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Updated: June 29, 2025
And I have but to hint and ruin thee beyond the restoring power of the marriages of a thousand daughters!" Har-hat's forte had been polished insult, but when the evil in him would have expressed itself in its own brutal manner he was helpless. "Hotep Hotep " he snarled. The name was potent. Again she recoiled. "I shall yield him up to Rameses," he went on.
She held her peace till the story was done, How much more would her heart have been tortured could the old woman have given her the name of the offending noble! Instead, all unsuspecting, she heard the story of Har-hat's wrong-doing with now and then an exclamation of indignation, condemning him heartily in her soul.
On their return to Memphis Hotep was made fan-bearer in Har-hat's place, and for the remaining fourteen years of Meneptah's reign practically ruled over Egypt. Vastly different, however, was his favoritism from the favoritism of Har-hat. During the wise administration of the young adviser Egypt recovered something of her former glory, lost in the dreadful plague-ridden days preceding the Exodus.
"When Kenkenes was overtaken and thrust into prison he sent this signet to thee, O my Sovereign, with a petition for his release and for the maiden's freedom. The writing and the signet came into Har-hat's hands and he ignored them, though the signet commanded him in the name of the holy One." Her voice lowered with awe and dismay at his unregeneracy. "Kenkenes is still in prison."
At this point he paused. His power of expression, aghast at the magnitude of the stake laid on its successful use, became panic-stricken and fled from him. He feared that words could not be chosen which would justify his sacrilege or prove his claims to Rachel greater than Har-hat's.
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.
In that case he was going to her, to ask after her safety, when he inquired after all Israel. If she were still in Egypt he would stop Har-hat's search for ever. This recollection added to his determination and intensified his zeal. At the beginning of the great fields of sea-grass he came upon a little hamlet.
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