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The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XXIII
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They show them the path of life, but we smooth the way of death.

It is easier to find the way without a guide in the day-light than in the dark.

We are more than a match for the priests of Anion." "So long as you are our leader, certainly," cried the haruspex.
"And so long as the temple has no lack of men of your temper!" added Ameni, half to Septah, and half to the second prophet of the temple, sturdy old Gagabu, who had come into the room.
Both accompanied him into the garden, where the two priests were awaiting him with the miraculous heart.
Ameni greeted the priest from the temple of Anion with dignified friendliness, the head kolchytes with distant reserve, listened to their story, looked at the heart which lay in the box, with Septah and Gagabu, touched it delicately with the tips of his fingers, carefully examining the object, which diffused a strong perfume of spices; then he said earnestly: "If this, in your opinion, kolchytes, is not a human heart, and if in yours, my brother of the temple of Anion, it is a ram's heart, and if it was found in the body of Rui, who is gone to Osiris, we here have a mystery which only the Gods can solve.

Follow me into the great court.
Let the gong be sounded, Gagabu, four times, for I wish to call all the brethren together." The gong rang in loud waves of sound to the farthest limits of the group of buildings.

The initiated, the fathers, the temple-servants, and the scholars streamed in, and in a few minutes were all collected.


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