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She sprang away with a little shriek and Kenkenes, throwing out his arm, caught her and drew her close. "Menes is malevolent " he began. "Aye, malevolent as Mesu!" she panted. "What!" the soldier cried. "Has the Hebrew sorcerer already become a bugbear to the children?" "If he become not a bugbear to all Egypt, we may thank the gods," Siptah put in.
"I dread the fury of Mesu, and everything in our power shall be done to regain his old friendship. Mention my name and recall the time when he taught little Isisnefert the names of the plants she brought to him and explained to her and her sister their beneficial or their harmful qualities, during his visits to the queen, his second mother, in the women's apartments.
The Hebrew walked in the grass by the roadside and came on, his face expectant. At sight of the prince he stepped into the roadway. Seti drew up. "Thou art Seti-Meneptah?" the ancient wayfarer asked. "Even so," the prince answered. The Hebrew put back his kerchief and stood uncovered. "Dost thou know me, my son?" he asked. "Thou art that Aaron, of the able tongue, brother to Mesu.
"And so I say still, he has given wonderful proof of it to-day. Merely for the sake of being released from his oath, he thrust his head into the crocodile's jaws. But though the son of Nun is a lion, he will find his master in Mesu. That man is the mortal foe of the Egyptians, the bare thought of him stirs my gall."
But Mesu had departed with the Israelites, and she knew his iron will and had learned that the terrible prophet was armed, not alone against Pharaoh's threats, but also against her own fervent entreaties. She was now expecting Hosea.
Hosea's sword was an extremely useful tool to us; but if the hand that guides it is directed by the man whose power ever greater things we know . . . ." "You mean the Hebrew, Mesu?" "Then Hosea will deal us wounds as deep as those he erst inflicted on our foes." "Yet I have heard you say more than once that he was incapable of perjury."
She had other children to lose, and she had known Mesu from her childhood, and was well aware how highly the great Rameses, her husband's father and predecessor, had prized the wisdom of this stranger who had been reared with his own sons. Ah, if it were only possible to conciliate this man.
So with two and a half millions of Hebrews and a horde of renegade Egyptians to combat, I fear the Rameside army might spill more good blood than is worth wasting on a mongrel multitude. The rabble without a leader is harmless. Cut off the head of the monster, and there is neither might nor danger in the trunk. Put away Mesu, and the insurrection will subside utterly."
"What is it, father?" she begged as he hurried her on. "The gods only know. Rameses hath been smitten and is dying, or even now is dead!" "Rameses!" she breathed in a terrified whisper. "Rameses! And an hour ago I talked with him so strong, so resolute, so full of life O Holy Isis!" "It is a pestilence sent by Mesu. The whole city is afflicted. Ptah shield us!"
Pharaoh had uttered them, and the entreaty had been addressed neither to old Rui, the chief priest, nor to himself, the only persons who could possess the privilege of blessing the monarch, nay but to the most atrocious wretch that breathed, to the foreigner the Hebrew, Mesu, whom he hated more than any other man on earth. "Bless me too!"
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