He had some reason to doubt the good faith of the emperor, for he had discovered that the latter had sent envoys to Narvaez; and he had, upon his arrival at Tlascala, been informed that the rising at Mexico had been, to a great extent, prepared beforehand by the orders of Montezuma; and even the assurances of the officers of the garrison, that they owed their safety to the emperor's intervention, did not pacify him.
The real reason, no doubt, of his anger was that he found he had overrated the advantages he would gain from Montezuma being in his hands; but for this he himself, and not the emperor, was to blame.
At first the capture had all the success that he had expected from it.

The people had obeyed their emperor as implicitly, when a captive, as when his power had been supreme.

They had sent in their nobles, prisoners and bound, at his orders.

They had built ships for these strangers.

They had suffered them to go unmolested through the country.
But there was an end even to Aztec patience.