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"Thou art insistent." "Thou didst promise," she whispered, her face so close to his that the light from the facets of her emeralds turned on his cheek. He took up his pen and wrote. "Now promise that the signet shall go back to Mentu," she continued. "As thou wilt, Ta-user," the king replied. She caught up the roll, hesitated for a moment, and then kissed his cheek deliberately and was gone.
The lady frowned. "Give us thy news from Tape, then," she demanded, putting his hand away. "The court is coming to Memphis sooner. That is all. O, aye, I had well-nigh forgot. There is also talk of a marriage between Rameses and Ta-user." "Fie!" the lady scoffed. "Nechutes hath more to tell than that, and he hath stayed in Memphis."
"The gods keep thee, Son of the Sun," Hotep said. "So it is thou, Hotep. Nay, but I am glad to see thee. Methought Ta-user meant to visit me just now. Is there a taboret near?" "Aye, but I shall not sit, my Prince." "Go to! It makes me weary to see thee stand. Sit, I tell thee!" Hotep drew up the taboret and sat. "I come to thee with news and a petition," he began.
Masanath roused herself and prepared to listen. Serious words from the lips of the light-hearted captain were not common, and when he spoke in that manner it was time to take heed. "I had heard of the little prince's misfortune and of the treason of Ta-user and her party, and the placing of a price upon her head; but nothing more hath come to mine ears. Is there more, of a truth?"
"Nay, of thine own misplaced trust." "What!" the prince exclaimed. "Have I clothed thy kinsman with more grace than he owns?" "Thou hast put faith in thine enemy. A woman hath deceived thee." "What dost thou tell me?" Seti cried, leaping to the ground and angrily confronting Aaron. "A truth," the Hebrew answered calmly. "The Princess Ta-user is a fugitive charged with treason."
Ta-user shot an amused glance at the discomfited countenance of Har-hat and went on. "Nay, O my Sovereign. I do but wish to incline thine ear to me. Say first thou wilt grant me my boon." He looked at her doubtfully, but she drew nearer and lifted her face to his.
As much of contempt as it was wise to show glimmered in her eyes. "And thou art at thy wits' end?" she asked. "A little way to go. Help me, Ta-user. Bear with me." She moved closer to him and absently smoothed down the fine locks, disordered by the wind. Presently she lifted his face and said with sudden impulsiveness: "Dost, of a truth, believe everything that is told thee?"
Rameses laughed scornfully, but Ta-user and Seti spoke simultaneously: "Siptah speaks truly." "Yea, Menes," the heir scoffed; "he hath already become a bugbear to the infants. Hear them confess it?" Siptah buried his clenched hand in a cushion on the floor near him. "O thou paternal Prince," he said, "repeat us a prayer of exorcism as a father should, and rid us of our fears."
Close beside him and similarly enthroned was Ta-user. She wore a double robe of transparent linen, very fine and clinging in its texture. The over-dress was simply a white gauze, striped with narrow lines of green and gold. From the fillet of royalty about her forehead, an emerald depended between her eyes.
"Now, by the gods, Har-hat!" Meneptah exclaimed angrily. "I would not have dreamed such baseness in thee!" The fan-bearer was stupefied with wrath and astonishment. Words absolutely refused to come to him. Ta-user accused him with the wide eyes of fearless righteousness. Presently she went on: "Already hath he languished eight months in prison.
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