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. A nearer view of the upper room disclosed the approach to what Tanos called the “holy of holies.” This third, or innermost chamber, was screened from the eyes of the ordinary souvenir hunter by an ivory-inlaid door of ancient Coptic woodwork.