Before it had died away Pharaoh had turned to Userti and was asking: "Are these your counsel, your will, and your intent also, O Princess of Egypt ?" "Let Pharaoh hear me," answered Userti in a cold, clear voice, "they are not.

In this great matter my lord the Prince walks one road and I walk another.

My counsel, will, and intent are those of Pharaoh." "Seti my son," said Meneptah, more kindly than I had ever heard him speak before, "for the last time, not as your king but as your father, I pray you to consider.

Remembering that as it lies in your power, being of full age and having been joined with me in many matters of government, to refuse your assent to a great act of state, so it lies in my power with the assent of the high-priests and of my ministers to remove you from my path.

Seti, I can disinherit you and set another in your place, and if you persist, that and no less I shall do.