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Updated: June 13, 2025
The garden extended westward, and was quite a spacious enclosure: one not familiar with its winding paths might easily lose himself there on a dark night. But Kamaiakan knew where he was going, and the way thither. He now stalked along more swiftly, taking one turn after another, brushing aside the low-hanging boughs, and passing the loveliest flowers without a glance.
"There's Kamaiakan, who's dead; and Miriam Trednoke, who has been out of her mind, but she's got over it now, I guess; and I, Harvey Freeman." "My daughter!" exclaimed General Trednoke. "My boy!" cried Professor Meschines. "Well, thank God we've found you, and that some of you are alive, at any rate!"
Ah, if your Miriam were here, I would not fear to have him choose between us!" With these words, Semitzin stepped across the threshold of the crypt, and vanished in its depths. The Indian, still dizzy and faint, knelt on the rock without, bowed down by sinister forebodings. Several minutes passed. "She has perished!" muttered Kamaiakan.
But there are some things that I do not know; and it is for that I have been bold to summon you." "What can I tell you that can be of use to you in this present life, Kamaiakan, when all whom we knew and loved are gone?" "To you only, Semitzin, is known the place of concealment of the treasure which, in the old times, you and I hid in the desert.
Then But what is it you wish to do with this treasure, Kamaiakan?" "It belongs to your race, princess, and was hidden that the murderers of Montezuma might not seize it. I was bound by an oath, after the peril was past, to restore it to the rightful owners. But our country remained under the rule of the conquerors; and my life went out.
"Why do you not call him my father, Kamaiakan?" interposed the other. Besides, are not Miriam and I united by the thread of descent?" "Something of the spirit that is you dwells in her also," said the Indian. "And does she know of it?" "At times, my princess; but only as one remembers a dream." "I wish I might converse with her and instruct her in the truth," said the princess.
"The power is yours, Kamaiakan: it is well to argue, when with a word you can banish me forever! Yet what if I were to say that, unless you consent to the thing I desire, I will not show you where the treasure lies?" "Princess Semitzin!" exclaimed the Indian, "remember that it is not against me, but against the gods, that you would contend. The gods know that I have no care for treasure.
Besides, I'm too busy to think of marriage, and not not old enough!" At this tour de force, the general laughed softly, and finished his coffee. An old Indian, somewhat remarkable in appearance, with shaggy white hair hanging down on his shoulders, stepped forward from the room where he had been waiting, and removed the cup. "No letters yet, Kamaiakan?" asked the general, in Spanish.
"What's that about Semitzin?" inquired Freeman. "I'm not aware that I knew any such person." "Kamaiakan!" repeated the other, raising her voice, and not hearing Freeman's last words. Kamaiakan was nowhere to be seen. Both Freeman and she had supposed that he was following on behind the mule; but he had either dropped behind, or had withdrawn somewhere.
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