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THE PEOPLEH’S HOME JOURNAL.
stati ‘ion, If my father has injured thee, let me
atone,” she said, in a touching tone of voice.
“What can Ido for thee? I can and do sym-
pathize with thee.”
Nay, speak not to me so gently —T cannot
bear it, it,” said the youn, mn.
‘3 nicky ota mean you ?” she cried,
with, he intensest alarm.
and avert the
“ Speak, I im
Montezuma glanced at the Peruvian, who re-
mained near the door.
‘ziizis, wait in the ante-room !” commanded
the rincess ; and the next moment she was le:
alone with the young conspirator. Montezui
was for a few minutes silent. At length, he
said: “Gentle Princess Eylla, your image has
my part
ray you to nian iad ‘tet me learn the
sh e entreate
» pri incoss, ‘and forgive, for we hav
borne” nue from thy house. Thou Inowent
m the emperor.”
my “heart hath | bled for the inno-
eis not a Mexitilian slave of thy em
knows not thy sympathy, But even
‘entleness could little avail us.’
vb WwW oppression hath fallen upon
“None other nae is common to our con.
tion and to each passing day. I have long felt
keenly the degradation of my race.
knowost, noble princess, that we ono were a
free and happy people; that we are now slaves
i, conquerors, and these are of your father’s
ous
«TT iow all this; but methinks this govern-
ment should be regarded as thine own—'tis
centuries’ standing.
“Time can never sanction wrong. But the
have kept pes in bondag 0) id no rights,
not even o our ives. e insolence of
the nobles and the bloodthirsty tyranny of the
emperor have at length roused the people to
resistance.”
“To revolt?”
“At uns moment, princess, {here are thirty
01 n, under ring ers, who wait
but the signal fom me to rise and overturn the
3
2
vous "Siave bad cried the princess. ‘* Ho!
thew gat die for it!
was ‘hastening towards ie door fo
give ae ‘vlarm, and call upon ss fest
rome Ni im. when, witl h gentle On ees, 8 caught
“Arest trained her.
ier hear ‘mo,” he
varté thee, princess, one word
nooWill have power to allay this rebel-
fie ‘he he said, boldly.
“That ror yu will not red thy cousin, the Prince
Palipan, but reign
‘Ha!’ Ts this ‘he: promiae thou wouldst have,
Sir Rebel ” said the princess, between pleasure
and surpri
“It is. ‘The people then will hope to obtain
y clemency what now they would have
B; the sieel’s oint.'
u art bold, sir,
“Tt is Oy, goodness and my country’s fate
that mal
“ What wouldet thou have beside my father’s
head?” she asked, sternly.
“T have told then lady,
bellion are in motion.
signal of revolt is to lig! nt the summit of the
Temple of War; and, before dawn, half the cit}
on the other side of the canal, with gates, armor
jowers, will be i in our wands
ihe elements of re-
“Thou dost both terrify a with re-
sentment. What dost thou here, robel i in the
resence of thy princess? Wilt thou make me
he first victim of thy rebellion ?”
here by thy command,
speak, and thy voice has
m the rebel chief—who,
3 to shake the throne of
e ire with the" vast flood I was to let
loose against it—l am thy slave, obedient é thy
slightest wish,”
bent his Knee | before her and seemed to }
man, thou and thy race have
borne much: have trembled at the contem-
Plation of this very result. You are the in:
ment chosen by the gi
1 _thguld be fulso to my 0
t—did T say I vould less a
noble “pit that bums in your bosom.
fe 6 you were I in your condition. “thou
born a Princess, I can feel with my subjects.
But”—and now her voice became firm and sol-
emn—* “this evi met be stayed. "Tis not too
late. Thou wilt, o! ou wil avert the destiny
r's
Montezuma was deeply affect sted. He
e gods to witness that,
di- wh
in two hours the | fran!
13
Thou art the
“Thou art no longer humble,
ita freedom. The
leader of a nation seeking ita
gods have ennobled thee
“ Alas! alas! what ong hay 8 I boon willfully
plottin Against ou oe he said, bitter!
met tl ee yesterday-—had Be known
that so bright an glorious a spirit dwelt beside
the throne ofa na Biri
“Tis not too late to retrieve thy error, noble
rath!” said the princess, unconsciously laying
JGOTSSSSOOEOEOOS
i
ta that are immediate
is will intimidate the insurgents,
and, pees prevent the revolt. What sayest
eats a turned away, walked across the
apartment Mand. stood by the window in de
an danxicus th
gled for th
stant, his country’s egradation peld the upper
pm ind; the t, the bei
poss and o princess. ‘yoerned
him. He farthart thie men moment was the crisis of
his life. It was either his country or the prin-
cess. There medium. He balanced his
honor agains’ Tove. Yes! the heart of
Montezuma, of tho serf and bondman, of the
hall I si
“Se strongly from the ‘lepike ot hie ‘heart.
SI
be a traitor to my friends and coun-
y?” his conscience tl undered in his ears.
hantom | 3} eo a
pit tar shines upon me?
‘ool ‘tis a temptation of the evil spirit!
Tout be true to my country, and strike the first
of | blow for her iberty.”
“Montezuma!” spoke a sweet, reproving
voice near him; and he felt a soft hand gently
Placed within is own.
blood cus shed from his heart, and the
mbled ike a Test, He buried his
ing the heart of man,
knew that love, the deepest and most wor- |
own to
pression of \
obeyed unhesitatingly the promptings of her
own heart_for love knows no reasoning but its
own impw
“ Monte: mame!” she repeated a second | time,
in tones that went to his heart. They w
resisti
He cried, with the strongest e1 emotion ; “ Pri
cess, I can but confess my di ring passion, and
are my min eath,
ou art forgiven, Montezuma,” she said,
in a voice that made his heart leap with life.
“Do I dream, or hath my mad ambition
turned my brain ?” he said, pressing to his lips
the hand she had resigned ‘to
Montezuma,” abe eaid, with a eweet dignity,
“J discovered thy love, closely as you cote
to hide it from yourself beneath reverence and
fatys put I had not detected it unless I had
felt a ki dred inter rest in you.”
“In me, lad
“To-day,” she continued, with ingenuous
8
icnows. when I beheld thee in the conflict
in the oct thy mi ee rons
indled
cession
“ en Princess Bylla, Iam unworthy.
art worthy,” she said, yroudly
r the emperor's ‘aaug hter
‘coped to t i, but the gods have
elevated thee to hers. m.
ere be confidence betw
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a
but one in feeling. Forget thy
condition, for from this hour my love ennobles
No sooner did Montezume find that his love
—for such it was he now hat had from the
first inflamed his regard for the
80 singularly reciprosated than
the young eagle, w! tured by a water-
fowl, all un once feeling his power and strength,
Seiden! expands his pinions and soar! is
native skies to burnish his wings in the eun—
rose with the ‘fret esing of its original powers
to the native dignit
was changed
passed over his spirit.
slave. She saw the instant c
if in "i nor words, and felt that she had not, in.
it shalt io done, aid pute Mees ie io aa the Seed. descended from her station, but had
moment the sympathy o of tie thy tone fell upon my placed her love on one most worthy Te-
heart. But, noble and dear Princess, the peop! ple | ceive it. ca hi sot
re in arms. My voice alone will not stay the “Princess,” he said, from. this moment my
Lei me be bear them the Bre mise that what thoy | heart and life are e sours, It chs au be my gina |
seek tl d the | to make og
throne.” shall have, the day you ascend the | Hwa our I do identify myself with thy truest
“What do they as happiness—and should death fommorrow be the
“ . | penalty of my ambitions love I shall welcome i
mena ot lives 8 ta Property. To be free With oy, it recollection that I have been
“Ho ” loved b: . | .
«By Jute, entlonens and merey.” “Nay, Montezuma,” eaid the princess, with
Gy promgen ONE she cried, with elo- tondernoes,. “there ‘will, 1 trust, bo a better
quent “ 1 | crownin, r love than death. § a
a dion, avert the stroke, and wi clr and mo, "ti tis secret and & It should
Blows
“Ten too late to suppress the revolt i n
the aan quarter, but I will try or lose my life
be thus until the hour arrives wi ren I shal
call thee to my side, and thou wi ind love
makes even a maiden bold where | her heart is
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