Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-02
. . The . .
Lost Continent
BY CUTCLlFFE HYNE,
Psb By Harper Bros Cepyrxht 1904, BY cutelits En-

q CHAPTER XIV.

@AouAlAAus We COuIU sec uONu luCV
the city, which lay spread out below
us like map. The harbor and the
great estuary cleaned at it's farther
side, and the fringe of hills beyond
smoked and funed in their accus
tened fashion; the great stone circle
OF our Lord the Sun stood up grim
ard bare in the middle of the city, and
nearer in reared up the great mass
of the royal pyramid, the gold on its
sides catching new gold from the sun.
There, too, in the square before the
pyramid stood the throne of granite.
dwarfed by the distance to the size
OF u mole's hill, in which these nine
years my love had lain sleeping.
Old Zacmon followed my gaze
"Aye," he said, with sigh, II know
where your chief interest is. Deu-
Yucatan was strong man. The king
whom we have chosen--and who is
The best we have to choose-has his
weakness"
ut can be turned into additional
strength. Give me Nais here, living
and warm to fight for, and I am
stronger man by far then the cold
viceroy and soldier that you speak
about"
II have passed my word to that al
ready, and you shall have her, but at
the cost of damaging somewhat this
new kingdom of yours. Maybe, too.
at the same time we shall rid you Of
this phorenice and her brood. But I
do not think it likely. She is too
willy, and. once we begin our play,
she is likely to guess whence it
comes and how it will end, and so
will make an escape before harm can
reach her. The high gods, who have
sent all these trials for our refine
ment, have seen fit to give her some
knowledge of how these earth tremors
may be set a-uoving.'
II have seen her :iuggle with them.
But may I bear your scheme"'
ut will be shown You in good time
enough. But for the present I would
bid you sleep. and take your woman
Chat is my daughter) when she is
set free, and bring her here as best
you can. And for that you Will need
all strong mans strength" He
stepped back and looked me up and
down. "There are not many folk that
would take you for the tidy. clean
chinned Deucalion now. my brother.
Your appearance will be a fine armor
for yon down yonder in the city to-
night when we wake it with our
earth-shaking terror. AS you stand
now, you are hairy enough and shay
gy enough and naked enough and
dirty enough for some wild savage
new landed out of Europe. Have
care that no fine citizen down yonder
takes a fancy to your thews and seizes
upon you as his servant"
IT somewhat pity him in his house
hold if he does"
Old Zaemon laughed. "Why, come
to think of it, so do l."
But quickly he got. grave again.
Laughter and Zaemon were very rare
playmates. 'Well, get You to bed,
my king, and leave me to go into the
Ark of Mysteries and prepare there
with another Of the three the things
that mus: dc done. II is no light bust
ness to handle the tremendous powers
which we must put into movement
this night. And there is danger for
us s>there is for You. So if by chance
we do not meet again till we stand
up yonder behind the stars, giving &C.
count to the gods, fare you we'll, Deu-
Gallon"
I slept that day as a soldier sleeps,
taking full rest out of the hours, and
letting no harassing thought disturb
me. 1t is only the weak who permit
their sleep to be broken on these &C.
casions. And when the dark was we'll
set, I reused and fetched those who
should attend to the rope. Our Lady
the Moon did not shine at that turn
OF the month, and the air was full of
a great blackness. So I was out of
sight all the while they lowered me.
reached the tumbled rocks that lay
1T the deep foot of the cliff, and then
commenced to use a nice caution, be-
cause Phorenicc's soldiers squatted
uneasily round their camp-tires, as
though they had forebodings of the
coming evil. had no mind to further
stir their wakefulness. So I crept
swiftly along in the darkest of the
shadows. and at last came to the spot
where that passage ends which before
had used to get beneath the walls OF
the city.
The lamp was in place, and I made
my way along the windings swiftly.
The air, SO it seemed to me, was even
more noxious with vapors than it had
been when I was down there before,
and judged that Zaemon had already
begun to stir those internal activities
that were shortly to convulse the city.
But again had difficulty in finding an
exit, and this, not because there were
people moving about at the places
where had to come out, but because
the set of the masonry was entirely
changed. In olden time the Priests
clan oversaw all the architects plans,
and ruled out anything likely to clash
with their secret passages and cham
bers. But in this modern day the
priests were of small account, and had
no say in this matter, and the archi-
tects often through sheer laundering
sealed up and made useless many of
these outlets and hiding-places.
AS it was, then, had to get out Of
the network of tunnels and galleries
where could, and not where would.
and in the event found myself at the
farther side of the city, almost up to
where the outer wall joins down to
the harbor. I came out without being
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extremity to preserve the ordinances,