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Updated: May 10, 2025
At a spot where the road widened, and where, to the right, lay the steep cross-valley where the last kings of the dethroned race were interred, the procession stopped at a sign from Paaker, who preceded the princess, and who drove his fiery black Syrian horses with so heavy a hand that the bloody foam fell from their bits.
Paaker laughed, but the laugh sounded so forced and scornful that it cut Nefert to the heart, and she went on, as if begging for indulgence: "It was said that you were angry with us; and now you will take my words as if I had cared only for your wealth; but I said, I liked you.
Paaker could see straight into his face, and it was not without difficulty that he suppressed a scornful laugh. Rameses did not observe the Regent's dismay, for he had signed to Mena to come closer to him. "Before I sleep," said the king, "I will bring matters to an end with you too.
Ameni had already left Thebes for the north when this sentence was pronounced, or he would have reversed it by declaring the true origin of Paaker; for after he had given up his participation in the Regent's conspiracy, he no longer had any motive for keeping old Hekt's secret.
"Who can save them," he whimpered. "Her shameless husband squanders his inheritance and his prize-money. Katuti is poor, and the little words "Give me! scare away friends as the cry of a hawk scares the chickens. My poor mistress!" "It is a large sum," muttered Paaker to himself. "It is enormous!" sighed the dwarf, "and where is it to be found in these hard times?
"Do you know the dwelling of Pinem the paraschites?" asked Paaker. "What do you want with him?" "That is no concern of yours," retorted Paaker. "Lout!" exclaimed the captain, "left face and forwards, my men." "Halt!" cried Paaker in a rage. "I am the king's chief pioneer." "Then you will all the more easily find the way back by which you came. March."
"His what?" asked the pioneer, trembling with excitement. "Let that pass!" said the widow soothingly. "The favor and disfavor of kings are as those of the Gods. Men rejoice in the one or bow to the other." "What feeling have I aroused in Rameses besides dissatisfaction, and dislike? I insist on knowing!" said Paaker with increasing vehemence. "You alarm me," the widow declared.
"Had you been long bound in those thongs when we came?" asked Pentaur. "Yesterday my brother fell upon me," replied Horus. "He is by this time a long way ahead of us, and if he joins the Cheta, and we do not reach the Egyptian camp before daybreak, all is lost." "Paaker, then, is plotting treason?" "Treason, the foulest, blackest treason!" exclaimed the young man. "Oh, my lost father!
You will conduct him, and bring us to-morrow morning news of the wounded girl." Paaker bowed; the princess bowed her head; the priest and his companions, who meanwhile had come out of the temple and joined him, raised their hands in blessing, and the belated procession moved towards the Nile.
You mean the speaker at the Feast of the Valley," and then although she had been told several times that Paaker had been killed, she asked again if her son was alive. Ameni decided at last to fetch Pentaur himself, When he came back with him, fully prepared to meet his heavily-stricken mother, the tent was empty.
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