The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-08-29
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novel written
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/ because loved you. have al.
ready told your
"ff you keep this up ! shall go
mad" he cried
II have felt like going mad over
! II myself many times" she assured
him.
/ "if you think n IL easy for me
I thus 90 play the Anglo Saxon you
are mistaken. But no Anglo Saxon
not even you-whom I love so
dearly. can hold me IN contempt be.
cause | hide the shameful secrets OF
the Impulses Of my being Less
shameful md u for me 10 tell
them. right out In meeting. 10 you.
/ II this be Anglo. Saxon. make the
most OF H. II II be Spanish. and
Woman. and Solano. htill make the
/ best OF n. for arm Spanish and
woman Spanish woman Of the SO.
/ lauos
But I don't talk with my hands. &"
she added with wan smile In the
silence that fell
Just AZ he was about TO speak she
/ hushsd him. and both listened 20 a
cracking and ruatling from the un.
derbrush that advertised the passage
OF humans
Listen" she whispered. hurriedly.
laying her hand suddenly on his arm.
as II pleading. II shah be finally
Anglo Saxon. and for the last time.
when I tell you what am going 10
tell you. Afterward. and for always.
shall be the bafiiing. fiutteriug f..
male spaniard you have chosen for
my description. Listen. I love Hen,
~. IL IL true. very true. love you.
more: much morc' shall marry
[ Henry because love him
and am pledged TO him. Yet always
shall I love sou more
Before he could protest the old
Maya priest and his peon son
emerged from the undrrbrush Close
upon them. Scarcely noticing their
presence. the priest went down on
his knees. exclaiminw in Spanish
For the first time have my eyes
behsid the eyes Of CHA"
Is ran the knots Of the sacred tas.
sci and began Il prayer In Maya.
which. could they have understood.
ran m follows;
80 immortal CHA. great spouse Of
the divine HxatEl. who created all
things out Of noihlnsn~ms' O i'm.
mortal spouse 81 finatri. myself the
mother ~ the corn. the divinity Of
the heart Of the husked grain. god
d.as 81 The rain and ~. fructlfylng
aun rays. nonrisher 81 an tho grains
and roots ~ man, O glorious CHA.
whose mouth ever commands the ear
u iixatEi. to thee humbly thy priest.
I make my prayer. he Kind 10 me.
and forgiving. From my mouth frs,
issue forth the golden key that opens
the ear % HEatxi
Let thy faithful prizes, gain TO
HsAtzi's treasure for himself. o
divinity. but for the sake Of his son.
whom the grinKo saved. Thy chill.
dren. the Mayas. pass. There IL no
need for them % the treasure. am
thy last priest. with me passes ali
understanding Of thee and u thy
great spouse. whoac name I breathe
Wt&Af WIN tAAN t"tftAfNAA wa AfA' "kNttF@4
Hear me. o CHA. hear me- My head
j. on the stone. before thee
For all 81 fve minutes ihe old
Maya lay prone. auiverlu. and jerk
ms as u In n cAialspHy. while Leon.
len and Francis looked curiousiy on.
themselves half swep; BY tn. unmis
taxable soiemniiy OF the old mans
prayer. non .undcrsta ndahie tho IL
was.
Without waiting for Henry. Fran.
cha entered the cave a SECOND time
with Leonica beside him he felt
quite like guide aa he showed the
old priest over tho place. The latter.
ever reading the knots and mum
bling. followed behind. while the peon
was left on guard outside.
In the avenue Of mummier the
priest halted revcrentiy~- not 30
much for the mummics as for the
sacred tAs@ei
IT II no written" he announced
holding out particular string OF
knots. These men were evil. and
robbers. Their doom here IL TO wait
forever outside the inner room OF
Maya mystery"
An INSPIRATION