He was heir presumptive to the throne, and a bold and daring prince.
The people welcomed him, at once, as Montezuma's representative; and chose him to represent the emperor during his confinement.
Cuitlahua accepted the post, and immediately set to work to organize the fighting men, and to arrange a plan of attack.
Roger had not been with the party that accompanied Cortez on his expedition against Narvaez; but, with his two companions, remained to form part of the garrison of the palace.
"You are out of spirits, young fellow," Juan said, on the day after Cortez had marched away.

"You are changed, very much, since you first joined us." "I have much to make me so, Juan," Roger replied, in his broken Spanish.

"You see, I am white by blood, but I have dear friends among the natives.

What do I see?
As a white, I perceive that our position here is one of the gravest danger, and that destruction may fall upon us all.

As a friend of the natives, I see the country plundered, the people trodden down and, sooner or later, the ruin and misery of the whole people." "You mean we are in danger from Narvaez' people," Juan said.