The last parcel to be lowered was a sack of jewels that burst open as it came, and descended upon us in a glittering rain of gems.

As it chanced, a great necklace of emeralds of surpassing size and beauty fell over my head and hung upon my shoulders.
'Keep it, brother,' laughed Guatemoc, 'in memory of this night,' and nothing loth, I hid the bauble in my breast.

That necklace I have yet, and it was a stone of it--the smallest save one--that I gave to our gracious Queen Elizabeth.

Otomie wore it for many years, and for this reason it shall be buried with me, though its value is priceless, so say those who are skilled in gems.

But priceless or no, it is doomed to lie in the mould of Ditchingham churchyard, and may that same curse which is graved upon the stone that hides the treasure of the Aztecs fall upon him who steals it from my bones.
Now, leaving the chamber, we three entered the tunnel and began the work of building the adobe wall.