As we know now, he strove twice to betray us to the Teules.

More, it was his plan to show this nest of wealth to them, should they return again, and to share the spoil.

All this we learned from a woman whom he thought his love, but who was in truth a spy set to worm herself into the secrets of his wicked heart.

Now let him take his fill of gold; look how he grips it even in death, a white man could not hug the stuff more closely to his breast.

Ah! Teule, would that the soil of Anahuac bore naught but corn for bread and flint and copper for the points of spears and arrows, then had her sons been free for ever.
Curses on yonder dross, for it is the bait that sets these sea sharks tearing at our throats.