I know your friendship, but you would not have the power to withstand the decision of the priests.

They will never permit a single white man to remain alive in the land.

Had Cacama lived, he might possibly have protected me; but I think that even his authority would have been insufficient to do so.

If the Spaniards are destroyed, I have but one chance of my life: and that is, to make my way down to the coast, and to sail away with the Spaniards there." Cuitcatl was silent, for he felt the force of what Roger said.
"If you go, you must not go alone," he replied at last.

"Amenche would die, were you to desert her." "I will assuredly take her, if she will accompany me," Roger said; "but I do not think that there is much chance of my escape, even in that way.