Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-30

left my nephew Tikal to sit in INV place.
it being agreed between us and the
council that if 7 should return no more
within two years he should become ca
c1que OF the people L have returned
within the year, and / find this: That
already he has allowed himself to be
anointed caciQue, and more, that he,
who was affianced to my daughter, has
taken another woman to be his wife.
Last night, with my own ears, I
heard him proclaim his treachery in the
hall of the palace, and when I spoke
out the bitterness that was in nv heart
1, your lord, was met with threats and
told that TikaI having been anointed
could not now be deposed. I use the
word against him. Mobiles, have I not
been anointed, and ruled over you and
the people for many years? And can
then be deposed; who am not a traitor
to my master, nor a fOrSwearer of my
oaths, as is my. nephew yonder."
Again he paused, and some of the
audience with those who had accom-
panied Zibalbay shouted "Nor' but the
most of them looked toward Tikal and
were silent. Now Natal rose from his
place behind Tikal and spoke, saying:
''As one who had to do with the
amounting of Tikal to be cacique when
we believed you and the Lady Maya to
be dead, I would ask you, Zibalbay, to
tell us openly what is the meaning of
this journey that you have undertaken,
and for what purpose you have brought
these two strangers, who are named Ig-
natio and the SON of the Sea, with you
in defiane of the ancient law, which says
that he who brings stranger across the
mountains into the land of the City of
the Heart shall die, together with the
stranger"
''It becomes you i'll, Natal" replied
Zibalbay, Ito question me. Yet / will
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fa1Sehood, set out the whole matter in
the hearing of the people, that they may
judge between. me, your party, and
your master.
"F'irst, will say that had forgotten
the law of which you speak, whereof 1
have broken the letter, or if at any time
I remembered it my necessities caused
the stranger Ignatio is of royal Indian
blood, and the holder of that symbol
which went forth to seek, and that
the white man whom you call Son
of the Sea is as a brother to him. and
that both of them are of the fellowship
of the Heart, the lord Ignatio being no
less man than the master of the order
in yonder lands as am here.
"This lord Ignatio summoned to me
and he came. He came, and with his
companion, Son of the Sea, saved me
and my daughter from shame and
death. Then when we had escaped we
tried each other and laid the symbols
side by side, and 10! Day and Night
came together. and they were one.
''Then also told him how it hap
pened that 1 was wandering far from
my own place, and he told me what was
his purpose and the desire of his life
to break the yoke that the white man
has set upon the neck of the Indians in
the far lands. and to build up a mighty
Indian nation.
"Then we made a compact: That the
lord Ignatio, with the white man.
should accompany US here, where the
symbols should be set in the appointed
place, that the prophecy may be full
filed and fortune return to u.s. That
I should give him SO much as he may
need of the treasures which lie useless
in our store houses, that with them he
may arm troops and bring about his
ends; and that in return he should bring
to us what we need far more than gold
and gems-nen and women with whom
we may intermarry. so that our race,
ceasing to dwindle, may once again
multiply and grow great.
This, mobiles, is our compact, and
this is the path which the god who rules
us has pointed out for our feet to tread
for awhile there was silence. Present
ly it was broken, and by Tikal, who
sprang from his seat and cried aloud:
''Of a truth they were wise who said
that this old man was mad. Have you
heard and understood. o People of the
Heart? This is what you must do to
fulfill the will of Zibalbay: First. ycu
must set him in his place again. giving
him all power, and me you must con-
denim to death or chains; next, you
must pardon him his breaches of the
law, the law that he of all men was
bound to keep.
''Then you must hand over your treas
ures. the treasures boarded by your
forefathers for many a generation, to
these wandering thieves whom he has
brought with HIM, and lastly. you must
open yonr gates that have been kept
secret for a thousand years to other
thieves whom they shall lead here, to
whom, forsooth, you must give your
women in marriage that the race NAV
be increased. Say, will you do these
things, Children of the Hearth
Now, all those mobiles who stood be-
hind Tilxal shouted: ''Never!' and the
people beyond took up the cry with
voice of thunder, though the most OF
them understood little of what was
passing. Tikal held up his hand and
there was silence.
ssYou will not do them" he said. ''and
base indeed were you had you answered
otherwise. What. then, will you do?
Tell me, first, whom do you choose as
your ruler-my uncle, who now is mad
and would bring you to shame and ruin,
or me, who have sworn to preserve your