Blessings on you, our deliverer, welcome and farewell!' We went slowly through the press, treading on a path of flowers, till we came across the courtyard to the base of the pyramid.

Here at the outer gate there was a halt because of the multitude of the people, and while we waited a warrior thrust his way through the crowd and bowed before me.

Glancing up I saw that it was Guatemoc.
'Teule,' he whispered to me, 'I leave my charge yonder,' and he nodded towards the force who strove to break a way into the palace of Axa, 'to bid you farewell.

Doubtless we shall meet again ere long.

Believe me, Teule, I would have helped you if I could, but it cannot be.