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Updated: June 20, 2025
Do you think there is any hope for him, mother? And he seemed so so " "He is gone with Ixtli, and Ixtli is true to the very core," Victo hastened to give assurance. "I would rather trust him than many another of thrice his years and warlike experience. Ixtli is true; ay, as true and tried as his father, Aztotl!" "Who loves you, mother, and would win "
"Don't work up a sweat for a little thing like that, old man. Of course we saw you were an Injun and ahem! I mean, how in time did you happen to catch hold of our lingo so mighty pat, laddy-buck?" "My brother means to ask who taught you to speak as we do, Ixtli?" amended Bruno, catching at the wished-for opportunity now it offered. "And who was that nice little gal with the yellow hair?
Ixtli apparently enjoyed the affair, much as a child might a successful game of I-spy, for he emitted occasional chuckles, and let fall soft whispers which, if caught by other ears, certainly would not have deeply benefited the fugitives when captured.
Just then a savage yell broke from the top of the temple, followed by a few fierce-sounding sentences, which Ixtli declared came from the Lord Hua, then adding: "He say kill if catch, but dat no! Come, white brother. Ixtli show how play fool dat dog; yes!" "All right, my hearty. Is it a break for the hills? I reckon I can break through. If not well, I'll leave some marks behind me, anyway!"
These are square or rectangular blankets made of ixtli, the strong fibre of the maguéy. Like the enaguas, they usually consist of two pieces, side by side, stitched together with some bright color. The fibre, which is gotten from the leaves partly by maceration, partly by beating, is spun in a primitive fashion.
Ixtli gazed keenly into first one face, then the other, plainly enough endeavouring to read the truth as might be expressed therein, as related to himself. What he saw must have proved fairly satisfactory, since he gave another bright smile, then spoke in really musical tones: "Good, brother, now! That more good, too!"
You don't say. Ixtli fool 'em easy!" Making not the slightest attempt to avoid the issue, the young Aztec stepped a little in advance of Gillespie, thus casting him into partial eclipse, speaking briskly, as he met the two Indians, only one of whom bore a light: "It is trouble for nothing, brothers. There is no sign here. If he saw aught, 'twas in a dream, I think. And now hark!"
"I'd far rather venture myself, and why not, pray?" as Waldo burst into an involuntary laugh. Then he turned upon Ixtli, a hand resting upon each shoulder while he gazed keenly into those lustrous dark orbs for a full minute in perfect silence. Then he spoke, slowly, gravely: "Can we trust you, friend? Would you sell the boy to whose arm you owe your own life, unto his enemies?
"Yes, white brother, go with Ixtli," came the hesitating reply; but then the Aztec caught one of Gillespie's hands, holding it in close contrast to his own brown paw, shaking his head doubtingly. "No like. Keen eye, dem people. Watch close. Find 'nother white skin bad!"
A most infernal scheme, yet the danger of which Bruno could readily recognise, together with the serious difficulty of refuting any such supernatural evidence. "Surely your people will not suffer a few dirty curs to do such horrible wrong to ladies like Why, Ixtli, even the gods you fellows bow the knee to in worship, ought to rise up in their defence!"
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