and he used his magical power upon her with such good effect that she was made whole at once.  The evil spirit who had possessed her came out of her and said to Khensu:  “Welcome, welcome, O great god, who dost drive away the spirits who attack men.  Bekhten is thine; its people, both men and women, are thy servants, and I myself am thy servant.  I am going to depart to the place whence I came, so that thy heart may be content concerning the matter about which thou hast come.  I beseech Thy Majesty to give the order that thou and I and the Prince of Bekhten may celebrate a festival together.”  The god Khensu bowed his head as a sign that he approved of the proposal, and told his priest to make arrangements with the Prince of Bekhten for offering up a great offering.  Whilst this conversation was passing between the evil spirit and the god the soldiers stood by in a state of great fear.  The Prince of Bekhten made the great offering before Khensu and the evil spirit, and the Prince and the god and the spirit rejoiced greatly.  When the festival was ended the evil spirit, by the command of Khensu, “departed to the place which he loved.”  The Prince and all his people were immeasurably glad at the happy result, and he decided that he would consider the god to be a gift to him, and that he would not let him return to Egypt.  So the god Khensu stayed for three years and nine months in Bekhten, but one day, whilst the Prince was sleeping on his bed, he had a vision in which he saw Khensu in the form of a hawk leave his shrine and mount up into the air, and then depart to Egypt.  When he awoke he said to the priest of Khensu, “The god who was staying with us hath departed to Egypt; let his chariot also depart.”  And the Prince sent off the statue of the god to Egypt, with rich gifts of all kinds and a large escort of soldiers and horses.  In due course the party arrived in Egypt, and ascended to Thebes, and the god Khensu Pa-ari-sekher-em-Uast went into the temple of Khensu Nefer-hetep, and laid all the gifts which he had received from the Prince of Bekhten before him, and kept nothing for his own temple.  This he did as a proper act of gratitude to Khensu Nefer-hetep, whose gift of a fourfold portion of his spirit had enabled him to overcome the power of the evil spirit that possessed the Princess of Bekhten.  Thus Khensu returned from Bekhten in safety, and he re-entered his temple in the winter, in the thirty-third year of the reign of Rameses II.  The situation of Bekhten is unknown, but the name is probably not imaginary, and the country was perhaps a part of Western Asia.  The time occupied by the god Khensu in getting there does not necessarily indicate that Bekhten was a very long way off, for a mission of the kind moved slowly in those leisurely days, and the priest of the god would probably be much delayed by the people in the towns and villages on the way, who would entreat him to ask the god to work cures on the diseased and afflicted that were brought to him.  We must remember that when the Nubians made a treaty with Diocletian they stipulated that the goddess Isis should be allowed to leave her temple once a year, and to make a progress through the country so that men and women might ask her for boons, and receive them.