The farmer and mechanic., 1911-01-10

sessed of q secret which AmaSlS nao
revealed to the Greek one night When
the royal Pharaoh was reeHnS drunk
to his bed 1t was that the Prlncess
Nitetis, the supposed twin sister OF
the Princess Tachot, was not the
daughter Of Amasis but Of the de-
throned King, Hophra. She had been
born in the last days OF that unhappy
prisoner in the palace at Memphis,
and born in the same hour as Tachot.
Hesitating to kill the baby girl, yet
anxious that the line Of Hophra should
be supposed to have perished. Amasls
had announced to the people the blrtn
Of twin daughters and had brought
up Nitetis as his own child, his noble
| Queen, the Greek Ladice, gladly con-
senting.
| This secret was known to only
few The celebrated oculist, Neben.
chari. son Of the physician who had
oificiated at the birth of both Prln-
cesses and had been privy to the de-
ception, had been long banished TO
Persia because, from his dead fathers
| papers, he had learned this secret.
iOstensibly he had been sent by Amasis
in a spirit Of friendship to the Per
sian court that he might. with ms
great skill treat the widow of the
Great Cyrus, Queen Cassandane. who
had become blind. But Nebenchar1
knew what the detail meant and that
if he should return to Egvpt death
awaited him.
The sullen Prince Psamtil1 resolved
that Phanes must die, but Anasis
protected him until one day it was
discovered that Phanes had ordered
one Of his servants to drown a litter
Of kittens. The priests hailed him be-
fore a tribunal and demanded that
the Pharaoh decree his death, for
tdeath was the penalty for killing one
of those sacred animals, the cat But
Amasis aroused himself. He would not
suffer his old companion in arms, his
faithful friend. the General who had
given him dominion over Cyprus, to
be killed. He agreed with the chief
priest that Phanes should be banished
and that the building of the Greek
Temple OF Naucratis should be stopped.
This was the condition of affairs when
, the Persian Embassy came to Sais.
Right royalty were the envoys Of
the Persian King entertained, and
when Amasis selected Nitetis the
daughter whom he would send back
, with them to be the wife Of Cam
: byses all were struck with her beauty
5 and her intelligence-she would. in
deed, be fitting consort Of the son
Of Cyrus. Nitetis was tall, dark and
of full figure. Her black eyes spark
5 led with intelligence, and her every
9 of royal blood. Her putative sister,
Tanchot, was small. fair and blue
r eyed. Her form was delicately but
9 exQuisitely nodded, and she seemed a
f lily beside rose when in the pres
> ence Of Nitetis. At the great feast
given by the Pharaoh to the ambassa-
, doris Tanchot saw the Prince Darius
r and loved him. Darius was taken
: by her delicate beauty and paid Tan
T chot many compliments-so that she
l. ldreamed that her love might be re-
e turned. But, alas! Darius was not
3 in love with Tanchot, and when the
e EN- mbaSsy sailed away for home with
e Nitetis. the lily Of the Nile, left be-
0 hind, dropped and faded, signing for
t the vanished prince who had SO sud-
0 denly and completely captured her
e heart.
d Prince Bartja, however. left his
i heart by the banks of the Nile. At
0 the country house of the learned
Greek widow, Rhodopis, whose hus-
d band had been brother OF that Sappho
e whose poetry had made her name i'm
|. mortal, he had met the granddaugh-
+ ter OF his hostess. also called Sappho,
t and the two had secretly plighted
: their troth. At the house Of Rhod opis
n fGyges mad had an opportunity to save
r the life of Phanes. Prince Psamtik
e had learned that Phanes had not yet
d LETT the country. and that he was to
II olhe on certain night at the house
Q OF the Greek widow. He sent a BODY
t. or Ethiopian soldiers to intercept him
: ent as guest, changed clothes with
e Phanes mounted him on his own
/ morse. and SO enabled him to escape
h the snare.
d When NHetis. after a Journey o,
e seven weeks, approached the grea1
# city Of Babylon, seated in a eilde ed
5. carriage and surrounded by a prince:y
n fetnue. the King. Cambyses. came
d out to meet her. First a cloud ot
dust appeared in the direction of the
q city. Tf:e cloud came nearer and
II nearer. Now bright sunbeams waro
i reflected on the weapons of the an.
% preaching host and darted from the
a cloud of dust like lightning from q
l. cloudy sky Now the cloud divide ed