The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-02
copyright, 1891, by H. Rider Haggard.)
Written for The Salt Lake Herald.1
SUMMARY.
CHAPTER 7

l.
Is autobiographic-tells where he was
Dorn. When about 9 years old troubles
arose in the country; Ignatio's father
taken by the Spaniards; see him in prison
the priest Ignatio's receives from him an
Srmlet; is given injunction to see that the
boy has it when Of age. The father is
Snot The boy remains with the priest
and wants 70 become one himself: is toli
ne cannot till of age. On his twentieth
birthday the priest tells him ali. The
boy is the hereditary ruler of the Aztees;
rs Initiated into the mysteries of the
ri ereditary chief. Forms a plot to free
lmber OF years all over the country
aturing his plans On one Of his
: GSaulting two Indian women one is a
5tg, she is killed the other her sister.
siatio kills both bandits. He marries
time fixed for the execution of the plot,
ishatos wife was placed, as a servant,
IN n1.he house of the man who ruled
She falls in love with the Spaniard and
betrays the plan of uprising. Ignatio
leader tells him Il he will hand over his
gold his life viii be spared. He does.
Others who had been betrayed wreacked
their vengeance. on the wife. Ignatio
becomes 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. it was
while thus employed that he made the
2 sSsa dn1t,r Of James strickland, who
city, Heart Of the World.
PART II.
&IEPTER III-Ignatio visits the vii
tsssyeS 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 a 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
borhood. When he leaves his friends
house going along the street sees two
dead men and a handsome Indian girl
winding a serape, or blanket around the
body Of one. The girl has been the cause
OF the fatal quarrel. As Lord of the
Heart, 1gnatio warns her 60 leave the
country on pain of death, to which she
consents. A man accosts him, and asks
him the secret of his power over the
woman. Tells him he cannot explain it.
Still fingers in Cumarvo; discovers a plot
to kill the Englishman, and thwarts it,
many of the would-be murderers being
SriAand He thanks Ignatio for saving
his Ae and Ignatio goes into the en-
pl ~6f Strickland's company. Then is
Iaf sed the story of Strickland's career.
Hds had ranched in Texas, then drifts
" Nicaragua; became mixed up in min
1ng ventures in Honduras; leaves Hon
duras and goes to Mexico. There he be-
comes the manager of very rich NINE,
but as it gets deeper the water rusheS
in SO fast that the mine cannot be work
ed. The facts are reported to the owners
and Strickland is summarily dismissed
and they refuse to pay him his salary
due. He tells Ignatio to whom $500 are
due. He has 81, 900 but lgnatio begs him
TO be silent and say no more or he VIII
never forgive him. Ignatio leaves the
house to calm himself by walking among
the mountains, little knowing what he
Should hear before entering it again.
Chapter IV.-He walks down the street,
is hailed, and told the scroll is found.
Proceeds on his way; man suddenly
steps out from rlle bushes; 1t is Molas,
his foster brother; asks to see the symbol,
st is shown him. Molas says the half !
Ignatio has is called Day" the half /
that is lost Might Tells of an old In
dia doctor whom he visited for his wife;
asks if he Is sick at heart. Tries the In
dian with the twelve signs; he responds.
The doctor tells him his wife is dead;
determines it by burning a lock of her
hair. The doctor. Zibalby, has the other
half of the Heart; sends a message 10
Ignatio. Molas is robbed by bandits al
ter leaving Zibalby's place; it is Don
Pedro's band; tells Don Pedro who gave
him the gold. Relates the story OF ms
tourney TO find Ignatio to him. lgnauo
goes to Strickland and tells him he must
6uit his service. Tells him of the lost
mine: they go to discover IL. After
weary ride, according to the directions
of the SCROLL they find the mine. lgna-
ito takes a hammer and candles, ana
leather bag for samples and they enter