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The blast furnaces bad proved suc
cessful; men wer? even, now grinding
the row axes to* an edge with intense
eagerness and "satisfaction, and every
^ozielpf* Eric's castings had turned out
. perfect, much to his delight It was
i midwinter before they were finished,
' and his assistants had worked indoors
and converted one part of the great tene
; ment into a huge factory, where the
; *crash bf hammers upon anvils filled the
air with a cheerful din, and the great,
dim room, with its cobwebbed rafters
: black with the smoke of ages, was peo
pled with grimyjigures hurrying here
; and there in the glaro of the forges. In
.'. qnisitive, curious Atzlans crowded about
: the doors, wrapped in their blankets and
' furs, and cheered their fellow citizens,
who worked not for wages, but for the
benefit of their kind, .under the tutelage
of the strange visitant from the skies.
.Great things were prophesied for Atzlan
in the coming spring hythe gossips of
:H&e rity.
0- . ' ! i night Eric sat at his'rude
tu" " .Jan-ila lay stretched on a
"' pile s: ?.. . fore the fire, with his back
to ii. n e.tn dog. when Iklapel en
-tere? ^'i^.thior. The old priest was en
r .'velor- 1 ?i 'i colored blanket, and as he
temi.-.. -I hi.; fur head covering and seat
ed h"r: si !f ::pon ono of the benches by
the r.".? ile said':
- VTIv r?vve Cy fast and thick to the
norla. ri .a- spring will come early."
. "lt .. ..'I Ur welcome,'* replied Eric. _
"A} . a:: i by none more joyfully than
me," J. Av.-red Iklapel.
1 * Ye v : \. ii I ?be stormy," spoke up Jan?
ila; "v - stormy than ever spring was
before . ; A: Jan."
"Ko ? i yon know that?" asked Eric,
with fi le smile. "Where did you
-gain-y ? v. rather wisdom?"
"1 L .? v heard, much," he answered,,
sitting >>. "and 1 have held my tongue
becaus .-. t:ot meet that a boy should
speak 1 r.a..' his father, but 1 know that
Chalpn . rr.; tl: ut there will be no Katoa,
and he ...I::? daily to the priests and
sometii . -1 > . i hors as well. He is plot
ting rr -a. I. Tor ho walks abroad at
"night, v .? i.:.:fhe is. Ah, he distrusts
. me, an: y r Jan-ila, the water rat, has
crept i i enough many and many a
time lo i.rar bis words of hate and
treache ? I remember the look his face
wore cr ?he day you saved my sister,
and J k; \ he li?tes and fears our Quet
,_zal W V i know not, except that he
' hates al? .. : tigs good and loves darkness.
' ?Tod \ j.s 1 was hunting, along the
cliffs i 1. ..il voices, and walking softly,
ia the li .'..! snow I came dose to one of
the old !: ::::c3 up there where no one
dwella Tho voices' were within, loud
and angry. ? heard Chalpa speak. He
said that unless we had a sacrifice we
could hold no Katun feast; that he who
opposed the Katun sacrifice was a foe to
Atzlan and should die. Then there was
disputing, but he silenced it and de
clared that the new governor must be of
the old religion-a believer in the death
SP ? - ai ??? '4 ?*?
There wero- ?._ _
i,-Bela, Qnas?TlJalii-piBicTB?rf-"
z??Vai_^L>rt-* ?eia, the hunchback, were
among them-the oldest of our fathers
and they silently went down in the
twilight like murderers."
Upon closer questioning Jan-ila, whose
memory was very remarkable, repeated
the debate verbatim, and it was serious
enough to cause Iklapel and Eric to look
grave and anxious.
> " What can we dor the latter in
quired.
Old Iklapel gazed into the fire for sev
eral minutes, then answered:
?I am in doubt, my brother. It is too
soon to announce our plans or proclaim
our views to the people. They are not
readyyet. But Chalpa is gaining ground,
I can see that, and ha can cause os much
trouble. I know not what to do."
.i "EUI him!" cried Jan-ila*; looking at
Eric. "Elli him as you did the snake
and the great beast in the woods! Then
he will no longer trouble yon. "
In the midst of his- 6peech - Jan-ila
started and sprang noiselessly . to the
door. He peered up and down, across
the moonlit space between the house and
the river, and turning to those within,
whispered:
'I heard a sonnd. Some one was lis
tening at the door." .
As he spoke Eric saw a shadow., pass
the window on the other side. . Iklapel
had heard nothing, but Jan-ila was con
vinced that some one had been spying,
and that one he believed to be Chalpa
Iklapel soon rose to go, saying:
"It is near to midnight, and old men
deed more sleep than young *ones."
And wrapping his blanket tightly
about him started forth, declining Jan
ila scoffer of his" company.
CHAPTER IX
nt CHALPA'S BANDS.
H
re they released it with a Um <*t*
the air.
Now Iklapel and Kulcan hud con
ceived a plan which delighted them,
both beyond measure, and their thoughts
ran in this wise: Instead of a.Katun
feast of horrors, bloody sacrifices and
dread sights that brutalized the people
d made them cruel and hard hearted,
would have a marriage feast! And
bridegroom would bo the wonder
worker, Quetzal, and the bride Lela, the
daughter of Atzlan. The audacity of
this schemS staggered them at first, but
they grow familiar with the thought as
they pondered it, and-were pleased with
themselves mightily. .But it was a long
time before they'approached Eric, upon
he subject.
"vTheii they did they were rornnea
with many grave reasons and convinc
ing arguments with which io overcome
all possible objections, but to their bw>
prise he fell in with their vi?ws at once.
But he said: "
"Not I, ont Lela, must decide the
question, my friends. Let us go to her
and ask her now.^
They went to her apartment, and aa
they entered she perceived that they had
come upon some more than ordinary er*
? rand. She paled as she gazed upon their.
I serions faces, and looked from one to
another with questioning glances.
Taking her hand Eric spoke:
"My Lela, Iklapel and Kui can have
discovered, 1 know not how, that we
love one another, and they wish to have,
instead of a human sacrifice at the feast
of the Katun, a marriage feast, to make
it a day of gladness and rejoicing, and
they have.chosen us as the victims. I
have left the decision to you." .
She hid her face upon his shoulder,
and they had np other answer. In fact
when she raised her head they had both
'departed and gone about .their business.
In the midst of his happiness Eric was
seized with a feeling of insecurity, ?
forebodiug of evil, which was in truth
.the prelude to a period of illness. After
battling with it for awhile he resolved
to-avail himself of the only means of
reaching the outside world* by releasing
his long captive carrier pigeon Many
a time its soft eyes had petitioned for
freedom, many a time he had almost
opened the wicker cage, but had checked
the generous impulse, determined -to
await the hourjjf need. Somehow it
seemed to bim that the time bad now
arrived.
He wrote the message upon a piece of
squirrel skin, the parchment of the
priests, and fastened it to the pigeon's
tatt. The bird looked bright and well;
it.seemed eager to be off as it gazed at
him with ita head on one side and strug
gled to free its .wings. Lela took it
from his hands, for it had long been ber
pet, .and covering it with her scarf she
carried it up to the temple top where no
one would .observe them. Here they
released it with a toss into the air.
Straight as an arrow in its flight, for
five hundred feet it darted np, then be*
gan to circle in ever widening sweeps,
faster and faster, ever higher, ever
stronger as its wings gained power,
until af last, high in the firmament, it
passed beyond their vision, and the can
yon wall shut it out They stood si
lently watching until it had gone from
view; then Eric said with a sigh of
satisfaction:
"He's well off 1 Now if no hawk seizes
him, nor hunter bag him, he will bo in
San Francisco in a few days."
"And then?".8he raquired dubiously.
"Then? Well, then in a few more
days perhaps you wil?rsee, other men of
my kind, many ^0?. them, maybe-and
maybe, too, you will find some one far
moro to your liking." He looked slyly
alher. but she scorned, to reply. She
she was superstitious and feared it wonld
trouble him,.
The very next day the council of the
Katun was called. Its duty was to select
a victim and arrange for the great feast
It was composed of twelve priests, the
office being hereditary, the only heredi
tary office1 in Atzlan. Some of them
were old, but the majority were men
under thirty. Chalpa was the chief of
this council and one of the three who
cast the fatal lot to decide which of the
twenty maidens selected hythe council
should die.
The council ' was in secret session
eighteen days; no one knew its decision,
not even the high priest, and the result
of its d?lib?rations wonld not.be known
until a week before the feast This
would be the week of the election? and
the public-mind was in a ferment; all
pursuits were neglected, and the people
spent" their time discussing these two
topics from morn until night Chalpa
was seen everywhere, using all the arta
of the politician; the priests were busy
at all hours; the maidens, with fearful
eyes and blanched cheeks, wept and
wove shrouds for themselves, for no one
knew who would be taken.
In the midst of all Eric became ill
from overwork and lay for ten days in a
delirious fever, tenderiy.nnrsed by Lela
and Jan-Ha, but unconscious of their
presence. She rarely left his . bedside,
administering to him the medicines he
had placed at his side-aa he had in
structed her when he felt the feyer gain
ing, upon him-and, giving him the food
that Jan-ila prepared; hanging over him
in tender brooding when he slept, or
standing at his side in terrified agony
when he raved in ids delirium-talking
to those demons whom he saw, she
thought, menacing his life.
Her sweet face was the first he saw
when the fever left him, and he opened
his eyes with speculation and reason in
them. He lay there looking at her for
awhile. She sat at the foot of his conch,
and the morning light was gleaming in
her golden hair. He saw that she was
pale and wan with anxious watching,
and her eyes, that looked so mournfully
out over the meadow, had dark blue
shadows under them. She sighed aa a
breath of scented air came, full of
spring's promises, in at the open window,
and turned to find his dark eyes with
love's gentle gleam in them fastened
upon her face. She gave a little start
and then came to kneel beside him and
take his hand. She was not yet certain
that this was not a new phase of the fe*
ver; bnt he turned his face to her as he
pressed her hand and said:
"Dear heart, how long have I been ihT
"Oh, so long, so long, my own-ten
long, dreadful days-and I feared that 1
should lose yonl But yon will get well,
sweetheart. Ton will not leave yonr
poor Le?a!"
"No. dear. 1 will not leave you. 1
shall recover fast now, 1 think, and you
-ray own-yon look so pale and tiree !
Go and rest and get some color in those
white cheeks."
She laid her head on the pillow beside
him and looked deep into his eyes. After
awhile her own lids drooped, and in a
moment she slept, witb a? contented
smile upon her lips. The bine veins in
her forehead made her skin look like
purest marble as she lay there. Her
sweet breath fanned his cheeks as he
gazed ripon hen. fair and childlike, yet a
woman, in the full bloom of her rare
beauty-perfect-the very dream of an
artist or poet . ;
When he left his bed and could walk
to his window and look forth, lol the
spring naa aunen trpou ti? canyun nm
denly and sweetly! The sight of green
meadows, the blossoming trees, the snipe
darting in zigzag'fiights across; the long,
easy swing of the swallows as they
skimmed the water, sent the blood
coursing through his veins, and he felt
his strength returning in a rush. But
he had been near to death's door, and
the fact was known to the people of
Atzlan. It strengthened Cha!pa's posi
tion immensely. .
"This is no god P'he proclaimed. "Tis
bot a man, for lo! he is dying! His
breath la as ours. Shall we worship a
god who can become ill as we can?'
Then Eric began to fancy, as he lay
in his bed at night, that he heard prowl'
in g footsteps about bia house, but Jan
fla, watching jealously, could not detect
any prowlers. But Eric put his revolver
in his bed and kept it there. He awoke
at dawn one morning and lay watching
the rose tints grow and gleam along the
canyon's castellated brows. Soft pearly
shadows mingled with the rose, and
deep, sullen blood crimson-hang in the
crevices of the rocka.' Above was all
sulphur and gold red, shooting up in
long streamers across the clear, cool blue
of the sky. He heard the peewee call
and the shrill "test teet" of the snipe.
Then a robin burst out ina rich, rollick
ing matin song that made his heart swell
with a queer mixture of joy and sadness.
It was all so sweet to come back to
and so touching to him, softened by ill*
ness, that the tears air stearne into his
eyes. Then as he looked he saw a dark
hand and arm appear at his window.
The hand held a bunch of small, pale
green berries, and it shook nervously as
they were squeezed, and a few drops of
grayish white juice fell into his water
jar, which stood on the window sill.
fn a second he had fired'at the hand,
but missed his aim. Jan-ila awoke with
a startled yell and stood dazed for a
moment, then rushed to the window.
No one was in flight, but a minute later
people began to emerge upon the house
tops and peer about Others hurried to
Eric's dwelling to ascertain the meaning
cf Quetzal's thunder. All joined in the
search for the wretch who had attempt
ed his life, but he had left no trace. The
circumstance put Eric upon his gaari
He realized that the enemy was willing
to resort to the sternest means to accom
plish their end, and he once more put on
his belt and holster and carried his re
volver wherever he went
This attempt upon his life, however,
wat adroitly used to C hal pa's disadvan
tage, for be alone was known to be in
imical to Eric, and the election, which
took place two. days later, was lost to
him by only twenty-two votes. The
priests and the heads of families alone
voted, and the latter were largely in
fluenced by the dastardly attack upon
Eric's life--placing it entirely to Chai
pa's account
The latter , gave no sign of the rage
that consumed him, but smiled as crafti
ly as eyer when the votes were counted.
He congratulated Eulcan with the suavi
ty of an Italian diplomat, for he hod not
played his last card, and he was now re
solved upon a desperate measure. He
now knew the strength of his party and
the stuff of which his partisans were
made, and in another week he would rid
himself of his principal obstacles and
come out triumphant Another week
and the Feast of the Ki tun would be
held. He alone knew the name of the
doomed maiden whose life would go out
that week as a sacrifice to the god of
centuries. "On the morrow he would
announce it, and he felt the thrill of
horror which would creep over the city
when the name was heard.
That same morning Jan-ila, arising
fied and amazed.
"Could he daref he cried. "The
fiend! To wreak such a revenge! Ican
not believe that he would do such an
act Even he, reckless and cruel as he is,
would hesitate to bring such a thing to
pasa Has he lost his senses?"
"What do you mean?" ask jd Eric. "Of
whom are you speaking?"
"Chaipa, the head of the council; he
who casts the lots and decides the fatal
dice throwing! Chai pa the cheat and
liar!" cried Hulean, throwing his arms
np wildly. "1 fear him not the scoun
drelly assassin!"
Iklapel peered at the youth under his
shaggy eyebrows, the fire in his dark
eyes blazing somber and low.
"Does my brother believe that Chai pa
can cheat; that he would dare to deceive
the other two judges, the whole city and
Quetzal?"
"Can cheat? PareT cried Kulcan. "He
can, and he dare, and I will face him
with the charge! My sister shall not be
the sacrifice!" ...
"Ho," said Eric quietly, "she shall
not, even if Chalpa has to be taken off
to check his too pious zeal 1 don't want
to kill him, but I certainly shall if he re
solves to sacrifice her." > .
"Yes, you are right," said the old
priest "What can we doT
., "We must get Lela here and keep her
until we can arrange matters,1* Eric re
plied. "She must come tonight, for she
will be safe here. 1 could defend this
house, with Eulcan and Jan's help,
against a thousand Atzlana"
"We will go for her at once," cried
Eulcan excitedly. "Come, Jan-ila!"
"No-, not now--not in daylight-they
will suspect!" cried DrlapeL "We must
prevent an open conflict; we must win
by peaceful means if possible, unless he
makes the announcement thu afternoon.
In that case we must resort to extreme
measures."
They dispersed. Eric and Jan-ila imme
diately prepared for a siege, filling the
windows with slabs of stone to resist ar
rows, and provided food and water
enough for several days' use. Iklapel
stationed himself at the temple to send
the news if the announcement was made,
.while Kn lean guarded Lela.
At sunset Iklapel's messenger came.
Chalpa had announced that Lela was to
be the Eaton sacrifice-the news was in
everybody's mouth. Eric sent Jan-ila to
Lela at once and kept guard at the house.
His pistol .was in his holster at his belt
his rifle in the large room, while several
axes and mears-sharp and. keen steel
lay ready for Eulcan and Jan-ila. :
It grew darker, and they did not ap
pear. The city was strangely silent' He
could hear none of the usual evening
sounds. A deep, solemn hush hung over
all, and the splashing of the river against
the bowlders came clear to bis ears in
the falling shadow.. He stepped outside
and stood before the door, and his tall
figure was outlined darkly against the
light within. He bad almost resolved
to desert bis post when be descried two
figures approaching, one of them appar
ently Iklape). Be walked toward them,
and noticing that their blankets almost
covered their heads stopped short and
peered into their faces as they came up
to him.
The stooping figure, so like Iklape) in
its mimicry, straightened up before him
suddenly, and at the same instant h<*
waa seized from behind in a viselike
grip and thrown to the ground. He
struggled to release his arms and draw
his revolver, but his assailants had in
-taoned in numbers. A zag was forced
iii to ins mo ut I;, uuil ma anus were bound
'behind him. -Me was allowed" to lie
there for a moment, and then- they
raised bim to his feet. He saw that he
was surrounded by a- number of men in
priests' robes, but it was too dark to
recognize any of them. He looked in
Tain for Chalpa's face, but the priest
was not visible. One of the band went
into his house, and bringing forth the
candle led the way into the pi non or
chards, the rest following with Eric,
who, resisting sullenly in unavailing,
self censure, was carried bodily.
They hurried him along, as though fear
ing pursuit, through th4 orchards, along
the river again until they came to the
ancient burial place, where they halted
a moment to be j Mned by Cnalpa.. His
black aye gleamed in fierce joy as he
leaned over Eric and smiled his cruelest
smile, so full of hate and fiendish satis
faction that it chilled his captive's heart
for a moment.
"Ah, our pale Quetzal .has lost bis
power! Why does he not strike his serv
ant dead with his "eyes? Where is his
strength now? If he be a god, let him
now save himself. : See," he said, turn
ing to his fellow priests. "See the sick,
weak god; how ho lies there pale and
feeble! Why does ho not call forth his
thunder and strike us dead?" .
"Show us now .thy mighty magic, O
wonder worker," cried another, ''before
We entomb thee forever!"
"He does not answer," added Chai pa
in mock pity. "He is silent before bis
servants. Speak, O doer of strange
deeds, and speak thy last, for silenced
you will be forever tins night."
Eric made no attempt to speak, know
ing that the effort would but provoke
their derision, and they raised him
again,' carrying him to a ruined mass'
of ancient tombs. Here ti ey placed
himpand while one held the flickering
light the others removed several flat
stones, revealing an opening large
enough to admit a man; ?ito this they |
crawled, one after another, and pushed
Gilbert, feet first, into what he found to
be a great square passageway choked
with debris. One man remained on
guard at the entrance; the rest" followed
the light in Chalpa's hand down the in
clined passage.
The air was cool in the passage, but
not damp, and the light flickered now
and then as they proceeded. He noticed
several branching passages, but bis bear:
era followed the main one until, they
came to its lowest depth, where it seemed
to ascend beyond to u still farther dis
tance. Here they laid him down and
drew back-all but Chulpa-who, stand
ing over him with a scowl of lime, ad
dressed bim. holding the light close t<??|
his face:
"Fool, to 'hink to outwit Chaina, tue J
rattlesnake, the wily serpent! Know
yon hot how'many men have died who |
crossed the rattlesnake's path? Their
bones "are whitening in secret places;
their 'homes know, them no more: tlieir
memory even is faded and gone-even
as yonrs will be-for Kinchahan. our
god, loves his servant and hates all false
gods; therefore 1 leave you. to hin? here
iu the darkness. Listen and yon will
hear the river running overhead; we are
now beneath its .bed. You will haye
time to listen to its voice and be lulled
to sleep. No one will disturb your
dreams this night, O false god, for here
man never comes. You, will sleep the
sleep that comes to all who anges* Chalen,
the dread one."
With one last bitter glance of hatred
Ch al pa left him. Eric-saw the Light
grow dim as his captors went up and
along the tunnel, and then it disap
peared. When the footfalls ceased he
heard the solemn sound above him,
-brid him that the river rolled
."?ed.that.bV
ad informed
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