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Updated: May 10, 2025
Can you tell me of a second success?" "Women win no battles," said the widow smiling. "But they win allies, and I have gained a powerful one." "A God or an army?" asked Ani. "Something between the two," she replied. "Paaker, the king's chief pioneer, has joined us;" and she briefly related to Ani the history of her nephew's love and hatred.
From this time forward you will no longer have to drive me onward, but rather to hold me back; and, as if the Gods had meant to show that they would stand by me, I found the high-priest Ameni, and the chief pioneer Paaker waiting for me in my house. Ameni will act for me in Egypt, Paaker in Syria.
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.
Paaker took up the nosegay, which his slave had laid down on a seat, and timidly approached the young woman, who walked in with such an aspect of decision and self-confidence, that her mother looked at her in astonishment, while Paaker felt as if she had never before appeared so beautiful and brilliant.
Paaker looked down at his aching fingers, and uttered a sigh of rehef, for it was not the oracular ring with the name of Thotmes III., but the valuable one given to his father by the reigning king that had been crushed. Only a few solitary fragments of the splintered stone remained in the setting; the king's name had fallen to pieces, and disappeared.
Before Paaker had reached the garden-gate, from the pylon of the enormous temple of Amon, was heard first the far-sounding clang of hard-struck plates of brass, and then the many-voiced chant of a solemn hymn. The Mohar stood still, looked up to heaven, called to his servants "The divine star Sothis is risen!" threw himself on the earth, and lifted his wards the star in prayer.
Never shall I forget the expression with which the great man looked at me when I woke up in its arms; such wise true eyes no one ever had but he." "He was good, and he loved you very much," said Paaker, recalling, for his part, the moment when he had dared to press a kiss on the lips of the sweet unconscious child.
Pentaur blushed like a boy, and said, while Paaker and Nefert came nearer to them: "Till to-day life lay before me as if in twilight; but this moment shows it me in another light. I have seen its deepest shadows; and," he added in a low tone "how glorious its light can be." An hour later, Bent-Anat and her train of followers stood before the gate of the House of Seti.
Nefert's tears fell as dew, her sobs as manna on the soul of Paaker, which hungered and thirsted for revenge. Her pain was joy to him, and yet the sight of her beauty filled him with passion, his gaze lingered spell-bound on her graceful form; he would have given all the bliss of heaven once, only once, to hold her in his arms once, only once, to hear a word of love from her lips.
"No, that I am not," replied Mena, "nor does any doubt of Nefert disturb my soul; but it torments me, it nettles me, it disgusts me, that Paaker of all men, whom I loathe as a venomous spider, should look at her and make her presents under my very roof." "He who looks for faith must give faith," said the king.
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