At length he paused exhausted, and cursed me for an obstinate pig of an Englishman, and at that moment Cortes entered the shambles and with him Marina.
'How goes it ?' he said lightly, though his face turned pale at the sight of horror.
'The cacique of Tacuba has confessed that gold is buried in his garden, the other two have said nothing, general,' the clerk answered, glancing down his paper.
'Brave men, indeed!' I heard Cortes mutter to himself; then said aloud, 'Let the cacique be carried to-morrow to the garden of which he speaks, that he may point out the gold.

As for the other two, cease tormenting them for this day.

Perhaps they may find another mind before to-morrow.
I trust so, for their own sakes I trust so!' Then he drew to the corner of the room and consulted with Sarceda and the other torturers, leaving Marina face to face with Guatemoc and with me.

For a while she stared at the prince as though in horror, then a strange light came into her beautiful eyes, and she spoke to him in a low voice, saying in the Aztec tongue: 'Do you remember how once you rejected me down yonder in Tobasco, Guatemoc, and what I told you then ?--that I should grow great in spite of you?
You see it has all come true and more than true, and you are brought to this.

Are you not sorry, Guatemoc?
I am sorry, though were I as some women are, perchance I might rejoice to see you thus.' 'Woman,' the prince answered in a thick voice, 'you have betrayed your country and you have brought me to shame and torment.