The Slave Sculptor — page 45: what you’re looking at

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HISTORY OF MAZINA. 47 * Where, oh, where am I? and why am I thus imprisoned ?”’ _ “* You — you are with friends, fair lady,’’ the woman answered, rising to her feet; and with a forced calmness continued: “ But tell me, where did you get that locket? ’’ “If I tell you all I know of it, will you inform me why I was brow ght a. captive to this place?” ~* Lwill!’’ remarked the woman, quickly. There was a deep earnestness in her tone, which Mazina interpre- ted favorably, and replied : . “* One evening not long since, I walked down into the park surround- ing Lord Abuitzol’s palace, and shortly after sitting down in a bower, Efeli asleep. It was probably placed around my neck, while I lay in this condition, yet by whom, or for what , I can not say.”’ . The woman then sat down on the edge of the bed, gazed search- ingly into Mazina’s features, and for several moments did not speak. Mazina’s heart was touched. This grief at once removed from her all feelings but those of sympathy; and, drawing near she wound her arm around the woman’s neck, pillowed her cheek upon her shoulder, and endeavored to console her with affectionate words. held them separately, gazed steadily in her face, and remarked: “* Have you a father and a motlier living? ”’ * Not that I know of,’’ Mazina replied, with a slight tremor. ‘** Will you tell me how you came to be Lord Ahuitzol’s ward ? and what part of the country you came from? ”’ With the utmost confidence, Mazina proceeded to narrate all the early incidents of her eventful life, of which the reader hag been acyuainted. She then, with childlike simplicity continued, and relat- el the particulars of her inti with Maxtla Ytzcvatl, and the malignant opposition of Toluca, by Lord Ahuitzol. During the recital, Tonatiuh listened with interest, and, after huving questioned her closely upon the mysterious circumstances connected with the locket, to which Mazina could give no satisfactory answer, she said : **T will now inform you, why you are detained here against your Will; but, first, I would give you a short account of my mysterious manner of living. Ten years ago, I came first to this place, having comlicldooks.conn