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When the nurses returned they at once remarked the change in the

Princess. They, too, became hopeful and assured the husband that

his wife would soon be well. The Princess recovered rapidly, and

it was not long before her gentle presence and noble influence

shed its effulgence in the home as she moved about it.

As soon as Rathunor could spare the time from Nu-nah's side he

sent the Natal hour of his first-born to the Astrologer Priest.

Anxiously did he await the reading of the stars and what they

indicated for his child. The calculations were made, the judgment

submitted in writing, but "Shall I transmit them to the Prince

and Princess, can they yet receive and philosophically accept the

revelations therein made?"