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THE FALL OF MONTEZUMA
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One thought only saddened his triumph — where was his queen, his Marina?
But just outside the palace gates sat Huitzil and Cacamatzin, their heads close together. Now they talked in low tones ; now they looked on suspiciously at several of the white strangers, who were setting two strange-looking metal tubes on the palace walls.
"They mean no good," grumbled Huitzil; "tho the metal tubes look harmless."
longer pollute the palace of the Aztecs ! We will sacrifice them all on the altar of the God of War!"
"And then?" asked Cacamatzin, significantly. "My uncle may turn upon us ? "
"You shall be made king in place of Montezuma ! Cacamatzin, I salute thee — king ! ' '
" I go to stir up my people, ' ' cried the King's ambitious nephew. "Tomorrow we will crush the pale invaders!"
The Spaniards on the wall con
THE FIGHT AT THE WAR SHRINE
"They carry not even a hatchet with them for self-defense. One of our warriors could overcome three of these white-skinned weaklings ! ' ' boasted Cacamatzin.
Their leader carries only that thin wafer of metal to protect himself. You could break that over your knee and then, brain him with your stone hatchet?"
"Easily," Cacamatzin assured the High Priest.
Then let us go at once among the people and stir up a feeling of unrest. This washed-out stranger shall no
tinued their laborious work of mounting two six-pounders that could clear the space for a quarter of a mile in front of the palace. At intervals they ran little piles of gold thru their fingers, and then, looking at the groups of curious onlookers, laughed boisterously.
The Feast of the Strangers was continued far into the heart of the soft summer's night. Pleasure was its keynote, unmarred by a single untoward event. Montezuma himself escorted the pleasing stranger to his suite, divided from the royal apartment by a