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Updated: June 13, 2025
"As I left the royal apartment, one of the female attendants came up and, putting her finger on her lip, signed to me to follow her. I did so, and she led me to the apartment where the Queen and Princess Amenche were awaiting me. "'You have left your friend safe, Cuitcatl? the queen said. 'The princess has told me the part she has taken in the affair.
None save two attendants, whom they took with them, knew that they had left; and should the usurper seek for them which, Cuitcatl agreed with me, is not likely to be the case, as he will have enough to occupy his time and thoughts it will be long before he can find whither they have gone.
We must get well away, as soon as we can." Roger threw aside the Spanish helmet. Cuitcatl took some of the plumes from his own headdress, and bound them round his head and, as soon as the bier was constructed, the little party started.
In the center was a bath, some seven feet square, with a stream of water running into it from the mouth of a grotesque animal's head. "Every apartment has its bathroom," Cuitcatl said. "The water runs for an hour after sunrise only, but it can be turned on at any hour.
Roger at once took off his gaudy attire, and was stained from head to foot with the contents of the jug, and then rubbed his hair with the liquid from the smaller vessel. Then he put on the peasant's clothes. "You will pass well, now," Cuitcatl said, heading him out in the moonlight, so that he could obtain a good view of him. "It is only your height that is against you.
His friend Cuitcatl and his promised bride were prisoners in Mexico, and he fought now to deliver them.
Roger and his friend first carried down the bundles of clothing, and then took up the rugs containing the heavy gold ornaments; Roger taking, in addition, the small parcel with the jewels. The attendants then took up their own bundles, and the whole party proceeded downstairs, and out into the garden. Cuitcatl led the way with the queen.
The others were, as he had expected, Cuitcatl and Bathalda. The former saluted him warmly. "Thank the gods you are free, Roger," he said. "I have a canoe close at hand for you. Bathalda will accompany you and the princess. I cannot leave. I am an Aztec, and shall fight until the last, with our brave young emperor."
In this way none here will know where you have gone. I will have the litters in readiness at a short distance from the palace, and you can then issue out by the garden gate, unobserved. I shall, of course, myself escort you." "What shall we take with us, Cuitcatl?" "I will get, in addition to those who carry the litters, five or six porters.
Telling the natives that they were to wait for his return, however long that might be, Roger proceeded to the palace. Avoiding the principal streets and squares, where his unusual height would attract attention, he passed unquestioned into the palace amid the throng of chiefs and nobles who were entering or leaving it, and made his way to the apartment of Cuitcatl.
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