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"Afterwards, as you know, Prince, the overseer flogged my father as I heard Khuaka order him to do if he lagged through weariness, and then Khuaka killed him because my father in his madness struck the overseer with a mattock. I have no more to say, save that I pray that I may be sent back to my own people there to mourn my father according to our custom." "To whom would you be sent? Your mother?"
'I hear you, answered Khuaka. 'Learn, now, slave Nathan, before to-morrow's sun arises, you shall be kissed by swords and devoured by crocodiles or jackals. 'So be it, said my father, 'but learn, O Khuaka, that if so, it is revealed to me who am a priest and a prophet of Jahveh, that before to-morrow's sun you also shall be kissed by swords and of the rest we will talk at the foot of Jahveh's throne.
At length she ended, and Pharaoh said: "Say, Seti my son, is this truth?" "It is truth, O my Father. By virtue of my powers as Governor of this city I caused the captain Khuaka to be put to death for the crime of murder done by him before my eyes in the streets of the city." "Perchance you did right and perchance you did wrong, Son Seti.
"Sirs, I am Merapi, the daughter of Nathan the Levite, he whom the accursed Egyptian captain, Khuaka, murdered at Tanis." "How do you dare to call the Egyptians accursed?" asked Seti in tones made gruff to hide his laughter. "Oh! Sirs, because they are I mean because I thought you were Arabs who hate them, as we do.
He who lies there," and she swept her hand towards the corpse, turning her eyes away, "was my father, an elder of Israel. The captain Khuaka came when the corn was young to the Land of Goshen to choose those who should work for Pharaoh. He wished to take me into his house.
At least you are the best judge, and because he struck your royal person, this Khuaka deserved to die." Again he was silent for a while staring through the open doors at the sky beyond. Then he said: "What would ye more, Prophets of Jahveh? Justice has been done upon my officer who slew the man of your people. A life has been taken for a life according to the strict letter of the law.
"Yonder man who is named Khuaka, by his dress a captain of Pharaoh's army, is charged with the murder of a certain Hebrew, and with the attempted murder of Ana the scribe. Let witnesses be called. Bring the body of the dead man and lay it here before me. Bring the woman who strove to protect him, that she may speak."
Now, first one and then another as the truth sunk into them, men began to fall upon their knees, and I heard one say in an awed voice: "The royal Son, the Prince of Egypt struck in the face by a soldier! Blood must pay for it." "How is that officer named?" asked Seti, pointing to the man who had killed the Israelite and well-nigh killed me. Someone answered that he was named Khuaka.
This man saw me with my father giving him food, for he was weak and overcome with the toil of digging the mud in the heat of the sun, he who being a noble of our people knew nothing of such labour from his youth. In my presence Khuaka asked my father if now he would give me to him. My father answered that sooner would he see me kissed by snakes and devoured by crocodiles.
"Now, Khuaka," said the Prince when I had finished, "have you aught to say?" "Only this, O Royal One," answered the captain throwing himself upon his knees, "that I struck you by accident, not knowing that the person of your Highness was hidden in that long cloak. For this deed it is true that I am worthy of death, but I pray you to pardon me because I knew not what I did.
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