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"Nechutes will not interfere in mine affairs," she said, as she rose. "Nay, I shall know if that be true when I return," he declared. She stamped her foot. "Fie!" he laughed. "Already do I begin to doubt it." She turned from him and kept her face away. Kenkenes went to her and, taking both her hands in his, drew her close to him.
After the long interval of Nechutes' blunt love-making the sculptor's subtleties fell most gratefully on her ear. Nechutes scowled, sighed and finally spoke. "Tape is afflicted in anticipation of the king's departure," he observed disjointedly. "Tape does not love Meneptah as Memphis loves him," Kenkenes answered. "Hast thou not this moment heard Memphis pine for him?
But should he depart permanently from Memphis my father would go. Many of the court returning hither will not proceed to Tanis. The city will not be so desolate then as now." "Nay, but I am glad," she said. "Those who remain will suffice." "Of a truth?" Nechutes demanded angrily. "Have I not said?" she replied. Nechutes rose slowly and made his way to a chair some distance away from her.
The same messenger that brought me news of mine own appointment departed for On when he learned that Mentu was there." "Nay, but that will be wine in his veins," Kenkenes mused happily. "It will make him young again. His late inactivity hath chafed him sorely." "You have come honestly by your labor-loving," Nechutes commented.
Kenkenes, Menes, Nechutes and those of the royal guard that had started in pursuit of the traitor, did well to save themselves from annihilation under the hoofs of twenty thousand horse. Bewildered and amazed, they were an instant realizing what was taking place. "He is running away with the army!" they said to themselves in a daze. "He is running away with the army!"
Behind followed Kephren and Seneferu, the two generals, who, with the exception of Har-hat, the commander-in-chief, were the only arms-bearing men away from their places among the soldiers; after these, Hotep and Nechutes, Menes of the royal body-guard, the lesser fan-bearers, the many minor attaches to the king's person in all a score of nobles. They came upon a portentous scene.
Is there anything further?" "Of a truth, dost thou not know? Nay, then, far be it from me to tell thee anything." She passed round them and started to go on. In a few paces, Nechutes overtook her. "Give us thy meaning, Ta-user," he said earnestly. "Kenkenes was near to me to Ta-meri. What knowest thou?" "The court buzzes with it. Strange indeed that ye heard it not.
"I would wager my mummy, Nechutes, that this is the first intimation thou hast had that thou wert second choice," he said. "Aye, thou hast said," Nechutes admitted, his eyes showing a sudden light. He had a voice of profound depth and resonance, that rumbled like the purring of the king's lions.
He needed mental vigor and bodily freshness to make effective the work before him. His cogitations decided him. "Let the unhappy king sleep, then, Nechutes; far be it from me to bring him back to the memory of his sorrows. Lead me to thy shelter, if thou wilt."
"Aye, I would thou couldst. But is it not true, my Princess, that one may make his own content even in the sorriest surroundings?" Nechutes asked. "For himself, even so. But the very making of one's selfish content may work havoc with the peace of another. That I have seen." "Aye," Nechutes responded uncomfortably, wondering if the princess meant to confess her disappointment to them.
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