"Hur and Miriam brought me to thy tent last night."
With his face lighting, Kenkenes drew her to him and put his arm about her.
"So if thou wilt, we shall say—that—from—that moment—"
Her voice grew lower, her words more unready and failed altogether.
"From that moment," he said eagerly, reassuring her. "From that moment—"
"From that moment, I have been thy wife!"
CHAPTER XLVII
THE PROMISED LAND
One sunset, shortly after his marriage, word came to the tent of Kenkenes that an Amalekite chieftain on his way to Egypt had paused for the night just without the encampment of Israel.
"Here may be an opportunity to speak with thy father," Rachel suggested. The prospect of talking once again to those he had left behind was one too full of pleasure for the young Egyptian to receive calmly. Hurriedly he despatched one of his serving men to the Amalekite to bid him await a message. But Rachel called the messenger back.