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Updated: June 21, 2025
"It would seem that he courteth a sentence to the mines likewise, and he needs but to go on as he hath begun to succeed most thoroughly. And it behooveth his friends to prevent him." He took Masanath's hand and, leaning from the saddle, whispered: "Ye are under the same roof thou and Hotep. Avoid him as though he were a pestilence."
Hotep lifted his pen, and looked his rebellion. "Write!" the prince exclaimed. "I do him a kindness, with a lesson added. Were it in my power to free him I would not till he had learned that the law is inexorable and the power of its ministers supreme. Go on 'at such labor as the prisoner may elect. No further punishment may be added thereto. Affix my seal and send this without fail.
They were noblemen and gentlewomen of Memphis, freed for an evening from the restraint of pretentious affairs and spared the awesome repression of potentates and monitors. Hotep was host and these were his guests. First, there was Rameses, languid, cynical, sumptuous, and enthroned in a capacious fauteuil, significantly upholstered in purple and gold.
"Thou wilt come to realize some day, Ta-meri, that I am fitted to the yoke of labor, when I fail thee in all the nicer walks thou wouldst have me tread. Come, out with thy gossip, Nechutes." "I had a letter from Hotep to-day a budget of news, included with official matters with which the king would acquaint me. Ta-user, with Amon-meses and Siptah, hath joined the court at Tape "
Har-hat could not add to his sentence. That was the only indisputable cheer he could give. But would Rameses stay the chief adviser's hand, seeing that the winning of Masanath depended on the prince's neutrality, as Hotep had explained? If Rachel fled to Mentu, as Kenkenes had bidden her, could the murket protect her, even at his own peril?
Hotep, with the king, had paused, and several courtiers went before him and looked down the cross corridor. Instantly they fell on their knees, crying out: "Ye have the leave of the powers of Egypt! Go! Make haste! Take your flocks, all that is yours! Aye, strip us even, if ye will! But let not the sun rise upon you in Egypt! For we be all dead men!" A murmur ran through the ministers.
As she caught sight of Kenkenes, she started and flushed quickly and as quickly the color fled. Since she was near the boat, Kenkenes stood close beside her for a moment while he pushed the bari into the water. "Gods! What a noble pair!" Hotep ejaculated under his breath.
Kenkenes, if I did not know thee, I should say thou wast pretending thou, to whom pretense is impossible." He did not answer, for there was no desire in his heart to tell his secret; his experience with Hotep had warned him. Yet the unusual winsomeness of his father's noble love was hard to resist.
Kenkenes, the wrath of the priests awaits thee and thereafter the doom of the insulted Pantheon!" The scribe shuddered and plucked at his friend's robe as if to drag him away from the sight of his own creation. Firmly fixed were the young artist's convictions to resist the impelling force of Hotep's consternation. "Nay, nay, Hotep," he answered soothingly.
On the shore a group approached the Nile edge, and Hotep guessed by the cluster of fans and standards that it was the Pharaoh at his morning devotions to Nilus. The white points on the hilltops reddened and caught fire. Softly and absently Kenkenes began to sing a hymn to the sunrise. Hotep rested his cheek on one hand and listened.
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