Part 12 (2/2)
”I knohere is Tahoser,” whispered the old wo stress on each syllable
On hearing this, the officer took Thah the avenue of pillars and the hypostyle hall into a second court, where rose the granite sanctuary, with its two outer colu Timopht, he handed Thamar over to him
Tiloomy and silent
”Keep well out of the reach of his sceptre,” was the advice Tiave to the Israelite
As soon as she perceived the King through the darkness, Thas, by the side of the bodies which had not yet been re up, she said in a firood news”
”Speak without fear,” replied the King, whose fury had passed away
”Tahoser, whoht in the four corners of the world,--I knohere she is”
At the na and stepped towards Tha
”If you speak the truth, you old and precious stones”
”I will put her in your hands, you h
What was the motive which had led Thamar to inforhter was in hiding?
She wished to prevent a union which she disliked She entertained towards the race of Egypt, a blind, fierce, unreasoning, al Tahoser's heart delighted her Once in the hands of the Pharaoh, Ra'hel's rival would be unable to escape; the granite walls of the palace would keep their prey
”Where is she?” said Pharaoh; ”tell me the spot I want to see her at once”
”Your Majesty, I alone can guide you I know the windings of those loathsome quarters, where the humblest of your servants would disdain to set foot Tahoser is there, in a clay and straw hut which nothing marks from the huts which surround it, amid the heaps of bricks which the Hebrews s of the city”
”Very well, I will trust you Tiht around”
Ti over the stones of the court, and the horses sta as the equerries fastened them to the yoke
The Pharaoh ca up on the chariot, took the reins, and seeing that Thaet up,” he said
He clucked his tongue, and the horses started The awakened echoes gave back the sound of the wheels, which sounded like low thunder through the vast halls, in thewith her bony fingers to the rim of the chariot by the side of the Godlike Pharaoh, presented a strange sight, which fortunately was seen by none but the stars twinkling in the deep blue heavens She reseenii of uilty souls to Hades
”Is this the way?” said the Pharaoh to the woman at the forks of a street
”Yes,” replied Thaht direction
The horses, urged on by the whip, sprang forward, and the chariot leaped upon the stones with a noise of brass
Meanwhile Tahoser slept by the side of Ra'hel A strange dream filled her sleep She seeious height upbore the blue ceiling studded with stars like the heavens; innu the walls between the panels of syht colours All the Gods of Egypt had met in this universal sanctuary, not as brass, basalt, or porphyry effigies, but as living shapes In the first rank were seated the Gods Knef, Buto, Phtah, Pan-Mendes, Hathor, Phre, Isis; then came the twelve celestial Gods,--six male Gods: Rempha, Pi-Zeous, Ertosi, Pi-Hermes, Imuthi; and six female deities: the Moon, Ether, Fire, Air, Water, Earth Behind these swaruely and indistinctly three hundred and sixty-five Decans, the familiar daemons of each day Next appeared the terrestrial deities: the second Osiris, Haroeri, Typhon, the second Isis, Nephthys, the dog-headed Anubis, Thoth, Busiris, Bubastis, the great Serapis Beyond, in the shade, were faintly seen idols in form of animals,--oxen, crocodiles, ibises, hippopotami In the centre of the teh-priest Peta been unwound froe and , and spoke, as it often happens in dreahter, ”Question them and ask them if they are Gods”