The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-12

can be fulfilled, for your father left it
to you to follow the life you might de-
SIRE
| When he had finished speaking, /
thought for a while and answered;
While my fathers blood is unavenged
cannot become a priest"
| at is as l thought" said the old man
with a sigh, that cursed talisman
which lies about your neck has begun
| its work with you, 1gnatio, and you will
tread the path that the others trod, per-
chance to die in blood as they did Oh!
why cannot man be content to leave
the righting of wrongs and the des-
TIMES of nations in the hands of the
Almighty and his angels ?''
| Because for good or evil the Al
mighty chooses men to be his instru-
ments," I answered.
Within week from this day some
Indians came to Tiapa disguised as
porters, whose mission it was to lead
me to the mountains among which my
father had lived, and where his treas
ure still lay hidden.
/ Bidding farewell to my godfather, the
priest, who wept when he parted from
me, started upon my journey, keeping
my destination secret AS it CHANGED
1 never saw him more for a month
| later he was seized with some kind of
calentura, or fever, and died suddenly
The best thing 1 can say of him is that
with one exception, there lives no man
in heaven above whom 1 so greatly de-
! sire to meet again.
| On the third day of my journey we
reached a narrow pass in the noun
tains, beyond which lay an Indian vii
| lage. Here my guides took me to the
house of one Antonio, to whom my god
father had given me letters, an old man
| of venerable aspect, who greeted me
warmly, and introduced me to several
caciques who were staying with him.
I did not know why
| So soon as we were alone in the house,
one of these caciques, after addressing
me in words that [ could not under
which I replied that [ hoped so. where
at they all laughed. Then the man An
tonic, coming to me, unbuttoned my
| shirt, revealing the talisman that had
! belonged to my father, at the sight of
which all the company bowed.
| Next the doors were locked, and SEN
tries having been posted at them, a
| ceremony began, which it is not lawful
| that l should describe in detail, where
teries of the Order of the Heart, and
afterward installed as its hereditary
chief, thus becoming, while yet boy,
the absolute lord of many thousand
men, brethren of the order, who were
scattered far and wide about the land
| On the day after / had taken the final
oaths, Antonio handed over to me the
treasure that my ancestors boarded in
a secret place, which my father had
| left in his keeping, and it was a great
| treasure, amounting to more than a
million dollars in value
| Now I was rich, both in men and
money, still, following the counsel Of
Antonio, l abode for while in the vii
iage, receiving those who came to visit
me from everyy part of Mexico as
| Holder Of the Heart, and as first in
rank among the fallen peoples of the
Indians
1t was during these months that I
made the great error of my life. Some
three miles from the village where /
dWelt, lived two sisters, Indians of no
bic blood, though poor; one of them a
widow and tbs other a very beautiful
girl, younger than myself. It CHANGED
j that / was riding past their house
upon certain Sunday evening, when
most of the Inhabitants OF the valley
were away at fiesta, and heard
screams coming from it,.
Dismounting from my horse, I ran in
! at the door, which was open, and saw
one OF the sisters-the widow lying
dead upon the floor, while two bandits
MeX1cans, were attacking the other
Drawing my machete / cut down the
| first of them before he had time to
turn, then l fell upon the other with
such fury, that l drove him back
against the wall. Seeing that his life