pened two little toilet jars, and with a brush painted
her face rose-color.

Toward evening, feeling continual pain in her joints and fear in her
heart, which was worse than pain, she commanded to call a physician.
When they told her that the physician had come, she looked at the
mirror, and was seized by a new attack, as it were of insanity. She
threw the mirror to the pavement, and cried out with weeping that she
did not need the physician.

During the sixth of Hator she ate nothing all day and would see no
person.

When the slave woman brought in a light after sun-down,

Kama lay on the bed, after she had wound herself in a shawl. She
ordered the slave to go out as quickly as possible; then she sat in an
armchair at a distance from the lamp, and passed some hours in a half-
waking stupor.

"There are no spots," said she, "and if there are, they are not spots
of that kind! They are not leprosy. O ye gods!" cried she, throwing
herself on the pavement. "It cannot be that I O ye gods, save me! I
will go back to the temple; I will do life-long penance I have no
spots. I have been rubbing my skin for some days; that is why it is
red. Again, how could I have it; has any one ever heard that a
priestess and a woman of the heir to the throne could have leprosy? O
ye gods! that never has happened since the world began. Only fishermen,
prisoners, and vile Jews Oh, that low Jewess! Heavenly powers, oh, send
down leprosy to her!"

At that moment some shadow passed by the window on the first story.
Then a rustle was heard, and from the door to the middle of the room
sprang in Lykon.

Kama was amazed. She seized her head suddenly, and in her eyes immense
terror was depicted.

"Lykon!" whispered she. "Thou here, Lykon? Be off! They are searching
for thee."

"I know," answered the Greek, with a jeering laugh. "All the
Phoenicians are hunting me, and all the police of his holiness. Still I
am with thee, and I have been in thy lord's chamber."

"Wert Thou with the prince?"

"Yes; in his own bedchamber. And I should have left a dagger in his
breast if the evil spirits had not saved him. Evidently he went to some
other woman, not to thee."

"What dost Thou wish here?" whispered Kama. "Flee!"

"But with thee. On the street a chariot is ready for us; on this we
shall ride to the Nile, and there my boat is in waiting."

"Thou hast gone mad! But the city and the streets are filled with
warriors."

"For that very reason I