The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1896-07-30

day is done there will be trouble. In
deed, shall be thankful II we live to
see to-morrow's light"
BY this time we had reached the
others.
"Are YOU weary of waiting" she said
to the senior, giving him a sweet look
as she spoke. "Well. should have
been happier here than / was yonu,r.
Give me your hand and lead me down
the stairs. for l am tired. All. friend, did
you but know it, | have just dared
more for your sake than | should have
dared for my own"
What have You dared?' he asked.
"That you will learn in due time IL
we live long enough, friend" she an
swered; "but, oh! l would that we had
never set foot within this city"
Two hours had passed, and following
in the train of Zibalbay and Maya, who
walked beside him, once more we found
| ourselves upon the summit of the pyre-
mid. Now, however, it was no longer
empty, for on il were collected men to
the number of some thousands, indeed,
all the adult male population
( of the city. On one side of
the altar were seated TilSal
and his bride, Nahua, who was the only
woman there. and some hundreds of
mobiles. all of whom | noted were armed
and guarded by body of soldiers that
stood behind them.
On the other side were many vacant
places, and as Zibalbay and Maya, with
the great company of followers that he
had gathered, advanced to take them,
Tikal and every man present on the
pyramid uncovered their heads and
bowed in greeting to him.
Then Zibalbay rose to address the
multitude. and | noted that his fierce
face was pale and anxious, and that his
hand shook, although his eyes flashed
anGrily.
"Nobles and people of the City of the
Heart" he began, ''on this day year
ago l left this city on n certain mission.
This was my mission: to find the sew
cred portion of the sacred symbol that
is in the sanctuary of the temple, the
portion that is called Day which has
been lost for many an age.
"You know that our race has fallen
upon evil times, and that year by year
our numbers dwindle, till at length the
end for the people is in sight, seeing
that within some few generations they
must die out and be forgotten. You
know also the ancient prophecy, that
when once more the two halves of the
Symbol of the Heart, Day and Night,
are laid side by side in their place upon
the altar in the sanctuary, then from
that hour this people shall grow great
again: and you know how a voice spoke
to me in answer to my prayers, bidding
me, Zibalbay, to wander forth from the
country of the Heart, following the
road to the sea, for there l should find
that which was lost.
"Thither, then, having won the per-
mission of my council, the brotherhood
of the Heart | have wandered alone
with my daughter, the Lady Maya, suf-
fering much hardship and danger in my
wanderings, and 10! / have found that
which was lost, and brought it back to
you, for here it hangs upon the neck of
this Ignatio, who, has accompanied me
from the lands beyond the desert" :"
Now murmur of astonishment went
up from the multitude, and Zibalbay
paused awhile.
'Of this matter of finding the SYM
Dol" he continued, 81 will speak more
fully at the proper time.
"But first in this hour will deal with
other questions. 1t is known to you
that when | Went upon my mission |
left my nephew Til,al to sit in my place,
it being agreed between us and the
council that if ! should return no more
within two years he should become ca
clque of the people. | have returned
within the year, and l find this: That
already he has allowed himself to be
anointed cacique, and more. that he,
who was affianccd to my daughter, has
taken another woman to be his wife.
Last night, with my own ears, l
heard him proclaim his treachery in the
hall of the palace, and when l spoke
out the bitterness that was in my heart,
l. Your lord. was met with threats and
told that TiSal having been anointed
could not now be deposed. l use the
word against him. Mobiles, have / not
been anointed, and ruled over you and
the people for many years? And can l
then be deposed; j who am not Il traitor
to my master nor a forswearer of my
oaths, as is my nephew yondcr."
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, 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 1g-
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"
1T becomes you i'll, Natal" replied
Zibalbay, "to question me. Yet ] will
answer you, and scorning subterfuge or
falsehood, set out the whole matter in
the hearing of the people, that they may
| judge between me, your party, and
| your master.
"First, / will say that had forgotten
the law of which you speak, whereof |
have broken the letter, or if at any time
| remembered it my necessities caused
me to disregard it, Learn, then, that
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 a man than the master of the order
in yonder lands as | am here.
This lord Ignatio summoned TO me
and he came. lie 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 I was vnnderinr far from