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Tarharqua was turned to water, His hands trembled as he put the last touches to his portrait. And such a portrait! Never had such a thing been seen in Egypt. Here was no conventional inek, modelled to the Oh! ho! A little romance, eh?"ge-old tradition of Egyptian sculp- thought the Prince, noticing that time ture, but warm, living beauty,
making amorods.
From the rigidity of his attitude and the curl of This p, it seamed that his mood was
not one of galety,
Tho
and again the young man's eyes re- honey-coloured face of Nesaru smiled
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clusive. It was heresy, but Tarhar- with hurricane force, was con
A little mallelously he leaned to-qua knew no regret. wards her, thinking of those unsur
"It is finished," he said, standing quered by motor-lorries during a cearful marriage negotiations, and back 'regretfully, with the dislike of journey just completed round the {taid:
the artist for my such arbitrary northern part of the Taimyr Pen- ** statement.
"A very handsome young man, protege of yours?
Nesaru started. Following the Prince's gaze, which discreetly drop pod on the instant, who said coldly:" That the court sculptor."
own.
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It fa the first time that motor-
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her hands together impulsively.
Tarharqua turned the bust on Its lorries have been used for Arctic atand.
"Ohl" she said, and "Oh!" again. The lorries covered nearly 280 To do him justice, Prince Sargon the dais and approached it
Very slowly she came down from miles in 21 days, much of: It over
Health- He had no notion of intense jealousy with one finger, and then touched her had no intention of creating trouble. tingly she touched the smooth cheek completely unknown territory,
It is pointed out that the lorries that burned in Pharaoh's breast. Therefore it was only with a slight
proved better than sledges drawn mockery that he raised his voice suf- Am Ilke that, Tarharqua? So by dogs because they were able to ficiently to catch Pharaoh's attention, sudden catch in the sound.
eager?" She laughed a little, with a continue their Journey during and said:
"Indeed. Court sculptors are not
"You make me seem as it I wanted snowstorms in which dogs could sually so good-looking. I congratu-to look ahead, far ahead into the not have travelled. late you."
future. I shouldn't be beautiful then, Moreover, scientific instru Tarharque. You shouldn't make me ments too heavy for the dogs were Unfortunately, Pharach was already feeling the preliminary pangs of a look into the future.” complaint that attacks prince
"You will never be old," said Tar-carried in the lorries-Reater. commoner indiscriminately.
"It's not nearly beautiful Dyspep.
barque. sla sharpened his voice as he demand. enough. But it was as near as 'I ed: "What's that? The court scalp beautiful to set down in clay or stone." knew how to make it. You are too itor? Is he hero?"
chuckling.
and
you're one of the sum-worship lot.. "And now," said Nesaru, you won't He's like a cat on hot bricks at pre-
Her brown eyes sent. come any more."
Thinks that shocking port- grew dark, and she laid a hand on rait of yours the first rumbling of the her breast,
with misery written all over his face. something into Tarharqua's hand.
Tarharqua could only gaze at her storm. Still, I'll see what I can do." He fumbled in his cloak and pressed "You must say 'Good-bye!" sald Nesaru, the words dropping like card- led tears into the silence.
"Good-bye and good luck." He turned away and entered the The small doorway to the palace.
"He is hereby invitation of the Vizler," replied Nesara with the slightest emphasis, and Indicating Tarharque, His thin eyebrows.
Pharaoh regarded him with dislike were drawn to- gether.
Menebre noticing the incident, nud- ged the High Priest again.
"I wouldn't
With a strangled kind of sob. Tar- be Tarharqua for a
boat. They rowed away from the whole packet of slave girls," he said, harqon suddenly knelt and put his boldless bustled Tarharqua into the
arms round her, pressing his hot share with long, steady strokes. "I believe your department was ras-agonised face against her knees. But the West Bank came no nearer. At that precise moment the purple ponsible for his appointment return curtains swept aside, and in stalked Tarharque, with a sudden leap of the "Where are you going?" demanded Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,ed the High Priest, silkily.
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & That finished Menebre, and the High High Priest, with the Vizier dodging heart. Life dies by inches. Ther Holl.
Priest, one well-manicured hand tap-unhappily in the background. {wouldn't reply, but soon the riding ping the table before him, murmered which Tarharqua sprang to his feet, their cockleshell of a boat. Marseilles & London.
congested pause, during lights of a big dahabiyeh loomed over Without almost into space:
"A very charming young man. Pharaoh growled.
It
this?" He the
ceremony Tarharqua was handed up "What's the meaning pity if he is, after all, mixed up added, "Clear these creatures out of sounded about him, and bare feet side. Movements and voices with these sun worship fanatics,"
He added, aware that the royal ear here," Indicating with a wave of the padded argently past in the darkness.
hand the awed slave girls and the Within a was, inclined in his direction:
very few minutes the "Perhaps, under the circumstances, intrigued but more discreet ladies in dabablyeh got ander way, and soon Pharaoh would do well to look into attendance, who had seeped in at the she was skimming down the river. this matter of sculpture.
rumour of a fraca. They disappear- Tarharqua - stood in the bows, re- His motives in thus giving Tarhared with silence and despatch. volving the whole weary drama in his qua a gentle push down the steep path Advancing into the room, Pharaoh's mind. His fingers still clutched the of damnation were mixed. In the first eye was caught by the portrait. For thing that Menabre had pushed in his place he was a fanatic on the subject a full minute he stared at it, and a hang. Remembering it, he unrolled of the inviolacy of the Royal women purple tide surged into his face. the shred of alik that bound It, and
"Is this what your Court Sculptor's saw that it was a ring. It was intolerable to him that even
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Then he stood there in the growing Change spelt danger to the priesthood, smiling serenely into the distance, light and looked down the gray river The High Priest left Menebre at the had none of the solemn tincture of an if already, he saw the fretful spaces post as far as conservatium was con- the tomb that invested the only art of the seak cerned. So far as he was aware, with which Pharaoh was familiar, there was not the slightest trath In "Have you anything to say about Pharaoh all its damning Implications. But he this--abortion?" knew that at the moment the topic with an effort. was the shortest cut to Pharaoh's at- Tarharqua bowed very low, but said tention, and the High Priest had no nothing. scruples where principles were con- After a pregnant pauze, "Take him cerned.
away," order Pharaoh inevitably. Pharaoh disliked and feared the Nexaru moved for the first time as Chief High Pricat, but he could not the guard stepped smartly into the afford to ignore the hint. The Lard chamber. She lifted, her hand as if of the Two Kingdoms was a worried to speak, but dropped it again. She
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