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Still one day you may be emperor, and then we shall see how you will deal with the Teules, at least others will see though I shall not. But what is it now? Does Montezuma choose new wives? 'He chooses wives, but not for himself. You know, Teule, that your time grows short. Montezuma and the priests name those who must be given to you to wife.
'I went to the city of Tobasco, O glorious Montezuma. I found the Teule and brought him hither. Also I caused the high priest to be sacrificed according to the royal command, and now I hand back the imperial signet, and he gave the ring to a counsellor. 'Why did you delay so long upon the road, nephew?
Know, Spaniard, that I do this at great risk, for if we are caught, it is a chance but that I myself shall have to suffer those things from which I hope to rescue you. 'Be assured, Teule, answered the Spaniard, 'that if we should get safe away, we shall not forget this service. Save our lives now, and the time may come when we shall pay you back with yours.
Nor was it my phantasy alone, for when Montezuma had finished upbraiding me he chanced to look up, and his eyes falling on the mountain remained fixed there. 'Look now, Teule! he said, presently, with a solemn laugh; 'yonder lies the corpse of the nations of Anahuac washed in a water of blood and made ready for burial. Is she not terrible in death?
'You are not of our people, yet my heart goes out to such a man. And still smiling she left us. 'Who is that great lady? I asked of Guatemoc. 'That is my cousin Otomie, the princess of the Otomie, my uncle Montezuma's favourite daughter, he answered. 'She likes you, Teule, and that is well for you for many reasons. Hush! As he spoke the screen at the far end of the chamber was drawn aside.
Will you not hasten to take your share in the work, people of the Otomie, the work that knows no rest and no reward except the lash of the overseer and the curse of the Teule? Surely you will hasten, people of the mountains!
'Seated at your side. I cannot rest, so I am seated here. Listen. Many, many years ago we met, when you were brought by Guatemoc from Tobasco. Ah! well do I remember my first sight of you, the Teule, in the court of my father Montezuma, at Chapoltepec. I loved you then as I have loved you ever since. At least I have never gone astray after strange gods, and she laughed bitterly.
Then my heart told me that all your promises were false, and it has not lied to me. I welcome my death, for I have lived to know shame and defeat and torture, and to see my people the slaves of the Teule, but still I say that God will reward you for this deed. Then they murdered him in the midst of a great silence.
'Why must I be offered up, O prince? he cried, 'I who have been a faithful servant to the gods and to the Emperor. 'Because you dared to try to offer up this Teule, answered Guatemoc, pointing to me, 'without leave from your master Montezuma, and because of the other evils that you have done, all of which are written in this scroll.
'The description is good, he said at length, 'in all save one thing it does not say that this prisoner is the handsomest man in Anahuac. Say, Teule, why have your countrymen landed on my dominions and slain my people? 'I know nothing of it, O king, I answered as well as I might with the help of Guatemoc, 'and they are not my countrymen.
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