Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-18
HEART OF THE WORLD.
BY H. RIDER HAoGARD.
A strs.se stcry, Taken Prom . Manuscript Do
ss.sthed by an old Mexican Indian 10 Lis
friend and Comrade, an English.
man Named Joses.

CHAPTER XXIn-CosrrNrEn


ibid she then tell Won why We fedq"
asked MAYA. "Did She tell You that
she crept to nv chamber like a thief in
the night, and there was found in the
act of doing murder on my child?"
mo, lady, she told MS nothing Of all
this. Indeed. her manner was strange,
for so soon as She was recovered some
what she took back her words, and
said that she knew nothing of Won or
your plans, and that IL you had fled we
should do well TO let you go before
worse things happened. But knowing
that for all this she had reasons easy to
be guessed, we followed you nd found
YOU, and now we arrest yo answer
before the council for you ,.rcat sins,
in that you have broken Your solemn
oaths by attempting 10 leave the land
without the consent of the council. and
hsve added TO your crimes by taking
with you this child, the Heaven-sent
delivercr, on whom rests the hope of
our race"
''lf we have broken our oaths,- said
"a, we broke them to save our
y We're we then 20 stop in I q ,.fy
Ma tie t.ni'e Of - assassin found rs
.tlt9 Ga the We, 5ip'.' If my mF ria 20
a iaurdefC. IA I rpOn NV hrs B..r q
pointed To Tikai who could tell us
who he Was and " hence he came. Three
DAYS ago another murderer sought
the life of our child, and that muir
derer the wife of the Lord Tikal. Is 1t
then a sin that we should take from tia
land one whose life Is not safe with
in it?n
"All these matters you can lay be-
fore the council, lady," answered
Dimas, land if Nahua is what YOU say,
without a doubt she must suffer for her
crime. Yet her cvildoing cannot pay
for yours, for when you found your
selves in danger You should have
claimed protection from those who
could give IL, and not have betalxen
yourself TO fight. like thieves in terror
of the watch. Come, enter the litter
that isprepared for you, and let us be
going"
Then we started. OF our Journey
back there is nothing to tell, unless II
is to say that after its own fashion il
was even more wretched than that
which we had just accomplished. Then.
indeed, we were footsore, hungry aud
racked with fears, but at least the.
hope of freedom shone before us like
a guiding star, whereas now, although
we Travelled in comfort, it WIS to find
shame, exposure and death awaiting us
at last.
Maya and the : .4or had each other
and their child to - lsole them, but
had nothing except such friendship as
they ch 20 spare r.. The memory of
my mr. ~ failures. ne clinging bitter
ness - ''.Iscienee, the fear of ven
reance ,e wreaked, and the hope of
peace iSyond the end. Therefore i,
an .'utworr and disappointed man, was
prepared 90 welcome the doom that
nvaite@ me, but how would it be with
tee others who were still full of love
and youth?
Late that night we reached the city
and were led, not to the palace where
we lived, but toward the Enclosure of
the pyramid.
How is tbis?- asked Maya of the
captain Of the guard. 'Our road lies
yonder."
No, my lady," he answered; INV
orders are to take you up the stairway
of the pyramid
Now MAYA pressed her face against
the face OF her child and sobbed. for
she knew that once more we must in
habit the darksome vault where her ia
tier had been taken 20 die. They led
us up the stair and down the narrp. ~
way till we stood in the lamplit ha u
and heard our prison gates clash behind
us. Then they gave us food and let
ms alone.