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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Naught but a bit of gossip that came to mine ears, last night, and the sight of Masaarah urged me to tell it again. It is said the Hebrews of these quarries rose against the new driver and drove him out of the camp, crying, 'Return us our Atsu, return us our Atsu." "What folly!" Masanath exclaimed. "If they had been the host which crowds Goshen to her bounds, it might serve.
Rachel was feeding the ember of the cotton wick with bits of chopped root. The breeze from the river blew the fumes back into the cave, filling the dark recesses with a fresh and pungent odor. Masanath, wondering and remembering, raised her head to look through the opening. Day was broad over Egypt, and the turmoil had subsided. The silence was heavy.
In some one of the many windows that looked into the court another dragged at his chestnut locks and execrated gods and men because of their hardness of heart. So the night wore on to its noon. Masanath was becoming drowsy in spite of her determination to keep a sleepless vigil until dawn, when she was aroused by a commotion in the vicinity of the palace.
The Hathors tortured him with an opportunity he dared not seize. How could he ask for Masanath? "I went to pray for that which all Egyptians crave at this hour the succor of Egypt," he said, instead. Meneptah signed his scribe to follow him to a seat near by. "Why may I not require of thee the services of a higher minister?" he began, after he had seated himself.
In a moment, therefore, the courtiers were pursuing the departing brothers, urging and praying with all their former wild insistence. Har-hat put Masanath on her feet and started to leave her, but she flung her arms about his neck. "Forgive me, my father," she sobbed. "For my rebellion the gods may absolve me, but I have been unfilial and for that there is no justification.
Masanath sat up very straight and leveled a pair of eyes shining with accusation at the prince. "Of a truth, was thine the fiat?" she demanded. "Even so, thou lovely magistrate," he answered with an amused smile. "Was it not a masterful one?" Hotep delivered her a warning glance, but she did not heed it. Austere Ma, the Defender of Truth, could have been as easily crushed. "Masterful!" she cried.
She would better be curbed before she bewitches Egypt." "It is her goodness and her grace that win, Rameses. If that be sorcery, let it prevail the world over. Give her freedom and save her spotlessness." "Har-hat shall not take her, I promise thee. I shall send her back to her place in the brick-fields." Masanath recoiled in horror. "To the brick-fields!" she cried. "Rachel to the brick-fields!"
At this point it was seen that the Pharaoh and his queen were preparing to leave the hall. All the company arose, and after the royal pair had passed out the guests began to depart. Rameses left his party and, joining Har-hat, led the fan-bearer away from the company. "It seems that thou, with others, heardest my words with Masanath," the prince began at once.
He had heard that it was Masanath whom the Hathors had destined to wear the crown of queen to Rameses; the convicts had known of the supremacy of Har-hat. He could not understand how it came that Ta-user, lately discarded, could prevail upon the crown prince to persuade Meneptah, or could herself persuade the king to the overthrow of the fan-bearer's wishes in the matter.
On its roof, in the great square shadow of its double towers, he was presented to a dainty little lady, whose black eyes grew large and luminous at the coming of the scribe. She was Masanath, the youngest and only unwedded child of Har-hat, the king's adviser. Her oval face had a uniform rose-leaf flush, her little nose was distinctly aquiline, her little mouth warm and ripe.
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