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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIX
11/22

Gladly would I give my share of this hidden gold in payment for two more such days with you.

I have still much to pay you back, and look you, I have found a way to do it.
There are more ways of hurting a man than through his own flesh--for instance, when I wished to be revenged upon your father, I struck him through her whom he loved.

Now I have touched you and you wonder what I mean.

Well, I will tell you.

Perhaps you may know an Aztec lady of royal blood who is named Otomie ?' 'Otomie, what of her ?' I cried, speaking for the first time, since fear for her stirred me more than all the torments I had borne.
'A triumph indeed; I have found a way to make you speak at last; why, then, to-morrow you will be full of words.


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