LAURA DAYTON FESSENDEN
Highland Park, Illinois
“Happiegoluckie”
Christmas, 1904
CONTENTS.
| PART I | |
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | [6] |
| CHAPTER III | [17] |
| CHAPTER IV | [26] |
| CHAPTER V | [38] |
| CHAPTER VI | [45] |
| CHAPTER VII | [52] |
| CHAPTER VIII | [56] |
| PART II | |
| CHAPTER I | [61] |
| CHAPTER II | [63] |
| CHAPTER III | [71] |
| CHAPTER IV | [77] |
| CHAPTER V | [84] |
| CHAPTER VI | [90] |
| CHAPTER VII | [91] |
| CHAPTER VIII | [95] |
| CHAPTER IX | [98] |
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
The fifth day of the first month of summer had come, and in a sunset of gold and purple hues, the Nile was glorified; birds had ceased their songs, the air was heavy with the perfume of flowers, and away to the westward the evening star was setting.
Here, and there, along the shore, lithe, tawney-skinned girls filled earthern jars with water, then lifted them to their shoulders, and walked across the greenness, into the deepening night.
On this delta—or plain—of lower Egypt, there stood, three thousand years ago, the city of Abydos; it measured ten square miles in circumference, and was shut in on three sides, by walls of reddish sand-stone and the unwalled side—fronting the Nile—was a pleasure ground, belonging to a Royal residence and named, the “Palace of Tears,” so called because it was occupied by the King or his family only during seasons of personal, or national distress. Entrance into Abydos, was obtainable through three gateways, and over each there were towers, in which night and day, year in, and year out, the priests of Osirus, kept watch and ward with much fasting and many prayers.