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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Poor woman," said the high priest Sem, "I will send to thee a mighty worker of miracles; he may." "May ye be blessed by Astaroth! No, may your almighty and compassionate gods bless you," whispered Kama, in dreadful weariness. The dignitaries left the prison and returned to the upper hall. The nomarch, seeing that the high priest Mefres kept his eyes cast down and his lips fixed, asked him,
"Whence dost Thou know, worthiness, that thy godlike father would not act in just such a manner?" "Why ask me, then, of this matter? What investigation is this? Who gives you the right to pry into my heart?" Ramses feigned to be so mightily indignant that the priests were satisfied. "Thou speakest, prince," said Mefres, "as becomes a good Egyptian.
I will tell you a thing unparalleled: We shall concentrate our forces on the border three or four days earlier than it was possible to expect. The Libyans have lost the war already, though they have not heard the whistle of our arrows." "So much the worse is such a pharaoh for us," interposed Mefres, with the stubbornness peculiar to old men.
I confided it to Hiram, for he meets dignitaries of ours whom I never see." "But why did Herhor and Mefres conclude such a treaty?" inquired Ramses. "In my opinion, they are men of weak heads whom Beroes, the great Chaldean priest, frightened. He told them that for ten years evil fates would threaten Egypt; that if we began war with Assyria during that time we should be defeated."
"That serpent which is sucking at the blood of the people, the property of the nomarchs, and the power of the pharaoh is the Phoenician!" "Away with the Phoenicians!" cried the priests. "Blot out all debts to them. Admit not their ships and merchants." Silence was enforced by the high priest Mefres, who with tears in his eyes turned to Pentuer.
At this moment an adjutant entered the hall, and, stepping over a number of guests lying prostrate, hurried up to Ramses. "Worthy lord," said he, "the holy Mefres and the holy Mentezufis wish to speak at once with thee." The viceroy pushed the girls away, and with red face, stained garments, and tottering steps went to his chamber in the upper story.
The holy fathers, Mefres and Mentezufis, communicated to him other information which had come to them from Memphis: The Chaldean priest and miracle-worker, Beroes, was received in the subterranean parts of the temple of Set by the priest Osochar, who, when giving his daughter in marriage two months later, had presented her with rich jewels and bought a good estate for her and her husband.
"I should rather labor in the quarries, and be beaten." "There will be time for that always," interrupted Herhor, severely. The Greek was silent, and trembled suddenly when he saw a dark crystal globe in the hand of Mefres. He grew pale, his sight became dim, large drops of sweat came out on his face. His eyes were fixed on one point, as if fastened to that ball of crystal.
Mefres rose from his stool. "Osiris-Mer-Amen-Ramses," said he, "was a just lord who for many years assured peace to his people, and praise to the gods. Permit, holiness, that the funeral of this pious pharaoh be performed at the expense of the temples." Ramses XIII was astonished and was moved by the homage rendered his father.
And just when the holy Mefres and Mentezufis were jeering at the predictions of Sargon, who said that the heir would not yield to the priests but force them to obedience, the prince had a plan to subject them. And he saw what power he possessed for that purpose. The moment to begin the war and the means of waging it he left to the future. "Time will bring the best counsels," said he to himself.
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