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Updated: June 27, 2025
Think of me at times, when you grow old, and not unkindly, seeing that I have served you as best I could, and your master also, who I hope will soon find again that which he lost awhile ago." "Her Highness, Princess Userti," I suggested. "The Princess Userti among other things, Ana.
Or perhaps the emissaries of Userti had taught them. Once more we stood by the gate watching the people flitting to and fro in the gloom without, for this sight fascinated Merapi, as a snake fascinates a bird. Then it was that Laban appeared. I knew his hooked nose and hawk-like eyes at once, and she knew him also. "Come away with me, Moon of Israel," he cried, "and all shall yet be forgiven you.
"Indeed. I trust that the good god, our divine parent, is well to-night as you leave him so early." "I leave him because he sent me with a message to you." She paused, looking at me sharply, then asked, "Who is that man? I do not know him." "It is your misfortune, Userti, but one which can be mended.
When Userti was told of it, she said in the hearing of a friend of mine: "Without a doubt that is because he trains his bastard to fill the throne of Egypt." But, alas! all that the little Seti was doomed to fill was a coffin. It was a still, hot evening, so hot that Merapi had bid the nurse bring the child's bed and set it between two pillars of the great portico.
Such was this mighty triad, but of these the greatest was Amon-Ra, to whom the shrine was dedicated. Fearful they stood towering above us against the background of blackness. Gathered there were Seti the Prince, clothed in a priest's white robe, and wearing a linen headdress, but no ornaments, and Userti the Princess, high-priestess of Hathor, Lady of the West, Goddess of Love and Nature.
"Nay, Sister, Pharaoh is but one man among millions of other men, and though he speaks it is their spirit which bends his tongue, while above that spirit is a great greater spirit who decrees what they shall think to ends of which we know nothing." "I do not understand, Seti." "I never thought you would, Userti, but when you have leisure, ask Ana here to explain the matter to you.
Or perhaps because, thinking himself the greatest of all kings instead of but a plaything of the gods, pride locks the doors of his heart that in a day to come the tempest of the Future, whereof I have spoken, may wreck the house which holds it. I do not know why he refuses, but her Highness Userti is much with him."
In the silence that followed I heard him say, to the Princess, I think: "Amenmeses I see, and others of our kin, but where is my son Seti, the Prince of Egypt?" "Watching us no doubt from some vestibule. My brother loves not ceremonials," answered Userti. Then, with a little sigh, Seti stepped forward, followed by Bakenkhonsu and myself, and at a distance by other members of his household.
At the last moment the Prince, whose mood seemed to be perverse that evening, refused to travel with the host upon the morrow because of the noise and dust. In vain did the Count Amenmeses reason with him, and Nehesi and the great officers implore him almost on their knees, saying that they must answer for his safety to Pharaoh and the Princess Userti.
"I mean that I, unfriended and alone, will enter the presence of Amon-Ra in his chosen sanctuary, and in the name of my God will challenge him to kill me, if he can." We stared at her, and Userti exclaimed: "If he can! Hearken now to this blasphemer, and do you, Seti, accept her challenge as hereditary high-priest of the god Amon? Let her life pay forfeit for her sacrilege."
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