The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-16

iieI son na0 committed one
OIL the greatest crimes known 10 the
ancient Egyptian-he had pawned his
debt. y"
ana the young s~pendthrift, after a
recent battle when there had been a
ulV1slon OF spells, had passed by heaps
OF plunder and claimed for his share
ony q female captive, the daughter
OF a Grecian prince. Paaker. for his
love for Nefert, must be made to give
her none to wipe out the family dis
grace OF the paWning of the
Mena must be destroyed and Ram
eses dethrOned. Was she herself not
me counselor Of the regent, who acted
almost entirely by her advice? The pre-
sent 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 would have
wealth enough at her command.
katuti a in her house a dwarf.
Nemu, the son Of the old witch Hekt,
Paaker. Through him she learned OF
what had taken place, through him
she stirred up the ambitions of the
consplratorS and the discomfort of the
dren that they grew to be dwarfs
who could be sold at a great profit to
FURNISH amusement in the houses OF
the great. When he had spoken
savagely to the old woman she had
replied, AYE, you with the six toes
on your right foot, you who enjoy the
fortune Of the noble Assa-do you
threaten? Paaker stood astonished
and disturbed before the dc woman
how did h know Of the malforma-
ton Of his right foot? Perhaps thae
he was Assa's grandson might be
known to her, but she told him other
things which he had thought hidden
and lastly that he loved Nefert.
And | will give you a philter." she
said. put it in the wine or the water
which she drinks and she will love
YOU. Mena is away at the wars. YOU
long greatly, would you dare greatly
Here, take this vial. 1t is death fol
device. But throw me a silver ring
and try the philter. Ha! ha! ASA
grandson and she vanished int hel
ave.
Paaker administered the philter to
Nefert and, such is the power Of be-
lieving what we wish to believe, he
imagined h a h treated him more
kindly. And now the father OF
Uarda, a rough soldier, returned from
the wars and told to the leech Neb-
secht the story Of her mother. She
had beer a captive whom he had pur.
chased from among the spells after {
great battle years ago. when he fol
lowed the fortunes of Rameses in &
war against the Greeks. Uarda wa
their child and was like her mother.
In that visit of the Princess Ben
Anat to the hut Of the p~araschites t
foundation Of another low story hat
been laid. Ramari, the yOunge,
brother of the princess, had seer
Uarda and after that he loved her
turnip juice-that love philter," sait
Iekt scornfully to her son when sh'
,old him the secret, "but these fool:
need not know-at least not now
When Katuti preached the subject o
asking aid Of Paaker to Nefert; Whe1
she told her Of the taking as his shar'
Of spells the Greek princess; Whel
she intimated that if Mena were deat
and Nefert the wife of Paaker things
would go better, Nefert flew for cOun
sci to her bosom friend. Bent Anat
The result was that the princess com
manded" Nefert to reside with ne
away from the designs and machlna
tons of her mother and of the othe1
c~onspirators.
While things were in this state al
Thebes was startled by an alleged mir
acle. In the temple Of Anon a sacred
ram had died, and on the western
shore in the metropolis the prophe
embalm Rui they found in his breas
the heart Of a ram. 1t was eviden
hat the gods had given a signal evi
dence Of the s~acredness of the temples
and the prophets on the western shor.
the heart Of the ram Anon hat
been transferred to the body OF tn
prophet Rui.
But the heart was not the heart o
the Anon ram. 1t was the heart Of
ram secretly slaughtered by tn;
grandfather Of Uarda, who, at tn
command and entreaty OF the leach
Nebsecht, placed it in Ruis body WheI
he ~paraschites removed the human
heart. This as a reward, as he hat
promised, for the cure Of Uarda. Neb
seoht, in order to increase his knoWi
edge, had desired a human heart TO.
dissection, and this was the only wa!
he could get it; for among the Egyp
tons the heart was thought the sea
IF the soul. and to destroy it was t.
DESTROY the soul. Ameni saw in tn
s11nnosed transaction of the heart o