low-riding, slowly moving stone-barges laden with quarry slaves. The
unwieldy craft progressed heavily, nearer and within the darkening
shadow of the Arabian hills. Kenkenes watched them as long as they
were in sight, an unwonted pity making itself felt in his heart. For
even in the dusk he distinguished many women and the immature figures
of children; and none knew the quarry life better than he, who was a
worker in stone.



[1] In ancient Egypt burglary was reduced to a system and governed by
law. The chief of robbers received all the spoil and to him the
victimized citizen repaired and, upon payment of a certain per cent. of
the value of the object stolen, received his property again. The
original burglar and the chief of robbers divided the profits. This
traffic was countenanced in Egypt until the country passed into British
hands.

[2] The ape was sacred to and an emblem of Toth, the male deity of
Wisdom and Law.




CHAPTER IV

THE PROCESSION OF AMEN

Thebes Diospolis, the hundred-gated, was in holiday attire. The great
suburb to the west of the Nile had emptied her multitudes into the