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Gladsome, surrounded by torches, Ramses, in company with Tutmosis, approached Sarah's dwelling. At sight of him Gideon said to Tafet, "Great is my alarm for my daughter, but still greater my wish to avoid Prince Ramses." He sprang over the wall, and amid darkness through gardens and fields he held on in the direction of Memphis. "Be greeted, O beauteous Sarah!" cried Tutmosis in the courtyard.
"But those the Egyptians!" explained Tafet. The prince cast a contemptuous glance at her, but rage mastered him straightway. "Who struck Sarah? Who threw the stone?" shouted he, seizing the arm of the black man. "Those from beyond the river," answered the slave. "Hei, watchman!" cried the prince, foaming at the mouth, "arm all the men in this place for me and follow that rabble!"
His holiness does not wish to know at all that I left the army for a girl, but the queen likes to occupy herself even with this, that I took into my house a Jewess. Sarah is the quietest of women whom I know; but Tafet cries and makes an uproar for four persons." Then the prince recalled the words of the man's wife, that for a month they had not eaten wheat, only seeds and roots of lotus.
"Is that true?" cried the queen. "How dost Thou know?" "It is not known to his worthiness the heir, or even to Sarah," said Herhor, smiling. "We must know everything. This secret, however, was not difficult to get at. With Sarah is her relative Tafet, an incomparable gossip." "Have they summoned a physician already?"
"Sit here, mother," said she; "what art Thou doing down there?" "The gardener has brought fruit, and they have sent bread, wine, and game from the city; I must take them." "Sit here and talk, for fear seizes me." "Thou art a foolish child," said Tafet, smiling. "Fear looked at me too the first day from every corner; but when I went out beyond the wall, there was no more of it.
We shall have a better supper than has Lord Chaires." Gideon went out on the flat roof with his daughter. "Tafet tells me," said he, when they were alone, "that Thou art always in the house. Why is this? Thou shouldst look at least on the garden." "I am afraid," whispered Sarah. "Why be afraid of thy own garden? Here Thou art mistress, a great lady." "Once I went out in the daytime.
"I hope that Thou wilt receive us well for the music which I sent to thee." Sarah appeared, with bandaged head on the threshold, leaning on the black slave and her female attendant. "What is the meaning of this?" cried the astonished Ramses. "Terrible things!" called out Tafet. "Unbelievers attacked thy house; one hurled a stone and struck Sarah." "What unbelievers?"
When the stars had appeared in the sky, Tafet spread a white cloth on the table, placed on it the candlestick with seven lighted torches, pushed up three armchairs, and announced that the Sabbath supper would be served immediately. Gideon covered his head then, and raising both hands above the table, said with his eyes looking heavenward,
Every one of them would wish to be constrained in like manner. Let the Lord God judge us all. Better tell how Thou art feeling." "In Abraham's bosom she will not have more comfort," said Tafet. "Every day they bring us fruit, wine, bread, meat, and whatever the soul wishes. And such baths as we have, all bronze, and such kitchen utensils!"
Wert Thou an Egyptian, he would take thee to his palace; but a Jewess." "He will cast aside?" said Sarah, sighing. "Why torment one's self with days to come, which are in the hand of God? I am here to pass the Sabbath with thee." "I have splendid fish, meat, cakes, and wine of the Jews," put in Tafet, quickly. "I have bought also, in Memphis, a seven-branched candlestick and wax tapers.
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