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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXX
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'Can you not see that he sleeps?
Let him sleep.' 'I must look on his face first, woman,' he answered, dragging aside my arm.

'By the gods, I thought so! This is that Teule whom we dealt with yesterday and who escapes.' 'You are mad,' she said laughing.

'He has escaped from nowhere, save from a brawl and a drinking bout.' 'You lie, woman, or if you do not lie, you know nothing.

This man has the secret of Montezuma's treasure, and is worth a king's ransom,' and he lifted his club.
'And yet you wish to slay him! Well, I know nothing of him.

Take him back whence he came.


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