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Immediately upon De Soto's return to Spain, as all obstacles to their union were removed, the nuptial ceremony was performed. The voice of fame had already proclaimed De Soto as the real conqueror of Peru. As such, he had not only enriched himself, but had also greatly enriched the Spanish crown. All eyes were fixed upon him.
But the plunderers did not gain all they hoped for by their act of vandalism, for the poor queen managed to escape from her guards, and in her flight took with her a box of the most valuable of the pearls. They were those which De Soto had most prized and he was bitterly stung by their loss.
Salt Springs. The Savages of Tula. Their Ferocity. Anecdote. Despondency of De Soto. It is painful to recall the mind from these peaceful, joy-giving, humanizing scenes of religion, to barbaric war its crime, carnage, and misery.
Therefore it vexed him that Cassian informed him of many things which prevented his relying firmly upon her orthodoxy. At any rate, there were Protestants among her visitors and, unfortunately, they included Herr Peter Schlumperger, whom De Soto knew as an active promoter of the apostasy of the Ratisbon burghers.
De Soto was pleased to think that he was being given a chance to pay up old scores and to do large things; he was really grateful. "We're not through with those sharpers," he declared to Cowperwood, triumphantly, one day. "They'll fight us with suits. They may join hands later. They blew up my gas-plant. They may blow up ours." "Let them blow," said Cowperwood. "We can blow, too, and sue also.
The chief was to assemble his warriors, to the number of about ten thousand, upon an extensive plain, just outside the city, ostensibly to gratify De Soto with the splendors of a peaceable parade. To disarm all suspicion, they were to appear without any weapons of war, which weapons were however previously to be concealed in the long grass of the prairie.
De Soto and his dragoons put spurs to their horses and hastened forward, hoping to extinguish the conflagration. Now that the battle was fought and the victory won, Francisco Pizarro, with his band of miscreants, came rushing on to seize the plunder. "They came like wolves or jackals to fatten on the prey which never could have been attained by their own courage or prowess.
"She will have a different view in the convent," replied the Emperor. "Quijada shall talk with her to-morrow, and De Soto and the pious nuns here will show her where she belongs. The child that matter is settled will be taken from her." The execution of the imperial will began on the very next morning.
Struggling, however, to suppress the unavailing outburst of his passion, he said, with a malignant smile: "I thank you, Captain De Soto, for giving me this opportunity which I have so long desired. Were I to permit such insolence to go unpunished, my authority in this colony would soon be at an end." "It is at an end," replied De Soto.
"I declined it most positively," replied Wolf, "although it would have suited my taste to stand at the head of the musical life in my native city." "Because you prefer to remain in the service of her Majesty Queen Mary?" asked De Soto. "No, your Eminence. Probably I shall soon leave the position near her person.
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