Show HEART or OF THE WORLD A strands story taken from a manuscript bequeathed by an old indian to his friend and comrado comrade an Engli englishman ahman named jenss rby BY 11 EIDER CHAPTER CHAPT rr MATTAI at Til kikals kalb words the company murmured io ii astonishment arid anil mattai Mat bending began to whisper in lit his s car jal listened tor for a moment th then en turned elou hint him fit and then sail aloud so pil 11 could hear liim 1 I 1 tell nou ou bl attai that I 1 AN ill be no party to alila iniquity has such 11 a thing athing I 1 been teen heard of before that t the lie lady of the heart the highest lid lady y in tile the land hind should be given in marii marriage carnage age to a stranger wilo who like some lost dog clog lias has do acred to or orr I 1 gate the prop prophecy licey beran began mattai Tat tai the prophecy I 1 rut ait no faith in iphy Why should 1 bobev a kroph written auw i uw then or ly whom I 1 do not know this lady was ray my affianced bride and now tini am asked to unite tier to a nameless neless na man in an mho it is not cv even n ot of our blood or faith well I 1 will ill not surf surely tv lord ou blaspheme an it cred mattai il attai growing wroth roth see in ins that it is not for t tin highest priest to speak against tile the braile of if the god also jahs lie he added with ine aning vi what hat tin an it bo be to oil who fir r nut list ten tell days x w ed tu to the lady at 3 our stile that tharsile sile to N w hom once you were opre aHja should another as lier husband d T what is it tc me asked furiously if yon yoi desire to know I 1 will tell you it i TOry thina how did I 1 tome to liu break al toy my troth find aud to take your daughter is as a eife ife through nou ou lil maclai attai thio tl bough urb you yon tile liar ind and balse prophet did dia not swear to till me that lavas iava as dealt dead jonder in the w and did you not to satisfy your own ambitions force me onto in to I 1 take alce your daughter to wife ay and in d is not this marria marriage c between tile the lad lady v of the heart and the va white hit man a ilot atif of yli yours firs devised for the furthering g of 3 your our ends no now w hile all stood astonished of a sudden nabbia who nho hitherto had listened in stony stona silence rose robe and said aid aly my lord forgets forget that common courtesy should protect even an unwelcome wife from public insult T then hen she turned arid and left the hall by the door which was behind her bet now N 0 a murmur of pity for the lady and 0 1 i indignation n d i g aaion against the man ran I 1 through the company and as it lied died away aay said evil vil will come of this nights nig lits work anil in ili it I 1 will have no hand do what hat you will vill find and abide the issue aud and before any could speak in answer bealco he also hall aft the hall lol loped by his gum ds por for awhile I 1 feie was luence ence then folk began to talk confusedly and some of the members of abe brotherhood of the heart rising front from their hails chafes took burned counsel together at length they resealed seated re themselves and holding up his hand to secure q juiet it I 1 e t I 1 mattai M attai thus flit give me he be said addressing the audience audien ct if my words word seem few fcc and I 1 ici ough igli but bill it is hard for fit to be calm in tle the fare face of the HIP open insult winch lias bas been put upon my osen daughter aughter and myself before you all I 1 will not stoop to answer the charges charge that the lot if tikal lias to brought against fit hiir in ins his lage sur 1 some evil power must have af him with madness I 1 hat forgetting ills his honor bonor as a man mail anti and lit ins duty duly as a prince and priest lie should dare to utter litter such bitch calumnies calum nies against the flare god to we worship the whito white man whom the alie god to lie a husband to the I 1 lady maya and myself the keeper of the sanctuary there were many among y you of who ho held mr me foolish aben ali rn after much player anti and thought to fur for ther what I 1 befi believed eved to lie ile the true interests of the wilt c people I 1 gave my ins voice in fitros of t the fling up of if tikal the place and hobor ot cacique in room of out our late prill co Zi balbay is horn hom we thought dead with ins hit daugh let irr in in the wilderness tonight to night I 1 see sec that they were right and that I 1 was foolish indeed but enough of regrets regret anil and bitter t talk k that make ill music sit at a marriage feast tikal the head of 0 our hit farchy ha lias gone golic but other r priests are left nor is his will vill the will of tile the council or the lie people of the heart fur for whom the alie council speaks their will vill it is that this marriage should go forwalt fur waid d and dimas my brother as the oldest ai among ong us I 1 call upon you to celebrate it now the company shouted in ap P for the were set apol upon rl this strange union of a white man loan with their lady if only because it at u a as S I 1 i ill thing I 1 r ind and touched their imagination a and 15 even those of them who w ere of li his party parts ereio th with roucal it oil account of hiell his HI behavior and the emel cruel lie I 1 had offered offe to liis his new nei made wife so 0 o soon as tile the tumult had died away t lie old priest dimas rose and taking tl alic illinois hands of if maya anti if llie b senor e 1 lie innel i and said a ivr vere t touching oli bolling ind and 1 thom iaco ng mg aid entreating the sp sprit spirit rit I 1 11 I 1 tart of heaven and other gods to give 1 I n in lit celab ind i nd i 1 0 make them lia happy it ir each others love last lastly iv I 1 he e ia aid I 1 a awhile vi hite silken cloth which had been prepared upon their I 1 heads OA as they knelt before him ind and loosing using the emerald girdle about tile the aist of the bride took her right hand lud placed it upon the arm of the tha then lie bound the girdle round sn rit rist and firm arm budded buckled it find in a few aellen words dared abc twain to it man and ilife in the fiihr of anti ami earth till death unda the bliem in now the as lifted ard tho girdle loosed and sta arlin upon ivet feet t alie lie II 11 anuw iv tt t pair III kishni I 1 cacil other before the tic ale A shout of joy joylen ent up tillit ill hunk the paneled runt ruff and ancl one by Y one in order of their rani rank the guests forward to wish joy to t alic lie bride braile and bridegroom roost most of them bri bringing ngim some home costly and ami beautiful gilt which they gave into into the charge of alic ile nailing Nai tio indies hidich last of all came the old r rubt dimas and said haid swett i beyt bride tile gift that I 1 am com coin by alic council to make to you thon though il ol of bittic value in itself I 1 is s yet one of f the most precious to bi be found folind within thea 63 ot of this liis ancient city being 11 nothing less than the holy symbol of the all seeing eye of the of I 1 which through throng it I 1 oil oi men be told to today day tor for the first time tor for many generations NI car it ati always v ay lady 0 and nd rem remember ember that though this jewel lias no DO sight yet yet that eye ot of i is aili aich it is is a token bolce a f from kozl li hoir wr to ti hour reads your most secret soul and purpose make your thoughts abts then as lair as your body an and d let your your breast neither guile nor evil for of all these thebe things in a day to come you must hust surely give account A As tic it spoke he grew drew from the case that hat lid hid it nothing less leht than lian that awful C ate 1 e which we ive had seen wi within thin the hollow 10 of if tile the beart it QU with i I 1 aba I 1 to ed hands we vw robbed it sob substituting S tj t lit I 1 1 a the false forthe for thu true now it biad ad been set in a band of gold and hung to a golden chain N which aich he placed about her neck deck SO mhd L WL nd i 11 buil bild cruel looking gera gem lav gleaming on her naked breast waya boll boned ell ind and muttered some words word of thanks ilienia but I 1 saw that her spirit 9 f failed filed her at the touch of the ominous I 1 hing foi she turned faint and would haic hac fallen had not her husband caught her ber by it tile the arm arin atle the senor and bi his wife were re bening sifts ift and listening to pretty ii a number of attendants hall had brought tables laden iddon with every sort of food from behind tile the pillars where the they had bad been prepared prepare and at a signal the feast began it v as long and joyous on though joy seemed to have faded from alic face of f maya alio sat at the head ol 01 raj it neither eating not nor drink drin km but bill f from r ioime time to time lifting the red rd eve framl her breast us as though it scorched amr skin shill at length she rose and accompanied by her husband walked bowing down the hall to the corn yard where bear els eis for them with carry carrying ing hairs rs in these they seated themselves alla au a a procession having havin been form ril vei very I 1 lung v n a aud d splendid bendid though I 1 w ill D not ot say t to 0 gd describe it we started to to march round the alie great square to the sound of music ind and singing our path 13 ei fill 11 t by t 11 c aig light 1 it cl of f the moon and hundreds hundred of it torches here flere in this square alIthe all the population of if the fity it of the heart men women and children to bride each of them be bearing aring flowers and a naming flaming torch anti and bic er have I 1 seen any sight morr more beautiful than this of their welcome the circuit of the square being the procession halted it at the palace gates anil many hands were is d out to help the bride and Gride grolo in their litters it n vins as at this moment that I 1 who wah wa s t arid i D n near e ar felt a man who 0 was wrapped in fix a largo feather r cl cloak cia k push past pasi me inc ano and saw that hp he held beld some lit ing is aich gleamed like a knife ity by ity tillet as it were I 1 cried beivide Hc Bei ware vire my f I 1 ien in spanish find and in so piere ing at a that it if caught caup lit the senors car bi 11 gaung vung round for already lie he was staw stand sig ig on his feet feel and 1 as I he turned tl man in the cloak rushed at him and sobbed lib edwith with tile the knife hut but lein being IV oil the brior was too quick lor him springing aging to one side with the same movement over nent lie ho dealt the would lie be a great Iou buffet fet that caused him to the knife and sent him to g r into t 0 I 1 alie I 1 dense decse shadow of thea inome alic archway rc L h for seconds no one seemed to understand what had happened and when alic did and began to search lie man mail he was not to be lourd lound wao ato lie m was as or wit why V lie he had attempted tills thu cowardly deed As was as never part I 1 have little doubt but that elf either imi tili al himself or some cremere of his was wrapped in the dark i stather aelier cloak anti and thought thus to t rl K him of his rival indeed a I 1 line we ton this belief took firm hold af pf of t t c mind of tho the people and v was as ode cite ol 01 ot in ile caich that lyd ivd to the RW inhof ng a roweland po power and popularity very atily the senor assured the lords in who crowded around hii i that lie he had ad received to no ni milliner 0 tort and then after speaking a few arief words ccok of thanks he with withdrew sv I 1 litt t 0 th the c palace a v n ith ili ins wife and I 1 saw I 1 it km in no more that night flight abrew dansot the senors marriage we heard that I 1 mattai hall had be been en wi with fix sickness a kind of pad palsy sy together wah a leprous condition of the a ai mh ME that 14 all skill for months he lay jay in me ills house getonn plowing ing gi giad 11 nally dually woi se so said tile physicians physician but one night I 1 retti ember it was three days previous to tile the birth of mayas May achild child lie appeared before saya alays the senor and myself its as we sat together in th the e palace looking out upon the mo moonlit oni it garden at first lie c lid did not lot know him for never before had I 1 seen a sight so dreadful die adful hiis afis body was vitis bloated one arm arin liis his left was swathed in bandages hit hib head bead shook incessantly and the leprosy bad daiil seized ills his face which Is aich was as ol of a livid hoet do not shrink from me he began in in a low quivering voice as lie he gazed upon poll us a va with ith liia his whitening eye surely you if should not lint shrink seeing that all of you are partners in ill the alio crime that has made of me the loathsome tiling I 1 a am 1 I lyd aye deny licely it if you will but bul I 1 know it the vengeance of the god lias has fallen upon me file liis his false servant and it lias fallen justly moreover be assured that eliat ou on you also shall thit vengeance a also so fall for the eve lids has seen the mouth lias has told anti and the heart has thu thought fh pon y your ni or doom look 00 1 upon I 1 poll me e and learn how rich nie I 1 hit lie wages age of jilin him who ilici works in and by my sufferings rings strive to count the ro nic aure cabure of your own x liance fiance your cup clip ia rit not yet full fill per 3 mi have till still cater rr ater sins to but bill vengeance ven eunce shull shall come I 1 I 1 tell on oil thit vengeance shall come herf here and aft 1 I 1 I did ali this ibitz ahin for my flaugh ler bip in lil rs fw fill idt of lur her my ins orax gilld she was is w a ignitious and s ahr he d df i oil ill this is man mail and i I 1 thour Uio lit it lo 10 ati nn n n 11 nd to her children ati i ili e uina hit been lui i vill ga I 1 and alel ln r pleat jilt fl n it lies her alel III lui bind hale hei let vill fill inu till rr or growing haac now they sc en nirl I 1 i rak eak of speak orix onh to bettt r upon lach each others heads moru more not dot fui fol hing will he be UR iff it the city ol of the heart for his hin deluis je luis tiuis ge re lias has soured all hn his mind his dv dri il v e deeds of oppression and unjust ace ready eady lie ile istle is detested tested by the people d even those who lo 10 loved acl him t mill till ain him and plot u against him do en il low loss what they pt plot tile they plo plot t I 1 tn iko ake that eliat that si shall all be barll corn 0 01 11 II mabil cacique in his room anti and to t you ind add your our outland husband ill ap I 1 regents I 1 alf ill it shall be 0 an asre are to nei vein n 0 you you have hare planned ind in I 1 ing look well for 3 ou on but I 1 say say that ny y hall rot not prosper pi osper ali and shaking his ili withered arm in in ir 11 faces lie turned and limped from I 1 ie chamber now we sat gazing abins at each other in error arror for though wp we none cone of us had ill ly faith in tile the bodh pod he 0 worshiped in ili ir hearts we felt that this man inan spoke ruth and that the evil won would d overta overtake ice 1 is for a moment abaya hid her face in her hands and its wept crt find and then she sprang prang up lip and a fire fir e in in her eyes had dried fier her tears so io let it be site she cried 1 I care nothing at the least I 1 won you voll oh on in my love and for some mo months through ail our fir troubles I 1 have hare been happy at your side and come good or come ill nothing can rob me of my memories rout but for you you I 1 fear oh ob ray my husband 1 I 1 fear for you oui and her passion past she filing herself se if into his arms armi anti and again began to weep coll in due course the child was born a beautiful boy bov almost white in color with liis his inot mothers ber e yes eyes and on night it vie e learned that mattai had died in much rich torment and that was delivered of a son fourteen teen days went by and maya now n ow risen from froin her bed was seated with her husband and myself while in i us 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