| Show HEART OP OF THE WORLD A strange story W taken from a manuscript bequeathed by an all old merican indian to ilis his friona friend and Comra comrade ao an englishman named acnes BY II if fahd iA HD CHAPTER L I 1 nov BOW TH R PLOT I 1 11 ignatio Ii Igni natio tio tile the writer writ r of this history being now it jun n in ill in my av sixty second y auar e ar was wit born in fit a v village among the lilli hint lie in 6 tween the tittle me owns lowns nf if and ot of all 1 I 11 that tat district my dinv inv father f their was war the hereditary Cli cloine and the indians urcal here loved iglich when I 1 I 1 wisia wa a lad ad perhaps nine years old lt I 1 mow in tile the country and in mv fal liar i as made a prisoner I 1 re acinger acin anber ber that clial lie was vs shut up tip in ill a dirt dirle j itice ilace so hot that it was difficult to ork athe and that thai there were bottle mexican soldiers outside tile loor door who no and again threatened to ial an air cull of us u ludian doss dog M b t I 1 the lie priest con iny in v father fiill iri in a corner ot of the cell md d took from his hand cht f inn n ill my illar called me to him and ca casad ad nw lite sigid with ili liis own fingers finders for i bev lit hv fixing my neck thing thin aich the priest hail taken attl rom him ili div to remove it again and ivr it to I 1 ln natio ilio tor for safe keeping kee pini say ap n sc that the boy hns has it and its aary with it iten alien lie comes of age afe I 1 uw ow iny illy facht r kissed me again aaen Irs sine g nit nir in ill tin tile it note name ot of god and a as lu I 1 lit lid I 1 wi arit it t ur urs ran down his face allen ho priest took me away ud ind I 1 never I 1 aver siw tw mv father any nore t or tile the soldier cliot liim hink next Inc tillin lud t fire it lithol lit flo iol 11 into tile liole hole that thai ier her hail due ln if iwvin it after tins this ili eduin anti and lame salce for tool irn wid nid my illy alother to tile little to tor it of kit lie iva was priest but she boon died of a broken heart when I 1 was about fifteen years of ife of a sudden a desire took hold of me I 1 to heroine become a priest 7 on the morrow I 1 went into my rod god wilher s room and told him of my de ire he kittened litt ened to me attentively and 1 I that it might t be 0 o my son holding as I 1 do that the hiis of the world to come outweigh hose I 1 vw of till present earth ten thou auli fold lull it il cannot be for reasons hat you hall 1 harn arn when you oil a are r de ader tin it n I 1 glnn lien my illy trust is ended ende ou oil mr ma litake 3 our choice and if you till it wili wi li it become br cuini it 11 priest cirr vi urs ia p isnec sed away durin durins 9 inch time ciflie I 1 anew strong and active md i tili 1 in I 1 all I abardy exercises and t il dial ed under the te richin gs of my vilf ather vile sent bent even to spam to b buy me e boell boolas s at OB ny twentieth birthday mk who arbs WB now mow grolni very old and feeble cal called led me into his hia chamber anti and having locked the door he I 1 spoke to me thus 1 my son sm tin tit time has come when I 1 must dalm to lo ou tile the last messages mesia ees of your ilowe I lowe I 1 ieather ili cousin and best frn frit no nl who aas a murdered by b the soldiers ol dier H A licit ln ii x ov oil wore were a little child w and UH tell oil oi i lit oil 1 descent and other matt r rs pirt first alic n 1 oil must know you ire of roa roial I 1 anil and ancient blood for your forefather uns i none other than qua gua lemov amoe ti clr last nt t the aztec ein per M spa maids murdered which 1 cent I 1 1 I in it pro arne e to vou bv means of lit i tuil arld pedigreed pedigrees grees also it ii it knon und ani inythe indians r v 10 to rv vt it no nun do not forget the block chenee lie lei sprung sprang their kins then I 1 in right I 1 am emperor of mexico I 1 said laid pir pid ly for in my illy folly it ceded it fine thing linns to br be sprit sprang ng from mm men li lily once lind had woin n brown aarow n ala alus in son on the ilie old answered adl in this world mg liht 11 t is the only out v ris right litand and alic t lie spaniards span bards ended tant of if mini tit bolig uati go by tle t i aid if 1 nii and dIlie alie noose save 1 1 it it ill earn ion ou reverence among it indians it il is lint in a barren honor which oil n inherit etli N ill your blood yet 11 re i is oni one tiling flow that linscome lias come down to ou u from bour ancestor gua temoc hemoc and I 1 ahr ill mount monarchs mon aichs ch who ruled before bill Percha uee you remember chaton that n ill tin fishl li I 1 fmc lie he died your father sat in upon your neck and I 1 enoi in it acain rave it to me to keep I 1 ir isthan is that mulct anti and lu iv handed me a trinket made of the half of if 1 a I heart shaped emerald I 1 smooth till wear but unpolished that I 1 if joined 1 lo 10 1 lt its mis section would have bave bovy lurt large asa as a 1 dote I ove s e ays eys aliis stone stoff was not brodt en n but cut f froin r the too bolcom till the line of llie file cut bilig sn v kanii tha I 1 u no one olle unless in it hall had one in half before hat him ro could itu itale the other this ell charm arill i 1 aih I borad I 1 so ho as to be upon a I 1 thain ind and upon its murfa furfar nit ete tv some borne hieroglyphics and tile the out feitlin iiii or of half a liufau ace NN lit hat i is ir 1 asked ali 1 pi test lesl i bruggen th rugged Wa shoulders klinl lift 11 in had all to dewith 10 with their il thell ma inalie vi and rites rite I 1 sup I 1 ii I 1 ii i i I 1 lilai itye it ept that iiii to filth filar i loll 1011 tre ine that it 1 mas I ille iii 1 of the atee kibis anil hail t I 1 ht native 1 eliere li lieve that it iun it I 1 clr h 1 1 halves of 0 this t tomic came toa ati biln ih i III alir mer men of f hite blood shall hall 1 in aiom central america ind and thit jn it indian emperor shall rule from rout wi 11 i sil il 1111 istle is tle the other halt half falln I 1 am i and therefore your f athi fil liri icell I oll 1111 little of the matter benec it i 1 it 11 A 1 11 1 1 ill that I 1 hould belong to belf t ts iel 4 i i s II 11 lill ill t tome hubli vist eist alad IT lit vmae of the ownership of ff eliat tah lilliam lilli nm iau I 11 will bo be lead of u it 11 as hiir aur ur anee westor nere ere before yo you U I 1 ivil fur fsr as aa I 1 can learn it lian has bu but t I 1 little ittle lucid I 1 let her 11 ong I 1 I 1 t I 1 lliam 1 I know no more abou t but I 1 will phe ge v you 1 letters rs to a aebi ce ti I 1 indian ho to lives i in cul f the 1 district ol of 01 nell fell your father vi nn as until and lion you 0 t 1 show low jim tile the stone d I 1 lie be will i i 1 initiate you into its all estera ditc itc thou tho though urh V 1 counsel el you to have not bui ng ig to do it it I 1 helit i iwed ignatio Ip natio nit nil oil it oil art are a rich junn liow rich I 1 cirii 0 tell you oil lint fur for generation rin pur forefathers forefather it have tally ive hidden up treasure lor for an ain object I 1 act aich 1 I 11 aull 11 explain mid and tho the g gold d will be handed dvor to ou by those oan of bour ur clan in shuw keep keeping it is io it t vat vas bebau r r f chit alii thai Y your 0 I 1 v father and ui grandea 11 alit 1 r r nere eru done I 1 kintli etli it till many others other sinei since tit alip I 1 aimor it bior 0 f ci t ca me to the carof cars of thov those vihti mexico who they could come come to it b bv no other means tormented and wile killed them in their raze rare J NOW this aliis was tile the message of your father to vou con concerning concertin cernin tile the wealth that lie he and it ane elors 1701 rm v oll mi luni atio lie live to grow up that I 1 tin h I 1 is nestr departed ed front from our damik tile the defre to w win in bade back the ere cron n I 1 clial hn I 1 lost or at least to drive out th accursed spaniards and to e establish an indian this evidue end v have heap heaped up tip wealth for geu creations crat ions that it il might oserve erve us w when hen tile the hour va is ripe ani and because or this thin wealth bv 1 which t the e secret e could not alt ogeth r be hill it a land winch which is full of spies some boniel bf us have cout come e to cruet cruel deaths as I 1 afia aio about to doto night 31 1 nevel th eless say av to I 1 lay no coni commands maudr upon him birri as to matters sevar that thai lie he follow his own will about t hein for I 1 cli cannot abnot forget that from go sen Illi ailion oll to 11 cratton those it lio nent II liln hir 1 t 11 reaped nothing but i in like ag a last the hite all s wjk I 1 b a 1 l se li of tile alir sins sills of oui akil t I 1 uris hiis bleed doll oil to bet orn oel I 1 us tinse thoe i n jr rr faltico 1 erdl rd roy my son 11 ih h it tr 1 in un atie ile hour befree ln firc ili ins murder and A I 1 ro friia U will wh vh I 1 mud you wait before you vou to be i r jest it if that 1 is s still 1111 voll voura r asli it it can i fulfilled for far roar rattler left it with ou to fol low the life you might desir dei irta when lie he had finished I 1 thought tor for achile and ali while uy my fath father r s blood S I 1 cannot become a priest rib akl it is as I 1 said t th coldman laman with a sigh rant 1 filant eu fili sinan winch which lies tes about your ile begu it it its work with you ignat nd you yon will tread the path that the oh k 1 per pre cliance liance to die in blood ather h ey did 0 at within a week from th chufar thu Z far some indians came to d u ased a as porters whose tit mission son it to lead lue joe to the mountains arnon amon n hi aich dinv inv viv futher fallier had lived and wh wb b ais tress ures still lav hidden un on the third d day of in 1 burney aney we readied reached a narro barr 0 va pass a i lve he boull bains beyond WIL ly lay j vil vii lage age here my agn guides idea t ik to tile the house of one A n to 1110 whom the padre igmacio had given me sl letters etters an oll old man of venerable ti pi aspect pacts who greeted me and introduced me to wv several ral maciques caciques caci ques flue 4 who overe were staying with him I 1 did not so soon as we vi creator in the house one of f these maciques caciques caci ques addressing me ine in words that I 1 could coula not understand asked incie me if I 1 hixa heart to that I 1 hoped so they all laughed laii glied thenice nian man au all tonio coming to me tik unbuttoned buttoned my illy shirt revealing revea lins t the I 1 c talisman nan that had belou belonged ged to my fattier father anti at the thesis sight lit of atall tile company bobai ne next at tile doors were locked and sentries having been postel them it a c civino nv bebau begau even aeu in now ow it is is not nor lawf lawful of that I 1 should dest lese leserine ribe in detail tr ll 11 wherein I 1 was MS firs fl initiated nitia ted into to tile the mysteries of the order of the heart and afterwards installed as it its hereditary tar chief thus becoming while yeta yet a boy the absolute hordof many thousand int men it bret ahro rit of ovir our order who were scattered fur far and aad wide vide about the I 1 land and on oil tile lie day dav after I 1 list hail taken the linal final oaths oath antonio handed over to roe the treasure that mv ancestors hoarded in ili a secret place which my father had I 1 aft L in his keeping anait was a great treasure amount amounting t to 0 inore pore than a anil million hon dollars in v value now I 1 was rich bothin both in men an and I 1 money still aill following the counsel of antonio I 1 abode for awhile in the village lage receiving those who come came to visit itu from very martof part of mexico as 11 holder 0 ider if tile heart and as first in rank among the fallen peoples of the tha indians some three abree miles from the village ere I 1 rr alt I 1 lived ived two sisters indians of noble blood though poor one of them it a widow and tile the other a very verv 1 ln girl arl younger th than an myself it I 1 c chanced alced that I 1 was bidina past then theli LOU upon a sunday evening when most of alie inhabitants of the vaclev ere cre away at a festa and heard screams cociu from it from riby my horse I 1 ran in T it at the floor door which was open and sa sai anc of the sisters the willow widow lynnr lv n dead upon the ground while t two 0 an J aits its mexicans aDs caris were attacking attack in the younger woman drawing my iny mj ina chote I 1 cut them down clown X no 1 after this the pirl girl whose life I 1 I 1 had sit saved ved em cime e to III dwell ell in ia my mv village where I 1 saw aw much of tier lier so lovely will was I 1 lit K ind and so clever that boon slie she won oil n ni alai I 1 aal tile end of cf it i 1 nii MA I 1 rita lit in 1 i against the advice of antonio and others of my brethren of the order tit alie anole I 1 thought on oil them the more the wrongs of my countrymen tile the real owners of the land took hot hold of lu my v mill igind till at cenolli they possessed it ut utterly and I 1 became beean ican an enthusiast st and 1 a I visionary makind it the object of my mv life to form a arl sarat at eon con and bring about it a i isilia of tile the Is in every province of mexico it po ll 11 a given tat dar and alic ahn n v ahrn lien the spaniards abid and their bast bastards artl the lie spanish mexicans had been Stain stamped fled out to aa reestablish tile the empire of the arteus bior a benr or more I 1 wits tile Irrea test power in mexico exico it and yet tho iii lim him deeds arn were privy to my lily secret it WK wit so well vei k kept e pt that no whisper of it c jim hinr to ID tile ca aars A or of ti the government at U all I 1 was really ready and so carefully wk wi re m nr plans 1 au laid that seemed insl before tin time fixed for the nert it was agreed that my illy wife should ill bl placed as one of whom vc e cou could id be sure as it a servant iu in the house bouse of a man who ruled mexico lit ill those days that alir it might spy upon him in instead acael of that she my wife fell in to love v ve with ith jim him it is easy to guess the re rest t one night hut but a v ucola eck before the tip appointed pointed time I 1 and will sonic five or six 0 others ther fit tim leaders of our party part wore ivere sem seiz d my companioni were dinue made away ii i ty with secretly but I 1 nas before e f 0 r c tile the prent great mun man who received me alone holding a pistol in his bis hand 1 I know all your youl plans friend he said 1 I know also that you have a gren greci treasure in gold hidden awa avran now friend frie I 1 make you a fair fail offer land hand over this treasure treasur to mp lite and you shall go free refuse to to do sod so and you will ile be brought to tio trial and die as you deserve how can you promise se for other I 1 asked tou are re not 0 t the only white man who would have fallen 1 I can promise for others first because I 1 am their master and secondly because nobody but myself knows anything of tins this matter bince if I 1 told them I 1 must also share hare your wealth with them and that mv friend I 1 mean to keep give it up to me and you may go and plot against my successors and the government of mexico as much as pleases you aud ild take your wife with yo you u for aug aught goula t I 1 care for friend having earned so comfortable a com competence nee 1 propose propose to leave the land w where as this business proves prove people cople in authority are too apt to have breir gieir throats cut now choose alien I 1 cho elainr w fur for I 1 thought to myself that I 1 detmore vt more gold old but I 1 could geici i vi life and if I 1 died 1 roam I nr no ivr with me inc and all my liapi I 1 lo 10 f fu tile hie rulure future of ind indian art race would coine to naught also I 1 knew tins this villain to be a man of 0 its ord and that what lit lie promised lie fulfill within ten da das lie he had the money all these things hall had come upon me because of a |
