Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-18
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- but one escape.
what escapes" asked Maya. quickly,
for when she learned that Iikal knew
everything al hope had faded from her
heart, as from ours.
MAYA. two people live, and two
alone, who know this tale, Nah'ia, my
wife. and myself. Till this morning
there was hut one, FOR Nahua only told
me of 1t when she found that YOU had
not escaped, and this she has done that
she may he rid of You, whom she hates
as her rival. Therefore IL was that she
would have held me back from pursuing
Won, and therefore il IL that she VIII
appear before TIE Council of the Heart
this night, 80 that her evidence may in
sure Your instant death in the Pit of
| Waters. But as il chances least of any
thing on the earth do desire that my
ewes should lose sight of YOU, whom
now as ever love better than anything
| on the earth"
Now the senior grew white with rage,
and hc broll" in:
"Hou will do well to keep such words
/ to yourself. Tillal, for of this he sure, II
Won do not. win add To my crimes,
and you shall not leave this place alive.
| No need To look Mt your guards. What
] do | care for Your guards, who have
| but one life Ia lose? Speak thus again,
and before they reach You you shall he
/ dead
Let him go on, husband, said Maya;
"what can a few insults more ar less
matter tn ~ now? Continue, most no
bic Tilal. hut. for your own sake, re-
strain Yourself and say nothing that a
| husband should not hear"
"lt is for this reason" he went on,
| taking no notice of the scnor's anger,
that ! have come here with plan to
save Won all. YES. even this braggart
white man who has robbed me of YOU.
| II Nahua and | are silent. who will
know of Your crimes? And IL the evil
| dence Of them is destroyed before Your
/ eyes, who is there who can prove them?
/ Now, ! will I've silcnt-at price. l will
/ even bring the true tablet of the proph-
/ ecy and the roll of Nattai's confession
and destroy them with fire before you. y
'lou win he silent, said MAYA. but
! what ~ Nahua? Viii she be silent ALSO"
! Now TilSal's dark face grew evil with
/ some purpose of his own, though
1 whether II were of murder, or of what,
7 | do not know.
Leave Nahua 10 me. he said. with
: draw the charge You made against her
/ Of attempting to kill yonder child, and
I free her thus of the need of appearing
this night in the sanctuary, and swear
to Won that no word of her dreadful
secret shall ever pass her lips. Then
Won will he tried upon one issue only,
that Of having broken your oaths by
. flying the city, crime that Is not be-
yond forgiveness"
You spoke Of price. Tikal; tell ms,
what is that price we must pay?"
The price is yourself. Maya. Nay,
bNar me ont, and you, white man. keep
~ucrt II YOU will swear upon the
Z lear ." become nv wife within six
4 1'rIihs flom this day, then | on my
part will swear that the white man,
| your husband, who is not your husband,
! for he won the consent of the council
! to his marriage by trick. shall be suf-
fered to escape the land unframed,
| taking with him his friend and so much
of our treasure and things needful for
their journey rs he may desire.
Il will swear, also, and by this You
may see how deep and honest is my love
/ for YOU. that your son shall not be dis
! possessed of the place and rank which
/ he holds in the eyes of the people as a
I lIcavcn-scnt dclivcrcr whose coming
was foretold by prophecy. My child
shall give place to yours, Maya.
Once before | held out the hand
I Of peace 10 Won, Maya, but you refused
| il and iricllcd me. and from that refusal
/ has sprung the death of your father and
many other sorrows.
"Do not refuse me again, lest these
sorrows should be increased and multi
piled upon you and upon us all. 1t is
! no strange or unnatural thing | ask of
! You that you should wed the man to
whom for many years you were
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first lady in this city, instead of giving
yourself over with your accomplices to
the mos infamous of deaths"
"Yet IL is the most strange and m
natural, Tikal, that a wife should be
asked to part thus from her husband.
| But stay; il is for him to speak, not me,
| for he NAV be glad to buy safety at
this cost. First, what do you say, Ig-
natio? Tell me, though fear your an
swer, for il is easy TO guess, seeing that
| Tikal offers all that you can desire,
freedom and treasure, to enable you to
execute your plans"
at is true, lady" replied, ''that he
offers me these things, though whe
or not he is able to give them | cannot
say, and il is true, also, that i have no
wife here whom l must leave, and no
prospect save that of traitors death.
Still. lady. | remember certain promise
that made TO you yonder in the wilder
your husbands life, and l remember,
also. that IL was through me that he,
my friend, came to visit this accursed
city. Therefore / say let our fate be
one fate"
Those are very noble words, friend"
she said, ''such as could have come only
from your noble heart. Now, husband,
do you speak"
Il have nothing t. pay, Maya" re-
' lied The Scror, with little nigh,
/, except - ,-yvondc~ Why YOU e.. sc
'iE.--lS j a We might st,s-4 happily to
/ Eether in listening to thi fellows IN
suits. IL Won bid me go to gave yCu, per
haps / might think about IL, but ceI-
| tainly l will not stir one pace from your
side 10 save myself from any death"
ut seems that have got my answer"
said Til1aL May none Of you regret it
/ tonight when you come to look down
into the Pit Of Waters Well, time
presses, and / have much to do before
we meet again." and he turned to
\ leave us.
1t might be thought that after Tilsal
was gone we should have spoken to-
| gether of what had passed, and of the
1 tiAdt uS. but lillS
was not so; think we felt, all of us,
that there was nothing more TO be said.
1t Is useless to fight against Fate, and
IL is still more useless to be afraid of
him, seeing that whatever we do or
leave undone, he has his will Of us at
| last.
So we sat and chatted of Indifferent
things, cur life at the mine at Cumarvo,
that night which we spent in the
hacienda CT Santa Cruz, the death of
our brave companion, Molas, and 1
know not what besides. Presently the
child awolSe, and its parents occupied
themselves with it, finding resem-
blances to each other in its tiny fea-
lures, while i walked up and down the
hall. counting the lamps, smoking and
| wondering where l should be by this
time on the morrow.
At length the gates opened. for now
Il was almost the middle of the night,
and there came through them Dimas
and guard of priests. The old man
bowed before MS and said that the time
had come TO lead us before the council
in the sanctuary, but that we were TO
have no fear, seeing that from all that
he had been able to learn our offense
would be leniently dealt with.
Maya asked what was to become of
| the infant, which could not be left
| alone, and he replied that she must