San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-15

father to you concerning the wealth
that he and his ancestors had hidden:
"'Tell my son, Ignatio, should he live
to grow up, that there has never depart.
ed from our family the desire to win
back the crown that Guatemoc lost, or,
at least, to drive out the accurscd
Spaniards and their spawn, and to es-
tablish an Indian republic. To this
end we have heaped up wealth for gen.
erations, that 1t might serve us
when the hour was ripe, and because
of this wealth, by which the secret
could not altogether be hid in land
which is full Of spies, some of us have
come to cruel deaths, as am about to
do tonight.
Nevertheless, say to him that l lay
no commands upon him as to these mat
tiers, seeing that he must follow his
own will sbout theIa, for / cannot for.
get that from generation TO generation
those who went before him have reaped
nothing but disaster in their struggle
against the white devils, whom, because
of the sins of our forefathers, it has
pleased God to set over u.s.
"Those were your fathers words, my
son, which he spoke to me in the hour
before his murder. And now you will
understand why l said you must ws;t
before You determined to be a priest. II
that IS still your wish It can be fulfilled,
for your father left it with you to fol-
low the life you might desire"
When he had finished speaking j
thought for awhile and answered:
"While my fathers blood is unavenged
/ cannot become priest"
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with a sigh. THAT cursed talisman
which lies about your neck has begun
its work with you, Ignatio, and you
will tread the path that the others trod
perchance to die in blood, as they did,
Within a 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
ures still lay hidden.
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 ths
house of one Antonio, to whom the
padre Ignatio 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, 1 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
stand, asked me if had a heart. TIC
this / replied that hoped so, whereat
tonic, coming to me, unbuttoned my
e1, s,f hn 20 ho haT
belonged to my father, and at the sight
of it all the company bowed.
Next the doors were locked, and, sen
tries having been posted before them, 6
| ceremony began which even now it i!
| not lawful that / should describe in de
| tail, wherein / was first initiated int
the mysteries of the Order of the Heart
and afterwards installed as its heredi
| tary chief, thus becoming while yet {
boy the absolute lord of many Thousand
men, brethren of our order, who were
scattered far and wide about the land.
! On the day after l had taken tn,
final oaths Antonio handed over to m,
the treasure that my ancestors boarded
in secret place, which my father haC
left in his keeping, and 1t was grea
treasure, amounting to more than ;
million dollars in value.
Now l was rich, both in men ant
money, still, following the counsel o
| Antonio, abode for awhile in the vii
lage, receiving those who came to visi
me from every part of Mexico as Holde
of the Heart, and as first in rank among
the fallen peoples of the Indians.
Some three miles from the villag
where 1 dwelt lived two sisters, Indian
of noble blood, though poor, one o
them a widow and the other a yer,
beautiful girl, younger than myself
1t CHANGED that l was riding past thei
house upon a certain Sunday evening
when most of the inhabitants of tn
valley were away at fiesta, and heart
screams coming from it.
Dismounting from my horse ran il
at the door, which was open, and say
one of the sisters, the widow, lyin
dead upon the ground, while two bar
dts, Mexicans, were attacking tn
, younger woman. Drawing my ms
chete, cut them down.
Now after this the girl whose life
had saved came to dwell in my villag,
; where / saw much of her. So Lowell
| was she and so clever that soon she wo
my heart, and the end of it was ma
ried her, against the advice of Antoni
ana OJDerS OF my brethren Oh Une Orue
The more l thought on them I'll
: more the wrongs of my countrymeI
the real owners of the land, took hol
{ of my mind, till at length they pc
} sessed it utterly, and became an el
, thusiast and visionary, making it IL
! object of my life to form great col
) spfracy and bring about rising of I'll
| Indians in every province of MexiC
/ upon a given day, and then when IL
a Spaniards and their bastards, the Spa
ish Mexicans, had been stamped out
reestablish the empire of the Aztecs.
For year or more was the create
r power in Mexico, and yet, though hui
e dreds were privy to my secret, it was
0 well kept that no whisper of it came
' the ears of the government. At lengt
I all was ready, and so carefully were II
J, plans laid that success seemed certai
|, just before the time fixed for the risin
s it was agreed that my wife should
placed, as one of whom we could
/ sure, as a servant in the house of a m;
a who ruled Mexico in those days, tn
r she might spy upon him.
il Instead of that, she, my wife, fell
/ love with him. 1t is easy to guess Il
h rest. One night, but week before Il
o appointed time. and some five or S
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