Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-05-05

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q" hen ! wager You now on the old
iicc five hundred taos against my sis
ter cried Kulcan. placing three lngots
III the tablet. y couple Of other PLAYERS
laid waGers also upon the odd side, and
Chalpa tilted the box.
One glance showed that kulcan had
won. Chalpa's face was serene. how
ever. rs lie replaced the dice. and the
young priest again wagrrcd five hundred
taos against his lost property. He tilted
the box and shot the dice out upon the
tablet once more, and Kulcan won again.
He had freed his sister and regained his
estates, and now for revenge! With a
look full Of meaning into Chalpa's cruel
eyes. h. cried:
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hundred taos on the even numbers!'
Chalpa did not dare refuse nor did he
dare cheat. vet five hundred taos was an
immense sum for him, successful though
he had been in his operations. He felt
Gilbcrt's keen searching gaze upon him.
and he feared to look up. His nervous
fingers shook the box, and the dice rat
! tied.
Come" cried Kulcan. "You do not
fear the test now. You have taken the
same wager before from me!'
Il fear nothing the gambler an
sw,rcd. Il take the bet"
The other players also placed smaller
sums upon the board upon the even side.
and the trickStcr tipped the box. The
eleven clay cubes rolled across the stone
with a clinking rattle, and the eager eyes
counted quickly. Kulcan had again
won. Chalpa had lost the fruits OF sew
/ 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 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 Kulcan's 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 Gil
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 q heart Sc full 81
bitter hate that he could not rest. but
wandered in the canyon until nearly
dawn. When he came home he had per
fected scheme of revenge diabOlical il
Its ingenuity and hellish in its complete
ness, to which, from that day forth. HI
devoted all his thoughts and his tireless
sleepless, unresting energies.
But Gilbert did not suspect this feel
ing, although he observed that Chalps
was endeavoring to gain his liking by 1
careful attention, but he suspected som'
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 ha(
passed since his arrival, and in the las
few months he had done much work
He had thrown strong dam across tn,
stream, built stone mill, made the ma
chinery for it in the old German methot
of wood and silver, and was almos
ready to turn the water into the sluice
way upon the silent wheel. But few
details remained to perfect the mechan
ism and astonish the Atzlans by tn
sight of the river grinding their corn
He had established tho knowledge ant
art of glazing pottery, the making o
candles; he had improved the looms ant
added modern devices, perfected thei
stills, taught them how to preserv
fruits, smoke their meats, and in q hun
dred other ways effected great change
and found the people eager to adop
labor saving methods.
But he wished to make still create
changes. He had found in some Of tn
strata of the canyon walls iron in grea
plenty, and he was so constantly ham
pered by the need of this indispensable
metal that he had begun the erection O
furnace and ordered the extraction O
q large amount of ore. The supervising
of these operations completely filled hi
days with arduous labor. He had com
menced his furnace with modest ideas
intending to smelt his iron in the crud
natives using in Central African sim
pie conical clay furnaces with rude bel
lows, but producing iron of such supe
rior quality that the savages refused t
use the English metal, alleging that
was rotten. But his ideas had expanded
and he had erected stone structur
with a complicated blasting apparatu
that filled him with great hopes as h
watched it nearing completion and mad
him eager as boy to zee it in full an
perfect operation.
Leila would come to him and find hin
so occupied and intent upon his dutie
that sometimes he feared she woul
think him cold and neglectful, and sh
so tenderly fearful of disturbing or an
noying him that the feeling showed il
her face as she lowered about him. A
these times he would look into her eye
with such deep. earnest devotion tina
abe would creep up to him, wind he
arms about his neck. with ardently wor
| Shipping eyes and clinging kisses, for ;
few moments and then say demurely
"Oh, must not bother my darling. H
is so busy, my great minded hero an'
make q motion as it to leave. Thel
! they would waste Il half hour more il
loving dalliance, when she would sud
denly assume an air of stern displeasur
and bid him to go to work while she at
tended to her duties.
These moments came often, too, dur
ing the summer days, when only his as
sistants i'll all Atzlan were busy and a
work, and they made the hours Of Sci
imposed toll shorter and pleasanter.
She took the fondest interest in every
thing he did, and she had, too, man,
plans of her own for the education anC
advancement of her sex in Atzlan
which were the outcome of her love ant