And thou, O Prince, wast to be trapped therein."
Seti's eyes were veiled and his face showed a heightening of color.
"Thou wast to come to the temple in the village of image-makers with
treasure to give into the hands of Moses. Thy message to my brother
was to be delivered by the Princess Ta-user. She delivered it not.
The word she should have brought came to Moses by a son of Belial, a
godless Hebrew, sent by Jambres, for the brotherhood of priests would
have had Moses come to the temple, for their own ends. But the
servants of the Lord God of Israel are keen-eyed and they know a jackal
from a hare. However, these matters I did not hear from the people.
Such secret things are not discussed upon the streets. All that I
heard in Pithom may be talked openly over Egypt.
"The man and the woman laid their plans, and they were these: Last
night, the man and his servants were to lie at Pithom, and to-day they
were to meet thee at the temple of Bast, overpower thee, take thy
treasure and, with the woman, fly to some secure place. With the
treasure they were to hire them soldiers--mercenaries, and take arms
against the king, thy father."
The speaker paused again. Seti's breast labored and his gaze was fixed
upon the Hebrew.
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