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

was in danger, he called upon me not
to kill him for the sake of low Indian
| girl, which insult maddened me so that
slew him upon the spot, and caused
his body, with that of his companion,
to be buried secretly.
Now after this, the girl whose life I
had saved came to dwell in my village,
where [ saw much of her. So lovely
was she and SC clever that soon she
won my heart, and the end of it was
that, being neadstrong and in love, 1
married her against the advice of An
! tonic and others of my brethren of the
| order. 1t would have been better for
1 the Indian people, and perhaps for me
also, if I had died before / stood at the
altar with this woman, though for a
while she was good wife, and, be-
cause of her cleverness, of great SER
vice to me-
| Now. it must be stated that during
all this while had not been idle. The
more thought of them, the more the
wrongs of my countrymen, the real
owners of the land, took hold of my
mind. till at length they possessed 1T
utterly, and I became an enthusiast
and visionary, making it the object
of my life to form a great conspiracy,
and bring about rising of the In
: dams in every province of Mexico upon
a given day, and then, when the Span
iards and their bastards, the Spanish
MeXicans, had been stamped out, to
re-establish the empire of the Aztecs.
| 1t was madness, perhaps, but the
madness was in my blood; my fore
fathers had suffered from and for it,
] and think 1t must have come down
! to us from our ancestor Guatemoc, the
! greatest and most unfortunate Indian
who ever lived. Where they failed I
determined to succeed, and, strange 10
/ in t1a sud 7 t1
For years 1 labored travelling to and
fro about the land till there was no
province where L was not known as the
Holder of the Heart and the chief by
blood of the Indian tribes. Everywhere
| L StroVe to rouse the people from their
sloth and to win the caciques or head
men to the cause, and [ did not strive
in vain. l used my great wealth to buy
arms, to win over the lukewarn with
brides, and in many other ways, and
when it grew low [ gathered more, for
without gold nothing could be done.
Treasures that were buried in the
! old days were given up to me as Lord
of the Heart by those who had their
| secret; also many brought me money,
each what he could spare, and l hoard
ed it against the hour of need.
For a year or more l was the great
est power in Mexico, and yet, though
hundreds were privy to my secret. it
was so we'll kept that no whisper OF 1t
came to the ears of the government.
At length all was ready, and so care
fully were my plans laid that success
seemed certain; yet the unforeseen hap
pened, and l failed-thus:
That woman whose life 1 had saved
my own wife whom / loved and trust
ed, who was bound to my cause and
that of her countrymen by every tie
human and divine, betrayed me and it.
Just before the time fixed for the ris-
ing it was agreed that she should be
placed, as one of whom we could be
sure, as a servant in the house of
man who ruled Mexico in those days,
that she might spy upon him.
Instead of that, she, my wife, fell in
love with him. 1t is easy to guess the
rest. One night, but a week before the
appointed time, l and some five or six
others, the leaders of our party, were
seized. The others were made away
with secretly. but I was brought before
the great man, who received me alone,
holding a pistol in his hand.
81 know ali your plans, FRIEND" he
said, land 1 congratulate you on them,
for they We're cleverly managed. 1
know also that you have a great treas
ure in gold hidden away and he
named the sum. THAT wife of yours,
whom you were fool enough to trust,
has told me everything, but she can
not tell me where the money is hidden,
for this you withheld from her which
shows that you were not altogether
mad.
Now, make you a fair offer-hand