Who so bitterly hated Menna, the King’s Overseer? Who so relentlessly sought not alone the destruction of his mortal body but the very annihilation of his soul?

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Foreword[v]
I.Tells of how Professor Ranney Purchased an Ancient Manuscript and of What He Found Therein[1]
II.A Fall Down Thirty Centuries[16]
III.Enana the Magician, Would Prove that a Resemblance between a Queen and a Priestess may be Turned to His Advantage[33]
IV.How Bhanar Came to Thebes[45]
V.The Pleasure Barge of Thi, the Queen-Mother[53]
VI.How Bhanar Found a Home in Egypt[66]
VII.How Renny The Syrian Escaped the Crocodiles[83]
VIII.Nōfert-āri Dances before Pharaoh[91]
IX.The Luminous Book[119]
X.Pharaoh Seeks to Exalt a Foreign God[138]
XI.The Statue of Amen Disappears[152]
XII.Enana Calls to his Aid the Gods Justice and Vengeance[165]
XIII.Ramses and Sesen[172]
XIV.A Rash Promise[187]
XV.A Statue of Hathor, Goddess of Love[200]
XVI.The Curse of Huy, Great High Priest of Amen[208]
XVII.Why Menna’s Chairbearer Staked his All[218]
XVIII.What Happened When Menna, Son of Menna, Went A-wooing[228]
XIX.The Hittites Advance[239]
XX.How Bar and Renny Meet for the Last Time[247]
XXI.Of the Capture of Belur, the Hittite[256]
XXII.The “Double” of Hanit[266]

HANIT THE ENCHANTRESS

CHAPTER I
Tells of How Professor Ranney Purchased an Ancient Manuscript and of What He Found Therein.

The shop of Tanos the Greek, “Dealer in Genuine Antiques,” as the sign above the door advised, might well have been named a museum of ancient art and curiosities. Entered from the front of the Sharia Kamel, one of the main thoroughfares of Cairo, the shop appeared at first glance to consist of but two long narrow rooms, the one immediately behind the other. Both rooms were filled to the very ceiling with curios of all sorts, from little agate beads to vast and shapeless mummies of Sacred Bulls. A half dozen bodies of Egyptian priests, unwrapped and black with natron, stood propped against the walls of the upper room. The odor of cinnamon, myrrh and other embalming essences filled the rooms and drifted out through the open door to blend with the indefinable, but never forgettable, odor of the Cairene streets.