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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXXV
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You tell me that you are still a Christian man.

Is that a place for Christians ?' and he pointed upwards.
'No, indeed,' I answered, 'but still I cannot come, for my wife and son are there, and I must return to die with them if need be.

If you bear me any gratitude, strive in return to save their lives, since for my own I care but little.' 'That I will,' he said, and then we let him down among his friends, whom he reached in safety.
Now we returned to the temple, giving it out that the Spaniards were in retreat, having failed to cross the breach in the roadway.

Here before the temple the orgie still went on.

But two Indians remained alive; and the priests of sacrifice grew weary.
'Where are the Teules ?' cried a voice.


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