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Updated: June 10, 2025
Tutmosis wished at that moment to mention the tricks of the high priests with Lykon, but he was restrained by the thought that his lord would be very angry and lose calmness, through which he was powerful on that day. A chief before battle can think of nothing but action, and there would be time enough for Lykon's case when the priests were in prison.
Hiram, fearing the anger of the priests, is hiding before he leaves Egypt. Hiram has heard, from the chief of police in PiBast perhaps, that Lykon was captured But quiet!" added the frightened Tutmosis. The prince fell into anger for a moment, but soon mastered himself. "Captured?" repeated he. "Why should that be a secret?"
In that mad woman he could not recognize the Kama whom he had seen in the temple, that woman over whose person had floated the passionate song of the Greek Lykon. "Tomorrow," said the prince, "Thou canst go to the garden; and when we visit Memphis or Thebes, Thou wilt amuse thyself as never in thy life before. Look at me.
"That was a man very like him, that villain, the Greek Lykon, who killed Sarah's son, and who is now under control of the high priests. That was not Ramses. This is a crime of Herhor and Mefres, those wretches." Hope gleamed on the queen's face, but only for a moment. "How could I fail to recognize my son?" "Lykon is very like him," answered Tutmosis. "This is a trick of the priests.
By the feeble light Herhor saw a man sitting at a table; he was eating. The man wore a coat of the pharaoh's guardsmen. "Lykon," said Mefres, "the highest dignitary of the state wishes evidence of those powers with which the gods have gifted thee." "Cursed be the day in which the soles of my feet touched your land!" muttered Lykon, pushing away a plate with food on it.
I appointed a reward for seizing him but our police not only did not seize the man, they even permitted him to seize that same Kama and to slay a harmless infant. "Today I hear that they have captured Kama, but I know nothing of Lykon. Of course he is living in freedom, in good health, cheerful and rich through stolen treasures; may be making ready for new crimes even."
And then what? But pursue Lykon and slay him without mercy, like a wild beast like a reptile." Tutmosis took farewell of the queen. She was pacified, though his fears had grown greater. "If that villainous Greek, Lykon, is living yet, despite imprisonment by the priests," thought he, "he would prefer flight to climbing trees and showing himself to the queen.
More than that, not long ago, he commanded me to seize him, and even offered a large reward." "Ho! ho!" cried Mefres, "I see, worthy chief, I see that the highest secrets of the state are concentrating about thee. But permit me not to believe in that Lykon till I see him." And he left the hall in anger, and after him Sem, shrugging his shoulders.
He hesitated, meditated, but at last answered with decision, "No, queen, that was not the pharaoh. That was Lykon, and this is a crime of the priests which I must report to his holiness straightway." "But if that were Ramses?" inquired the lady again, though in her eyes a spark of hope was now evident. Tutmosis was troubled.
"Since Thou hast left Pi-Bast wondrous changes have taken place there. Thy Phoenician woman, Kama, has fled with Lykon." "With Lykon?" repeated the prince. "Move not, Erpatr, and show not to thousands that Thou feelest sorrow in the day of thy triumph."
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