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When he did he found" to his surprise that she was not nearly as shocked as he had expected. She was, in common -with all Atzlans, so used to tales of sud den risings and fallings in the fortunes _ of gamesters that her brother's losses seemed unworthy of much anxiety, for when his luck turned would he not win it all back? But when Eric, somewhat , piqued at her indifference-the passiveness of a woman resting in her lover's arms told her of Ka1 rail's last and most des perate wager the color fled from her cheeks, leaving them ashen in the moon light, and with terror in her eyes she " threw her arms wildly about his neck, crying: "I am lost! I am lost!" Not for an instant did she discredit tile legality of the transaction; its full meaning and horror were plain to her, and for a moment she forgot her lover's power, seeing only the awful, unavoida ble fate before her-to be torn from his arms, a victim to the lust of a depraved man-not even a wife-for the fatal wager, so hastily made, gave her to bim as a chattel. A convulsive shudder shook her frame, and her clasp upon Eric's neck wad like the clutch of a drowning woman as she clung to him in her fear. But only for a moment. Then, like Kulcan, she turned to him for help and strength. "You will Bave me, my darling, 1 know; bot, oh, I was so frightened that 1 forgot you for a moment. Yes, I was frightened, but now I'm not. It has gone-all my terror-and my noble love will keep his own unharmed." And in a moment more it really seemed ? as if she had dismissed the matter from her mind, for she said: "Now take me home, dear, for it is growing late, and my eyes are heavy with sleep." And Eric did, and then lay awake un til far into the night trying to solve the problem CHAPTER. YUL THE TOSS OP THE DICE. Cbalpa's success in entangling Kulcan in his snares was not wholly the result of a well laid scheme. It was largely due *o circumstances. The young priest's suddenly developed taste for gambling was simply the foundation upon which Chalpa based his villainous plot, and he succeeded beyond his expectations when he induced Kulcan to wager his sister. Chalpa did not love her; he was proba bly incapable of the pure passion. Ho wanted her merely because he felt that she would strengthen his claim to the vacant chair of office. Many of the priests and wealthy citi zens frequented M3 rooms, which were - large and comfortable, and were ren dered attractive by a liberal dispensation of aitsi. The game which was played -xBaabnt one of many ancient forms of dice throwing.. ; **. , ^The players satorrfche floor around a Sqpare stone tablet and made wagers . upon the odd or even numbers on the4 dice as tliey fell out of "an oblong box: . yrpbn the "table. The dicebox had a round^bpening at each end, and was balanced upon the apex of a prism shaped piece of .wood! This permitted the .manipulator, Chalpa, to throw the dice but of either end, as he wished. The dice ,were small cubes of baked. clay, num bered like modern dice, and the game when played fairly was one of even chances. But, as Gilbert suspected, Chalpa did not play fairly, and his de vice, a simple,-almost clumsy oiie, would have been easily detected in a gambling I room in any rivilized community. ! "When he wished to cheat he substi tuted for the box another, with a parti tion dividing it diagonally into two parts, thus: . Apcrta^^ ? There was a set of eleven dice in each compartment, the odd numbers predom inating in one side and the even ones in the other, so that he could throw out on the table the proper set to win the largest of the wagers, as the players placed their money on the odd or even side of the table. He used this false box only in the presence of the more inex perienced or intoxicated and therefore ?careless players, and he was extremely skillful in the sleight of hand necessary to secrete it quickly under his long white robe. I Kulcan, however, even after" he sus pected him of cheating, was unable to detect him in the act, for he imagined that he deftly changed the dice instead of the box, and so when he reported to Eric, after watching Chalpa awhile, he confessed that he had been mistaken and was unable to explain the operation. ; The next day Eric informed Iklapel that he required a thousand taos of sil ver and asked him to obtain it for him from the subterranean treasury. The old mau readily consented, and request ing Gilbert to accompany him led the way to the room beneath the temple. The treasure vault of Atzlan. He allowed Gilbert but a moment to look about him,'and went down a steep ly inclined and devious passage which, from its many side openings, showed that there was a labyrinth beneath the * city, and which ended in a round cham ber, the treasure vault of Atzlan. It was a room fifty feet wide, hewn out of the solid rock. Iklapel held the light aloft, .and Eric saw that the floor was covered -with heaps of gold ingots, statues and .images, vases, bowls and rude orna ments, strange in form and of inesti mable value, piled together In rich con frghwo. T Some of the statues were of life beautifully modeled, and there mysteriously shaped objects of ax ceremonial use; chairs, or rather s tables, tripods, urns, platters, cups, jriers, censers, chains, suns, moons, i flower work, armlets and anklets, i solid, heavy material and skillful v manship. Along the side of the chamber ranged three rows of urns filled gold dust, a kingly store of itself, equaled the wildest fantasy of the bian story teller and made Eric al fear that he was dreaming. Arnon these treasures Iklapel picked his " and Gilbert followed him until th man paused before a heap of silver and lifting several passed them to saying: "Six of these are all that you req They are worth a thousand taos more, but we need not be partier It is years since these things } touched. We do not have as n need of them as we once had, it seei "How long have these treasures 1 accumulating?" inquired Eric. ?.Many thousands of years. In ancient times we had twenty tem] and these statues adorned them; utensils and furniture were used the:n, and the people yearly broi new and rare gifts; but as our race dined they were gathered here, and 1 they have remained." "Bot are they safe here, with guardr "Very safe, indeed, for no one kn except ourselves of their existence o this chamber. Of course our pe* know of the maze of underground j sages, but they fear to penetrate th and the passage leading to this roos well concealed, as you observed. . we will return with our burden bel it grows late." And the aged pr moved up the dark way with the hj while Gilbert carried the silver ingot It was no mean load; they weig many pounds, and his arms ached w! they reached the sacred chamber t climbed np into daylight. That night Eric went with Enlcai Chalpa's dwelling for the first and o time, taking the silver with him. T! arrived late, and as they entered he loud and boisterous voices in ea clamor. There were four half dru ni priests squatting around the tablet stone eagerly watching the tilting of dicebox. Their uproar drowned i noise that Kui can and Gilbert's entrai had made, and Chalpa, with his back ward the door, did not perceive them he sat waiting for the bets to be mad? sneering smile upon his face and hand over the end of the box. He sb ed as Knlcan seated himself at his si saying: "Cbalpa, I have come with the th sand taos to once more, and for the 1 time, test my. luck and yovrs. Berne ber the agreement-all my losings a my sister against a thousand taos." Cha?na turned pale, stole a scai glance at Eric and faltered. He fou himself in a difficult position. He fea: Eric most mightily and felt that 1 methods were suspected if not imo1 to him; but he dared not hesitate, and a moment he had resolved to allow K can to regain his wealth* or seem to least, by the same device whereby had lost it. He smiled and said, wi well assumed heartiness: N "It is well, my Hulean. I wished give you an opportunity to recover, . possible, what you had lost It is a fi bargain." "Then I wager you now on the ? dice five hundred taos against my s! . teri" cried Hulean, placing three inge on the tablet. A couple of other playe laid wagers also upon the odd side, ai Chai pa tilted the box. One glance showed that Eulcan lu won. Chalpa's face was serene, ho\ ever, as he replaced the dice, and tl young priest again wagered five hun dre taos against his lost property. He tilt? the box and shot the dice out upon tl tablet once more, and Hulean won agaii He had freed his sister and regained hi estates, and now for revenge! With look full of meaning into Chalpa's erm eyes, he cried: "Once more, five hundred against fiv hundred taos on th? even numbers !" Chalpa did not dare ref use nor did h dare cheat, yet five hundred taos was a immense sum for him, successful thong! he had been in his operations. He fe! Gilbert's keen searching gaze upon him and he feared to look upi His nervou fingers shook the box, and the dice rat tied. "Come," cried Hulean. J'You do no fear the test now. You have taken th same wager before from mer "I fear nothing," the gambler aa swered. "I take the bet!" "v The other players also placed smallei sums upon the board ?pon the even side and the trickster tipped the box. Th< eleven clay cubes rolled across the stone with a clinking rattle, and the eager ey et counted quickly. Hulean had again won. Chalpa had lost the fruits of sev eral years of swindling and usury. Gilbert had seen that the odd dice had come from the left and the even ones from the right end of the dicebox and formed his conclusions, but he refrained from announcing his discovery, or rather his suspicions, and when Chalpa had made over to Hulean the sum of his winnings they withdrew, followed by the other players, who were delighted with Hulcan's good fortune. Chalpa, on being left alone, threw himself upon the floor in a savage frenzy of rage and despair, and then and there resolved to kill not only Hulean and Gil bert, but old Iklapel, for he knew the secret of the treasure vault and sur mised how the silver had been obtained. Although he would have feared to touch it himself, he realized that Iklapel would give it willingly to Eric for any]purpose, and he saw all of his hopes arid plans vanish into air with a heart so full of bitter hate that he could not vent, bul wandered in the canyon until nearly dawn. When he came home he had per fected a scheme of revenge diabolical fa? its ingenuity and hellish in its completo ness, to which, from that day forth, lil devoted all his thoughts and his tirelesfl, sleepless, unresting energies. But Gilbert did not suspect this feel * ing, although he observed that Chalp* was endeavoring to gain his liking by 4 careful attention, but he suspected som* purpose much less serious. However, he did not allow it to disturb him, anil his thoughts at this time were too full of work and plans to ad mit of much else. More than a year sud a half hui passed since his arrival, and in the Itu? few months he had done much work. He had thrown a strong dam across the stream, built a stone mill, made the ma* chinery for it in the old German method of wood and silver, and waa almost ready to turn the water into the sluice nrav nnon- - the silent wheel. But A f?W m details remained to perfect tue mece ina and astonish the Atzlans by sight of the river grinding their a He had established the knowledge t art of glazing pottery, the making candles; he had improved the looms i added modern devices, perfected tl stills, taught them how to prese fruits, smoke their meats, and in a h dred other ways effected great chan and found the people eager to ad labor saving methods. Bathe wished to make still grec changes. He had found in some of strata of the canyon walls iron in gi plenty, and he was so constantly hi per ed hy the need, of this m dispensa 'metal that he had begun the ere c ti or a furnace and ordered the extraction a large amount of ore. The snpervis of these operations completely filled days with arduous labor. He had ec meneed his furnace with modest ide ' intending to smelt his iron in the cn manner which Livingstone found natives using in Central Africa-in si pie conical clay furnaces with rude I lows, but producing iron of such a sn rior quality that the savages refused use the English metal, alleging tha was rotten. But his ideas had expand and he had erected a stone struct) with a complicated blasting apparat that filled him with great hopes as watched it nearing completion and mi him eager as a hoy to see it in foll a perfect operation. Lela would come to him and find h so occupied and intent upon his dat that sometimes he feared she wot think him cold and neglectful, and t so tenderly fearful of disturbing or i noying him that the feeling showed her face as she hovered, about him. these times he would look into her e] with such deep, earnest devotion tl the would creep up to him, wind I arms about bis neck, with ardently w< shiping eyes and clinging kisses, fox few momenta and then say demure! "Oh, 1 most not bother my darling. 1 is so busy, my great minded hero," a make a motion as it to leave. Th they would waste a half hour more loving dalliance, when she would so deni y assume an air of stern displeasu and bid him to go to work while Bhe i .tended to her duties. These moments came often, too, dt ing the summer days, when only his t sistants in all Atzlan were busy and work, and they made the hours of sc imposed toil shorter and pleasanter. Sha took the fondest interest in ever thing he did, and she had, too, mai plans of her own for the education ai advancement of her sex in Atria which were the outcome of her love ai the knowledge obtained from Eric. H aptitude for learning amazed him ; times; it seemed so phenomenal in 01 whose life had been passed in such i environment. But in truth the Atzk mind was in some such state as was tl pagan world at the time of Christ. Lil children the Atzlans listened, believii all that they heard, and desirous to en ulate the people who had learned i much they watched all of Gilberta ei terprises with a vague wonder and ling expectancy. Upon the day that Gilbert was to stai the machinery of the mill the entii populace gathered at the riverside. .1 all the vast crowd standing there wai' ing there was not one incredulous ol server, not one skeptical doubter of th success of the project, as there woul have been in any other city on earti perhaps, but every man-felt confiden that its success was assured. They wer there not to test nor criticise, but to se the triumphant beginning of a new era Gilbert did not feel the usual tremor of the inventor thrill his frame be fon this audience, for h? knew that if tb machinery failed to respond t| the wa tor's power the people would not be dis appointed or doubtful; their ignoranct of mechanics assured that, and any ex planation would have sufficed them But to make it certain he had tested i the evening before and knew that every thing would work to his satisfaction and he mounted the stone steps leading to the sluiceway with a confident smile accompanied by Lela, Brlapel, Kulcai and several of the principal citizens, Standing there beside the water gate, with his hand upon the long wooden bar which raised it, he turned to thc multitude of upturned faces and said: "My brothers, when I lift this gate you will begin to live in a new age. The past will be no longer with yon. It will do in one day more than all your women, and they will rest and teach your children. We will make the river weave our cloth and water our fields and do other things for us in times to come. In the land from whence I come the elements are bound to our service and they toil for os night and day. And so they shall toil for you, for we shall go on and on until we have here in our city all that other lands have to make life pleasant and toil less ardu ous." Then Bxlapel stepped forward, and after waiting for the noisy outcry to subside spoke to them. He said: "Our brother is right He has told me many things of the fair land he lived in before he came to us. In that land there is no night, for they tum it into day with many sons and moons which they have made for themselves. They have mad? great monsters that work for them unceasingly; they can speak to each other afar off, even when they can not se?' one another; they make wood and gold and silver talk; they walk upon the water and under it, and they fly through the air like birds; they kill their enemies with their eyes and with thunder. We are glad that our brother bas come to us. He is Quetzal, the long awaited, the restorer of Atzlan." This speech of the aged high priest was greeted with tumultuous applause, but Kulcan's sharp eyes detected around Chalpa a group whose silence and pe culiar looks denoted that there was some feeling among a few inimical to Gilbert and his ideas. He noted it with a mental resolve to investigate its mean ing, but it passed from his mind a mo ment later as Gilbert raised the gate and the water rushed down the sluiceway and poured over the wheel. For an instant it seemed to resist, as though the long ages of superstition, barbarism and ignorance were loath to relax their dead grasp, and then it slowly turned with a majestic motion and be gan to revolve easily and gracefully under the steady flow. Gilbert ran into the mill while t tie people stood in silent awe outside, and he saw the yellow grain pour out upon the stones, and in a few moments the meal, rich and tempting, appeared, and he called them all with a glad, triumphant shout to come and see it. They crowded in with rather timor ous looks and gazed wonderingly upon the moving wheals and the golden mea] pouring into the bins in steady streams, and they voiced their thanks most heart ily. It was a touching sight indeed to Eric and to Lela, for it meant so much to them, with their minds filled, as they were, with plans for the good of the peo ple of Atzlan. That night they feasted, a merry gath ering, and the principal viand was bread and cakes made from the new meal. It ? was delicious, perfect, and for a long time it was regarded by the people as almost sacred, but the steady outpour from the mill ?noon familiarized them Arith the product of its machinery, and as it entirely abolished the use of the laborious mortars and grinding stones it made the lives of the women less toil ?nma. Thia made him more of a favor lie coan ever among tho women, am* ??vt Bari, the wife of Lis tah, idolized him. She came with her grain to the mill fre quently and praised Eric's good deeds to the men in charge until they tired, of her garrulity. Lis tah had disappeared and secluded himself in order to fast, pray and be come "epsn," or purified, by isolation from mankind, bat where he '. had gone was a mystery that perplexed these two yoong men. Bari lifted enough meal for two, and they believed she was supply ing her husband with food, yet they could not detect her taking it to him. It was the custom to "tempt, annoy and disturb any "epeu" seeker in order to test bis strength, and they desired to discover bia whereabouts, but they failed, for garrulous as she waa she could hold her tongue when she wished. It was while they were plying her with vexatious questioning that they were overheard by Gilbert, who was surprised to fini that Listah had taken up his yow as soon as he had laid away his crutches, and drawing the old wom an aside he asked her to tell him where her husband was hiding, promising to keep her secret carefully. . Bari looked at him with a knowing smile and re plied: "Quetzal knows full well where his servant Listah, hides, waiting for the day that is to come when he will be needed. Why ask me, the old woman, when he knows his servant is under his feet, down in the dark halls beneath us, becoming purified and perfect?' '. I take food to him from your mill every night, but he has not seen the "Sun for many days." From this Eric readily divined that old Listah had taken refuge in the un derground passages that were .so. gen erally avoided by the people. He won dered if Bdapel waa aware of th? priest's retreat, but he came to the conclusion that Listah had probably discovered some opening in one of the remote pas sages and remained near his base of daily supplies. He had certainly chosen a most secluded place to perform his vows, and he hoped he would be undis turbed. 1 have said that Eric and his assistants, were the ou ly active workers in Atzlan during the long sani mer days. Every hour had ita duties, and bis labors - kept him awake far into the night He was compiling an Atzlan dictionary, study ing the an ci cut TU cord a, making a col lection of the fauna and'flor* of .the.can- ' yon, making sketches of the people and their costumes, with notes upon their habits and customs; teaching Lela and Eltza the English language and (he art of reading and writing dnriug intervals in his regular occupations pf furnace building, mining, milling and curing the few ills of a generally healthy popu lace. , He wore the Atzlan' costume, for his own clothes had long ago become rags, and he felt himself as thorough an Atz lan as any mau in the city, and when he saw the autumn com? again and the harvest feasts were,held he felt all the joy of a native. The people were more lively; they held games and weird dances every day, which interested him intense ly in their esoteric significance, and the prospect was very satisfactory to him and to Lela and Iklapel. That his com ing had been of immense benefit to the. people he could see, and he felt a swell-, ing of pride at the fact which was only quelled by the thought of what he could have accomplished with Detter .facilities. He felt no desire to return to civilized life; he was willing to devote several years to the work of converting this city of the stone age into a.modern borough with all its improvements.- '^ith iron aa his servant everything 'oar, possible, andina fewd?ysTiron wouid be forth coming. Then for machinery,, steam, - electricity! Meanwhile he had accomplished won ders. Hundreds of labor saying devices benefited the city; candles, soap, glazed pottery, spinning wheels, improved looms, beer, yeast, pulley hoists ahd many other valuable fruits of civilization had been introduced... While he was fin ishing his furnace be had made molds for casting plowshares, harrows, anvils, grates, axes, hammers and other imple ments of cast steel, and be viewed the Brand* and ?|| Beautiful J7/M CLIKEBEB. j^j^ all dhSfoni ' For 1893 ve bare comb!: tLful and appropriate poeti VICK'S FLORAL Gun? a s tains Colored Flatei of .tis, Pansies, Cannu, sweetest and most prolific a favorite last summer, ne good things. Names sind Plants, Bulbs, etc f?enc for only 10 cents _JAMES 'S Doors, Sash, VilR ~ J-, 1 ? ' ? L?M^MaMasMj I ED ll 1' il ll il 11 i' il ir II II II II ?I ll ll ll ll wm outlook with supreme satisracnon. ms iron works were some distance from the city-down in ?the canyon-where he had discovered the remains of ancient smelt ing furnaces forgotten long ages since and almost buried in the debris of the shaly cliffs. Remains like these have since been discovered in other parts of the region and show the facilities which the prehistoric races possessed for smelt ing and casting ores. The Atzlans had traditions only of the times when their forefathers mined and worked their ores. He had built as nearly perfect a Besse mer furnace as he could with his mate rials, and it promised great results. He had erected a stone dwelling for himself outside the city walls in a wood ed spot facing the river. On the ap proach of autumn he moved into it with all his belongings. It had three rooms, with modern fireplaces, and windows with glass of a poor quality, but a home product The walls were hung with the great, gorgeously colored Atzlan blan kets, and furs covered the antique pave ment bf the floor-a treasure rifled from an old portion of the city. Ik lapel had long before assigned to him a body servant named Jan-ila, a dark, active lad of twenty, Aineo's only brother, who cared for his wants with pious zeal. Jan-ila-or "Johnnie," as Eric was fond of calling him-slept in one of the smaller rooms, his master in another, while the larger apartment served as a general office, dining and council room. Jan was so apt a pupil that he outstripped both Kulcan and Iklapel in his knowledge of mechanics, arts and language under Eric's tuition, and of modern ideas he was a most eager im biber. All of Gilbert's reforms and improve ments had been accomplished without in any manner usurping the functions which Iklapel exercised 'pending the election of a new governor. He had al I most entirely left his priestly duties to Kulcan, who performed them with a unity born of increasing distrust of the efficacy of the religion of his fathers. This the crafty Chalpa had observed, and he used it as a pretext for,fomenting the fears of the priests. .He.'.pain ted in-j, i strong, fervid colors, and ^i^h * potent^ logic, the decay of tlijrtBtoK?(m^s?ri^? the downfall of prie^^^^^in".i;hp-loss>j of their fat livings. *a their fears nt every . o~ta^?nity>, By these forceful pleas that he ha?j?ready formed a fair!/ strong followings Familiarity with Eric Had lessened their awe while it had increased theil admiration of him. They were-already willing to abandon thefr belief in bis divinity, and were beginning to realize that instead of a bciug from another world he was a man like themselves. The events which now occurred aided Chalpa's plans and strengthened his po sition as a candidate for the governor ship. Both Iklapel-and Kulcan were aware of a growing feeling Hmong the priests in favor of Chalpa's candidacy, but they did not believe that he could gain adherents enough to affect the re sult of the election, which was to occur in the early spring, a week before the feast of the Katun. Eric and Iklapel had determined to divest this feast of its horrible, sacrificial, murderous char acter, and the old- priest's powers were all bent in this direction while he left the electioneering to Kulcan. . All of the younger priests could be counted upon to favor his advanced views, but only a few of the elder could be expected to depart from a time hon ored and powerfully potent religious custom. While only a few of them had witnessed the last Katun feast, fifty-two. years before, yet the barbaric rite had many firm adherents. 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