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from announcing his discovery, or rathe-
his suspicious, and when Chalpa had
made over to Kulcan the sum OF his
winnings they withdrew, followed by
the other players, who were delighted
with Kulcans good fortune.
Chalpa, ON being left alone, threw
himself upon the floor in savage frenzy
of rage and despair, and then and there
resolved to kill not only Kulcan and Gill
bert, but old Iklapel, for he knew the
secret of the treasure vault and sur
missed 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 and plans
vanish into air with heart so full OF
bitter hate that he could not rest, but
wandered in the canyon until nearly
dawn. When he came home he had per-
fected a scheme of revenge diabolical in
its ingenuity and hellish in its complete
ness, to which, from that day forth, he
devoted all his thoughts and his tireless,
sleepless, unresting energies.
But Gilbert did not suspect this feel
ing. although he observed that Chalpa
was endeavoring to gain his liking by a
careful attention, but he suspected some
purpose much less serious. However,
he did not allow it to disturb him, and
his thoughts at this time were too full
of work and plans to admit OF much else.
More than a year and half had
passed since his arrival, and in the last
few months he had done much work.
! He had thrown strong dam across the
stream. built stone mill, made the ma
cbinery for it in the old German method
of wood and silver, and was almost
ready to turn the water into the sluice-
wav upon the silent wheel. But few
details remained to perfect the mechan-
ism and astonish the Atzlans by the
sight of the river grinding their corn.
He had established the knowledge and
art of glazing pottery, the making Of
candles; he had improved the looms and
added modern devices, perfected their
stills, taught them how to preserve
fruits, smoke their meats, and In hun
dred other ways effected great changes
and found the people eager to adopt
labor saving methods.
But he wished to make still greater
changes. He had found in some of the
strata of the canyon walls iron in great
plenty, and he was SO constantly ham
pered by the need of this indispensable
metal that he had begun the erection of
a furnace and ordered the extraction of
Il large amount of ore. The supervising
of these operations completely filled his
DAYS with arduous labor. He had com
menced his furnace with modest ideas,
intending to slnelt his iron in tho crude
manner which Livingstone found the
natives using in Central Africa-in sim.
ole conical clay furnaces with rude bel
lows, but producing iron of such a supe-
.ior quality that the savages refused tC
use the English metal, alleging that ii
was rotten. But his ideas had expanded
and he had erected "a stone structure
with complicated blasting apparatus
| that filled III with great hopes as ne
watched it caring completion and made
him eager l; boy to see it in full and
} perfect operation
Leila won't come to him and find hin
: 50 occupied and intent upon his dut c,
| that sometimes he feared she would
|
L SO tenderly fearful of disturbing or an
noying him that the feeling showed IL
3 her face as she hovered about him. Al
' these times he would look into her eye:
3 with such deep, earnest devotion thai
she would creep up to him, wind hel
arms about his neck, with ardently wol
! Shipping eyes and clinging kisses, for
y few moments and then say demurely
: "Oh, ! must not bother my darling. II
> is so busy, my great minded hero" an
make a motion as it to leave The
: they would waste a half hour more i
u loving dalliance, when she would sac
: denly assume an air of stern displeasuI
l and bid him to go to work while she a
tended to her duties.
4 These moments came often, too, du
4 ing the summer days, when only his "a
u sistants in all Atzlan We're busy and {
, work and they made the hours OF Sc
u imposed toll shorter and pleasanter.
n She took the fondest interest ~ ever,
: thing he did, and she had, too, man
u plans of her own for the education an
9 advancement of her sex in Atzlal
II which were the outcome of her love an
the knowledge obtained from Erie. Ht
o aptitude for learning amazed him {
L times; it seemed so phenomenal in OF
I whose life had been passed i'll such d
environment. But in truth the Atzla
mind was in some such state as was II
$ pagan world at the time of Christ. Lii
5 children the Atzans listened, believin
8 all that they heard, and DESTROYS to en-
ulate the people who had learned {
much they watched all of Gilbert's el
u terprises with vague wonder and hug
= expectancy.
g Upon the day that Gilbert was to sta
q the machinery of the mill the entil
q populsce gathered at the riverside.
o all the vast crowd standing there wal
l. ing there was not one incredulous o
Is server, not one skeptical doubter of IL
IL success of the project, as there won
Il have been in any other city on cart
perhaps, but every man felt conhdel
q that its success was assured. They we
there not To test nor criticise Int TO 8,