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His was the faith that is insulted by a suggestion of wariness. "While I dwelt obscurely in the Hak-heb," she began, "I was much among the partizans of Amon-meses. They are friends of the Pharaoh now, so what I tell is dead sedition. But I heard it when it lived, and thou knowest the penalty invited by him who listens to criticism of the king. Attend me, then, for the story is short.
At noon, weary with heat, hunger and heavy labor, he drew up at Hak-heb, on the western side of the Nile, fifty miles above Memphis. The town was the commercial center for the pastoral districts of the posterior Arsinoëite nome Nehapehu. Here were brought for shipment the wine, wheat and cattle of the fertile pocket in the Libyan desert.
The army was reorganized first, for Ta-user's party began to make demonstrations the hour that the news of the Red Sea disaster reached the Hak-heb. All public building and national extravagance were halted, and the surplus treasure was expended in restocking the fields and granaries and restoring commerce.
Amon-meses and Siptah, snarling and malevolent, had left the court abruptly on the morning of its departure for Tanis. The Hak-heb received them once again, and an ominous calm settled over that little pocket of fertility in the desert Nehapehu. Thus the court was torn with factions; old internal dissensions made themselves evident again, but the vast murmur in Goshen was heard above the strife.
The pair started apart at sight of the princess. "A blessing on thy content, Ta-meri," the princess said. "And upon thine, Nechutes." The cup-bearer bowed and rumbled his appreciation of her courtesy. "Dost thou leave us, Ta-user?" his wife asked. "Aye, I return to the Hak-heb. O, I am glad to go. Would I could leave the same quiet here in Tanis that I hope to find in Nehapehu."
At the end of a year Ta-user and Siptah, after much browbeating of the Hak-heb, raised funds sufficient to purchase mercenaries. Then, with Ta-user at the head in barbaric splendor, they descended on Memphis. The course Seti pursued has puzzled historians. He gathered up his family, his court, his treasure, and without so much as lifting a spear, fled into Ethiopia.
Mentu shook his head, but there was no more temper evident in his face. "Now is a propitious hour for a good counselor," Kenkenes pursued. "What knowest thou?" Mentu asked with interest. "Tape," the young man replied briefly. "Nay, the sedition in Tape is old and vitiated." "And the Hak-heb." "That breach may be healed. But we have sedition to fear among the bond-people " "The bond-people!"
The huge column dwarfed her into tininess. The hall was but dimly lighted by a single lamp and that flared above her head. Rameses paused, for she stood in his path. "Not yet gone to thy rest?" he asked. "Rest!" she said scornfully. "Gone to a night-long frenzy of relentless consciousness weary tossing, wasted prayers. I have not rested since I left the Hak-heb."
"Alas! this day thou returnest into the Hak-heb," he said. She nodded. "Would I could take thee with me, but not yet, not yet. Wait till thou art a little older." He sighed and looked away again. "What weighty things absorb my prince?" she asked. "What especial labors is he planning?" His face clouded. "Dost thou mock me, Ta-user?" he returned. "Hadst thou no thought at all?" she persisted.
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