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Updated: June 1, 2025
Huanacocha gazed at his companion for several moments in silent admiration; then he exclaimed enthusiastically: "I have already told you twice this morning that you are a wonder, and I now say it for the third time you are a wonder, Xaxaguana, the possessor of the most astute and clever brain in the valley; and I foresee that, working together, you and I may achieve such dazzling results as we have scarcely yet dared to dream of.
"To be absolutely candid with you, friend Huanacocha, I think you were," rejoined Xaxaguana somewhat cynically. "Why did you do it?" Huanacocha stopped short in the middle of the road and looked his friend square in the eye. "Xaxaguana," said he, "when I was Chief of the Council of Seven it was in my power to do you several good turns and I did them.
How did you manage it, man, and so promptly too? Why it must all have happened within half an hour of your return home this morning." "It did," said Xaxaguana.
But how do you propose to bring about the result of which you have just spoken? It will be a slow and tedious process at best, and while it is being achieved many things may happen." "Nay," answered Xaxaguana, "it will not be nearly so lengthy a process as you seem to think. This is my plan."
I must confess that, personally, I am not altogether surprised; for when they returned from your house last night it occurred to me that they seemed to have suddenly grown very old and feeble; indeed I said as much when the news of their death was brought to me." "You did, did you?" retorted Huanacocha. "By our Lord the Sun, you are a wonder, Xaxaguana; nothing less!
In a word, then, I believe that it would be advantageous to you and to me and possibly also to the rest of the inhabitants of this valley if the present Inca were deposed, and I were made Inca in his place. The question is, how is the matter to be accomplished? If he were to die now, even as the Villac " "It would be the most unfortunate thing that could possibly happen," cut in Xaxaguana.
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