resence in that place.

At command of Ramses servants rushed out with torches, the dogs were
unchained, and every bush around the house was searched. But they found
no one.

"Who could that have been, Tutmosis?" asked the prince, with emotion.
"Perhaps it was the ghost of that slave who hanged himself?"

"I have never heard ghosts talking, though I have been on guard at
temples and tombs more than once. I should think, rather, that he who
has just called to us is some friend of thine."

"Why should he hide?"

"But what harm is that to thee? Each one of us has tens, if not
hundreds, of invisible enemies. Thank the gods, then, that Thou hast
even one invisible friend."

"I shall not sleep to-night," whispered the excited prince.

"Be calm. Instead of running along the terrace listen to me and lie
down. Thou wilt see Sleep that is a deliberate divinity, and it does
not befit him to chase after those who run with the pace of a deer. If
Thou wilt lie down on a comfortable couch, Sleep, who loves comfort,
will sit near thee and cover thee with his great mantle, which covers
not only men's eyes, but their memories."

Thus speaking, Tutmosis placed Ramses on a couch; then he brought an
ivory pillow shaped like a crescent, and arranging the prince, placed
his head on this pillow.

Then he let down the canvas walls of the tent, laid himself on the
floor, and both were asleep in some minutes.

CHAPTER VI

THE entrance to the pharaoh's palace at Memphis was through a gate
placed between two lofty towers or pylons. The external walls of these
buildings were of gray sandstone covered from foundation to summit with
bas reliefs.

At the top of the gate rose the arms of the state, or its symbol: a
winged globe, from behind which appeared two serpents. Lower down sat a
series of gods to which the pharaohs were bringing offerings. On side
pillars images of the gods were cut out also in five rows, one above
the other, while below were hieroglyphic inscriptions.

On the walls of each pylon the chief place was occupied by a flat
sculpture of Ramses the Great, who held in one hand an uplifted axe and
grasped in the other, by the hair of the head, a crowd of people tied
in a bundle, like parsley. Above the king stood or sat two rows of
gods; still higher, a line of people with offerings; at the very summit
of the pylons were winged serpents intertwined with scarabs.

Those pylons with walls narrowing toward the top, the gate