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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Ameni only exercises his rights," said Bent-Anat gently, "and you know what we have resolved. I will not hear one hard word about him to-day." "Very well! he has graciously and mercifully kept us from the feast," said Rameri ironically, and he bowed low in the direction of the Necropolis, "and you are unclean.
The travellers reached the old Cheta city of Hebron without accident; there they took leave of Abocharabos, and under the safe escort of Egyptian troops started again for the north. At Hebron Pentaur parted from the princess, and Bent-Anat bid him farewell without complaining.
If he escaped, he beyond a doubt tried to reach the king's camp, and when we get there you will find him with your father." The princess looked sadly at the ground. Nefert looked affectionately at her, and asked: "Are you thinking of the difference in rank which parts you from the man you have chosen?" "The man to whom I offer my hand, I put in the rank of a prince," said Bent-Anat.
It was as though the prayers of the two souls had united to mount upwards together. The veiled lady rose and dropped her veil. It was Bent-Anat. In the agitation of her soul she had sought the goddess Hathor, who guides the beating heart of woman and spins the threads which bind man and wife.
"But you have not given a true account of all that happened. Why have you concealed that Bent-Anat Rameses' daughter was mixed up in the fray, and that she saved you by announcing her name to the people, and commanding them to leave you alone? When you gave her the lie before all the people, was it because you did not believe that it was Bent-Anat?
Mena kissed the king's robe; then he said: "Nefert has left Katuti's house, and as thou knowest has followed thy daughter, Bent-Anat, to the sacred mountain, and to Megiddo." "I thought the change was a good one," replied Rameses. "I leave Bent-Anat in the care of Bent-Anat, for she needs no other guardianship, and your wife can have no better protector than Bent-Anat."
Bent-Anat stood still a moment, gazing full at him as at a kinsman whom we meet for the first time face to face, and said: "The Gods have given thee great gifts, for thy glance reaches farther and pierces deeper than that of other men; and thou canst say in words what we can only feel I follow thee willingly!"
It was as though the prayers of the two souls had united to mount upwards together. The veiled lady rose and dropped her veil. It was Bent-Anat. In the agitation of her soul she had sought the goddess Hathor, who guides the beating heart of woman and spins the threads which bind man and wife.
Nefert was almost fainting with fear and excitement. The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. Not one of them spoke a word, not even Rameri, who could not forget Uarda, and the look of gratitude she bid sent after him. Once only Bent-Anat said: "The hovel is burnt down. Where will the poor souls sleep to-night?"
"Pentaur!" she said again; the poet opened his arms, and Bent-Anat fell upon his breast; and he held her to him, clasped, as though he must hold her there and never part from her all his life long. Meanwhile the princess's companions were resting by the hunter's little house. "She flew into his arms I saw it," said Uarda. "Never shall I forget it.
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