He made no sign of surprise.
Indeed his glance seemed to indicate that he expected the prince. He
raised his hand and extended it for a moment over the boy's head, and
went forth.
The strength went from Seti's limbs, the passion from his brain, and
when Rameses with grim purpose in his face beckoned him, he obeyed
meekly and prostrated himself before the angry king.
[1] Zoan--The Hebrew name for Tanis.
CHAPTER XXXIX
BEFORE EGYPT'S THRONE
The distance by highway between Memphis and Tanis was eighty miles, a
little more than two days' journey by horseback.
Masanath had required two weeks to accomplish that distance. She refused
to travel except in the cool of the morning and of the afternoon; if she
felt the fatigue of an hour's journey, she rested a day at the next town;
she consulted astrologers, and moved forward only under propitious signs;
she insisted on following the Nile until she was opposite Tanis, instead
of taking the highway at On and continuing across the Delta.
The most of her following walked, and she proceeded at the pace of her
plodding servants.
She spoke of her freedom as though she went to meet doom; she gazed on
the sorry fields and pastures of Egypt as though the four walls of a
prison were soon to shut out heaven and earth from her eyes.
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