Sooner would she die with her child--she said so--than ask thee, against whom she sinned, for an "alms." "She did think of me then ?" "At once; nor did she doubt thy generosity.

She esteems thee highly--I repeat it; and if an arrow from a Cheta's bow or a visitation of the Gods attained Mena, she would joyfully place her child in thine arms, and Nefert believe me has not forgotten her playfellow.

The day before yesterday, when she came home from the Necropolis, and before the letter had come from the camp, she was full of thee-- ["To be full (meh) of any one" is used in the Egyptian language for "to be in love with any one."] nay called to thee in her dreams; I know it from Kandake, her black maid." The pioneer looked down and said: "How extraordinary! and the same night I had a vision in which your mistress appeared to me; the insolent priest in the temple of Hathor should have interpreted it to me." "And he refused?
the fool! but other folks understand dreams, and I am not the worst of them--Ask thy servant.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred my interpretations come true.

How was the vision ?" "I stood by the Nile," said Paaker, casting down his eyes and drawing lines with his whip through the wool of the cabin rug.