ange; all the serving and slave
women, and even the scribes conducted Sarah to her new dwelling with
music and shouts of pleasure.

The Phoenician woman, when she heard the uproar, asked the reason; and
when they told her that Sarah had been restored to the favor of the
prince, and that from the servants' house she had been transferred to
the villa, the enraged ex-priestess sent for Ramses.

The prince came.

"Dost Thou treat me in this way?" screamed she, losing control of her
temper. "Thou didst promise that I should be thy first woman, but
before the moon traversed half the heavens thy promise was broken.
Perhaps Thou thinkest that the vengeance of Astaroth will fall on the
priestess alone, and not reach to princes."

"Tell thy Astaroth," replied Ramses, calmly, "not to threaten princes,
or she may go herself to the servants' house."

"I understand!" exclaimed Kama. "I shall go to the servants' house,
perhaps even to prison, while Thou wilt spend nights with thy Jewess.
Because I have left the gods for thee I have drawn down a curse on my
own head. Because I left them I know no rest for a moment; I have lost
my youth for thee, my life, my soul even, and this is the pay which
Thou givest me."

The prince confessed in his heart that Kama had sacrificed much for
him, and he felt compunction.

"I have not been and shall not be with Sarah," said he. "But does it
harm thee that the ill-fated woman has some comfort and can nourish her
child unmolested?"

Kama trembled. She raised her clinched fist, her hair stirred, and in
her eyes an ugly fire of hate was flashing.

"Is this the answer which Thou givest me? The Jewess is unhappy because
Thou didst drive her from the villa, and I must be satisfied, though
the gods have driven me out of their temples. But my soul the soul of a
priestess who is drowning in tears and in terror does not mean more for
thee than that brat of the Jew woman this child, which, would he were
dead may he."

"Silence!" cried the prince, shutting her mouth.

She drew back frightened.

"Then may I not even complain of my wretchedness?" inquired she. "But
if Thou art so careful of that child, why steal me from the temple, why
promise that I should be first in thy household? Have a care,"
continued she, raising her voice again, "that Egypt, after learning my
fate, may not call thee a faith-breaker."

The prince turned his head and laughed. But he sat down, and said,

"My teacher was righ