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Updated: June 25, 2025
The barge of Nechutes swung into position on the left of Senci the oars on Mentu's boat rose and halted and the vessel drifted till it was alongside her right. Kenkenes put his arm about Io, who stood beside him and whispered exultantly or irreverently concerning the vigilance of the cup-bearer and the murket.
"But he will not remain here long," Nechutes went on. "He goes to Tanis to be near the scene of the Israelitish unrest." "Alas, Ta-meri, and wilt thou droop again?" Kenkenes asked. "I fear," she assented with a little sigh. Then, after a pause, she asked: "Does the murket follow the court?" Kenkenes shook his head. "Not when the Pharaoh travels.
Mentu remained in his house preparing for his investiture with the office of murket. His hours were spent in study, and the coming and going of Kenkenes crossed his consciousness as swiftly as the shadows wavered under his young palms.
All these things the discovery of the signet in the tomb, the safety of Kenkenes when all the other first-born had died, and the testimony of the miracles to the power of Israel's God made the good murket think deeply.
In mid-afternoon Senci brought him a belt of gazelle-hide and in this had been sewed a fortune in gems. The murket had given his son his full portion and more. At the close of day, with his face set and colorless, Kenkenes stepped into the narrow passage before his father's house. The great portal closed slowly and noiselessly behind him.
"Hail! thou son of the murket!" she said. "Having much, I am given more," he responded. "Behold the prodigality of good fortune. The Hathors exalt me in the world and add thereto a kiss from the Lady Senci." "I was impelled truly," she confessed, "but by thine own face as well as by the Hathors.
One noon Rachel, resting on the housetop with her hostess, saw him leisurely returning, by starts of interest and recollection. Behind him, walking cautiously, was a man. "Anubis returneth," Rachel said, sitting up. Masanath raised herself and looked. "Imhotep plagues mine eyes, or that is the murket following him," she exclaimed.
Isis, wife of Osiris, gathered up the remains and buried them at This or Abydos. Murket the royal architect, an exalted office usually held by princes of the realm. Meanwhile the scribe of the "double house of life," and the son of the royal sculptor were taking comfort on the palace-top beneath the subdued light of a hooded lamp.
On the way back to Memphis he maintained a thoughtful silence. Since he had seen Rachel, he began to understand the love of Kenkenes for her. March and April had passed and now it was the first of May. Five days before, the ceremony of installation had been held for the murket and the cup-bearer and for four days thereafter the new officers passed through initiatory formalities.
Might not the heavy hand of the powerful favorite fall also on the head of the king's architect? Wherein was the murket more immune than his son? Rachel's destruction seemed to be decreed by the Hathors. Such was his thought, and he raised himself to curse the Seven Sisters, and growing reckless, he included the unhelpful gods in his maledictions.
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