I did not
and never have I believed it. Now I need the signet and I shall go
after it on the strength of that belief.
"Having found it, I shall appeal to Meneptah for thy liberty and safety
and whatever boon thou wouldst have and for myself. What thinkest
thou? Shall I go on?"
Rachel smiled and looked up at him gratefully.
"I will go with thee, Kenkenes," she said.
Her ready confidence and the easiness of his name on her lips filled
him with joy. "Ah! ye ungentle Hathors!" he mourned to himself, "why
may I not tell her how much I love her?"
But the white hand which he pressed against his breast asked its
release with gentle reluctance, and he set it free.
Once again the silence fell and was not frequently broken thereafter.
There was no invitation in her manner, and he could not speak what he
would.
The sun dropped behind the Libyan hills and the heights filled with
shadow. At length he said:
"It is time."
Lifting her to her feet, the ape attending them, he went toward the
Nile, hand in hand with Rachel, his love all untold.
CHAPTER XX
THE TREASURE CAVE
The sudden night had just fallen, and there was an incomplete moon in
the west. But already the desert was full of feeble shadows and silver
interspaces, and all that tense silence of evening upon unpeopled
localities.
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