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Updated: June 9, 2025
Once inside the copse, and for the time feeling secure against observation, they hold a hasty counsel as to which step they ought next to take. From the sight of that oddly-shaped hill, and what Caspar remembers Naraguana to have said, they have no doubt of its being the same referred to by the old chief, and that the sacred town of the Tovas is somewhere beside it.
The incident, however, caused a rupture between the Tovas tribe and the Paraguayan Government, terminating the tiempo de paz, which had not since been renewed. More unsafe than ever would it have been for a Paraguayan to set foot on the western side of the river.
As on this same evening she sits by the shore of the lake, on the trunk of a fallen palm-tree, her fine form clad in the picturesque Indian garb, with her lovely face mirrored in the tranquil water, a picture is presented on which no eye could look, nor thought dwell, without a feeling of delight; and, regarding her thus, no one would believe her to be other than what she is the belle of the Tovas tribe.
Nothing strange in all this; nor do they looking down from the hill think it so. Instead, things are just as they should be and as Caspar anticipated they would. For it is now the midnight hour, and since red men must have rest as well as white ones, the Tovas have all retired to their beds or hammocks.
"Indeed!" simultaneously exclaim the others, with interest rekindled, Cypriano regarding him with earnest glance. "Yes, indeed, young masters," proceeds the gaucho. "The thing I now hold in my hand has once, and not very long ago, been in the hands of a Tovas Indian!" "A Tovas!" exclaims Cypriano, excitedly. "What reason have you for thinking so?" "The best of all reasons.
For it was Rufino Valdez who had been employed by the Dictator previously to approach her on his behalf. And now Ludwig Halberger beholds the base villain in company with the Tovas Indians his own friends, as he had every reason to suppose them riding side by side with the son of their chief! What can it mean?
Scarce has the ambuscade been set, when the trampling of horses heard down the defile tells of a cavalcade coming up, and presently the foremost files appear rounding an angle of rock. Dim as is the light, the horseman leading can be told to be the young Tovas cacique, while the one immediately in his rear is recognisable as Rufino Valdez.
I've seen some Tovas Indians with cheeks nigh as white as my own, and so have you, senoritos. As for my arms, legs, and body, they'll require a little browning, but as it so happens I've got the stuff to give it them.
He'll not find any one to oppose his will; which, as I take it, is to make this little paleface his wife, and our queen. Well, I can't help envying him; she's such a sweet thing. But won't the Tovas maidens go mad with jealousy! I know one that's Nacena " The dialogue is interrupted by a shout heard from one who rides near the front of the troop.
Even were there no other reason for his fearing to be found in that place, the act itself would make him liable to punishment possibly no less than death! For among the Tovas, as many other tribes of South American Indians infidels though they are called the tombs of their dead are held as sacred as those of the Spanish Christians who so designate them.
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