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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Today," said Pentuer, "the yearly income of his holiness for all products of his land is worth only ninety-eight thousand talents. For these it would be possible to obtain as much gold as four thousand warriors could carry." "That the income of the state has decreased greatly, I know," said Ramses, "but what is the cause of this?" "Be patient, O servant of the gods," replied Pentuer.
"My Pentuer," added the adjutant, "Thou art a sage, hence knowest that it is all one to us whether we have ten lords or eleven." "But it is not all one to the people whether they have to find every year a mountain of gold for the priests, or two mountains of gold for the priests and the pharaoh," answered Pentuer, while his eyes flashed.
A courier rushes in from the priests, who from the highest hill had followed the course of the battle, and reports that on the left wing the troops of Mentezufis are visible, and that the Libyans are surrounded on three sides. "They would fly like deer if the sand did not hinder them." "Victory! May our chief live forever!" cried Pentuer. It was only two hours after midday.
"What dost Thou think of Eunana's adventure?" asked the adjutant. "And what thinkest Thou of the slave who hanged himself?" "It seems to me that this was his best day, and the rope around his neck the softest thing that has touched him in life. I think, too, that Eunana from this time on will watch the heir to the throne very closely." "Thou art mistaken," answered Pentuer.
"Thou art prejudiced, father. But tell me thy plan and perhaps I may assist in applying it." "Plan?" repeated the old man. "It is not a plan, it is a great fact." He rose from the bench and went then with Pentuer to a pond in the garden, at which was an arbor concealed altogether by plant growth.
Pentuer approached, took the bridle of the ruler's steed, and led, going himself on foot. "What is this?" inquired the astonished Tutmosis. He bethought himself quickly, ran up, and took Ramses' horse by the bridle on the other side. And so all advanced in silence, astonished at the bearing of the priest, though they felt that something important had happened.
At this moment Mentezufis gave a sign to Pentuer who was standing on the prince's chariot. When Pentuer descended and approached the holy man with honor, Mentezufis whispered, "I fear lest the triumph may rise to the head of our young lord over much. Dost Thou not think it would be wise to interrupt the solemnity in some way?"
"O lord," said he, turning to Ramses, "wilt Thou never free thyself from those traitors?" The pharaoh summoned a confidential council again. He called in Hiram, also the priest who had brought the ring from Samentu. Pentuer did not wish to take part in the council, but the worthy queen went herself to it.
He surrounded himself with priests, he learned from them, nay, he even married a daughter of the high priest Amenhotep. And, after a few years, he went so far that he became himself not only a pious, but a very learned high priest." "But if the pharaoh will not follow that example?" "Then we shall dispense with him," said Herhor. "Listen to me Pentuer," continued he, after a while.
But there was something worse still: Pentuer and Mef res had proved to him in every way that Egypt must avoid war. In the temple of Hator that emphasis had seemed to him suspicious, since a war might obtain for the state thousands of legions of slaves, and raise the general prosperity of the country.
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