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"I will visit Sargon in every case, and try to efface that little accident from his memory." The priest took farewell of Ramses with marks of respect. On the way home, he pondered. "I will let the heart be torn out of my breast," thought he, "if the prince had to do with that business. He neither beat Sargon, nor persuaded another to beat him; he did not even know of the incident.
Thebes was also the seat of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties, which came after the foreign domination of the shepherd kings, and under which Egypt was at the summit of its power. Ramses II. and his successors, the Pharaohs of the book of Genesis, belong to the nineteenth dynasty.
He bent down before his lord much lower than he had when greeting him, and congratulated Ramses on his victory at the Soda Lakes with great enthusiasm. "Thou didst rush," said he, "holiness, on the Libyans like Typhon on the miserable tents of wanderers through the desert.
From these answers the worthy nomarch saw that Mefres hated the prince, and his heart sank in him. If they proved that Ramses had killed his own son, the heir would never ascend the throne of his fathers, and the heavy yoke of the priesthood would weigh down still more mightily on Egypt.
So feast followed feast and amusement amusement, though the heat increased always. Seeing this general delight, the viceroy was satisfied. He was troubled, however, by the bearing of Mefres and other priests. Ramses thought that those dignitaries would reproach him for having become so indebted to Hiram in spite of those lessons which he had received in the temple.
These buildings for the main part were merely the dwellings of overseers. Prisoners were placed in subterranean dens hewn out in a cliff of limestone. When Prince Ramses passed the gate, he saw a crowd of women washing and feeding some prisoner.
While she was still in the antechamber, Ramses heard her sweet voice, "God of Abraham Isa." When all was quiet, the viceroy called the officer and steward. "Go with torches to the house among the fig-trees." "I understand," replied the steward. "And conduct hither, immediately, the woman who dwells there." "It will be done."
And now I will tell thee, my son, the son of the heir to the throne of Egypt, is called Isaac and he is a Jew a low Jew." "O God, O God of mercy!" cried Sarah, throwing herself at his feet. Ramses did not raise his head for an instant, but his face was gray. "I was forewarned," said he, "not to take a Jewess to my house.
The battle raged by sea and land, and ended in a triumph of the Egyptians. The invaders were utterly overthrown, their ships burned, their kings and leaders made captive. Egypt was once more saved from destruction, and Ramses III. was free to develop its resources and repair the damage that had been done.
The plan was well constructed, but the authors of it failed in one point; they had not found Ramses a military genius. The disbanded Libyan regiments robbed along the way, and reached their birthplace very quickly, all the more quickly since Herhor had given no command to place obstacles before them.
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