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Updated: May 2, 2025
They pledged themselves to proceed to Pithom last night, which was the night they came together in council, and take the traitors. But one among their number, a young priest who knew the woman, played them false, entered the city before his fellows and warned the plotters. They had fled, with the priests in pursuit. "My son, the man was Siptah, son of Amon-meses; the woman, the Princess Ta-user."
For, being ignorant of the infelicities in the household of the king, it may be that thou wouldst ask after the little prince, Seti, and wherefore the queen appears no more at the side of the Pharaoh, nor speaks with thy lord nor sees thy noble father; and furthermore, where Ta-user hath taken herself and other things which would embarrass thee to hear answered openly."
Ta-user looked at him for a moment, then raising her hands, caught the folds of his robe over his breast. "Rameses, how far wilt thou go in this trifling with the Lady Masanath?" "To the marrying priests." Without looking at her, he loosed her hands, swung them idly and let them go. "She does not love thee," she said after a little silence. "Thy news is old. She told me that not a moment since."
Great and sincere and beyond expression was his amazement and his joy when a taskmaster called him from the canal-bed one day and informed him that he was free. The order was shown him at his request, and the name of the Princess Ta-user as his champion filled him with puzzlement. State news filtered slowly down even to the level he had occupied for the past eight months.
"And," he continued oracularly, "there will be a third attending us when we return, if thou hast been coy with the gentle Seti during his long absence." "Nay, I have sent him messages faithfully and in no little point have I failed him in constancy. But I can not see why he should love me, who am to the court-ladies as a thrush to peafowls. He writes me such praise of Ta-user." "Now, Io!
The last of Seti's lover-like behavior toward her dated back to a time before the court had gone to Thebes long, long ago. Ta-user, also, had gone, but the fan-bearer's daughter did not regret her.
"Have it thy way, Ta-user," he said, with hesitation in his words, while he continued to gaze helplessly into her compelling eyes. She laughed and kissed him. "I will see thee again soon." Putting him back from her, she descended the stairway. In the shadow at the foot she came upon two figures, walking close together, the taller of the two bending over the smaller.
She turned away from him, but he followed her contritely. "I submit," he said helplessly. "Advise me, but I nay, ask me not to endanger thee, Ta-user." She shook her head and moved on. He advanced a step or two after her, stopped, and wheeling about, resumed his place at the parapet. After a little pause she was beside him again. "Shall we forego this thing?" she asked.
"Alas! this day thou returnest into the Hak-heb," he said. She nodded. "Would I could take thee with me, but not yet, not yet. Wait till thou art a little older." He sighed and looked away again. "What weighty things absorb my prince?" she asked. "What especial labors is he planning?" His face clouded. "Dost thou mock me, Ta-user?" he returned. "Hadst thou no thought at all?" she persisted.
Ta-user came near to the king, smiling triumphantly at the fan-bearer. "The gods sped my feet," she said, "and I am here first. Hold thy peace, noble Har-hat. Mine is the first audience." Having reached the king's side, she dropped on her knees and folded her hands on the arm of his chair. "A boon, O Shedder of Light! So much thou owest me. Behold, I came to thee on the hope of thy promises.
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