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Updated: June 13, 2025
"The gods have permitted me to return as I have returned; and you well know, Kamaiakan, that, except you use your art to banish me and restore Miriam, there is nothing else that can work a change." "Murder is not lawful, Semitzin; and to do as you desire would be an act not different from murder." "On my head be it, then!" exclaimed the princess.
"Would it be less a murder to send me back to nothingness than to let her remain there? Mine is the stronger spirit, and has therefore the better right to live. I ask of you only to do nothing. None need ever know that Miriam has vanished and that Semitzin lives in her place. I wear her body and her features, and I am content to wear her name also, if it must be so." Kamaiakan was silent.
"Kamaiakan told me that the Indians have a prophecy that a great lake will come back and make the desert fruitful, and that there are some who know the very place where the water will begin to flow." And here the hammock, with a final convulsion, gave birth to a beautiful young woman, in a diaphanous silk dress and a white lace mantilla.
"This Kamaiakan appears to be a remarkable personage: where did you pick him up?" inquired the professor. "It was rather the other way," Trednoke replied, taking one of his daughter's hands in his, and caressing it. "We are appendages to Kamaiakan.
Semitzin, meanwhile, brought him to the mule, and half mechanically he scrambled into the saddle, the chest being made fast to the crupper. Semitzin seized the bridle, and started up the gorge, Kamaiakan bringing up the rear. The lower levels were already filling with water, which came pouring out through the archway in a full flood, seemingly inexhaustible.
But do you beware of the vengeance of the gods, whose laws you have defied." "Let the gods deal with me as they will," replied the Aztecan. "A day of happiness with the man I love is worth an age of punishment." Kamaiakan made no answer, and the two rode forward in silence.
"I care nothing for the treasure, unless I may share it with him," she returned. "Since we spoke together beside the fountain, I have seen him. He looked upon me doubtfully, being, perhaps, perplexed because of these features of the child Miriam, which I am compelled to wear." "Truly, princess, what is he, that you should think of him?" muttered Kamaiakan. "He satisfies my heart," was the reply.
"The other self, who now sleeps, knows of him," replied the ancient Indian. "He is a well-looking youth, and I think he has a desire towards her we call Miriam." "And does she love him?" inquired the princess. "A maiden's heart is a riddle, even to herself," said Kamaiakan. "But there is a sympathy that makes me feel her heart in my own," rejoined Semitzin.
In a few moments he heard her light footfall, and, facing about, confronted her. She continued to advance until she was within arm's reach of him: then she paused, and gazed steadfastly in his face. He was the first human being, save Kamaiakan, that she had seen since her eyes closed upon the world of Tenochtitlan, three hundred years before. The young man looked upon her with manifest surprise.
"It was thus that we rode before, Kamaiakan," remarked the younger of the two travellers. "Yonder bright star stood as it does now, and the hour of the night was the same. But this shaking of the earth makes me fear for the safety of that youth. The sands of the desert may have swept over him; or he may have perished in the hills."
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