions of the conspirators and the discontent Of the people. 'It was only vinegar and tur- nip juice-that love philter," said Hekt scornfully to her son when she told him the secret, '.but these fools need not know at least not now" When Katuti preached the subject of asking aid of Paaker to Nefert; when she told her of the taking as his share of spells the Creek princess when she intimated that if Mena were dead and Nefert the wife of Paaker things would go better, Nefert flew for counsel to her bosom friend, Bent Anat. The result was that the princess "com- manded" Nefert to reside with her away. from the designs and machinations of her mother and of the other conspirators
 While things were in this state all Thebes was startled by an alleged miracle In the temple of Anon a sacred ram had died and onS the western shore in the metropolis the prophet Rui had died. When they came to embalm Rui they found in his breast the heart of "a ram It was evident that the gods had given a sig nal evidence of the sacrednesS of the temples and the prophets on tho west ern shore-the heart of the ram Anon had been transferred to the body of the prophet Rui.
 But the heart was not the heart of tho Anon ram. It was the heart of . ram secretly slaughtered by the grandfather