, and as they each had proved that they prized honor and
right-doing above happiness their union was a true marriage, ennobling
and purifying their souls. She could share his deepest thoughts and his
most difficult undertakings, and if their house were filled with children
she would know how to give him the fullest enjoyment of those small
blessings which at the same time are the greatest joys of life.

Pentaur finding himself endowed by the king with superabundant wealth,
gave up the inheritance of his fathers to his brother Horus, who was
raised to the rank of chief pioneer as a reward for his interposition at
the battle of Kadesh; Horus replaced the fallen cedar-trees which had
stood at the door of his house by masts of more moderate dimensions.

The hapless Huni, under whose name Pentaur had been transferred to the
mines of Sinai, was released from the quarries of Chennu, and restored to
his children enriched by gifts from the poet.

The Pharaoh fully recognized the splendid talents of his daughter's
husband; she to his latest days remained his favorite child, even after
he had consolidated the peace by marrying the daughter of the Cheta king,
and Pentaur became his most trusted adviser, and responsible for the
weightiest affairs in the state.

Rameses learned from the papers found in Ani's tent, and from other
evidence which was only too abundant, that the superior of the House of
Seti, and with him the greater part of the priesthood, had for a long
time been making common cause with the traitor; in the first instance he
determined on the severest, nay bloodiest punishment, but he was
persuaded by Pentaur and by his son Chamus to assert and support the
principles of his government by milder and yet thorough measures. Rameses
desired to be a defender of religion--of the religion which could carry
consolation into the life of the lowly and over-burdened, and give their
existence a higher and fuller meaning--the religion which to him, as
king, appeared the indispensable means of keeping the grand significance
of human life ever present to his mind--sacred as the inheritance of his
fathers, and useful as the school where the people, who needed leading,
might learn to follow and obey.

But nevertheless no one, not even the priests, the guardians of souls,
could be permitted to resist the laws of which he was the bulwark, to
which he himself was subject, and which enjoined obedience to his
authority; and before he le