Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-09

With power, and understood that the Y
meant much; they meant that In going
TO the City of the Heart we were, as she
believed, going TO our doom.
Lady" said, lit may well chance
that death waits me yCnder, but
thither shall go IL my strength does
not fail me and death will suffer Il.
For the senior here Il is different. He
has heard your words, and If he will
harken TO them and TO mine, he will
bid us farewell tomorrow and go his
ways, leaving us to go ours"
She listened, and turning toward him,
said: "Iou hear. What say YOU,
white MANI" And 1t seemed to me
that she awaited his answer anxiously.
"Yes, lady, | hear" he replied, with
q laugh, "nnd doubtless II Is all true
enough, and l shall leave my bones
yonder among your countrymcn. Well.
so be it; | have determined to go, and
go i will, since i am too idle to change
my mind. Also, it seems TO me that
after this days business there is more
danger in staying here than in pushing
forward"
81 am glad that You are going, since
you go of your own free will" she said,
smiling. May our fears be COMPOUNDED
and your journey and ours prove pros
porous. And now let us rest, for Won
must be very weary, as | am, and we
should be stirring before the dawn"
Next morning at the first break of
light we started on our journey, riding
on three of the mules that
we had captured, and leading
the fourth laden with orr goods
and water skins. Very glad were
all of us TO see the last of that ruined
temple, and yet il was sad tn me TO
leave il, for there, hidden beneath some
of the masses of the fallen masonry. Law
all that was left of my friend and fos-
ter brother, Molas, he whose bravery
and wit had saved our lives at the cost
of his own.
Our plan was to avoid villages where
we might be seen by men, and keep our
selves hidden in the forest, for we
feared lest we should he followed and
brought TO account because of the
death of Don Pedro and his companions:
and this we were able to do, since hav-
ing guns and ammunition in plenty we
shot birds and deer for our daily food.
Travelling thus on mule back soon
our strength returned To us, even to the
old man Zilbalbay, who had suffered
the most from fatigue and from I'LL
treatment at the hands of the white
men. In something less than a week
we had passed through the inhabited
districts of Yucatan and far ont of the
reach of the white man, and now Were
journeying through the forest toward
the great sierra that lies beyond.
The senior was never weary of ques-
tioning the silent Zilbalbay as to the
history or rather the legend of the land
through which we journeyed, or of lis
tening TO the lady Maya S description OF
the City of the Heart, till even she
grew tired and begged him to speak IN
stead of the country across the water
where he was born, OF the ceaseiess
busy life, and the wonders OF civiiiza-
tion.
Strange as II may seem, who watched
them both from day to day, know 1t to
be true that she was IN mlnd the more
modern OF the two, so much SO indeed
that In listening to their talk 1 might
have fancied that she was the child OF
the new world, hlled with the spirit OF
to-day, aud he the heir OF a proud ana
secret race dying beneath ITS weight OF
years
cannot understanayon, she would
say to him. why do You so love his
tories and ruins and stories OF people
that have long been dead? hate them.
Once they lived, and doubtless were
well enough in their place and time,
but now they are past and done with,
and IL Is we who live, live, live, and
she stretched out her arms as though
she would clasp the sunshine to her
breast.
Il tell you," she went on, that this
home of mine of which you are SO fond