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As he marched up the long hall all drew to this side or that, saluting him with low bows. Arriving in front of the throne he bent till his knee touched the ground, saying: "I give greeting, O King and Father." "I give greeting, O Prince and Son. Be seated," answered Meneptah.
He viewed the situation with enforced calm. Har-hat was in full possession of the facts. He had the signet and was absolute master of Meneptah. The Hathors had surrendered Kenkenes wholly into the hands of his enemy. Furthermore, the fate of the Israelite seemed to be sealed. At the thought Hotep gnashed his teeth.
Below at his right stood Rameses, the kingliest presence that ever graced a royal sitting. At the left of Meneptah, was Har-hat, complacent and serene. Out in the center of a generous space stood Moses. The great Hebrew was alone and isolated, but his personality was such that a throng could not have obscured him.
But what personal grudge hath Mesu against Egypt or the priesthood or Meneptah?" "It is said that he was wanted out of the way, and by an unfortunate sum of accidents, the miscarriage of a priest's letter and a fight between a messenger and Bedouins in front of a Hebrew tent, gave the information into the hands of Mesu himself." By this time Kenkenes was on his feet.
Men shrank from them, so that they walked straight up to the throne, nor did even the guards strive to bar their way. What they said there I could not hear, but I believe that they demanded that their people should be allowed to go to worship their god in their own fashion, and that Amenmeses refused as Meneptah had done.
But before he could answer yea or nay, Meriamun the Queen, who was not minded that he should leave her, spoke hastily: "This is my counsel, Meneptah, that the Lord Eperitus should abide here in Tanis and be the Captain of my Guard while thou art gone to smite the Apura.
"I pray the gods that it may never be needful that this high question should be considered in the Council. Nevertheless, let the words of the royal Princess be written down. Now, Prince Seti," he went on when this had been done, "you are still unmarried, and if you have children they are not royal." "I have none, O Pharaoh," said Seti. "Is it so?" answered Meneptah indifferently.
Meneptah had repented of his act, and a squadron of six hundred chariots was sent in pursuit of the fugitives. But a violent wind drove back the sea from the shallows at the southern extremity of the forts, and enabled the Israelites to cross them.
"I hear Pharaoh," said the Prince, bowing. Meneptah rose to show that the Council was discharged, when the Vizier Nehesi approached him, and asked: "What of the Hebrew prisoners, O Pharaoh, those murderers who were captured in the pass?" "Their guilt is proved. Let them be beaten with rods till they die, and if they have wives or children, let them be seized and sold as slaves."
Alone and dressed in mourning, she seemed so little and defenseless that Meneptah stirred uncomfortably in his throne. Slowly she approached the dais and fell on her knees before the king. The great gathering of courtiers held its breath, wondering and pitying. Such was the scene upon which Hotep came all unknowing. At a glance he understood the situation.
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