Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-19

After the first moment OF battle against
the human sea. Kenkenes recognized the
futility of resistance and suffered himself
To be borne along. There was no turning
back now. had he been so disposed. lie
had left behind him his purposes, unaccom-
plished.
He had received no explicit promise from
Moses. and IL he had given ear to the
doubts of his own reason. he might have
been sorely afraid. much troubled for
Egypt and all he loved therein. But he
went with the multitude passively, even
contentedly; he did not speculate how his
God would fight for him; his faith was per-
feet.
AS for his presence with Israel. no one
needed him. Sometimes 1t came his way to
be helpful; an old man lost his feet ana,
becoming panic-stricken. was soothed only
when the young Egyptian put strong arm
about him and held him till his feet touched
earth again. Children became heavy In the
arms of parents. and the little Hebrews had
no fear of the young man who carried them
a while instead. But no one stopped to take
notice that this was an Egyptian, totally
unlike those among the mixed multitude
that had come to join Israel: nor did any
wonder what q nobleman of the blood or
the oppressors did among the fleeing slaves
Indeed If the host had any thought beyond
the impulse OF self-preservation, 1t was
only dim realization that they were walk
ing over most rocky. oozy and untender
road, and that the smell Of the sea was
very strong about them.
In the early hours of the morning, having
become SO accustomed to the roar OF the
wind and the sound Of the moving multi
tude. Kenkenes ceased to be conscious of 1t.
Other sounds, which hours before would
have failed to reach his ears, became dis
tinct. The crying of tired children reached
him, and he detected even snatches of talk
among the ranks some distance away from
him. Thus clamor of noise, secondary In
force. grew about him. Above 1t all, at
last, came sound that would have made
him halt If he could.
He tried to think 1t one of the many voices
of the storm, but the second time he heard
it he knew what it was.
Far to the rear trumpet call beautiful
and spirited, rose upon the air.
The Egyptian army was in pursuit.
Israel heard 1t, and, crying aloud in its
terror. swept forward, as If the trumpet
call had commanded it. Kenkenes felt a
quickening of pulse, a momentary tremor,
but no more.
He became conscious finally of warmth
penetrating his sandals. He knew that he
had been struggling up slope for long
time, and now he realized that he was
again on the dry, sun-heated sand of the
desert. The multitude ceased to crowd, the
pressure about him diminished; the ranks
began to widen to his left and right; the
leaders halted altogether, and though there
was SUI MUCH movement among the DOQy
and rear of the host, people turned to look
upon their neighbors.
The overhanging cloud parted from the
eastern horizon, leaving a strip of sky
softly lighted by the coming morn. With
out any preliminary diminution of its force,
the wind failed entirely.
kenkenes, with many others, looked back
and that the pillar, Illuminated, but
no longer illuminat ting. had halted above
solitary figure of seemingly superhuman
stature in the morning gray, standing on an
eminence, overlooking the sea.
The arm was uplfted and outstretched
tense and motionless.
From his superior height Kenkenes saw
over the heads of the immense concourse
two lines of foam riding like the wind
across the Sea-bed toward each other. Be
tween them was a great body of plunging
horses; overhead a forest of fiuttering BAN
ners; and faint from the commotion came
shouts and wild notes of trumpets. Then
the two lines of foam smote against each
other with a fearful rush and muffled re-
port like the cannonading~ of surf. A noun
tain Of water pitched high into the air and
in a vast froth, which spread
abroad over the churning, wallowing sea-
The falling wind dashed a sheet of spray
over the silent host on the eastern shore.
Sharp against the white foam dark objects
and masses sank, arose, and sank again.
At that moment the sun thrust a broad
shaft of light between the horizon and TIE
lifted cloud.
1t discovered only the sea, raving and
stormy and afar to the west a misty,
vacant, lifeless line of shore.
and the waters returned and covered
the chariots and the hGrsemen, and all the
host of the Pharaoh that came into the sea
after them; there remained not so much as
one of them
So persisted Har-hat and the flower of the
Egyptian army.