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Updated: June 18, 2025
'Disloyal girl, he said; 'do you dare to set your lover before your country? Shame upon you, shameless daughter of our king. Why, it is in the blood as the father is so is the daughter. Did not Montezuma forsake his people and choose to lie among these Teules, the false children of Quetzal? And now this Otomie follows in his path.
And now! Now we came two fugitives from the vengeance of the Teules, I borne in a litter by four tired soldiers, while Otomie, the princess of this people, still clad in her wanton's robe, at which the women mocked, for she had been able to come by no other, tramped at my side, since there were none to carry her, and the inhabitants of the place cursed us as the authors of their woes.
So for three more days I lay in the cave of the mountains and Otomie tended me, and at the end of that time my state was such that I could travel in a litter, though for some weeks I was unable to set foot to the ground. On the fourth day we started by night, and I was carried on men's shoulders till at length we passed up the gorge that leads to the City of Pines.
Then I knew that this was the saddest and the most bitter of dreams that had been sent to mock me, for all the truth rushed into my mind. Losing my hold of Otomie, I fell back upon the bed and groaned aloud, and as I fell I saw the flush of shame upon her brow and breast. For this woman loved me, and thus my act and words were an insult to her, who could guess well what prompted them.
'What has befallen? she said. 'Where are my sisters? Oh! surely I have dreamed an evil dream. I dreamed that the gods of my forefathers were strong once more, and that once more they drank the blood of men. 'Your ill dream has a worse awakening, Otomie, I answered. 'The gods of hell are still strong indeed in this accursed land, and they have taken your sisters into their keeping.
A hero or an angel might find a path out of this tangle, but alas! I was neither the one nor the other, only a man afflicted as other men are with human weakness, and Otomie was at hand, and very sweet and fair.
Are you willing to marry him according to the custom of our land, and to answer for his faith with your own life? 'I am willing, Otomie answered quietly, 'if he is willing. 'In truth it is a great honour that you would do this white dog, said Cuitlahua.
Save some few tribes that lived in difficult places like ourselves, all Anahuac was in their power, and there was little to gain except hard blows in the bringing of a remnant of the people of the Otomie beneath their yoke, so they let us be till a more convenient season.
We escaped when death was at our door, for I told my husband that the people of the Otomie had true hearts, and would shelter us in our sorrow, and for his sake I, Otomie, disguised myself in the robe of a wanton and fled with him hither.
But it is of no account; everything is done with, all are dead, and my heart with them. Now eat, for you are weary. So I ate, and afterwards I cast myself upon the bed and slept. In the darkness I heard the voice of Otomie that said, 'Awake, I would speak with you, and there was that about her voice which stirred me from my heavy sleep. 'Speak on, I said. 'Where are you, Otomie?
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