The Slave Sculptor — page 61: what you’re looking at

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THE CRISIS ARRIVED. 63 have fared as the sacrificial victln in the hands of the ex- saw every move of the people. He watched of a lynx, and detected many circumstances which ieve that an open revolt against their soverign was con- ; in which case, his own fate, and that of his army, was of or ility, but a certainty. Every in the capital, would die on the sacrificial stone, to appease of those gods, whom they had seen on the great teocall: ! emergency, Cortez concocted a scheme which none ing man in the most desperate extremity would ! Something must be done, and that speedily. his four hundred Spaniards, and his the walls of his immediate quarters; than five hundred thousand Aztecs, who were out of respect to Montezuma, whom they had so idst of these exciting scenes, Maxtla Ytzcoatl reached the palace, and was soon followed by the tireless Meztli, the serving-maid of the caves. ‘ PE EGEE EP Er el in ‘ i 2 i i CHAPTER XV. CORTEZ AS THE INVADER AND CONQUEROR. exhibit the achievement to his friends — the Spaniards. people, throughout entire capital, apparently « whole pation during the past ten days. All business had stopped, every- body was talking; the burden of their conversation was: ‘ The strangers !— The strangers !”’ comJcbooks.com