The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-02

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rs the door shut, senor?" 1 asked
'sand are you sure that there is no one
ON the veranda? Good! Then draw
your chair nearer and 1 will tell you
lsomething. / am not certain that ]
lshould take this talisman back again
lStill l will do so for reasons that yoJ
shall learn presently.
Know, senior, that this broken gem
lis at once the foundation stone and the
secret symbol of a great order, Of
which, although you have not been mi
tiated into it, you are now one of the
lords, seeing that the browning an0
vital ceremony of the creation of q
Lord of the Heart consists in the hang
ling of the symbol about his neck foi
the space Of a minute only by myself,
who ain the chief lord and Keeper OF
| the Heart for life, and you have worn
lit for ten whole days.
Before we part / will call a chapter
lof the order-for even among these
mountains we have brethren-and you
shall be Initiated into its ritual and
raised to the rank of a chief lord, as is
| your right; meanwhile | will instruct
you briefly in its mysteries, as it is my
bounden duty to do.
Understand. senior. that the first
lduty Of the servant of the Heart is 81
Ilence, and that silence I demand OF
lyou. Men have died ere now, senior
yes, they have died on the rack in the
dungeons of the inquisition, and shriv-
ieled as wizards in the fires of the stake
lsooner than reveal those things that
have been told them upon the faith OF
the Heart, against which the confess
tsional itself cannot prevail = no, not
with the best of Catholics
But suppose that man should not
keep silence, Ignatio, what then?" he
asked.
There is a land, senor,' I answered,
where the most laxative grow dumb,
and it's borders can be crossed by all.
even by the Lords of. the Heart for
fearful is the doom of false brother!''
You mean that if l repeat anything
1 may hear l shall be murdered"
Indeed, no. senior; but YOU may hap
pen to die. l speak on the Heart; do
you hear with the Ears?''
Il hear with the Ears he answered,
catching my meaning.
VERY WE'LL. senior, since you have
now sworn secrecy to me by the most
solemn oath that can pass the lips of
man, l will speak to you openly. This;
lis the tale of the Broken Heart, SO far
as / know it, though how much of it is
truth and how much is legend 1 cam
hot say:
You have heard the story of that
white man, or god, sometimes called
Quetzal by the Indians, and sometimes
CucumatZ who came to these lands in
the far past and civilized their peoples?
AfterwaT'd he vanished away in a ship,
promising that when many generations
had passed he would return again.
when he had gone the empire which
he created fell into the hands of two
brothers, whose chief city was either at
Palenque or in its neighborhood and
the citizens of this empire, like Christ
ians, WorShipped one good god, the
true God, under the name of the Heart
of Heaven, and to Him they offered few
sacrifices save those of fruit and flow
|ers. Now, of these brothers one mar
ried a wife from another country a
daughter of devils, very beautiful, and
a great witch.
''Soon this woman, as in the story of
the wives of Solomon and their lord,
drew away the king her husband, from
the true faith to the worship of the
gods of her own land, and brought it
about that he offered human sacrifice
to them. Then there arose a great con-
fusion in that country, and the end of
it was that the people divided them
selves into two parties, the worshipers
of the Heart of Heaven and the wor-
shippers of devils.
''They made war upon each other till
many Of their chief men were killed !;
then they came to an agreement where
by the nation was sundered. Half of
it, under that king who had married
the woman, marched northward, and
became the fathers of the Aztecs and
other tribes, and half, the faithful wor-
shippers Of the Heart, remained in the
TabaSco country.
Now, from that day forward, evil
overlook both these peoples, for though
the Aztecs fiourished for awhile, in the