The Gates of Kamt

The Gates of Kamt (1907)
by Baroness Orczy

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Illustrated by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney; first published in the UK as By the Gods Beloved (1905)

The novel is in the tradition of Rider Haggard's 1887 She, and concerns a lost race of ancient Egyptians. In her autobiography, Links in the Chains of Life, Baroness Orczy comments: "The book that gave me more pleasure to write than any of the others is By the Gods Beloved, not only because I could allow my imagination to go roaming in hitherto unexplored realms but because I could give it full sway in picturesque descriptions of places that did not really exist, and in people and characters who could have no attributes that were entirely normal and modern."Warning: template has been deprecated.

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THE GATES OF KAMT

"Wilt tell me what lies beyond the Hills of Kamt?"

(p. 184)

The Gates of Kamt

By
Baroness Orczy

Author of
"The Scarlet Pimpernel,"
The Emperor's Candlesticks,
etc., etc.

Illustrated By
The Kinneys

New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
1907

Copyright, 1905, By

The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1907, By

Dodd, Mead & Company

Published May, 1907

TO
ELIZABETH, AMY and FLORA BARSTOW
of Garrow Hill, York,
whose friendship has helped to render the land
of my adoption doubly dear to me,
this book is inscribed
in token of lasting affection

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The English edition of this book was issued
under the title "By the Gods Beloved"

CONTENTS

PART I
THE GATES OF KAMT

chapter page

I

Tankerville's Hobby

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1

II

The Shade of Neit-akrit

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11

III

The Tomb of the Greek Priest

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21

IV

The Rock of Anubis

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31

V

The Gates of Kamt

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46

VI

The Temple of Ra

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58

VII

The Temple of Ra

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68

PART II
MEN-NE-FER

VIII

The Idol of the People

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79

IX

The Messenger of Princess Neit-akrit

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99

X

The Judgment-Hall of Men-ne-fer

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111

XI

The trial of Kesh-ta, the Slave

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121

XII

The Crown of Kamt

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135

XIII

The Iridescent Scarabæus

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146

XIV

The making of an enemy

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156

PART III
THE PALACE OF NEIT-AKRIT

XV

Neit-akrit, Princess of Kamt

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163

XVI

Divinely Fair

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

174

XVII

Danger

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183

XVIII

Love or Hate?

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

193

XIX

A Kiss

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207

XX

A Letter from Hugh

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212

XXI

A Debt of Honour

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

220

PART IV
TANIS

XXII

The Bridal City

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

228

XXIII

The Crime

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

236

XXIV

The Alternative

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

246

XXV

Helpless

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

259

XXVI

The Marriage

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

276

XXVII

White Rosemary

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285

XXVIII

The Threat

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

298

XXIX

The Departure from Tanis

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

313

XXX

Rosemary for Remembrance

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

319

XXXI

The End

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325

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Wilt tell me what lies beyond the hills of Kamt?"

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Frontispiece

Remember that this broken wand might prove the future emblem of . . . thy power."

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Facing Page 160

He had fallen, half-fainting, upon the marble floor, and clung, around her knees

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"⁠"⁠204

"I will cause all my wealth, . . . to be left to thee, if thou wilt part my lover and Neit-akrit forever."

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"⁠"⁠250

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1947, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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