The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26
SCopyright, 1891, by H. Rider Haggard.)
Written for The Salt Lake Herald.1
HEART OF THE WORLD.

SUMMARY-Introducti - An English
man ramed Jones is superintendent of
the upper reaches of which divide the
Mexican state of Chipas from the re-
public of Guatemala He becomes IN
terested in antiquities; learns of an In
dian, Don lgnatio. who has great
knowledge of them: visits him, finds him
in chapel; they become great friends.
When Don 1gnatio is dying he sends for
Jones and makes him his heir. Don
1gnatio gives him written account of
how he and his friend James Strickland
visited the city. Heart of the World. The
history is translation of this paper.
CHAPTER 1.
Is neutrality-suspicious. where he was
prose IN the country; Ignatio's father
The priest lgnatio's receives from him an
inlet is given Injunction to see that the
Shot mas Tbe g S6g of The the I bfes +
ana wants to become one himself; is told
re- cannot till Of age. On his twentieth a
boy is the hereditary ruler of the Aztecs;
Is Initiated into the mysteries of the
Order of the Heart and Installed as
Mexico of the Spaniards and travels for
number of years all over the country
m5 n;,Ssg his plans On one IF his
assaulting two Indian women; one is
widow, she is killed; the other her sister.
1gnatio kills both bandits. He .marries
time fixed for the execution Of the plot,
lgnatios wife was placed, as a servant;
n the house of the man who ruled
She falls in love with the Spaniard and
hetrays the plan of uprising Ignatio
Eszder tells him If he will hand over his
? geld his life win be spared. He does.
Others who had been betrayed wreacked
becomes a wanderer for twenty years or
more; finally returns to his village in the
mountains and turns his attention to the
study and management of mines. 1t was
while thus employed that he made the
acquaintance of James Strickland, who
was de; tined to accompany him TO the
city. Heart of the World.
PART H.
CHAPTER III-Ignatio visits the vii
1age of Cumarvo. State of Tamaulipas, to
see an Indian said to have an Aztec scroll
that had descended to him through many
generations, and told of rich gold mine
in the mountains the sight of which had
been lost. Leans, the Indian, had died
suddenly and the scroll could not be
found; hears of an Inglese IN the neigh
bo8ood When he leaves his friends
HAse going along the street sees two
81 men and a handsome Indian girl
l3Nding serape or blanket around the
of the fatal quarrel. AS Lord of the
Heart, Ignatio warns her 20 leave the
country on pain of death, to which she
consents. A man accosts him, and asks
woman. Tells him he cannot explain it.
Still fingers in Cumarvo; discovers plot
TO kill the Englishman, and thwarts it,
many of the would be murderers being
killed. The man so saved is James
Strickland. ETe thanks Ignatio for saving
his life and Ignatio goes into the en-
ploy of Strickland's company. Then is
related the story OF Strickland's career.
He bad ranched in Texas, then drifts
to Nicaragua; became mixed up in min
ing ventures in Honduras; leaves Hon.
duras and goes to Mexico. There he be
comes the manager of a very rich mine,
but as it gets deeper the water PUSHES
b in SO fast that the mine cannot be work
he'd. The facts are reported to the owners
and Strickland is snmmarily dismissed
4 and they refuse to pay him his salary
due He tells Ignatio to whom $500 are
4 due. He has 81 600 but Ignatio begs him
n to be silent and say no more or he VIII
f1never forgive him. lsnatio leaves the
lfhouse to calm himself by walking among
The mountains, little knowing what he
should hear before entering it again