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Updated: June 2, 2025
And the face of Victo was unusually pale, her lips tightly compressed to keep them from trembling too visibly, while her arm clasped Gladys with almost fierce love in its warm strength. Aztotl glanced upwards for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Such are the commands laid upon thy captain of guards, Daughter of Quetzal', the Fair God.
Victo flushed warmly and drew back a little farther, for the memory of those words let fall by Gladys came back with unpleasant distinctness. And was she so certain that Aztotl looked upon her as merely a god-descended priestess?
Through all, Aztotl waited, fiercely silent, held from open rebellion only by the influence of the woman whose very life was now menaced. And as the Sun Children stood before him, in readiness to comply with the commands issued by those in high authority, the Red Heron broke bonds. "Say but one word, Daughter of Quetzal', and all this shall never come to pass! Give me but permission to "
Waldo leaned farther over the hand-rail as they floated closer to an excited group of warriors, the central figure being Lord Hua himself, fiercely denouncing Aztotl and his son, Ixtli, as traitors to the common welfare, and calling upon all honest braves to mete forth befitting punishment.
Bruno, of course, was utterly in the dark as to what was being said, but he still held perfect faith in his copper-hued guide, and left all to the son of Aztotl. The Aztec brave appeared to be explaining his unusually protracted absence, for he proudly displayed the great grizzly pelt, then exhibited the spear-head from which protruded the tooth-marked wood.
Aided by the sort of freemasonry which naturally exists between lads of an adventurous nature, Waldo readily succeeded in picking up considerable information from the Aztec, even before broaching that all-important matter. Ixtli was the only son of a famed warrior and chieftain of the Aztecan clans, by name Aztotl, or the Red Heron.
With a low cry, Victo drew back a bit, weapon lowering as she recognised friend in place of enemy. "It is you, Aztotl?" she spoke, in mellow tones. "I thought did you remove the usual guards, this evening?" "The blame falls to my share, Sun Child," the Red Heron made answer, with a meekness strange in one of his build and general appearance, that of a king among ordinary warriors.
"Darest thou bar my path, Aztotl?" he cried, hoarsely. "Make way, I bid thee; make way, for I will see the Sun Children and " "Not so, my Lord Hua," coldly interrupted the master of guards, that warning palm still turned to the front.
Ere that brilliant retreat began, 'twould have taken close ranks for the body-guard to find standing-room upon the temple-top; but now Aztotl called for a division of his force, since there were four separate avenues of approach, of which the enemy was prompt to avail itself. "For the Sun Children, my brothers!" he cried, his voice rising even above that awful tumult and turmoil.
Go, else I sound the call, and my guard will take you in charge, just as they would any other rascally intruder." "Your precious son, for instance?" retorted the 'Tzin, viciously. "He came with one whom one of a different race from our own, Aztotl! A traitor in thy own family, yet thou darest hint at " Aztotl lifted a bent finger to his lips, sounding a shrill, far-penetrating whistle.
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