Show ZHE CHE WORLD A strange strang aken from a manucci iu cathca by as an old i lan imn to his friand ani and cor in ill englishman I 1 iteld J BY 11 11 II UAl lD i it B 11 THE 1 01 two and timaly years ago I 1 11 ignatio natio visited a vilie vili e in tb the estate 01 tam a a j ipas camri Cm narvo a beautiful place half baiden in pine forest s a mong among tile the mountains I 1 to this village because a ri berid of mine one of the brethren cHirin br of i ill lie order of the heart wrote to me s biving that tl ire was au an indian in I 1 11 I 1 who had bad in III his possession i anI ancient aztec scroll which ilich belair let are writing neither lie he nor an bof P pw so could coald read th is scroll I 1 I 1 I 1 descended to the indian uli inan many generations and with it a trail trad i il I 1 ion talt that it told of a very vely rich gold gohl mine in the mounta mountains moun fains ins whereof the lue site nas as lost which had been closed to save it from the grip gripon of cortes by bv the order of my forefather now I 1 had been taught the secret of the picture writing when first I 1 was initiated in th mysteries of the heart this vv rd ina the indian was willing tog to give yo up tip it to me as lord of the heat t an and accorn v I 1 to calmar vo to stu ly it ii on my arrival at the III house of my mend I 1 heard that the indian lial had died of a sudden sickness and that iiii his son 1 would son soon disena discover cr where the beroll was hidden another thing I 1 heard also namely that a I 1 K bite man an all englese the first who ever visited these plat pal ta is had come to alic village six months before tin and divas was engaged in working some old silver mines mine on bachall of a company a I 1 task that lie he found for the mexican owners of land in tile the neighborhood bo ahnin jealous of man him ond and an angry gry beca because iise tic he paid liis his nien men a fair fail wage ceresi were striving rivin tv to prevent indians from laboring ri his mine it chanced that a fray arose on the night ight tj of my mv anival at on the moi row I 1 saw the fruits of it as I 1 n walked down the little street in the of t thin lit act lying in the shade of a house were two dead men A handsome I 1 indian noam it girl firl with a a sullen u I 1 len and unmoved countenance was engaged in in trading a serape scrape or blanket I 1 loundo on nd one nc of the bodies but the other lay untended cert lin stains upon the cloth aa ins r revealing I 1 ng the manner of its end 0 on a doorstep lver 1 t p sat a third man ivoun wounded ded about the licad head and face while the barber of the village its only doctor attempted to remove his hair with a pair i of blunt scissors so that he might dress ss the cut what ts is the cause of this senor I 1 asked the barber 1 tb think ink that I 1 have hare the lionor honor of ad firming doti don ignatio the little man mail answered and lifting his hands from their ank he be made a sign showing that lie also ISO was a member of oai our brotherhood though a humble one ah I 1 so he went on as I 1 va ai tho the counter countersign sigu we heard that voa oil I 1 vic e e going to visit us and I 1 am ifland load or iran it for I 1 weary of dres dressing sang mounds on sundays and perhaps you ellav rii lie ile able to put a stop to these ngul the woman was the cause of it rif or coura senor thede are not the first that she has bar ought to their deaths and he nodded nodi led at the girl who was vas wrapping the boda it in a blanket hiten HIS I 1 siira I 1 was turn turning ing to go for it saddened me to think that when drink got hold field of them 1 a I woman should have power to aban change e these men man who acre t ny my brethren into savage viRu beasts thirton thi thirsting rtin fr tor for each ca otlie therb rb blood bloo d ali A I 1 mused had it not been for that other woman who destroyed me nd aid my hope by now ow I 1 had begun to tench teach them better at tm moment nio nent I 1 chanced to glance up tip to se e a man such as I 1 had never before bel belinic inid st standi andinS aj at my side and aina it at me lames strickland the englishman Ing Ung lishman n i a 1 fine man over thirty years in in g ai hort in proportion to his width though somewhat spare in fra frame me and delicate in allu limb b niec feat leat res were a as s clea clearly aly cut as those of ar an ancient god upon h a marble wall and I 1 his s oyen eyes were ls is blie as the sea and I 1 his h curly hair N ollow a as mimosa bloom your pardon semor sat sail I 1 tile tha man inin in god KO d spanish bowing to roc nic Is as he aoi lio but bul unwittingly I 1 hair bao over hoat il some ome of your tal talk liand and I 1 cannot und batand liow how it comes about that I 1 oil u i 1 sl t or I 1 baic la so mu i aletho r t 1 IV wish i it tat that it ai you yoa would ex explain plain it t to tile me i in n order that I 1 might learn how to 13 put plat a stop to such murders these i fad davad man were two of my b best est workmen and I 1 do not know where I 1 shall 1001 I 1 to 0 replace them I 1 cannot explain it senor I 1 an returning his bow further i han ban to say that I 1 have a certain rank imong the indians on account of uhn lii li it they reverence mp me still though i I 1 1 r ru right to ask it of a stranger I 1 pla 11 I 1 aliat liat you ora will forget any words N birli may chance to have reached urias ur cars irs since ol 01 0 such auth authority 0 rity the government la jealous ja alous 11 iy ay all lineaus senor they are al 1 eady forgotten well adios t this his sight is not so pleasant sant that I 1 wish to study it and replacing lna his hat upon his head ix ad lie he masoud ga ca although my any journey proved to be vain at as tho the scroll I 1 I 1 came to read had vanished I 1 lingered in the village alleging lzinia as tile the reason of my stay a hope I 1 that it 1 an might le be cais discovered ci vered but really because I 1 desired to become friendt friendly with this white man As it chanced an opportunity tunit was soon riven given me to do him a sign signal se service rv I 1 have stated that there dwelt men of 0 position ini ia this place mex 1 icarus w who io bere aro iere jealous ot of the anz tishman lishman and these people stirred no some discontented miners miner in his hia employ to to make a plot to myirtle him tie the pot came to my cart one C of the brotherhood aarl I 1 dern allied to frustrate it to end I 1 collected together I 1 0 cl her twenty y r frood mm MIL M IL anil and true irue arming ron g thern them w with guns end ou on 1 a I given night after a pitch d i bf ittle we frustrated the plan of th clr mail derors which was at I 1 he hour I 1 if dawn to attack the house where senst fickland ric kland slept with four or five servants only and to put all within it il N ills alls to death next day when all the trouble wa over arid and the place hall been made tidy benor strickland sent a man to ask if 1 I would do him the pleasure to al dine irie wit with ai hit him I 1 accepted aud and as we sat ITI in a after I 1 ter dintler dinner after having ta talked iced ui 07 till fight fight he spoke thus to me ID don an ignatio I 1 owe you my life and believe ine inc I 1 am grateful for I 1 do no see ec why you should have risked so be much for a foreign stranger 1 I did it because I 1 like you senor I 1 answered I 1 ra also because it is very pleasant to catch the wicked in their own tolls toils don liT 1 natio 1 I 1 hardly like to ask ak you vou and I 1 feares daresay ay that you will think the offer beneath contempt but are arc you willing to acce accept at an engagement encasement I 1 am in nee ofa here one line who could control the indians ami aad to such a man I 1 am prepared to pay oni on coplay hundred dollars a month the funds 0 oi the company I 1 represent will not allow me to offer more I 1 thought for awhile and answered the money is not enough to tempt III air though it will serve to buy bu 11 food lodging and aigars cigars but I 1 accept accept your offer for the same reason that 1 1 fought your battles this morning be cance anuci I 1 like ike you and will gladly do my in best to serve you and your interests still beust I 1 warn you that toi fel light aught I 1 know I 1 may have to leahl your service at short notice for m mi time is not altogether my own abe servant of a I 1 great company senor and though now I 1 am on leave as it il and have been for these many years I 1 may be required at any 1110 moment thus it was that I 1 entered the service of tenor senor james strickland orra or of his company in which I 1 continued for something more than a year working very hard for the senor did not spare cither me or himself one evening on returning from the smelling sm elting works to the house I 1 found senor strickland with his clam chin rest ing on his hand and an unlimited unlighted cigar in his mouth seated at a table on which lay an open letter I 1 asked him what evil thin thing hall had happened nothing particular ignatio ignalio he all answered S but listen here and he read the letter aloud etwas it was from the owners of the mine and tins this was tras the purport of it that the shaft had become choked with wa baer cr because of the incompetence and neglect of the senor that they the owners hereby dismissed him summarily refusing to pay him b am the salary due and lastly that they beld eld him responsible in his own perk a for such in money n ey as they licy had lost i surely I 1 cried in wrath wrate when he had finished this letter ni was as written by a man without shame and I 1 pray that lie he may rind find his grave in the stomachs of hogs bogs and vultures do not trouble ignatio Ignati 6 he be said with a little smile it is the way of the world I 1 have leave failed faile 1 and must take the consequences had I 1 succeeded there would have been a differ different crat story ator y still I 1 think that if I 1 ever meet this rii man n again I 1 will kick him for telling lies about me do you vou know 19 ignatio that with the exception of one thou thousand and dollars winch which remain to my credit in mexico I 1 have spent all my own money that I 1 had saved upon tins this mine and of that one thousand dollars eight hundred dollars are line due to you von for back pay so whatever trade I 1 t take ake to next yay I 1 shall all not begin as a rich man jac silent 1 beg of you vou senor I 1 answered for such make my cars burn what nm am I 1 also a thief that ahat I 1 should rob you you who have already been pluck plucked id lile like a fowl for the good of others insult me once more by such thoughts anil and I 1 will never forgive you and I 1 left the house to calm myself by walking among the mountains mountain b little knowing among what I 1 should hear before I 1 entered it again ORA CHAPTER P TER ill III As I 1 walked down the street of the village I 1 met my friend with whom I 1 had stayed when first I 1 came to curn cuin arvo 1 I was seeking you tile the scroll has been found said hal he handing it to me goell I 1 answered 1 I will study it tonight to night and continued my walk thinking little mate about the matter matt for my mind was full of other things the air was pleasant lena arat and the ev evening 11 line fine so that Y 1 did not return to le the lie house till the moon rose As I 1 passed up tile the pati a man stepped so suddenly fr from om the shelter of a bush in front of f met me that I 1 drewanz drew my machete thinking that he meant to do me a mischief slay Stay your hand loyal lord said the man saluting util j me bu humbly lubly anil and tit lit the bime time giving the sign of brotherhood it I 1 is i many years since we met so perchance you you rosy may have fol forgotten gotten me still you yon will remember ray my name I 1 am aviol ts your foster brother what brings you here molas I 1 a asked kell when last I 1 heard of you you were dwelling far away in chiapas A strange matter business oi of the h heart eart 0 loril lord ot of the heart chioli I 1 deemed so pressing that I 1 lieve journeyed over land and fies to final you have you a PIS place where I 1 can ape c with you alone alo follow me I 1 said wondering anil and led him to ray my own chamber where I 1 pave gave him food and drink for lie he was weary with willi travel now set act ait your business lu siness I 1 raid first show me tile t ti alord u lord I 1 desire to see cc it once more lor for a pill pose 0 of aty my 0 own w n I 1 vow c and closed the shutters of tile the window then I 1 bared my breast reven revealing ling the ancient symbol for IalA aa hile lie he gaved s ared upon it then said it is castig ti tell e nic me lord or I 1 what as is t the lc saying saving that has descended with this trinket 1 the saying is molas that when this ha u halt f that I 1 wear is re rei r i with biti tho the half that is ii wanting tl indians shall rule again from sl si i i ici as they lid did when the heart was wab i ole I 1 aba tha esthe is the saying lora we learn it in the ritual that is called opening of 1 I ne DC beart do we not and in this ritual 1 khat hat half which you wear is named toy ay since it can be ba seen and that ali which is lost is n mcd imad Ni night glit inee ince though present seen and lt it is told to us that the div and till night to together ether will mul one p ja rac i rele whereof the center i marrical ical the heart of deaven of winch which these thesa t lungs are the symbol la it not so it is so molas good now listen that which was lost is found the half whish is named night has appeared in the land foe I 1 have bave seen it eyes and it is to nil you of it that I 1 I 1 have traveled hither speak on I 1 said lord yonder vender in chiapas there I 1 is it ruined mined temple and to that temple have guilea a man land and a woman his rie pie is old and fierce man eyed a terril I 1 I 1 ie c man and the girl i is beautiful 1 e ex x fuhere in the ruins they have dwelt vi t i se e four months and more and the ni oi iii practices the art of medicine for ii 1 is a great doctor and has W wrought I 1 t ijane ciany cures the though u g 1 li he hc takes no money in payment payment but food only now it chanced lord that my wife whom I 1 married but two years ago was very sick so sick that the village 1 bator I tor could do bothin nothing T for her therefore the fame of thi the old indian io 10 esvelt d elt in the ruined temple having ached me I 1 determined to visit hini him lie he was an aged man clad in a linen role robe only very light in color with long white beard and hair a nose hooked like a hawk s beak and fierce eyes that seemed to pierce those he looked upon and to read their most secret thoughts greeting brother lie he said speaking eak our own tongue but with a strange accent and using many words that are unknown to me what brings you here then he looked at me awhile and asked slowly I 1 say brother are ten roil sick at heart now lord when wb en I 1 heard aheard those words of which you know the meaning I 1 was so astounded that I 1 almost fell backward down the ruined mined stair but recovering myself I 1 tried him with a sign and lo 10 lie answered it then I 1 tried him with the second sign and the third and the fourth and so on up tip to the twelfth and lie answered them all though not always as we use them then ihen I 1 paused p aused and he said 1 you have passed the door of the sill actuary enter brother and draw on to the altar but I 1 shook my head for I 1 could not next he tried me with various signs agns gns and strange words that have to sag d do with the hie inmost mysteries but I 1 was not able to answer them though at tunes I 1 saw sav their drift you have some knowledge he said yet you yon but stand at the foot of tile the pyramid whereas I 1 watch the stars hom its crest warming my hands at the eternal fire none of my order have more lord I 1 answered save the very highest then there are higher in the landt land he asked 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