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Updated: May 4, 2025
Meneptah turned his troubled eyes hurriedly toward the east. He must not miss the sunrise. At that moment, unheralded, the disk of the sun shot above the horizon as if blown from a crater of the under-world blurred, milky-white, without warmth. He turned away and faced Nechutes, bending before him; behind the cup-bearer, a stately stranger Kenkenes.
Meneptah would be hedged about with prejudice against his first cause, and deterred by the prior right of Har-hat, in the second. The last man that talked with the king molded him. Flattery alone might prevail against coercion. It was the one hope. Kenkenes seized his pen and wrote: "This from thy subject, Kenkenes, the son of Mentu, thy murket. "I give thee a true story, O Defender of Women.
"Of a truth, the chosen people seem to follow me of late," he said to himself as he rambled up the valley. "Meneptah must have scattered them out of Goshen into all the corners of Egypt." As he turned the last winding of the gorge he came upon a cluster of some threescore tents, spread over the level pocket at the valley's end.
Meneptah, who, from the moment of Masanath's entrance into the council chamber, had begun to repent his ill-advised act, was glad to be won over. At the end of Hotep's impassioned story he came down from the dais, and raising Masanath, kissed her and put her into the young man's arms.
Not even he would dream of offering the wizard Hebrew a peace-tribute." Once again she laughed. "Mind me, I speak reverently of the divine Meneptah, the Shedder of Light, but I do not marvel that he is no more willing to deliver over to Mesu one color of gold than another." Seti looked at her with a puzzled expression.
After a moment's silence he came to the bench. "Hast thou caught some great idea on the wing or hast thou the round of actual labor to perform?" he asked. His attention thus hailed, the sculptor raised himself and answered: "Meneptah hath a temple to Set in mind; indeed he hath stirred up the quarries for the stone, I am told, and I am making ready, for I shall be needed."
Only when she listened and heard the acclaiming thousands cry Meriamun so loudly that the cry of Meneptah was lost in the echoes of her name then only did she smile. "Cold, too, she sat in her white robes at the feast that Pharaoh made, and she never looked at the husband by her side, though he looked kindly on her.
"Others have swayed me, thou modest man." "In that hour when thou wast swayed, O Meneptah, another than thyself ruled over Egypt." Meneptah looked in amazement at his scribe. He had never considered the influence of Har-hat in that light, but, by the gods, it seemed strangely correct. He straightened himself.
"Nay, Son," answered Meneptah sadly, "your life is left to you and with it all your private rank and your possessions whatsoever and wherever they may be." "Let Pharaoh's will be done," replied Seti indifferently, "in this as in all things. Pharaoh spares my life until such time as Amenmeses his successor shall fill his place, when it shall be taken."
However, we have seen what Mentu thought of him, and Mentu's estimation might have represented that of all profound thinkers. But to the latter class, most assuredly, Meneptah did not belong.
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