'Would you be saved ?' He looked up quickly, and said in a hoarse voice: 'Who are you that talk of saving us?
Who can save us from these she devils ?' 'I am Teule, a man of white blood and a Christian, and alas that I must say it, the captain of this savage people.

With the aid of some few men who are faithful to me, I purpose to cut your bonds, and afterwards you shall see.

Know, Spaniard, that I do this at great risk, for if we are caught, it is a chance but that I myself shall have to suffer those things from which I hope to rescue you.' 'Be assured, Teule,' answered the Spaniard, 'that if we should get safe away, we shall not forget this service.

Save our lives now, and the time may come when we shall pay you back with yours.

But even if we are loosed, how can we cross the open space in this moonlight and escape the eyes of those furies ?' 'We must trust to chance for that,' I answered, and as I spoke, fortune helped us strangely, for by now the Spaniards in their camp below had perceived what was going forward on the crest of the teocalli.