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Updated: July 3, 2025
When the Lady Senci's barge drew up, Mentu forced his way through the increasing crowd to meet and assist its occupants to alight. Kenkenes, still on deck, was handing his charges down the stairway one by one, when he saw Io, who stood at the very end of the line, lean over the side, her face aglow with joy. Kenkenes guessed the cause of her delight and, deserting his post, went to her side.
He was gone. When she looked in the dust she found that his footprints turned not far from her hiding-place and led toward the Nile. She knew then that he had seen her when she had caught sight of him, and failing to meet her as he had expected, had guessed she had hidden from him. This was the sunset of the night of the revel at Senci's house.
"Nay, now, there must be no such thing," the robust noble said, addressing them all. "Mind you, we but come as guests. It shall be left to the ladies to say how we shall abide with them. Show me a light." The instant brilliance that followed proved that a hood had been lifted from a lamp. One of the men held a cloak between it and the group on Senci's boat. Kenkenes raised himself.
"The Lady Senci brings me news that makes me envious," Mentu began at once, "and shames me because of thee!" Kenkenes lifted an expressive brow at this unexpected onslaught. "Nay, now, what have I done?" "Nothing!" Mentu asserted emphatically; "and for that reason am I wroth. The Lady Senci's nephew, Hotep, is the new chief of the royal scribes."
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