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MootGzuma's DaugHter.

By H. EIDEE HAGGAED.

IGrpyright, 1693, by tho Author.] She oca sou, ana ft murmur

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amazemcn

went round tho chambor, for none had looked to find such love and courage in this lady'6 iheart. Only Cuitlahua grew angry. "Disloyal.girl," lie said, ''do you dart to set your lover before your country' Shame upon you, shameless daughter ol our king! Why, it is in tho blood—as the father is,-6o is the daughter. Did not M011 tezumo forsake his people and choose to lie among these Teules, the false children of Quetzal? And now this Otomie follows in his path. Tell us how is it, woman, that you and your lover alone escaped from tho. teocalli .yonder when all the rest were killed. .Areyou then in league wit 1. these TenlesI say to you, niece, that if things were otherwise and I had my way you should win ^our desire indeed, for you should be -slain .at- this man's side and within the.hour." And he ccascd for lack of breath, and looked upon her fiercely.

But Otomie -.never quailed. She stood before him pale and quiet, with folded hands and downcast eyes, and answered: "Forbear "to reproach me bccuu^ my love is strong, or reproach ine if you will, I have spoken my bust word. Condemn this man to die, ami, prince, you must seel 6ome other envoy to win back tlio Otomie to the cause of Anahuac."

Now Cuitlahua pondered, staring into the gloom tibove him and pulling at his beard, and the silence was great, for nono knew what 'his judgment would be. At last he spoLe: "So be it. We have need of Otomie, my niece, and it is of no avail to fight against a woman's love. Teule, we give you life, and with the life honor and wealth, and the greatest of our women in marriage, and a place in our councils. Take these gifts and her, but. I say to you both be ware how you use the,in. If you betray us —nay, if you but think ou treachery—1 swear to you that you .-hull die a death so slow and horrible that the very name of it would turn your heart to water, you and your wife, your children and your servants. Come, let him be sworn!"'

I heard, and my head swam, and a mist gathered before my eyes. Once again I was saved from-insrant death.

Presently it cleared. and looking up my eyes met those of the woman who had saved me, Otomie, my wife, who smiled upon ine somewhat sadly. Then the priest came forward hearing a wooden bowl, carved about with strange, .signs, and a tlint knife, am) bade me hare my arm. He cut my liesh with the knif -.\so that blood ran from it into the bowl. Home drops of this blood he emptied on to the ground, muttering invocations rhe while. Then turned anil looked at Cuitlahua as -though in question, and Cuit lahua answered with a bitter laugh: "Let him lie baptized wj the blood of the Princess Otomie, my niece, for she ibail for him." "Nav, lord." said Guatemoc. "thesetwo have mingled bloods already upon the stone of sacrifice, and they aw man and wife. But 1 also have vouched for liiin, and I offer mine in earnest of my faith." ••This Teule has good friends," said Cuitlahua. "You honor L'm overmuch. But so bo it."

Then Gnafcmoc came forward, and when thy priest would have cut him with tho knife lie laughed and said, pointing to the bullet wound upon his neck: "No need for that, priest. Blood runs here that was shed by the Teules. None can bo fitter fsir this purpose."

So the priest drew away the bandage and suffered the Mood of Guatemoc to drop into a second smaller bowl. Then he came to me. and dipiyng his finger into tho blood he drew the sign of a cross upon my forehead as a Christian priest draws it upon the forehead of an infant and said: "In the presence and the name of God, our Lord, who is everywhere and sees all things, 1 sign you~wlth this "biood anil make you of this blood. In tho presence and the name of God. our Lord, who is everywhere and sees all things, I pour forth your blood upon the earth!" (Here he poured as he spoke.) "As this blood of youis- sinks into the earth, so may the memory of your past life sink and be forgotten, for you are born again of the people of Anahuac. In the presence and the name of God, our Lord, who is everywhere and sees all things. I-iningle these bloods" (here he poured from one bowl into the other), "and with them I touch your tongue" (here, dipping his finger into the bowl, lie touched the tip of my tongue with it) "and bid you swear thus: "I, Teule. swear to be faithful to the people of Anahuac and to their lawful governors. 1 swear t-o wage war upon their foes and to compass their destruction, and more especially upou the Teules, till they are driven into the sea. I swear to offer no affront to the gods of Anahuac. I swear myself in marriage to Otoi.iie, princess of the Otomie, the daughter of Montezuma, my lord, for so long as her life shall endure. I swear to attempt no cscapo from these short's. 1 swear to renounce my father and my mother, and the land where I was born, and to cling to this land of my new birth, and this my oath shall endure till the volcano Popo ceases to vomit smoke and lire, till there is no king in Tenoctitlan, till no priest, serves the altars of the gods and tho people of Aundiuacare no more a people.'

Wlien I had sworn, Guatcmoc came forward IUHI embraml me, saying: "Welcome, Teule, my brother in blood and heart. Now you are one of us, and we look to you for help and counsel. Come, be seated by inc."

I looked toward Cuitlahua doubtfully, but he smiled gr.n-iously and said: "Teule, your trial is over. We have accepted you, and you have sworn tho solemn oath of brotherhood, to break which is to die horribly in this world and to be tortured through eternity in tho next. Forgot all that may havo been said in the liotir of your weighing, for tho balance is in your favor, and bo sure that if you give us no cause to doubt you, yon shall find none to doubt us. Now, as the husband of Otomie, you aro a lord among the lords, having honor and groat possessions, and as such bo seated by your brother Guatomoc and join our council."

I did as ho bade me, and Otomie withdrew from our-presence. Then Cuitlahua spoke again, 110 longer of mo and my matters, but of tho urgent affairs of state. He spoko in slow words and weighty, and more than once his voice broke in his sorrow. Ho told of the grievous misfortunes that had overcome the country, of tho d' itli of hundreds of its bravest warriors, of tho slaughter of the priests and soldiers that day on the teocalli and tho desecration of his nation's gods. What was to bo done in this extremity? I10 asked. Montezuma lay dying, a prisonor in the camp of tho Teules, and tho 11 ro that ho had nursed with his breath devoured tho land. No offQila.UA Uuyrs coulcLbreuk tho

i.rnjxstrepjjth

of these white devils, armed with strahge and terrible weapons. Day by day disaster overtook' tho arms of tho Aztecs What, wisdom had they now that tho protecting gods were shattered in their very shrines, when tho altars ran red with t'10 blood of their ministering priests, when tho oracles were dumboranswered only in tho accents of despair?

Then one by one princes and generals arose aiul gave counsel according to their lights. At length all had spoken, and Cuitlahua said, looking toward me:

We have a new counselor among us who is skilled in tho warfare and customs of the white man, who till an hour ago was himself a white man. lias I10 no "word of comfort for us?" "Speak, my brother," said Guatemoc.

Then I spoke. ".Most noble Cuitlahua, and you, lords »nd princcs, you honor me by asking my counsel, and it is this, in few words and brief: You wasto your strength by hurling your armies continually against, stone walls and the weapons of Teules. So you shall not prevail against them. Your devices must be changed if you would win victory. Tho Spaniards arc like other men. They arc 110 gods, as the ignorant imagine, and the creatures upon which they ride are not demons, but beasts of burden, such LH are used for many purposes in the land where I was 'born. '•The"Pnaniards are men. I say, and do not men hunger and thirst? Cannot men be worn out by want of sleep and be killed i'i many ways? Are not these Teules already weary to the death? This, then, is iny word of comfort to you: Cease to attack tbn arid invest their camp so olosely thai'00 food can reacn tnem auu their allies, the Tlascalans. If this is done, within 10 days from now either they will surrender, or they will strive to break their way back to the coast. But to do this, first they mast win out of the city, and if dikes are cut through tho causeways that will be no easy matter. Then when they strive to escape, cumbered with the gold they covet and came here to seek, then, I say,, will be the hour to attack them and to destroy them utterly."

I ceased, and a murmur of applause went round the council. "It seems that we came to a wise judgment when we determined to spare this man's life," said Cuitlahua, "for all that he tells 11s is true, and I would that we had followed this policy from tho first. Now, lords, I give my voice for acting as our brother points the way. What say you?" "Wo say with you that our brother's words are good," answered Guatemoc presently, "and now let us follow them to the end."

Then, after some further talk, the council broke up, and I sought my chamber, well nigh blind with weariness aud crushed by the weight of all that I had suffered 011 that eventful day. The dawn was flaring in the eastern sky, and by its glimmer I found my path down the empty corridors till at length I came to the curtains of my sleeping place. I drew them aud passed through. There, far up rhe room, the faint light gleaming on her snowy dress, her raven hair and ornaments of gold, stood Otomie, my bride.

I went toward her. and as I came six glided to meet me with outsrretchedarms

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She glided to meet me with outstretched arms. Presently tlicy wcro about my neck, and her kiss was upon my brow. "Now all is done, my lovo and lord," she whispered, "and come good or ill, or both, wo aro 0110 until death, for such vows as ours cannot IKS broken." "All is done indeed, Otomie, and our oaths are lifelong, though other oaths have been broken that they might bo sworn," I answered.

Thus then I, Thomas Wingfield, was wed to Otomie, princess of the Otomie. Montezuma's daughter.

CHAPTER XXI. TliK SIGHT OF FEAR.

Long before I awoke that day tho commands of the council had been carried out, and tho bridges in .tho great causeways wore broken down wherever dikes crossed the raised roads that ran through the waters of tho lake. That afternoon also I went, dressed as an Indian warrior, with Guatemoc and the other generals, to a parley which was held with Cortes, who took his Btand in the same tower of the palace that Montezuma had stood ou when the arrow of. Guatemoc struck him down. There is littlo to bo said of this parley, and I remembered it chiefly becauso it was then, for the first timo since I had loft the Tabascans, that I saw Marina closo and heard her 'sweet and gentlo voice, for now, as ever, she was by the side of Cortes, translating his proposals of peace to the Aztecs. Among these proposals was one that showed ino that De Garcia had not been idle. It asked that the false white man who had boon rescued from tjje altars of the gods upon tho teocalli should be given in exchange for certain Aztoc prisoners, in order that lie might bo hung, according to his merits, oe a spy and deserter, a traitor to the emperor of Spain. I wondered as I heard if Marina knew when she spoko tho words that "tho false wliito .man" was nono other than tho friend of her Tabascan days. "You see that you are fortunate in having found place among us Aztecs, Teule," said Guatemoc, with a laugh, "for your own.peoplo would greet you with a rope."

Then lie answered Cortes, saying nothing of mc, but bidding him and all tho Spaniards prepare for death. "Many of us havo perished," he said. "You also must perish, Teules. .You shall perish of hunger and thirst you shall perish on tho altars of tho gods. There is 110 escapo for you, Teules. The bridges are broken."

And all tho multitude took up the words and thundered out: "There is 110 escapo for you, Toules. Tho bridges aro broken!"

Then tho shooting of orrows began, and I sought tho palaco to tell Otomie, my wife, what I had gathered of tho statcof hfCjatjli^E. AlVUi£fii51iUlfl».'W th&Spaniurds

said still lay dying, and of licr two sisters, who were hostages in their quarters. Two days iter came the news that Montezuma was dead and shortly after it his body, which I he Spaniards handed over to tho Aztecs for burial, attired in tho gorgeous robes."of royalty. Tlicy laid it in the hall of tho palace, whence it was hurried secretly mul at night to Cliapoltepcc and there hidden away with sinull ceremony, for it was feared that the people might rend it limb from limb in their rage. With Otomie weeping at my side, I looked for the last time on the face of that most unhappy king, whose reign, so glorious in its beginning, had ended thus. Otomie, ceasing from her tears, kissed his clay and cried aloud: "O my father, it is well that you are dead, for none who loved you could desire to sec you live 011 in shame and servitude! May tho gods you worshiped give me strength to avenge you, or if they bo 110 gods then may I find it in myself. I swear this, my father, that while a man is left to me I will not cease from seeking to avenge you."

Then, taking my hand, wi.'.hout another word she turned and passed thence. As will be seen, she kept her oath.

On that day and on the morrow there was fighting with the Spaniards, who sallied out to fill tip the gaps in the dikes of tho causeway, a task in which they succeeded, though with some loss. But it availed them nothing, for so soon as their backs were turned we opened the dikes again. It was on these days that for the first time I had experience of war, and armed with my bow mode after the English pattern I did good service. As it chanccd, the very first arrow that I drew was on my hated foe, Do Garcia, but hero my common fortune pursued me, for, being out of practice or overanxious, I aimed too high, though tho mark was an easy one, and the.shaft pierced the iron of his casque, causing him to reel in his saddle, but doing him no further hurt. Still this marksmanship, poor as it was, gained me great renown among the Aztecs, who were but feeble archers, for they had never before seen an arrow pierce through the Spanish maiL Nor would mine have done so had I not collected the iron barbs off the crossbow bolts of the Spaniards anil fitted them to my own shr.t'ts, I seldom found the mail that would withstand arrows mado thus when the range ws« short and the aim good.

After tho first day's fight, I was appointed general over a body of 3,000 archers and wssi giv&ri a banner to bo borne before me and a gorgeous captain's dress to wear. 't what pleased me better was a chain shji which camo from tho body of a Spanish cavalier." For many years I always wore this shirt beneath my cotton mail, and it saved my life more than once, for even bullets would not pierce the two of them.

I had taken over the command of my archers but 48 hours, a scant time in which to teach thc discipline, Whereof thev had little, though they were brave enough wiien tho occasion camo to use them in good earnest, aud with ib the night of disaster that is still known among the Spaniards as the noclio triste. On the afternoon before that night a council was held in the palace, at which 1 spoke, saying I was certain that the Teules thought of retreat from the city and in the dark, for otherwise tiiey would not have been so eager to fill up the canals in the causeway. To this Cuitlahua, who now that Montezuma was dead would be emperor, though he was not. yet chosen and crowned, answered that it might well no that tho Teules moditatcct flight, but that they could never attempt in the darkness, since in £0 doing they must become entangled in tho streets anil dikes.

I replied that, though it was not the Aztec habit to march and fight at night, such things were common enough among white men, as tlicy had seen already, and that because the Spaniards knew it was not their habit they would be the more likely to attempt escape under cover of the darkness, when they thought their enemies asleep. Therefore I counseled that sentries should be set at all the cntranccs to every causeway. To this Cuitlahua assented, and assigned the causeway of Tlacopon to Guatemoc and myself, making us the guardians of its safety. That night Guatemoc and I, with some soldiers, wentxiut toward midnight to visit the guard that w„e had placcd upon the causeway. It was very dark, and 4 rain fell, so that a man could sec no farther liefore his eyes than he can at evening through a Norfolk rokc in autumn. We found aud relieved the guard, which reported that all was quiet, and we wero returning toward tho great square when of a sudden I heard a dull sound as of thousauds of men tramping. "Listen," I said. "It is the Teules who cscape,'' whisper ed Guatcmoc.

Quickly we ran to where the street from mo groat 6quare opens on to tnc causeway, and there even through the darkness and vain wo caught the gleam of armor. Then I cried aloud in a great voicc: ''To arms! To arms! The Teules escape by tlio causeway of Tlacopan!"

Instantly my words wero caught up by the sentries and passed from post to post till the city rang with them. They were cried in every street and canal they echoed frcin the roofs of houses and among the summits of a hundred temples. The city awoke with a murmur from the.lake came the sound of water beaten by 10,000 oars, as though myriads of wild fowl had sprung suddenly from their reedy beds. Here, there and everywhere torches flashed out like falling stars, wild notes were blown on horns and shells, anil above all arose the booming of tho snakeskin drum, which tho priests upon the teocalli beat furiously.

Presently the murmur grew to a roar, and from this direction and from that armed men poured toward tho causeway of Tlacopan. Some came on foot, but the most of them were in canoes which covered the waters of the lake farther than tho ear could hear. Now the Spaniards to the number of 1,500 or so, accompanied by some 6,000 or 8,000 Tlascalans, were emerging on tho causeway in a long thin line. Guatemoc and I rushed before them, collecting men as wo went, till we came to tho first canal, where canoes were already gathering by scores. The head of the Spanish column reached tho canal, and the fight began, which, so far as tho Aztecs wore concerned, was a fray without plan or order, for in that darkness and confusion the captains could not seo their, men or the men hear their captains. Btit they were there in countless numbers and had only 0110 desire in their breast—to kill the Teules. A cannon roared, sending a storm of bullets through us, aud by its flash wo saw that tho Spaniards carried a timber

abridgo

with them, which they wore plac­

ing across tlio canal. Then we fell 011 them, every man fighting for himself. Guatcmoo and I wore swept over that bridgo by tho first rush of tho enemy as leaves are swept in a gale, and though both of us wont hrough safely wo saw each other 110 more that night. With us and after us camo tlio long array of Spaniards and T1 a§Cfih|iiSj_ttu«l JCrgiiigja jy sldo tho A^qtg

poured upon them, clingfngto their struggling line as ants cling to a wounded worm.

How can 1 tell all that came to pass that night? I cannot, for I saw but little of it. All I know is that for two hours I was fighting like a madman. Tho foe crossed tho first canal, but when all were over the bridge was sunk so deep in the mud that ifc could not be stirred, and three furlongs on ran a second canal, deeper and wider than the first. Over this they could not cross till it was bridged with the dead It seemed as though all hell had broken looso upon that narrow ridge of ground The sound of cannon and of arquebuses, the shrieks of agony and fear, tho shouts of the Spanish soldiers, the warcries of the Aztecs, the screams of wounded horses, the wail of women, the hiss of hurtling darts and arrows and the dull noise of falling blows went up to heaven in one hideous burly burly. Like a frightened mob of cattle, tho long Spanish array swayed this way anil that, bellowing as it swayed. Many rolled down the sides of the causeway to be slaughtered in the waters of the lake or borne away to sacrifice in the canoes, many were drowned in the canals, and yet more were trampled to dewth in the mud. Hundreds of the Aztecs perished also, for tho most part beneath the weapons of their own friends, who struck and shot, not knowing on whom the blow should fall or in whose breast the arrow would find its home.

For, my part. I fought 011 with a little band of men who had gathered about me till at last the dawn broke and showed an •wful sight. Tho most of thoso who were left alive of the Spaniards and their "allies had crossed the second caual npon abridge made of the dead bodies of their fellows mixed up with a wreck of baggage, cannon and packages of treasure. Now the fight was raging beyond it. A mob of Spaniards and Tlascalans were still crossing the second broach, and on these I fell with such men as were with me. I plunged right inw the heart of them, and suddenly before me I saw the face of De Garcia.

With a shout I rushed at him. He heard my voice and knew mo. With an oath ho 6truck at my head. The heavy sword camo down upon my lielmct of painted wood, shearing away one side of it and felling -me, but ere I fell I smote him on the breast with the club I carried, tumbling him to the earth. Now, half stunned and blinded,

I crept toward him through the press. All that I could see was a gleam of armor in the mud. I threw myself upon it, grip ping at the wearer's throat, and together

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threw myself upon it, gripping at the wearer's throat. we rolled down the side of the causeway into the shallow water at the edge of the lake. I was uppermost, and with a fierce joy I dashed the blond from my eyes that I might see to kill my enemy," caught at hist. His liody was in tho lake, but his head lay upon the sloping bank, and my plan was to hold him beiieath the water till ho was drowned, for I hail lost my club. "'At length, De Garcia!" I cried in Spanish as I shifted my grip. "For the lova of God, let mo go!" gasped a rough voice beneath m& ''Fool, I am no Indian dog."

Now I peered into tho man's face bewildered. I had seized De Garcia, but the voice was not his voice, nor was the face his face, but that of a rough Spanish soldier. ''Who arc you?" I said, slackening my hold. ''Where is De Garcia, he whom you name Sarccila?" '"Sarceda? I don't know. A minute ago he was on his back on tho causeway. Tho fellow pulled me down and rolled behind me. Let me be, I say. I am not Sarceda, and if I were, is this a time to settle private quarrels? I am your comade, Bernal Diaz. Holy ^1 other, who are you? An Aztec who speaks Custilianf" "I am no Astoe," I answered. "I am an Englishman, and I fight with the Az tecs that I may slay him whom you name Sarceda. But with you I havo* no quar rel, Bernal Diaz. Begone and escape it you can. No I will keep the sworil, with your leave." ''Englishman, Spaniard, Aztec or devil," grunted the man ns he drew himself from his bed of ooze, "you are a good fellow, and I promise you* that if I live through tiiis, and if it should ever come about "that I get you by the throat, I wiil remember the turn you did me. Fai-e well," and without more ado ho rushed up the bank and plunged into a knot of his flying lountrynu n, leaving his sword in my hand. I strove to follow him that I might find my enemy, who oneo more lmd escajiod by craft, but my strength failed me, for De Garcia's sword had bit ten deep, and I bled much. So I must sit where I was till a canoe came and bore me back to Otomie to bo nursed, anil 10 days went by before 1.could walk again.

This was my share of the victory of the noclie triste. Alas, it was a barren triumph, though more than 500 of the Spaniards wero slain and thousands of their allies! For there was no warlike skill or discipline among the Aztecs, and instead of following tho Spaniards until none of them remained alive they staid to plunder the dead anil drag away tho liv ing to sacrifice. Also this day of revenge was a sad one to Otomie, seeing that two of her brothers, Montezuma's sons, whom the Spaniards held in hostage, perished with them in the fray.

As for Do "-Garcia, I could not learn what had become of^him, nor whether he was dead or living,-"

CHAPTKIl XXII.

THE

BURYING OF MONTEZUMA'S TREASURE. Cuitlahua was crowned emperor of the Aztecs, in succession of his brother Mou tezuma, wliilo I lay sick with the wound given mo by tho sword of Do Garcia and also with tliat which I had received on the altar of sacrifice. This hurt had found 11c time to heal, anil in the fierce fighting on tho night of fear it burst open and bled much. Indeed it gave me trouble for years, and to this hour I feel it in the autumn season. Otomie, who nursed me tenderly, and, so strange is the heart of woman, even seemed to be consoled in her sorrow at the loss of her father and nearest kin, because I had escaped the slaughter anil won fame, told

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of the ceremony of the crowning,

which was splendid enough. Indeed the Aztecs were almost mail with rejoicing because tlio Teules wero gone at last. They Xgrgot pr smjuid to forget Jlje loss, of

thousands oiftheir bravast"warriors and ol the flower of their rank, and as yet, at any rate, they did not look forward to the future. From house to house and street to street ran troops of young men and maidens, garlanded with flowers, crying: ''The Teules are gone rejoice with us! Tha Teules are fled!" and woe to them who were not merry—aye, even though their houses were desolate with death. Also the statues of the gods were set up again on the great pyramid and their temples rebuilt, the holy crucifix that tho Spaniards had placed there being served as the idols Huitzel and Tczcat had been served, and tumbled down the sides of the teocalli, and that after sacrificc of some Spanish prisoners who had been offered in its presence. It was Guatemoc himself who told me of this sacrilege, but not with any exultation, for I had taught him something of our faith, aiiil though he was too goods heathen to change his creed, in secret he believed that the God of the Christiana was a true and mighty God. Moreover, though I10 was obliged to countenance them, like Otomie, GuntemcySmover loved the horrid rites of human sacrifice.

Xow, when I heard this talc my anger overcame my reason, and I spoke fiercely saying: "I am sworn to your cause, Guatemoc, my brother, and 1 am married to your blood, but I tell you that from this hour it is an aecurscd cause. Because of your blood stained idols and your priests it is accursed. That God whom you have desecrated and those who serve him shall como back in-- pow. r, and he shall sit where your idols sat, anil none shall stir him forever."

Thus I spoke, and mywords were true, though I did not know what put them into my heart, since I spoke at random in my wrath, foe today Christ's church stands upon the site of the place of sacrifice in Mexico, a sign and token of his triumph over devils, and there it shall stand while the world endures. .'•You speak rashly, my brother," Guatemoc answered proudly enough, though I saw him quail at the evil omen of my words. 'I say you speak rashly, and were you overheard there are those, notwithstanding the rank wo have given you, the honor which you have won in war and council, and that you have passed ,the stone of sacrifice, who might force you to look again upon the faces of tho beings you blaspheme. What worse tiling has been done to your Christian God than has been done again and again to our gods by your white kindred? But. let us talk no more of this matter, and I pray you, my brother, do not utter such ill omened words to ms agsin, lc§t it should straia our-love. Do you. ti:cn, believe lhat the Teules will return?" "Aye, Guatemoc, so surely as tomor--JOW-'-s sun shall rise. Wiica .you held fortes in yoiU' band, you let him go,._qcd since then lie hai'wCia "ft pan. Is he a man, think you, to .sheath, the sword that he has once drawn and go down into darkness and dishonor? Before a year is past the Spaniards will be back at the gates of Tenoctitlan." "You are HO comforter tonight, my brother," said Guatomoc, "and yet I fear that your words are true. Well, if wo must fight, let us strive to win.. Now, at least, (chero is no Montezuma to take the viper to his breast and nurse it till it stings.liim." Then he rtx.e and went in. silence, and I saw his heart was heavy.

On the morrow,of this talfcl could leave mv bed^anii within a week I Was almost well. Now it was Muit Guatemoc came to mo again, saying that ho bad been "bidden by Cuitlalr'a, the empoit.:-, to command me to .accompany Mm, Guatemoc, on a service of trust and secrecy. And indeed the nature A the service showed how great a confidence the leaders of the Aztecs now t-f :ced in m*" for it was none other than the hiding away c.f the treasure thai ha'* been recapu:ivil frcm the Spaniards on the night cf f. ,r, anil with it much more frv.ni the secret stores of the-empire.

At the f.:ll of darkness we started, some of the gi'i-iiu lords, Guatcmoc and I, and coming to the water's edge we found 18 large .'.aiioes, each Iadcu with something that was hidden by cotton cloths. Into the canoes we entered secretly, thinhihg none s.".w u? three to a canoe, for there were 30of :s in all, and led by Guatemoc wo'padillcd for two hours or more across tho Lnhe T^cucp till we reached tlioiorther shore utt a sjjotfvhcre this prince had a fr.ii cstiiie. Here to landed, anil the elorhs were withdrawn (run. the cargoes of the canoes, which were great jiirs and saiiis of {. old and. jeWi-l.s, besides many otiicr precicus objects, r.:v.on^ them a likeness of the head of Montezuma, fashioned in solid r.old, which was so heavy that it W"».s as much .s Guatemoc anil I could de to lilt between us. As for the jars, of wliich.Jf my memory serves me, there were li. six men must c::rry each of them by the help est paddles lashed on either side, and then the task was not light. All this priceless stuff wc bore in several journeys to the crest of a rise some hundred paces distant from the water, setting it down by the mouth of a shaft behind the shelter of a mound of earth. When everything was brought up from the boats, Guatemoc touched me and another man, a great Aztec noble, born of a Tlascalan mother, on tho shoulder, askiug us if we were willing to descend with him into the hole and tneroto dispose of the treasure. "Gladly,'' I answered, for I was curious to see the place, but the noble hesitated awhile, though in tho end he came with uSj to his ill fortune.

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