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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Thou wilt not learn it from the princess," Har-hat exclaimed. "Ah!" Ta-user ejaculated, a world of innocence, surprise and wounded feeling in the word. "Thy words do not become thee, Har-hat," Meneptah said. The fan-bearer closed his lips and gazed fixedly at the princess. She drooped her head and went on in a voice low with hurt. "The gods judge me if my every word is not true!
But the smile seemed to be set and, furthermore, indicated that the fan-bearer found much mirth in the discomfiture of others. Aside from this undefined atmosphere of heartlessness, it can not be said that there was any craft or wickedness patent on his face, for his features were good and indicative of unusual intelligence. To the unobservant, he seemed to be a lovable, useful, able man.
"Holy Mother Isis! his horses were black. The first two would have been the princes of the realm, the next the fan-bearer. Nay, I dare not hope that it is not true. Since he would barter his own daughter for a high place, he would not hesitate to take by force the daughter of another. O Mother of Sorrows, hide me! my father! my father!" she wailed.
"Churl!" responded Menes, amiably. "What is amiss between the heir and the fan-bearer?" Kenkenes asked. "Everything! Rameses fairly suffocates in the presence of the new adviser. The Pharaoh is sadly torn between the twain. He worships Rameses and, body of Osiris! how he loves Har-hat! But sometime the council chamber with the trio therein will fall the walls outward, the roof, up mark me!"
Thus the great work was accomplished, and after peace had been restored throughout the empire, Li Dsing was made Duke of We, and the fan-bearer became a duchess. Some ten years later the duke was informed that in the empire beyond the sea a thousand ships had landed an army of a hundred thousand armored soldiers.
There was no relaxing in the rigid lines of the young sculptor's figure, but the fan-bearer recovered himself immediately. "Forestalled!" he laughed. "Retreat! We would not steal another man's bliss though it be fourteen times his share!" The oars fell and the boat darted back into the night, the affable sound of Har-hat's raillery receding into silence with it.
The third was a chariot of ebony drawn by two prancing coal-black horses whose leathers and housings shone and jingled. Rachel's eyes met those of the driver and the life-current froze in her veins. Har-hat, fan-bearer to the Pharaoh, late governor of Bubastis, drew up his horses and calmly surveyed her. The action halted the chariots of a dozen courtiers following him.
He handed his master the sacred cup, and waited to receive it back, at the same time diligently discharging the ordinary duties of his office by keeping up a current of air and chasing away those plagues of the East the flies. The fan-bearer thus privileged wears always the long tasselled scarf, which seems to have been a badge of office, and may not improbably mark him for the chief Eunuch.
I quiet them in one place and they revolt in another. Must I turn a spear upon mine own?" "Well," he cried, stamping his foot, when the three before him kept silence, "have ye no word to say?" His eyes rested on Har-hat, with an imperious expectation in them. The fan-bearer bent low before he answered.
The lamp discovered to his angry eyes the face of Har-hat. "Now, hold this hook for me while I get aboard," the fan-bearer chuckled. With a single step the young sculptor crossed to the side of the barge and wrenched the hook from the hands of the man that held it. For a moment he poised it above him, struggling with a mighty desire to bring it down on the head of the startled fan-bearer.
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