The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

not dare to speak to you, becaus you
must be one of the heaven-born of
| whom their legends tell, wherefore he
asks me to say that water to wash in
and raiment to put on have been made
ready for us if we will come with him. "
Accordingly we followed the Indian,
who led us into a passage at the back
of the sitting chamber, and thence to a
small sleeping room, zone of several, to
which the passage gave access. In this
room, which was lit by an oil lamp,
were two bedsteads covered with blank
cts of deer-skin and cotton sheets; and
| laid upon them were fine linen robes
and serapes made in alternate bands of
gray and black feathers worked onto a
foundation of stout linen. Standing up
on wooden stools in a corner of the
room, half filled with steanling water
| were two basins, which the senior no
| ticed with establishment were made Of
| hammered silver. These people must
| be rich," he said to me so soon as the
| keeper Of the place was gone, 'if they
| fashion the utensils of their rest houses
of silver. Till now this story of the
sacred city, Of which Zibalbay was
cacique and Maya heiress apparent, has
always sounded like a fairy tale to me,
J but it seems that it is true, after all, for
| the mans manners show that Zibalbay
| is a very important person"
Then we put on the robes that had
! been provided, not without difficulty,
| for that fashion was strange to us, and
returned to the eating room. Presently
| the curtain was drawn. and the Lady
| Maya joined us, the Lady Maya, but so
changed that we started in astonish-
ment.
Different indeed was she from the
! ill-clad and travel-Stained girl who had
1 hno NJ IN ms woo
| Now she was dressed in a robe of
snowy white, bordered with embroidery
! of the royal green, and having the inn
age of the Heart traced in gold thread
on the breast. On her feet were san
dals, also worked in green, while round
| her throat, wrists, waist and ankles
shone circles of dead gold. Her dark
hair no longer fell loose about her. but
was twisted into a simple knot and-con-
fined in 2, little golden net, and from
her shoulders hung cloak of pure
| white feathers, relieved here and there
| by the delicate yellow plumes of the
| greater egret.
| Like you, have changed my gar
ments," she said in explanation, turn
! ing to the senior rs the dress ugly
| that you look astonished?"
| "Uglyw he said. 81 think it is the
most beautiful that I ever saw
you ever saw! Why, friend, it is the
simplest that have. Wait till you see
me in my royal robes, wearing the great
emeralds of the Heart. What will you
say then, l wonder?"
| ST cannot tell, but say now that I
don't know which is the most lovely,
| you or your dress"
| "Hushp' she said laughingly, yet with
| a note of earnestness in her voice, you
must not speak thus freely to me-"
"Yender in the pass, friend, was the
Indian girl, your fellow traveller; here
| I am the lady of the Heart
''Then I wish that you had remained
| the Indian girl in the pass he an
swered after a pause; but perhaps you
| jest?"
| 81 was not altogether jesting," she
answered, with a sigh; you must be
| careful now, or it might be Ill for you
| or me, or both Of us, since by my rank
| 1 am the greatest lady in this land,
and, doubtless, my cousin sTikal will
watch me closely. Hush! here comes
my father
| AS she spoke Zibalbay entered. fol-
lowed by the two Indians bearing food.
He was simply dressed in a white toga-
like robe, similar to that which had
been given to the senior and myself; a
cloak Of black feathers, his shoulders
| covered, and round his neck was hung
a massive gold chain, to which was at
tached the emblem of the Heart, also
| fashioned in plain gold.
| We noticed that as he came his
| daughter Maya made curtesy to him,
! which he acknowledged with a. nod, and