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Updated: June 10, 2025
The great artist reentered in court robes of creamy linen, stiff with embroidery and gold stitching. "Har-hat passes through Memphis to-day on his way to Tape, where he is to be installed as bearer of the king's fan on the right hand. He is at the palace, and nobles of the city go thither to wait upon him." "The king was not long in choosing a successor to the lamented Amset," Kenkenes observed.
His voice rose to a shriek, and Hotep, putting an arm about him, hushed him with gentle authority and signed the courtier to obey. The physicians lifted the queen and bore her away. Seti stopped at Masanath's side and looked at her with compassion in his eyes. Har-hat came to him. "Seeing that thou hast won the pardon of thy father, am I not also included in the restoration of good feeling?
"But thou knowest, my father, that Meneptah must be for ever directed. Who, then, offered him this wise counsel? Rameses?" "It was never Har-hat," Mentu replied, but half placated. "If he had, thou and I must no longer call him a poor counselor." "Bribe " the murket began, ruffled once more. "Nay," Kenkenes interrupted smiling. "He had but proved himself worthy and wise."
In his sympathy for his friend's strait, the scribe gave over his objections to Rachel. Kenkenes had suffered for her, and, if he would, he should have her. Between the king and persuasion was Har-hat, vitally interested in the defeat of any movement toward the aid of Kenkenes. The one hope for the sculptor was the winning over of the Pharaoh, and only one could do it.
"The gods have dealt heavily with Mentu," he said after a little silence. "Not even the body of his son returned to him for burial!" Har-hat, who had been perched on the arm of Ta-meri's chair, broke in. "Mayhap the young man is not dead," he surmised. "All the Memphian nome hath been searched, my Lord," Menes protested.
But chiefly he pondered on Har-hat and the Israelite. When Hotep returned he carried his cowl and mantle, and a scroll. "I too, am become a messenger," he said, "but I am self-appointed. This note was to go by a palace courier, but I relieved him of the task." The pair made ready and departed through the still populous streets of Thebes to the Nile.
He had searched throughout the length and breadth of Goshen for Rachel and none had seen her or heard of her since she had fled from Har-hat into the desert, eight months before he had seen her last. Israel was more ignorant of the whereabouts of Rachel than he.
So Atsu was removed entirely from over the Hebrews, reduced to the rank of a common soldier, and returned to the nome from which he came, in the coif and tunic of a cavalryman. Thus it was that Har-hat avenged himself for the loss of Rachel, put all aid out of her reach, and kept up an unceasing pursuit of her. It was far into the tenth night that Kenkenes arrived in Thebes.
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.
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.
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