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Why that scribe of yours, who follows your heels like a favoured dog, would be more apt a pupil. Hearken then. Amenmeses has sent out to gather strength, but as yet there are not fifty men about him whom he can trust." She leant forward and whispered fiercely, "Kill the traitor, Amenmeses all will hold it a righteous act, and the General waits your word. Shall I summon him?"
You see visions that come true Amenmeses on the throne, for instance. Do you not also dream at times? No? Well, then, the Prince? You look like men who might, and the time is ripe and pregnant. Oh! I remember. You are both of you dreaming, not of the pictures that pass across the terrible eyes of Ki, but of those that the moon reflects upon the waters of Memphis, the Moon of Israel.
On the following morning the Inquiry began with due ceremony, the Prince Seti and the Count Amenmeses taking their seats at the head of a large pavilion with the councillors behind them and the scribes, among whom I was, seated at their feet.
"Nay, Son," answered Meneptah sadly, "your life is left to you and with it all your private rank and your possessions whatsoever and wherever they may be." "Let Pharaoh's will be done," replied Seti indifferently, "in this as in all things. Pharaoh spares my life until such time as Amenmeses his successor shall fill his place, when it shall be taken."
"The Count Amenmeses has children I know, for I have seen them, but by his wife Unuri, who also is of the royal line, he has none." Here I heard Amenmeses mutter, "Being my aunt that is not strange," a saying at which Seti smiled. "My daughter, the Princess, is also unmarried. So it seems that the fountain of the royal blood is running dry "
So it came about that Amenmeses succeeded with none to say him nay, since without her husband Userti could not or would not act. After the days of embalmment were accomplished the body of Pharaoh Meneptah was carried up the Nile to be laid in his eternal house, the splendid tomb that he had made ready for himself in the Valley of Dead Kings at Thebes.
Or it may be that he is held in this path by a madness sent of some god to bring loss and shame on Egypt." "Then, Prince, all the priests and nobles are mad also, from Count Amenmeses down." "Where Pharaoh leads priests and nobles follow. The question is, who leads Pharaoh? Here is the temple of these Hebrews; let us enter."
However that may be, even our new divine lord is afraid. "And what said Ki?" "Ki could say nothing or, rather, that the only answer vouchsafed to him and his company, when they made inquiry of their Kas, was that this god's reign would be very short and that it and his life would end together." "Which perhaps did not please the god Amenmeses, Bakenkhonsu?" "Which did not please the god at all.
From among these figures emerged the shape of the Count Amenmeses. He sat upon the throne, looking about him proudly, and I noted that he was no longer clad as a prince but as Pharaoh himself. Presently hook-nosed men appeared who dragged him from his seat. He fell, as I thought, into water, for it seemed to splash up above him.
They went away very ill-satisfied, saying that Amenmeses had insulted their daughter even more than his servant had done. The end of this matter was that on the following night this soldier was discovered dead, pierced through and through with knife thrusts.
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