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The new cup-bearer waved his hand, and Kenkenes went on. "There is my father, the murket. He needs no further praise than the utterance of his name. There is Hotep, on whose lips Toth abideth. There is Seneferu, the faithful, whom the Rebu dreads. Next is Kephren, the mohar, who would outshine his father, the right hand of the great Rameses, had he but nations to conquer. After him, Har-hat "

There he found that the queen and Seti, with all the queen's retinue, had departed on a pilgrimage to the temple of the sacred ram at Mendes for the welfare of the soul of Rameses. Masanath was in Pelusium mourning for her sister who died with the first-born. The others, Har-hat, Hotep, Nechutes, Menes, Seneferu, Kephren the mohar, all except the palace attendants had accompanied the king.

Behind followed Kephren and Seneferu, the two generals, who, with the exception of Har-hat, the commander-in-chief, were the only arms-bearing men away from their places among the soldiers; after these, Hotep and Nechutes, Menes of the royal body-guard, the lesser fan-bearers, the many minor attaches to the king's person in all a score of nobles. They came upon a portentous scene.