e, to his undoing
and the misery of his beloved Io, he dared not come under the
all-compelling eyes of the sorceress again. So he surrendered his
crown and his country for his soul's sake.

But fifty years after, Seti's son, the formidable Set-Nekt, returned
into Egypt and restored the Rameside house on a basis so solid that
another glorious dynasty arose thereon, second only in brilliance to
that which had gone out in the anarchy of Siptah and Ta-user's reign.
This done, he wreaked personal vengeance upon the usurpers of his
father's throne. He broke open the tomb of Siptah and Ta-user, threw
out their bodies to the jackals, obliterated the inscriptions, enlarged
the crypt, put his own and his father's history on the walls and used
it for his mausoleum when he died.

And this was the deadliest retaliation he could inflict in his father's
name.

Much of this Kenkenes learned from the lips of Egyptian merchants whom
he met in Canaan, forty years after the Exodus.

Kenkenes was a proselyte who had found his God for himself. He
believed as he drew his breath and as his heart beat, involuntarily and
without any lapse. Never could a son of Israel have surrendered
himself more eagerly to the law. Its good and its purposes were ever
before his eyes, and his footsteps led in the paths that it lighted.
Though he saw not the Lord in a burning bush nor talked with Him on
Sinai, he found Him on the lonely uplands of the sheep-ranges and heard
Him in the voiceless night on the limitless desert. The young Egyptian
was not yet twenty years old at the time of the numbering before Sinai,
and he entered the Promised Land with Joshua and Caleb. For verily he
walked with God all the days of his life.

It must not be supposed that there was no serene life nor any happiness
in the long wandering of forty years. A generation of oriental adults
practically dies out in that time. The passing of the elders of
Israel, though it was accomplished by plagues and sendings for
iniquities, was as the passing of the old in the Orient to-day. The
encampment was not continually filled with calamity and great
mourning--far from it. There were long stretches of peace and plenty,
extending almost uninterruptedly for years, and those who followed the
law escaped the intervals of catastrophe.

Kenkenes was among the chosen people but not of them, partly because he
was of the execrated race of the oppressors and partly because the most
of Isr