The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-14

I What do you mean by praisng my nus 1 band thus to mel" broke out Rose DO 1 you not think l know his virtues better l than you?"
 ''Husbandn' whispered Frank to Amyas, l Thank God for that'
 My love for him and his trust in me l you can never destroy" continued Rose and then she raised torrent of reproacn on Eustace, calling him serpent and ''tempter," and concluding:
 1T, Donna Rosa de Soto, bid you leave this place forever.i'
 Eustace whispered something in her ear. Her answer was a sherk. Quick of wit l and speaking truer than he knew, Eustaee
 shouted: Help. slaves! Your mistress l is being carried off by bandits!' | At once great tumult arose and bands of armed slaves came sweeping down between Rose and the Engishmen. The alarm spread to the town. and it was a hard fight all the way back to the boat. | Amyas, hit by a large stone, lost his senses. When he came to himself he was In the boat, where his men had | dragged him, and nearing the ship. But Frank was gone-captured by the Span ish-and some were killed.
 The discovery that Rose had not been
 deceived by Don Guzman, but was his
 loved and trusted wife, put new com plexion on affairs: but hatred for the Spaniard was stronger than ever in the i heart of Amyas and stronger the desire to have the mans life.
 And, oh, his grief for Frank! What | answer should be give his mother when ] he returned home again?
 | Amyas steered to the eastward. He would meet that ship in which Guzman l had sailed and fight 1t. But. falling in with three other Spanish men-ofwar, the Rose fought @ battle in which she came off victorious, but so damaged that they had to run her into silent. turgid river and beach her.
 There were eighty of them when they landed and began to repair the. ship, but the fever of the mangroye thickets seized them and some died. At last they. had to
 abandon the vessel and repair to the high lands. There an idea seized upon Amyas Somewhere. concealed in the intermin- able forests which lay behind them, was
 the city of Manoa, the famel El Dorado for which so many gentlemen adventures i had sought, and were seeking, in vain.
 He would find it, aEd, forming his men into guard like the Varangian guard of
 the Byzantine emperors, would drill tue natives for war, descend at their head upon the Spanish settlements, seize their gold and put the Papists to the sword. Frank should be avenged.
 Long, long they wandered months link ing themselves to months, ana Sll1l they pressed through the dense wilderness, led
 by a young Indian whom they had inn pressed as their guide and interpreter. But no sight of golden domes greeted their eager eyes; only the forest and the moun- tains and here and there q few saVages, who fled at their approach.
 At last they came to place where a tribe of Indians lived n a state of semi civilization, governed by a wonderful
 maiden whom they called the Child of the Sun. They had found her wandering in the forest toward the Peruvian frontier and believed her to be one of the lost chill dren of the Inca-that Inca who should
 one day come again to avenge his death and his race and drive the Spaniards into the sea.
 When this maiden came forth from her
 hut to tell the strangers that they were
 welcome to stay in her territory, the
 Englishmen were astonished at her ap-
 pearance Surprisingly beautiful in a
 wild, savage way in face and form, Aya-
 canora, as her people called her. had the
 features of European; and though her
 skin was Drowned by the tropic suns, 1t
 was easy to see tn It it's natural com plexion was not that of the Indian.
 Heavy bands of gold were around her
 arms and her neck was encircled by a
 golden collar. Her air was one of com
 mand and her slightest wish seemed to
 be law to the tribe.
 The adventurers had been eighty when they left their ship. They were only forty
 now. and way-worn and weary. So in this
 earthly paradise they rested awhile from their tolls. Some of the men were for
 staying there foreved. and even the mind