Yet the priests who framed this form chose these things as examples of what was immortal! When I had sworn Guatemoc came forward and embraced me, saying: 'Welcome, Teule, my brother in blood and heart.

Now you are one of us, and we look to you for help and counsel.

Come, be seated by me.' I looked towards Cuitlahua doubtfully, but he smiled graciously, and said: 'Teule, your trial is over.

We have accepted you, and you have sworn the solemn oath of brotherhood, to break which is to die horribly in this world, and to be tortured through eternity by demons in the next.

Forget all that may have been said in the hour of your weighing, for the balance is in your favour, and be sure that if you give us no cause to doubt you, you shall find none to doubt us.