The Irish standard., 1896-01-18
!, Ii il. hood. hon Il 81 dan
<r1Uur- fpans.b be its{f {f sllatnd AaS9H10 f6nlE


Thsa lsIs 4. s12s s &; & e aes,f
Igs sga 4. assssI ssssi 3 ts gs'ssIs's
you to set these fragments il the holsss
. III that be the will ot-. esuuei
have no choice, hut ta obey, :, said
Natal. YET, stthontgKh. 'inaone else h,ayss
done 50, ( give MY voice agx nst it, foIs
~ hold that this II 6iild dishnSss; ind
/, never. did i, know anY; BOD is spring
from prophecies: !" and Re paaseds aa
thooogh ogBh1 'yai55ns sS 4eE Eisa Sa AZ
they Grained their neclss ferwa ira to seas
what might 6happense n >. e--#s-a
s'Obey!' repeated Tikal 50 But beware
how you shake the ssymbo's lest we
should perish in the doom. ofswaters. "a
r. Then Natal set the. two halves Of
the talisrnann@ iii the hollow 6f the
Heart, and as before. in the midst Of
an utter silence, the heart opened like !:
a flower Leaning forward, ], saW The I
eve within its hollow, but II seemed to
me that the ere had faded adssll fi,q1n 2 sthe
heart Of the jewel, forsi now CLEANED
coldly, like the eye Of g. man @,Who IS
two hours dead. i think that Natal
i noted. this also,t for ,as~ the syrabol
opened he started and his haDa shook.
~. Now, when they saw he marvel,
gasp of wonder rose from q the sa Scopnacal' tlaf
then Tikal spoke, sayiing: -
,...It seems that there 1he was WISDOM a in
Zibalbay's madness, for the Heart has
opened indeed and within it is a stone
=. eye resting 4,aponsa a plate Of gold that is
covered with writing" esA4.s.
Displacing @ ing the Il. s'e. eye heiifted ,tde plate
Md st
Il cannot he said, ahHsit9 his head.
g stIt is written ina in "a oh aractef more an
cient than any I have, studied. Take
It, Natal for You are learned "a, g " snch
u Nov low Natal i; took sdr;*'1t tie ssis tablet and
=. studied it long with a n. aAxloNs fgce,
upon which at length light broke that
changed anon to rwoneerst or .sather,
blank amaze, so that I, watching him,
began to think, not knowing all the
cleverness of. Mattai: that the senior was
right, and the tablet had been tam
psrad with since we saw It: r:h -
Read! Read!" cried the Council.
ssl3rethren: he SAID, the words; seem
clear, and yet so strange is this writing
TINT / fear my learning is at fault nd
.thatI had best give it to others to de-
CIPHER ,a:.+..,,.. !. 4.ts,:s::: 49, -
almost angrl1y. -, = . T: = ~ ~ = y
Then he reaa: "Tnis is the voice Of the
sraved rase upon tdvet of gola which DC set in a
se'aes Sc RaS1 II N as
is found and the signs ofsthe Dag and the
Night are come soEeteri, !. .Ss. .Star .,
chief to be, whose name ls the yna1ae Of e ma.
zion. When my people are grown eld and
faint hen maiden aas I bsnd
man OF the race OF the white; god son
of the Seafoa1n, whom thou shalt lead :hltheF
more prosper. and grow strong. ANA thasiand
shall be TO thy child and the child Of the god,
east and west, and north and South, farther
than my eagles wing between; sunrise and
SET" IN. .ti :.
Now as he read the face Of IT ilssl
grew black with rage, and before evss
the echoes of his voice had died away,
he sprang from his seat, crying: 80
''Whoever it was that wrote this. lying
prophecy. god or man., let: him be ac-
cursed: Shall the Lady Maya. for Der
it must be whose name is the name OF q
nation, be given in marriage, to the
white dog who awaits his doom without
that door. and shall, ,hisrson rnle-uyer
us? First will l see her dead and him
with her!" A,@,-i.' a. 'a,.' ~ ~
Now one OF the Oldest Of the council,
man named Di7nns, who: IS | learned
afterward, had been foster brother to
; Zibalbay. rose and answered angrily:
set seems to me that these things
must be SO, Tikal, and beware how you
utter threats of death, lest they should
fall upon your own head. We have called
upon the gods and the god has spoken
in no uncertain voice. The Lady Maya
must become wife to the white man,
Son of the Sea- and then things shall
befallas, they are fated.H
s'What?" answered Til1al, els this
wandering stranger to be set over mo
and all OF us?" ', : '' =
'sThat DO not know said the coun-
cillor; ''the writing does not say SO; the
writing says that. his son shall be set
over rs, and as yet he. has no SON. But
this is certain that the Lady Maya must
be given to him in marriage, and in her
right he well may rule, seeing that she
you, Tikal, although you have .nsurped
her place" Il. 49,. .s.7..+v*
Now. many voices ealledsupon Mays,
and she stood forward and spoke with
dowucast eyes: ~. sEsst,fssr f,.ss ~
'.Wl1alt shall" say. she began, Eek
cept one thing, that my will lis the will
of the gods, and IL it, is fated That
should be given to tie wliite man In
marriage, why, 50 let it be-
''E'or many years was caught TO look
elsewhere, but he who was to have been
my husband".---77a1d she pointed toward
Tikal--."'chose- himself another wife,
and now ! see. that,h did This notssalto.
gether OF his own vii but: because It
was so decreed. Ono thing more: /,
whom am but woman, shave no desire
to rule or to talte the place that the
Lady Nahua now holds. The writing
says that in day to come, far-oH
day, sohae child Of mine if indeed am
that daughter of q chief VI IRiose natt6o is
: the name of a 'natiofi,, shall Th1e in
truth. Let him then coues in his hour
and take the. glories that await him,
and mean while,7 ;Filfalls * do sy1op4 sit in !
your place and 5leaEe ,,u1e ITO \ rest in
peace" -. ~ II Il. & st.s. .s.iS
'AThe Lady Maya speaaSs .you5 fair,
Tikul and my daughter" said Natal,
'sand If tl1cspeople viii hayeit,E YOU shay
do well to accept her offer, ,leaving the
future to shape itself. ..sShsssays she is
ready 60 take Che; White man as ! hus-
band, but, We have s..notg. yet heard
whether the white man vi II take eher as
4 Q wife, r. may rber .hd- added, with
smile, "that he viii rather choose to
die, but sat the, least we must haye9his
answer from, lis lips. that il, Il il .you ac-
cept this. prophecy as "a voice from
heaven. Say, do you accept it," -
1--WE accepts it, vanswsered the:coAncil,
almost yvitk one roioe.,s,. xssi;..s "a
e'.''Then let The suhit6s mar, Son of the