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THE INFIDEL; 
 
 OR 
 
 THE FALL OF MEXICO 
 
 A ROMANCE. 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR OF "CALAVAR." V 
 
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 — Un esforcado soldado, que se dezia Lerma — Sn fue entre los Indios 
 coino aburrido de tinnor del iinsiito Cortes, a qiiien avia ayudadd a val- 
 var la vida, por ciertas cosas de enojo que Cortes contra el tuvo, (jtie 
 aqui no dcclaro por su honor: nunca mas supiiiios del vivo, ni muorto, 
 mala Buspccha tuvinio? 
 
 Bernal Diaz del Castillo — Hist. Verd dc la Conguista. 
 
 No hay inal que por bicn no venga, 
 Dicen adagios vulgarcs. 
 
 Calderon — La Dama Dur.ndc. 
 
 IN TWO VOLUMES. 
 VOIi. I. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD. 
 1835. 
 
iSUtCCCtl, according to Act of Congress, in the year 
 183.J, by Carev, Lea <fc Blanciiard, in the Clerk's Office 
 of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA : 
 
 C. SHERMAN 6l CO. PRINTERS, NO. 19 ST. JAMES STREET. 
 
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 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER L 
 
 The traveller, who wanders at the present day 
 along the northern and eastern borders of the Lake 
 of Tezcuco, searches in vain for those monuments 
 of aboriginal grandeur, which surrounded it in the 
 age of Montezuma. The lake itself, which, not so 
 much from the saltness of its flood as from the 
 vastness of its expanse, was called by Cortes the 
 Sea of Anahuac, is no longer worthy of the name. 
 The labours of that unhappy race of men, whose 
 bondage the famous Conquistador cemented in the 
 blood of their forefathers, have conducted, through 
 the bowels of a mountain, the waters of its great 
 tributaries, the pools of San Cristobal and Zum- 
 pango ; and these, rushing down the channel of 
 the Tula, or river of Montezuma, and mingled with 
 the surges of the great Gulf, support fleets of 
 modern argosies, instead of piraguas and chinam- 
 pas, and expend upon foundering ships-of-war the 
 wrath, which, in their ancient beds, was wasted 
 upon reeds and bulrushes. With the waters, 
 which rippled through their streets, have vanished 
 the numberless towns and cities, that once beauti- 
 fied the margin of the Alpine sea ; the towers have 
 fallen, the lofty pyramids melted into earth or air, 
 and the palaces and tombs of kings will be looked 
 
 VOL. I. 2 
 
 172015 
 
14 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 for in vain, under tangled copses of thistle and 
 prickly-pear. 
 
 The royal city of Tezciico is now, though the 
 capital of a republican state, a mean and insignifi- 
 cant village. It was originally the metropolis of 
 a kingdom once more ancient and powerful than 
 that of Mexico ; and which, when it had shared 
 the fate of all others within the bounds of Anahuac, 
 and acknowledged the sway of the Island Kings, 
 still preserved the reputed, and perhaps the real 
 possession of superior civilization. Its princes, in 
 becoming the feudatories, became also the electors, 
 of Mexico ; and thus added dignity to an indepen- 
 dence which was only nominal. The })olished 
 character of these barbarous chieftains, as the 
 world has been taught to esteem them, may be 
 better understood, when we know, that the)^ sowed 
 the roadside with corn for the sustenance of travel- 
 lers, and the protection of husbandmen, built hos- 
 pitals and observatories, endowed colleges and 
 formed associations of literature and science, in 
 which, to compare small things with great, as in 
 the learned societies of modern Euroi")e and Ame- 
 rica, encouragement was given to the study of his- 
 tory, poetry, music, painting, astronomy, and 
 natural magic. The various mechanical trades 
 were divided into corporate bodies, and assigned, 
 each, to some particular quarter of the city ; courts 
 and councils were regularly established, and the 
 laws which they dispensed, digested into uniform 
 and written codes, some of which are still pvc- 
 served. The kings of Tezcuco themselves 
 mingled in the generous rivalries which they 
 fomented : there are still in existence, — at least, in 
 the form of translation, — several of the odes of 
 Nezahualcojotl, a royal Tezcucan poet; and his 
 hymns to the Creator, composed half a century 
 before the advent of the Spaniards, were admired 
 and chanted by the Conquerors, until devoted by 
 
THE INFIDEL. 15 
 
 misjudging and fanatical missionaries to the flames 
 whicii con>siimed the written histories and laws of 
 the kingdom, as well as the idolatrous rituals of 
 the priests, with which last the others were unfor- 
 tunately confounded.* 
 
 A few ruins — a cluster of dilapidated houses — a 
 galloping Creole on his high Spanish saddle, with 
 glittering manga and rattling anqttera, — and, now 
 and then, an Indian skulking moodily along, in his 
 squalid serape,\ — are all that remain of Tezcuco. 
 
 In the spring of 1521, the year that followed the 
 flight of the Spaniards from Mexico, the city of the 
 Acolhuacanese presented all its grandeur of aspect, 
 
 • These poems, we presume, were handed down orally. 
 We know not how far the picture-writing" of the Mexicans 
 (the art of interpreting" which appears to be now lost,) 
 was capable of conveying any such thoughts as could not be 
 represented by an absolute portrait. No system of writing 
 that is not essentially phonetic or dialectical, (i. e. represen- 
 tative of sounds, or of language,) can be made to express 
 abstract ideas, which may be defined to be such as admit of 
 no ideographic or metaphoric representation. If they 
 could, mankind might, at once, enjoy the benefits of the 
 universal language, (or, to speak strictly, a substitute for it; 
 for it would convey ideas not words,) which Leibnitz 
 dreamed of, and liishop VVilkins, and many others after 
 him, so vainly attempted to construct. 
 
 When, tlierefore, we relate any very curious and mar- 
 vellous matters, appertaining to Mexican literature, though 
 we speak upon the authority of historians, we invite the 
 reader to receive our accounts witli some grains of allow- 
 ance. With the exception of a few arbitrary symbols, ex- 
 pressive of numerals, and a few other objects of constant 
 recurrence, the picture-writing of Mexico spoke in ideas, 
 not words; and it may therefore be assumed, that it could 
 express nothing that did not, or by a stretch of ingenuity, 
 could not be made to, address and explain itself to the 
 eye. 
 
 f Tlie Manga and Serape are Mexican cloaks worn 
 scapulary-wise, the one of richly embroidered cloth, the 
 other «f blanket, or some such coarse material. The An- 
 quera is a leather housing, embossed and gilt, with a jingling 
 fringe of bi^ass or silver ornaments. 
 
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16 THE INFinEL. 
 
 and, to the eye, looked full as royal and imperish- 
 able as in the best days (tf its freedom. But the 
 molewarp was di<r.£:ing at its foundations ; and the 
 cloud which had ravaged the Mexican valley, and 
 tlien passed away into the east, where it lay for a 
 time still and small, ' like to a man's hand,' had 
 again crept over the mountain barriers to its gates, 
 and was now brooding among its sanctuaries. A 
 group of Christian men sat under a cypress-tree, 
 without the wails, regarding the great pyramid, on 
 whose lofty terrace, overshadowing the surrounding 
 edifices, floated a crimson banner of velvet and 
 gold, on which, besides the royal arms of Spain, 
 was emblazoned, as on the Labarum of tiie ( 'on- 
 stantines, a white cross, with the legend, imitated 
 from that famous standard of fanaticism. In hoc 
 signo vincemus. If other proof )iad been wanting 
 of tlie return of the Spaniards to the scene of their 
 discomfiture, their presence in Tezcuco, and their 
 unchangeable resolution to complete the work 
 of conquest so disastrously begun, it might have 
 been traced abundantly in the strange spectacle, 
 which, equally with the desecrated temple, divided 
 the attention of the group of Castilians at the 
 cypress-tree. They sat on a little swell of earth, 
 —a natural mound which jutted into the lake, 
 whose waters, agitated b)?- a western breeze, dashed 
 in musical breakers at its base ; while the rustling 
 of the leaves above, mingled with these sounds of 
 waves, a tone that was both melancholy and har- 
 monious. The beautiful i)rospect of Tezcuco, 
 rising beyond fertile meadows in the livery of 
 spring, flanked, on the right hand, by a sheet of 
 dark and glossy water, — with white towers, turrets, 
 and temple-tops, painted, as it seemed, on a back- 
 ground of mountains of the purest azure, was 
 enough of itself to engross the admiration of a 
 looker-on, had there not Ix'en ])resented, hard by, 
 a scene still more .singular and romantic. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 17 
 
 A train of warriors, artificers and labourers, tlie 
 latter bending under sucli burtliens as liad never 
 before descended to tiie verge of Tezcuco, was 
 seen passing, at a little distance, towards the city, 
 into which, as was denoted by a sudden explosion 
 of artillery and the blast of trumpets on the top of 
 the pyramid, the leaders were just entering, while 
 the rear of the procession, extending for miles, and 
 winding like some mighty snake, over hill and 
 meadow, was lost among distant forests. 
 
 The martial salutation from the town was an- 
 swered by the whole train with a yell, filling the 
 air, and causing the distant hills and lakes to trem- 
 ble with the reverberation. In this, the ear might 
 detect, besides the war-cry of Indians, "Tlas- 
 cala, Tlascala!" the not less piercing shouts of 
 Spaniards, "In the name of God and Santiago!" as 
 well as the flourish of bugles, scattered at intervals 
 among the train. If the broad Sea of Anahuac 
 trembled at the sound, it was with good reason ; 
 for the clamour of triumph indicated the approach 
 of those unknown naval engines, which were to 
 plough its undefiled bosom, and convert every bil- 
 low into the vassal of the stranger. On the shoul- 
 ders of eight thousand Tlascalans, were borne the 
 materials for the construction of thirteen brigantines, 
 with which the unconquerable Spaniard, capable of 
 every expedient, meditated the complete investment 
 and the certain reduction of Tenochtitlan. The iron, 
 the sails, and cordage of that fleet which he had 
 caused to be broken up and sunk in the harbour of 
 Vera Cruz, were added to planks, spars, and tim- 
 bers from the sierras of Tlascala, and to pitch and 
 rosin from the pin ales , or pine-forests, of Huexot- 
 zinco, — a gloomy and broken desert, notorious, in 
 the present day, as the haunt of bandits, the most 
 brutal and merciless in the world. 
 
 The brawny carriers of these massive materials 
 were protected, on the front and in the rear, by le- 
 
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18 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 gions of their countrymen, arnied, after their wild 
 and romantic way, and clad in tunics of cotton or 
 maguey cloth, with tiaras of feathers ; who passed by 
 in successive bf)dies of sjiearmen, archers, slingers, 
 and swordsmen, arranged and divided in the man- 
 ner of their Christian confederates. Besides the.se 
 guards of front and rear, of whom the liistorian 
 Herrera asserts, there were 180,000, while even the 
 modest Clavigero computes their numbers at full 
 one-sixth of this vast host, there were on either 
 flank, bodies of picked warriors, marching in com- 
 pany with small bands of Spaniards, and personally 
 led by distinguished Christian cavaliers. A mili- 
 tary man may form a juster estimate of t)ie numbers 
 of the train, by being told, that it fbrmed a line 
 more than six miles in length, the whole marching 
 compactly, and in strict order, so as to be best able 
 to resist an attack of enemies. 
 
 The Spaniards under the cypress-tree, surveyed 
 this striking spectacle with interest, but not with 
 the grave wonder and absorbing admiration of men 
 unfamiliar with such scenes. On the contrary, it 
 was evident, from the tone of the remarks with 
 which they wiled away the time of observation, (for 
 it was many a long hour before the last of the train 
 drew in sight,) that they were of that levity of spirit, 
 or in that wantonness of mood, which can find mat- 
 ter for ridicule in the most serious of occurrences. 
 Thus, they beheld, or fancied they beheld, some- 
 what that was diverting in the persons, or motions, 
 of the stern and warlike Tlascalans, and especially 
 in the zealous eagerness with which these barba- 
 rians strove to imitate the bearing and gait, as well 
 as the evolutions, of their disciplined associates. 
 Nay, their raillery was extended even to the 
 Spanish portion of the train ; and, sometimes, 
 when a comrade passed by, if near enough to be 
 made sensible of the jest, he was saluted with 
 
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 THE INFIDEL. 19 
 
 some such outpouring of wit, as put to the proof 
 either his gravity or his patience. 
 
 These happy individuals, to whom we desire to 
 introduce the reader, were five in number, and, 
 with a single exception, though betraying none of 
 the submissiveness of inferior personages, were 
 evidently of no very exalted rank in the Christian 
 army. Their attire was plain, and consisted, for 
 the most part, of the cumbrous escaupil, or cotton- 
 armour, over which, in the case of one or two, at 
 least, were buckled a few plates of iron. Most of 
 them had on their heads, helmets, or rather caps, of 
 the same flimsy material, sometimes so thickly 
 padded as to assume the bulk, as well as the ap- 
 pearance of rude turbans ; all wore swords, and 
 two had crossbows hanging at their backs. No 
 distinction of station could have been inferred from 
 their manner of discoursing one with another ; and 
 it was only by the morion of bright steel, richly in- 
 laid with gold, on the head of one, and the polished 
 hauberk on his chest, worn more for display than 
 for any present service, that the wearer would 
 have been recognized as of a grade superior to that 
 of his companions. He was a tall and athletic 
 cavalier, with a long chin, and cheeks broad and 
 bony ; and a singular and rather unpleasing ex- 
 pression was added to his countenance by eyes 
 disproportionably small, though exceedingly black, 
 keen, and resolute. A small, sharply peaked beard, 
 —mustaches so thin, long, and straight, that they 
 looked rather like the drooping locks of a wo- 
 man than the favourites of a vain gallant, — a narrow 
 but lofty forehead, on either side of which, divided 
 and smoothed with effeminate care, fell masses of 
 straight black hair, touched, yet almost invisibly, 
 with the traces of matured manhood, — a small mouth, 
 — a prominent nose, — and a complexion exceedingly 
 dark, yet rather of the hue of iron than mahogany, 
 completed a visage which a stranger would not 
 
20 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 have hesitated to attribute to a man of decidetl 
 rliaractor, hut without darincto deteni»iii<' wluther 
 that was of ffood or ovii, 
 
 Tlir individual wlio would liavo l)oon the second 
 to attract the notice of a wayfarer, owed this dis- 
 tinction rather to his personal deformity than to 
 any other very striking characteristic. He was a 
 hunchback, with much of the saturnine and sour 
 expression wiiicli distinguishes the countenances of 
 the deformed, and yet of a spirit so much belied by 
 his looks, that he heard, recoirnized, and constantly 
 re})lied to, without anger, the nickname of Corco- 
 badoy or the humpbacked, to whicli his misfortune 
 exposed hiiu. The most observable peculiarity in 
 his countenance, was the uncommon length of his 
 nose, which so far intruded upon the lower part of 
 his visage, as to give this a look of age, which was 
 contradicted, not only by other features, but by the 
 prodigious muscularity of his shoulders and arms. 
 It must be confessed, however, that his lower ex- 
 tremities were entirely unworthy to compare with 
 the upper, being both so short and thin, that when 
 he stood upon his feet, his arms crossed behind, — 
 which was their ordinary position, — with the stout 
 iron plates i)rotruding from both back and breast, 
 he looked rather like a bundle of armour and gar- 
 ments, exposed to the air and supported above the 
 earth on two broken pikestaves or javelins, than a 
 living and liuman creature. 
 
 The next individual was a man of good stature, 
 who would have been considered, notwithstanding 
 his grey hairs, the strongest man in the company, 
 had it not been for his general emaciation and an ex- 
 pression of suffering on a countenance over which 
 disease, contracted among the hot and humid 
 swamps of the coast, had cast the sickliest hues of 
 jaundice. Indeed, this discolouration, on a visage 
 naturally none of the fairest, was of so deep a tint, 
 that it had gained for the invalid, as \vell as f^r a 
 
THE INFIDEL. 81 
 
 whole ship's crew of his companions, the significant 
 title of Ojo Verde, or the Green Eye. And here we 
 may as well observe, that, in the army of Cortes, 
 the wit which shows itself in the invention of such 
 distinctions, was so prevalent, that there w^as scarce 
 a man, from the general down to his groom or scul- 
 lion, who had not been honoured by at least one 
 sobriquet. 
 
 The fourth personage was a man of indifferent 
 figure, remarkable for little save the marvellous 
 sweetness of his eyes, which were set among fea- 
 tures exceedingly sharp and harsh, and the volu- 
 bility of his tongue. 
 
 The fifth sat apart from the others, a little down 
 the slope of the hillock, with tablets in his hands, 
 yet so plunged in abstraction, or so much wrapped 
 up in the contemplation of the dark lake, the little 
 piraguas dancing over its billows, and the far-distant 
 turrets of the infidel city, that he seemed to have 
 forgotten, not only the presence of his companions, 
 and the passing procession, but the purpose for 
 which he had drawn forth his writing implements. 
 
 The sound of the cannon, as we have said, was 
 immediately responded to by the shouts of the 
 train ; which, commencing at the gates of the city, 
 were continued and prolonged by the various 
 bodies that composed the huge and moving mass, 
 until they died away in the distance, like peals of 
 rolling thunder. At the same time, the Indians 
 struck their tabours, and sounded their conches 
 and cane-flutes, in rivalry with the Spanish buglers ; 
 and a din was made, which, for a time, put a stop 
 to the conversation of the four Castilians. It also 
 startled the solitary man from his meditations, but 
 only for an instant. He rose, turned his eye list- 
 lessly towards the procession, and then again resum- 
 ing his seat, he was presently sunk in as profound 
 abstraction as before. 
 
 In the meanwhile, the cavalier of the helmet had 
 
22 THE TNFIDEL. 
 
 bent his gaze upon the pyramid, from the top of 
 
 which the canncjn-smoko was (h"i\ insr slowly away 
 like a cloud, and revcalini; the proud banner, which 
 it had for a moment enveloped. He could see, 
 even at this distance, that the two stone turrets, — 
 tlie idt)l-chanibcrs, — on the summit, were crowned 
 with crosses, and that the flac-staff, — a tall cedar, 
 that might have made a mast for an admiral's ship, 
 — was surrounded by a tent, or rather pavilion, of 
 native white cloth, broadly striped with crimson, 
 which glittered brilliantly at its foot. As he looked 
 he stroked his beard, and muttered, addressing 
 himself to the hunchback, 
 
 " Harkoe, Najara, man ! give me the benefit of 
 thy thoughts, and care not if they come out like 
 crab-apples. What thinkest thou of Cortes now 1 
 Is there not something over-stately and very regal- 
 like in the present condition of his temper V 
 
 " Why dost thou ask that of me, when thou hast 
 Villafana at thy elbow"?" replied the hunchback, 
 with a voice worthy the acerbity of his aspect: " if 
 thou wilt have dirty water, get thee to the ditch." 
 
 " You call me Grunidor, and grumbler I am," 
 said he of the sweet eyes, with a laugh. " I grum- 
 ble when I am in the humour ; and I care not who 
 knows it. Am I a ditch, old sinner 7 I'faith, I must 
 be, when I have such ill weeds as thyself growing 
 about me. Wilt thou have my thoughts, scfior 
 Guzman, on this subject ? I can speak them." 
 
 " Be quick, then," said the cavalier ; " for Corco- 
 bado is digesting an answer to thy fling, which 
 will leave thee speechless." 
 
 " Pho, I will bandy mudballs with him at any 
 moment," said Villafana: " I care not for the buffets 
 of a friend. As for the noble sefior, the Captain 
 General, what you say is true. The king's letter 
 hath set him mad. While the Bishop of Burgos 
 was still in power, and his enemy, he was e'en a 
 good comi)anion, — a comrade, and no master. De- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 23 
 
 monios ! 'twas a better thing for us, when his au- 
 thority rested on our good- will, and no royal pa- 
 tent." 
 
 " Ay," said Guzman ; " when we were but rebels 
 and exiles, denounced by the governor, cursed by 
 the priest, and outlawed by the king, Cortes was 
 the most moderate, humble, and loving rogue of us 
 all. I do think, he is somewhat altered." 
 
 " Oh, senior, there is no such bond for our friend- 
 ship as a consciousness of dependence upon those 
 who love us ; and nothing so efficacious in cooling 
 us to friends, as the discovery that we can do with- 
 out them. His authority is no longer our gift ; the 
 bishop has fallen ; the king has acknowledged his 
 claims, and sent him, besides a fair, lawful commis- 
 sion and goodly reinforcements both of men and 
 arms, a letter of commendation written with his 
 own royal hands. May his majesty hve a thousand 
 years ! but would to heaven his letter were at the 
 bottom of the sea. It has brought us a hard mas- 
 ter. Can your favour solve me the riddle of the 
 king's change 1 What argument has so operated on 
 his mind, that he now does honour to a man he once 
 condemned as a traitor, and advances him into such 
 power as leaves him independent even of the Go- 
 vernor of the Islands 1" 
 
 " The very same argument," replied Guzman, 
 " which has turned thee — a friend of Velasquez — 
 into the most devoted, though grumbling adherent 
 of our Captain — interest^ sirrah, interest. It is 
 manifest, that this empire was made to be won ; and 
 equally apparent, that the man who could half sub- 
 due it, though trammelled and opposed by all the 
 arts and power of Velasquez, was the fittest to con- 
 clude the good work ; and what was no less per- 
 suasive, it was plain, our valiant Don was fully de- 
 termined to do the work himself, without much 
 questioning whether the king would or not." 
 
24 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 " Why, by heaven!" cried Villafana, "you make 
 out the general to be a traitor, indeed !" 
 
 " Ay ; — for, in certain cases, there is virtue in 
 treason." 
 
 •' Hark now to Villafana !" cried the liunchback, 
 abruptly : " he will thank you for the maxim, as if 
 'twere a mass for his soul." 
 
 " /, curmudgeon ?" exclaimed the grumbler. 
 " There were a virtue in it, could it bring such 
 fellows as thyself to the block. What I aver, is, 
 that the king's honours have spoiled our general. 
 By'r lady, I see not what good can come of sending 
 us a Royal Treasurer, Franciscan friars with l)ulls 
 of St. Peter, and Lady Abbesses to build up nun- 
 neries, unless to make up more state for our 
 leader." 
 
 " Then art thou more thick-pated than I thought 
 thee," replied the cavalier. " The bulls will make 
 us somewhat stronger of heart, and therefore better 
 gatherers of gold in a land where gold is not to be 
 had without fighting. La Monjonaza will sanctify 
 our efforts, by converting the women ; and the 
 king's Treasurer will see that we do not cheat the 
 king, after we have got our rewards, as, it is ru- 
 moured, we have done somewhat already." 
 
 " Santos ! I know what thou art pointing at, Don 
 Francisco," said Villafana, significantly. " The 
 four hundred thousand crowns that have vanished 
 out of the treasury, hah! This is a matter that has 
 stained the General's honour for ever. And as 
 for La Monjonaza, thou knowest there are dark 
 thoughts about her." 
 
 " Have a care," said Don Francisco. " We are 
 friends, and friends may speak their minds : but 1 
 cannot hear thee abuse Don Hernan." 
 
 " Hast thou never been as free thyself?" cried 
 Villafana, with a laugh, which mingled a careless 
 derision with good-humour. " Come, now, — con- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 25 
 
 fess thou wert pleased to be appointed Grand 
 Guardian and Chamberlain, — or, if thou wilt. Grand 
 Vizier, — to his god-sqp, the young king of Tezcuco ; 
 and that, since he gave thee Lerma's horse, thou 
 hast been better mounted than any other cavalier 
 in the army." 
 
 " Thou art an ass. Cortes has ever been my 
 friend; and when I have complained, as I have 
 sometimes done, it was only like a good house-dog, 
 who howls in the night-watches, because he has 
 nothing better to amuse him. But hold, — look! 
 the carriers are passed. The rear-guard approaches. 
 Now is my friend Sandoval yonder, betwixt the 
 two Tlascalan chiefs, glorified in his imagination. 
 'Slid ! he would have had me exchange my brown 
 Bobadil for his raw-boned Motacila ! — Come, Na- 
 jara, rub up thy wit ; fling me some sweet word 
 into the teeth of the Tlascalan generals. Dost thou 
 perceive with what solemn visages they approach 
 us]" 
 
 " I perceive," said Najara, " that Xicotencal is in 
 no mood for jesting. It is said, he comes to join us 
 with his power reluctantly. Dost thou see how he 
 stalks by himself, frowning] A maravedi to a 
 ducat, he would sooner take us by the throat than 
 the hand !" 
 
 " Why then, be quick, show him thy scorn in a 
 fillip." 
 
 " Hast thou forgotten it has been decreed a mat- 
 ter for the bastinado, to abuse an ally ]" 
 
 " Ay !" cried Villafana, " there is another fruit of 
 a king's patent. One may neither laugh nor scold, 
 gamble nor play truant, but straight he is told of 
 a decree. Faith, when Cortes was our plain Cap- 
 tain, it was another matter : if there was aught to 
 be done or not to do, it was then, in simple phrase, 
 ' I commend to your favours,' or, ' I beg of your 
 friendships, do me this thing,' or, ' do it not,' as was 
 needful. But now the Captain-General deals only 
 
 VOL. I. 3 
 
26 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 in decrros or proclamations, wherein we have com- 
 mands for exhortations, prohibitions in place of 
 dissuasi(jns, and, withal, a j^lentiful crarnishincr of 
 stocks and duntreons, whii)s and halters, all in the 
 kind's name. By Santiajro ! there is too much state 
 in this." 
 
 " Pho ! thon art an Alirnazil ; why shouldst thou 
 care?" said the Cavalier. "The decrees are whole- 
 some, the restrictions wise. It is right, we should 
 not displease the Republicans : they are our best 
 friends, — very quick and jealous too; and we were 
 but a scotched snake without them." 
 
 " If they fight our battles," said Villaflina, " they, 
 divide our s})oil. In my mind, that black-faced 
 Xicotencal is a villain and traitor." 
 
 " Thy judirment is better, in such matters, thaa 
 another's," said the hunchback. 
 
 " Right !" cried Guzman ; " the Alguazil will be 
 presently in his own stocks, if thou dost heat him 
 into a quarrel. We are not forbidden to abuse one 
 another. Let the red jackalls pass by unnoticed ; 
 we have mirth enough among ourselves,' — we will 
 worry our Immortality. Look, Najara, man ; dost 
 thou not see in what perplexity of cogitation he i.s 
 involved, — yonder dull Bernal I Rouse him with a 
 quip, now ; pierce him with a jest. Come, stir ; 
 rub thy nose, make thy wit as sharp as a goad, and 
 prick the ox out of his slumber." 
 
 " Ay, good Corcobado," cried Villafana, turning 
 from the procession, and mischievously eyeing their 
 solitary and abstracted companion, " fling out the 
 legs of thy understanding, like a rough horse, and 
 see if thou canst not strike lire out of his flinty 
 brain. All the scratching in the world will not 
 do it." 
 
 " Now, were you not both besotted, and bent 
 upon self-destruction," said the deformed, regarding^ 
 the pair with a conmiiserating sneer, '* you would 
 not disk me to disturb our hnmortality ; who is, at 
 
THE INFIDEL. 27 
 
 this moment, meditating by what possible stretch of 
 benevolence he can hand your names down to 
 posterity ; a thing, which if he do not effect, you 
 may be sure, nobody else will. Seiior Guzman, 
 'twas but a half-hour since, that he asked me, if I 
 could, upon mine own knowledge, acquaint him 
 with any act of thine worthy of commemoration." 
 
 " Ay, indeed !" said the cavalier, laughing ; " was 
 Bernal of this mind, then? He asked thee this 
 question] By my faith, have I not killed as many 
 Indians as another ] Have I not encountered as 
 many risks, and endured as many knocks 1 Out 
 upon the misbelieving caitiff! he asked thee this 
 question 1 Thy reply now ? pr'ythee, thy learned 
 answer to this foolish interrogatory 1 What saidst 
 thou, now, in good truth?" 
 
 " In good truth, then," replied Najara, with a sour 
 gravity, " I told him, I had it, upon excellent au- 
 thority, though I believed it not myself, that thou 
 wert a cavalier, equal to any, in the virtues of 
 a soldier, — bold, quick, and resolute, — cool and 
 fiery, — a lover of peril, a relisher of blood; one 
 that had won more gold than he could pocket, more 
 slaves than he could make marketable, and more 
 renown than he cared to boast of; a prudent cap- 
 tain, yet a better follower, because of the ardour of 
 his temper, which was, indeed, upon occasion, so 
 hot, that, sometimes, it was feared, he might take 
 Cortes by the beard, for being too faint-hearted." 
 
 " Oh, thou rogue, thou merry thing of vinegar, 
 thou hast belied me !" cried Guzman ; " thou 
 knowest, I would sooner eat my arms, — lance, 
 buckler, and all, — than lift my hand against the 
 General: I would, by my troth, for I love him. 
 But come, now, — thou saidst all this, upon good 
 authority? You jest, you rogue, — we are all jeal- 
 ous and envious. We have good words from none 
 but Cortes. — What authority?" 
 
 " Marry, upon that of thine own lips," replied the 
 
28 THE IXFIDEL. 
 
 hiincliback ; " for I know not wiio else could have 
 invented so liberally." 
 
 " Out !" cried the cavalier, somewhat intempe- 
 rately ; " you presume — " 
 
 "Ha! ha! a truce, a truce, Don Francisco!" 
 exclaimed Villafana; "a fair iiit— no quarrelling; 
 for captain though thou be, thou knowest I am 
 sworn Alguazil, as well as head-turnkey, chief 
 executioner, and the Lord knows what beside. 
 No w^rath among friends — A very justifiable, fair 
 hit ! Najara must have his ways. Thou wilt see, 
 by and by, how he will lay 7ne by the ears. Come, 
 Corcobado, begin. — He who plays with colts, must 
 look to be kicked. — Come now, be sharp, fear not; 
 I am a dog, and love thee all the better for cudgel- 
 ling." 
 
 " I know thou art, and I know thou dost," said 
 Najara ; " for I remember, that ever since Don Her- 
 nan had thee scourged, for abusing the Tlascalan 
 woman, thou hast been a more loving hound than 
 any other of the Velasquez faction." 
 
 " Fuego de dios ! Pho, — Good ! Ha ! ha ! very 
 good !" exclaimed Villafana, laughing, though 
 somewhat disconcerted. "I confess the beating; 
 but then I have a back to endure it — Hah ! A Ro- 
 land for an Oliver, a kick for a buffet ! Thou liest, 
 though, as to the cause : 'twas for taking the old 
 senator they call Maxiscatzin by the beard, when 
 he had given me the first sop of the Maguey-liquor. 
 I was drunk, sirrah, broke rules, disobeyed orders, 
 and so deserved my guerdon. Wilt thou be satis- 
 fied ] By this hand, I grumble not. I should trounce 
 thee for the like misdemeanour, — that is, if I could 
 find whereon to lay my scourge. Aha ! wilt thou 
 pull noses with me ! Come, what saidst thou of me 
 to Bornal ? I bear thee no malice, man ; — no, no more 
 than the general. — Drunk indeed ? He should have 
 struck my head off!" 
 
THE INFIDEL. 29 
 
 V 
 
 <' I told him," said Najara, " that thou wert, in 
 some sense, worthy to be chronicled." 
 
 " Many thanks for that," said Villafana, " were it 
 only on account of the beating." 
 
 " For though thou wert as naturally given to 
 grovelling as a football, yet wouldst thou as cer- 
 tainly mount, at every kick, as that same bag of 
 wind." 
 
 " Bravo ! bravo !" cried the Alguazil, with a roar 
 of delight, in which he was joined by Guzman ; 
 " thou art as witty and unsavoury as ever, and 
 thou dingest me about the ears as with a pine-tree. 
 What else, cielo miol what else saidst thou to 
 Bernal V 
 
 *' Simply, that thou hadst more boldness than 
 would be thought of thee, more dreams than would 
 be reckoned of thy dull brain, and such skill at 
 rising, notwithstanding the clog of thy folly, that it 
 was manifest thou wouldst not be content, till thy 
 feet were two fathoms from the earth, and thy 
 crown as near to the oak-bough as the rope 
 would." 
 
 " Oh, fu ! fy !" said Villafana, " hast thou no bet- 
 ter trope for hanging ] Have you done ] Am I de- 
 spatched ? Get thee to better game, then ; and see 
 thou art more metaphoric. Hast thou no verjuice 
 for our good friend here, Camarga V 
 
 The individual thus alluded to, though giving his 
 attention to the conversation, had maintained a 
 profound and unsympathetic silence during all. 
 He stood leaning against the tree, folding over his 
 breast, and even wrapping about his chin, the long 
 cloak of striped cotton cloth — the product of the 
 country, — the bright and gaudy colours of which 
 contrasted unnaturally with the sickly hue of his 
 visage. Throughout all, when not particularly no- 
 ticed, his countenance wore an expression of as 
 much mental as bodily pain ; but when thus ac- 
 costed by Villafana, it changed at once, and in a 
 
 3* 
 
30 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 remarkable degree, from jiloom to goocl-humour, 
 and even to aj^parent payoty. It is true, tliat, at 
 the monieiit when liis name was pronounced, lie 
 started quickly with a sort of nervous airitation ; 
 and a sudden rush of blood into his face, niinixling 
 with its l)i]ious stain, covered it with the swarthiest 
 purple: but tliis immediately i)assed away — per- 
 haj)s before any of his connades had noted it. 
 
 " I cry 3'(iu mercy, senor Villafana," he said; "I 
 am as unworthy to be made the butt of wit as the 
 su])ject of history. My ambition runs not beyond 
 my conscience ; the month that I have spent in this 
 land, — and it is scarce a month, — has been wasted 
 in disease and idleness. A 5''ear hence, I shall be 
 more wortliy your consideration. But tell me, 
 p>od friends, is it true, as you say, that yonder 
 wortliy soldier hath been appointed the iiistorian of 
 your brave exploits ] By mine honour, his head 
 seems to me lietter fitted to receive blows than to 
 remember them, and his hand to repay them rather 
 than to record." 
 
 " He is, truly," said Villafana, " our Immortality, 
 as we call him, or our Historian, as he denominates 
 himself As to his appointment, it comes of his own 
 will, and not of our grace; but we quarrel not with 
 his humours. He conceives himself called to be 
 our chronicler. Who cares ! He can do no harm. 
 I am told, he doth greatly abuse Cortes, especially 
 in the matter of the slaves, and the gold we fetched 
 from Mexico in the Flight. By'r lady, I have heard 
 some sharp things said about that." 
 
 " You said them yourself," muttered Najara. " It 
 is well you are in favour." 
 
 " Ay, by my troth," cried Guzman ; " Cuidado, 
 Villafana ! Don Hernan will be angry. Good 
 luck to you ! You are the lion's small dog : seize 
 not his majesty by the nose." 
 
 " Pho, friends ! here's a coil," said the Alguazil, 
 stoutly : " Don Hernan knows me : " I will say 
 
THE INFIDEL. 31 
 
 what I think. I have maintained to his face, that 
 there was foul worl^ with the gold, and that we 
 have been cheated of our shares ; I have told him 
 what ill work was made of both Repartimientos, — 
 the partition of the slaves, — at Segura-de-la-Fronte- 
 ra, and here at Tezcuco, — scurvy, knavish work, 
 seiiores : One may fetch angels to the brand, but, 
 ay de mi ! the iron turns them into beldames 1" 
 
 " Ay, there is some truth in that," said Guzman, 
 a little thoughtfully. " No man honours Don Her- 
 nan more than myself; and yet did he suffer me 
 to be choused out of the princess I fetched from 
 Iztapalapan." 
 
 ^* Ay, the whole army witnessed it, and there was 
 not a man who did not cry shame on you for taking 
 It so—" 
 
 " Good-humouredly," interrupted the cavalier. 
 ■*' Rub me as thou wilt for a jest, Villafana ; but 
 .touch me not in soberness." 
 
 ^' Pshaw I can I not abuse thee as a friend, with- 
 out the apology of a grin ? Tiiou hadst been used 
 basely, had not Cortes made up the loss with Ler- 
 ma's horse. I have heard thee complain as much 
 as another; and even now, thou art as bitter as 
 any against this mad scheme of the ships. Demo- 
 nios ! our general will have us rot in the lake, like 
 our friends of the Noche Triste !" 
 
 " Thou errest," said the cavalier, gravely. " I 
 have changed my mind, on this subject : I perceive 
 we shall conquer this city." 
 
 " Wilt thou be sworn to that 1" exclaimed the 
 Alguazil, earnestly. " I tell thee, as a friend, we 
 are all mad, and we are deluded to death. If we 
 launch the brigantines, we are but gods' meat — food 
 for idols and cannibals. We were fools to come 
 from Tlascala. Would to Heaven we had de- 
 parted with Duero ! We are toiled on to our fate, 
 to make Cortes famous : he will win his renown 
 
32 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 out of our corses. What snyst thou, Najara, ml 
 Corcobado, mi Hacedor dn Tropos ?" 
 
 " Even that the will-o-tlT-wi-sps, the Ijines-fatui, 
 risinsr out of our decayinsr bodies, will forsake each 
 honest man's corse, to pather, frl<^ry-wise, about 
 the head of our leader. — Is tiiat to thy likinc: !" 
 
 " Marvellously ! Thy wit explains and gives 
 tontrue to my thouirhts. Thou seest thinsrs clearly 
 — I am triad thou art of my way of thinkinir. This 
 is our destiny, if we continue our insane enter- 
 prise." 
 
 "A jx^st upon thee, clod !" cried the Hunchback; 
 " I did but supply thee a simile, in pity of thine 
 own barrenness, /of thy way of thinking? Dost 
 imagine I will hang with thee? / see things 
 clearly? Marry, I do. Give tongue to tiiy 
 thoughts ? Ratsbane !" 
 
 As Najara spoke, he bent his sour and piercing 
 looks on the Alguazil ; who, much to the surprise 
 of Camarga, grew pale, and snatched at his dagger, 
 in an ecstasy of rage, greatly disproportioned to the 
 offence, if such there could be in what seemed idle 
 and unmeaning sarcasms. The wrath of Villafana, 
 however, was checked by the mirth of the cavalier, 
 Don Francisco, who exclaimed with the triumph of 
 retaliation, 
 
 " A fair knock, by St. Dominic ! Art thou laid by 
 the heels, now? Sirrah Alguazil, if thou showest 
 but an inch more of thy dudgeon, I will have thee 
 in thine own stocks, — ay, faith, and on thine own 
 block, into the bargain. Forgettest thou the de- 
 cree ? Death, man, very mortal death to any one 
 who draws weapon upon a christian comrade: thy 
 hidalgo blood, (if thou hast any, as thou art ever 
 boasting,) will not save thee. Pho ! thou art noto- 
 riously known to be a plotter. Why shouldst thou 
 be angry ?" 
 
 " Hombre I I am not angry now : but, methinks, 
 Corcobado hath the art of inflaming whatever is 
 
THE INFIDEL. 33 
 
 combustible In man's body. A good friend were 
 he for a poor man, in the winter. Why, thou bit- 
 ter, misjudging, remorseless, male-shrew, here is 
 my hand, in token I will not maul thee. Why 
 dost thou ever persecute me with thy hints 1 By 
 and by, men will come to believe thou art in 
 earnest. What dost thou see, that I care not to 
 have exposed^ I am a plotter 1 I grant ye; so 
 Cortes hath called me to my face a dozen times, or 
 more. I am a grumbler 1 So he avers, and so I 
 allow. I must speak what I think ; ay, and I must 
 growl, too. All this is apparent, but it harms me 
 not with the general : he scolds me very oft ; but 
 who stands better in his favour T" 
 
 " Thou takest the matter too seriously," said 
 Guzman. " Hast thou no suspicion that thy self- 
 commendations are tedious ?" 
 
 " In such case, hadst thou ever any thyself?" de- 
 manded the unrelenting Najara. " Pray, let him go 
 on. Let him draw his dagger, if he will, too. 
 What care 17 I have a better fence than the de- 
 cree." 
 
 " Pshaw, man," said Villafana, " why dost thou 
 take a frown so bitterly ? I will not quarrel with 
 thee. But I would thou couldst be reasonable in 
 thy fillips : call me a knave openly, if thou wilt ; 
 thy insinuations have the air of seriousness. But 
 come ; you have robbed the senor Camarga of his 
 diversion with Bernal. Lo you now, if our 
 wrangling have disturbed him a jot ! He sits there, 
 like an old horse of a summer's day, patient and 
 uncomplaining ; and, all the time, there are gadfly 
 thoughts persecuting his imagination." 
 
 " Methinks, senores," said Camarga, " you should 
 be curious to know in what manner the good man 
 records your actions. For my part, I should be 
 well content to be made better acquainted with 
 them ; especially with those later exploits, since 
 the retreat from Mexico, of which I have heard 
 
34 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 only confused and contradictory accounts. Will 
 he suffer us to examine his chronicles I" 
 
 " Suffer us !"" cried Guzman ; " if you do but give 
 him a crrain of encouragement, never believe me 
 but he will requite you with pounds of his stupidity. 
 What, have you any curiosity .' — Harkee, Bernal, 
 man ! — You shall see how I will rouse him, — Ber- 
 nal Diaz ! Historian ! Immortality ! what ho, seiior 
 Del Castillo! Are you asleep 1 Zounds, sirrah, 
 here are three or four dull fellows, who, for lack of 
 better amusement, arc willing to listen to your his- 
 tory." 
 
THE INFIDEL. 35 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 At these words, the worthy thus appealed to, 
 woke from his revery, and staring a moment in 
 some little perplexity at his companions, took up a 
 long copper-headed spear, which rested on the 
 ground at his side, and advanced towards them. 
 Viewed at a little distance, the gravity of his coun- 
 tenance gave him an appearance of age, which va- 
 nished on a nearer inspection. In reality, if his 
 own recorded account can be believed, (and heaven 
 forbid we should attach any doubt to the repre- 
 sentations of our excellent prototype,) he did not 
 number above twenty-six or twenty-seven years, 
 and was thus, as he chose to call himself, ' a strip- 
 ling.* Young as he was, however, there was not 
 a man in the army of Cortes who had seen more, 
 or more varied service than Bernal Diaz del Cas- 
 tillo. His exploits in the New World had com- 
 menced seven years before, among the burning and 
 pestilential fens of Nombre de Dios, — a place made 
 still more odious to an aspiring youth by the fero- 
 cious dissensions of its inhabitants, and that blood- 
 thirsty jealousy of its ruler, which had rewarded 
 with the block the man* who disclosed to Spain 
 the broad expanse of the Pacific, and led his subal- 
 tern, Pizarro, to the shores of Peru. With the two 
 adventurers, Cordova and Grijalva, who had pre- 
 ceded Cortes in the attempt upon the lands of Mon- 
 tezuma, (discovered by the first,) Bernal Diaz 
 shared the wounds and misadventures of both ex- 
 
 * Vasco Nunez de Bulboa. 
 
36 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 peditions ; and he was aniono: the first to join the 
 standard of Don Hornan, in the third and most 
 successful of the Spanish descents. 
 
 The hardships he had endured, the constant and 
 unniitic-ated sufrerinir to \vlii(>h he had been exposed 
 for seven years, had pven him nuicli of the wea- 
 therbeaten look of a veteran, which, added to the 
 sombre ^rravit}'^ of his visaee, caused him to present, 
 at the first sight, the ajipearance of a man of forty 
 years or more. His garments were of a dusky red 
 cloth, padded into escaujiil, with back and breast- 
 pieces of iron, over whicii was a long cloak of a 
 chocolate colour, well embroidered, and, though 
 much worn and tarnished, obviously a holiday suit. 
 To these were added a black velvet hat, ornament- 
 ed with three flamingo feathers, striking up like 
 the points of a trident, with the medal of a saint» 
 rudely wrought in gold, hanging beneath them. 
 His person w^as brawny, his face full and inex- 
 pressive ; his dull grey eyes indicated nothing but 
 simplicity and absence of mind, or rather inatten- 
 tivcness ; and it required the presence of many 
 scars of several wounds on his countenance, to con- 
 vince a stranger that Bernal actually possessed the 
 fortitude to encounter such badges of honoiu'. 
 
 He approached the group with a heavy and in- 
 dolent tread, bearing in his hand a bundle of leaves 
 of maguey paper, such as served the purposes of 
 the native painters and chroniclers of Anahuac, and 
 with which he was fain to supply the want of a 
 better material. 
 
 " Dost thou hear, sefior Inmortalidad ]" cried 
 Don Francisco de Guzman, as the martial annalist 
 took his seat serenely among the Castilians ; " art 
 thou deaf, dumb, or still wrapt in thy seventh hea- 
 ven, that thou answerest not a w^ord to my saluta- 
 tions ? Zounds, man, I will not ask thee a second 
 time." 
 
THE INFIDEL. 37 
 
 " What is your will 1" said Bernal Diaz, " what 
 will you have of me, seiiores 1" he repeated, sur- 
 veying each member of the group, one after the 
 other. " I did think that this being a day of license 
 and rejoicing to so many of us, I might have an op- 
 portunity, not often in my power, of putting down 
 some things in my journal which it will be well to 
 do, before setting out on the circuit of the lake, 
 wherein there may happen some passages to drive 
 from my memory those which are not yet recorded. 
 But, by my faith, you have talked loud and much, 
 and so disturbed my mind, that I have entirely lost 
 some things I intended to say. I would to heaven 
 you would find some other place to your liking, 
 and leave me alone for a few hours." 
 
 " Why, thou infidel !" said Guzman, " if thou 
 likest not our company, why dost thou not leave 
 it ] Dost thou forget thou hast the power of loco- 
 motion] Wilt thou wait for us to depart before 
 thou bethinkest thee of thine own legsT By'r lady ! 
 thou art not yet in thy senses !" 
 
 " By my faith, so I can !" said the historian, ab- 
 ruptly, as if the idea had just entered his mind : 
 " I will go down to the lake shore, where the sound 
 of the waves will drown your voices. There is 
 something encouraging to contemplation in the 
 dashing of water ; but as for men's voices, I could 
 never think well, when they were within hearing. 
 I beg your pardon, all, seiiores : I will go down." 
 
 "What! when here are four fools, who are in 
 the humour of hstening to thee for some seven 
 minutes, or so 1 ay, man, to thy crazy chronicles ! 
 When wilt thou expect such another audience] 
 Lo you, the senor Camarga has desired to be 
 made acquainted with your learned lucubrations. 
 Come, stir ; open thy lips, exalt thyself, while thou 
 art alive ; for after death, there is no saying how 
 short a time thou wilt sleep in cobwebs." 
 
 " You jeer me, senor Guzman; you laugh at me, 
 
 VOL. I. 4 
 
38 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 gentlemen," said the soldier, gravely ; " and thereby 
 you do yourselves, as well as me, much wrong. 
 Is it so great a thing for a soldier to write a his- 
 tory 1 The valiant Julius Ca?sar of Rome record- 
 ed, with his own hand, his great actions in France, 
 Britain, and our own Castile, as 1 know full well ; 
 for when I was a boy at school, I saw the very 
 book ; and sorry I am that the ]ioverty of my pa- 
 rents denied mc such instruction, as might have 
 enabled me to read it. Then, there was Josephus, 
 the Jewish Captain, who wrote a history of the fall 
 of Jerusalem, as I have heard from a learned i)riest. 
 Besides, there were many Greek soldiers, who did 
 the same thing, as I have been told ; but I never 
 knew much concerning them." 
 
 "And hast thou the vanity to talk of Julius Ca3- 
 sar ?" cried Guzman, laughing. 
 
 "Why not?" said the soldier, stoutly; "I have 
 fought almost as many battles, and I warrant me, 
 my heart is as strong ; and were it my fate to be a 
 general and commander, instead of a poor soldier 
 of fortune in the ranks, I could myself, as well as 
 another, lead you through these mischievous Mexi- 
 cans ; who, I w^ill be sworn, are much more valiant 
 heathens than ever Caesar found among the French. 
 As far as he was a soldier, then, I boast to be as 
 good a man as he ; ay, by mine honour, and better 
 too ! for I am a Christian man, w^hereas he was a 
 poor benighted infidel. As for my history, I will 
 not make bold to compare it in excellence with his ; 
 for it has been told me, that Caesar was a scholar, 
 and possessed of the graces and elegancies of style ; 
 whereas, I have myself none of these graces, being 
 ignorant of both Latin and Greek, and knowing 
 nothing, of any tongues, except the Castilian, and 
 some smattering of this Indian jargon, which I have 
 picked up with much pains, and, as 1 may say, at 
 the expense of more beating than one gets from the 
 schoolmaster. Nevertheless, I flatter myself, that 
 
THE INFIDEL. 39 
 
 what I write will be good, because it will be true ; 
 for this which I am writing, is not a history of dis- 
 tant nations or of past events, nor is it composed of 
 vain reveries and conjectures, such as fill the 
 pages of one who writes of former ages. I relate 
 those things of which I am an eye-witness, and not 
 idle reports and hearsay. Truth is sacred and 
 very valuable. In future days, when men come to 
 make histories of our acts in this land, their histories 
 will be good, because they will draw them from 
 me, and not from those vain historiographers who 
 stay at home, and write down all the lies that peo- 
 ple at a distance may say of us. This is a good 
 thing, and will make my book, when finished, a 
 treasury to men ; but what is better, and what 
 should make it noticeable to yourselves, it will not, 
 like other histories, say, ' The great hero Cortes did 
 this,' and * the mighty commander did that,' giving 
 all the -glory to one man alone ; but it will record 
 our achievements in such a way as to show who 
 performed them, relating that ' this thing was done 
 by the Senor Don Francisco de Guzman, and this 
 by the valiant soldier Najara, and this by myself, 
 Bernal Diaz del Castillo,' and so on, each of us ac- 
 cording to our acts."* 
 
 " What the worthy Del Castillo says, is just," 
 said Camarga ; " and whether his history be ele- 
 gant or unpolished, he should be encouraged to 
 continue it. For my own part, I shall be glad 
 when I have performed anything worthy to be 
 preserved, to know, we have with us a man who 
 will see that the credit of the act is not bestowed 
 upon another. And, in this frame of mind, I will 
 stand much indebted to the good seiior, if he will 
 permit me at once, to be made acquainted with the 
 
 * The historical reader will find that the worthy Bernal 
 has incorporated many of these judicious sentiments in the 
 work he was then composing, and some almost word for 
 word. 
 
40 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 tnie relation of certain events, with which I am not 
 yet famiUar." 
 
 " What will you have ?" said Denial Diaz, much 
 gratified b}' this proof of approbation. " You shal 
 hear the trutli, and no vain fabrication ; for I cal 
 heaven to witness, and I say Amen to it, that I have 
 related nothing- wliich, being an eye-witness, I do 
 not know to be true ; or which, having the testi- 
 mony of many others, actors and lookers-on, to the 
 same, I have not good reason to believe, is true. 
 What, then, will you have, sefior Camarga 1 Is 
 there any particular battle you choose to be inform- 
 ed of] Perhaps, I had better begin with the first 
 chapter, which I have here, written out in full, and 
 which — " 
 
 " Fire !" cried Guzman, starting up, " will you 
 drive us away] Zounds! do you think we will 
 swallow^ all ]" 
 
 " Read that chapter," said Najara, " in which 
 you celebrate the exploits of the senor Guzman." 
 
 "I have not," said Diaz, with much simplicity, 
 " I have not yet had occasion to come to Don 
 Francisco." 
 
 " Hear !" cried Villafana, clapping his hands with 
 admiration, in which the cavalier, after looking a 
 little indignant, thought fit to join. 
 
 " Unless indeed," continued the historian, " I 
 should have resolved to relate the quarrel betwixt 
 his favour, and the young cornet Lerma, (whom 
 may heaven take to its rest ; for there were some 
 good things in the young man.) But as to this 
 feud, I thought it better for the honour of both, 
 as well as of another, whom I do not desire to 
 mention with dispraise, that the matter should be 
 forgotten." 
 
 " Put it down, if thou wilt," said Guzman, with 
 a stern aspect. " What I have done, I have done ; 
 and I shame not to have it spoken. If I did not 
 kill the youth, never believe me if it was not out of 
 
THE INFIDEL. 41 
 
 pity for his years ; and out of regard to Cortes, 
 with whom he was a favourite." 
 
 At these words, which were deHvered with the 
 greatest gravity, the historian raised his eyes to 
 Don Francisco, and regarded him, for a moment, 
 with surprise. Then shaking his head, and mut- 
 tering the word ' favourite,' with a voice of incre- 
 dulity, and even wonder, he held his peace, with 
 the air of one who locks up in his breast a mys- 
 tery, which he has been on the point of imprudently 
 revealing. 
 
 "A favourite — I repeat the word," exclaimed 
 Don Francisco, with angry emphasis ; " a favour- 
 ite, at least, until his folly and baseness were made 
 apparent to Cortes, and so brought him to dis- 
 grace." 
 
 " Strong words, Don Francisco !" said Villafana, 
 with a bold tone of rebuke ; " and somewhat too 
 strong to be spoken of a dead enemy. And be- 
 sides, without referring to your share in the matter, 
 there are those in this army, who have other 
 thoughts in relation to the lad. It has been whis- 
 pered, — and the honour of Cortes has suffered 
 thereby, — it has been whispered " 
 
 " By Villafana," exclaimed the hunchback, ab- 
 ruptly and sharply ; " by thyself, certainly. Sir Al- 
 guazil, if there be anything in it against the credit 
 of the general." 
 
 " Pshaw ! wilt thou buffet me again V cried Villa- 
 fana, springing up and stamping on the earth, 
 though not in anger. " Dost thou know now what 
 thou art like ?" 
 
 " Like a thorn in the foot, which, the more you 
 stamp, the more it will hurt." 
 
 " Rather like a stupid ball tied to my leg," said 
 the Alguazil, " which, without any merit of its own, 
 serves but the dead-weight purpose of giving me a 
 jerk, turn whichsoever way I will." 
 
 " Right !" cried Najara, with a sneer ; " you have 
 
 4* 
 
42 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 clapped the ball to the right leg. We do not so 
 shot honest men." 
 
 "Gentlemen, with your leave," said Camarga, 
 willing to divert the storm, which it seemed Naja- 
 ra's delight to provoke in the breast of the Alguazil, 
 " with your leave, seliores, I must not be robbed 
 of my cu)iosity. It was my purpose to ask the 
 seiior del Castillo to read me such portions of his 
 journal as treated, first, of occurrences that hap- 
 pened after the Noche Triste, and battle of Otumba, 
 and then of the history and fate of this very young 
 man, whose name is so efficacious in laying you 
 by the ears. But as I perceive the latter subject is 
 hateful to you all, — ." Here he turned his eyes on 
 Guzman. 
 
 " You are deceived," said Don Francisco, drily. 
 " I bear the young man no malice : the wolf and 
 the dog may roll over carcasses — I have no anger 
 for bones. He slandered me : being no longer 
 alive, I forgiv^e him. Ask Bernal what you will, 
 and let him answer what he will : I swear by my 
 troth, I care not." 
 
 " What needs that we should look into noisome 
 caves, when we have green, wholesome lawns be- 
 fore us ?" said Bernal Diaz, hesitating ; for, at that 
 moment, the eyes of all except Guzman, were 
 fastened eagerly on his own. "I could speak of 
 the quarrel, to be sure, between his favour Don 
 Francisco and the young colour-bearer ; for though, 
 as I said, and for the reasons stated, I have not put 
 it down in my history, yet do I remember it very 
 well. But, should I get thus far, I should even 
 persist witli the whole story ; for, I know not how 
 it is, I never begin a relation, and get well adv^anced 
 in the same, but I am loath to leave it, till I have 
 recounted all." 
 
 " Ay, I'll be sworn, thou art," said Villafana : 
 " thy stories are much like to a crane's neck ; 'tis 
 
THE INFIDEL. 43 
 
 but a head and bill at first, and an ell or two of 
 nothing stretched out after." 
 
 " Nor am I able," said the worthy Bernal, with- 
 out stopping to digest the simile, " to read a full ac- 
 count of those actions the senor Camarga speaks 
 of, which took place subsequently to our flight from 
 Mexico and our great victory on the plains of 
 Otumba, for the good reason that I have not yet 
 composed them ; the failure of which is, in a great 
 measure, the consequence of your loud talking just 
 now, whilst I was addressing my mind to the same. 
 But, if you will have a verbal relation, seiior Ca- 
 marga, I will do my best to pleasure you, and that 
 right briefly, and in true words ; for I defy any man 
 to detect falsehood or exaggeration in what I 
 write." 
 
 " Ay, by'r lady !" cried Guzman, who had reco- 
 vered his good-humour, and now laughed heartily, 
 — " in what you ivrite, honest Bernal ; but in what 
 you say, you are not so infallible." 
 
 " You would not let me finish what I was about 
 to say," murmured the historian. 
 
 " No, faith ; you would make a day's work of it ; 
 whereas I, who am no wire-drawer of conceits, can 
 despatch the whole thing in a minute. Do you not 
 see ] the rear of the procession is in sight : in half 
 an hour we shall be summoned into camp. Be 
 content then, scribbler; I quote thy words, which 
 should be honour enough : ' I defy any man to dis- 
 cover falsehood or exaggeration in what I say.* 
 Know then, seiior Camarga — after our victory at 
 Otumba, nine months since, we retreated to Tlas- 
 cala, four hundred and fifty in number, at which 
 city we rested five months, curing our wounds, 
 recruiting our forces, and preparing to resume the 
 war. During this time, the only remarkable inci- 
 dents were, — first — the meeting of those goodly 
 knaves who had come with Narvaez, sworn faith 
 
44 TTIE INTfDEL. 
 
 to Cortes, looked at Mexico, and now, being satis- 
 fied with blows and honour, dr-manded to be sent 
 back to Cuba, to the great injiny and almost de- 
 struction of all our hopes. Among the foremost of 
 these turbulent fellows, was our friend here, Villa- 
 fana ; wIki, althougli he came not with Narvaez, 
 but was sent soon after us by Velasquez, was ever 
 found consorting with the disaffected, until his good 
 saint, in some dream of tlie gallows, brought better 
 thoughts into his mind, and converted him from an 
 open enemy into a doubtful friend. Peace, Villa- 
 fana ! I am now playing the historian, and must 
 therefore tell what I believe to be the truth." 
 
 At these words, Villafana, who had opened his 
 mouth to speak, checked the impulse, nodded, 
 laughed, and composed himself to silence, 
 
 *' The defection of these men," resumed the cava- 
 lier, " and the reduction of our numbers that fol- 
 lowed, (for we were e'en forced to discharge the 
 more importunate of them,) were requited to us by 
 happy reinforcements of men, horses, and arms ; 
 some of them sent by the foolish Velasquez — " 
 
 " Seiior Guzman," said Bernal Diaz, " the Gover- 
 nor Velasquez is my relation. My father was an 
 hidalgo, and his wife, my mother — " 
 
 " Oh, I forgot !" said Guzman, nodding to the his- 
 torian : — " Some sent by the sagacioKS Velasquez 
 to his captain, Narvaez, who was in chains at Villa 
 Rica ; some by De Garay, Adelantado of Jamaica, 
 to rob us of our northern province, Panuco, — and 
 it is supposed that thou, seiior Camarga, with thy 
 crew of sick men, though thou comest so late, and 
 apparently of thine own good will, wert equipt by 
 the same inconsiderate commander ; and some by 
 the merchants of the Canaries and of Seville, to be 
 exchanged for our superfluous spoils, which were 
 not then gathered ; — no, by'r lady, nor yet, either. 
 In fine, we became strong enough, by these means, 
 to recruit our forces among the natives of the land ; 
 
THE INFIDEL. 45 
 
 which we did, by attacking divers provinces in the 
 neighbourhood of Tlascala, and compelling their 
 warriors to join our standard, along with the Tlas- 
 calans, who were willing enough, — all save their 
 generalissimo, Xicotencal. Thus, then, with no 
 mean force of Spaniards, and with several armies 
 of Indian confederates, we came, 'tis now more 
 than three months since, to yonder city, Tezcuco, 
 and raised to the throne, (in place of his brother, 
 who fled to Mexico,) a king of our own choosing ; 
 of whom I have the honour to be chief counsellor 
 and minister, that is to say, guardian, regent, 
 sponsor, or master, as you may think fit to esteem 
 me. Here, it has been our good fortune to receive 
 other and stronger reinforcements, and, as Villafa- 
 na said, from the king's own royal bounty, with 
 commissions and orders, priests and crown-ofl^icers, 
 and so on ; which circumstances have caused our 
 army to be reorganized, the whole reduced to a 
 stricter discipline, and civil officers to be appointed, 
 for the better enforcing of martial law. Here, too, 
 we have been preparing for the siege and blockade 
 of yonder accursed metropolis, by bringing ships, 
 (they are on the shoulders of these crawhng pa- 
 gans,) to give us the command of the lake ; and by 
 attacking and destroying the neighbouring towns, 
 so as to secure possession of the shores. In the 
 meanwhile, the young cub of an Emperor, Guati- 
 mozin, who has succeeded Cuitlahuatzin, the suc- 
 cessor of Montezuma, has been equally busy in 
 concentrating the warriors of all his faithful pro- 
 vinces in the island, and providing vast stores of 
 corn and meat, for their subsistence, — as resolute 
 to resist as we are to assail. The materials for 
 our vessels being arrived, it is now known, that 
 the time of constructing and lanching them, will 
 be devoted to an expedition, led by Cortes himself; 
 in which we will make the circuit of the whole 
 lake, destroying the rebellious cities on the main, 
 
46 THE IXFrJEL. 
 
 and driving to the island all who may think fit to re- 
 sist. When they are thus caged, we shall have them 
 like pigeons in a net ; and good plucking there will 
 be in store for all. — This is my history, and me- 
 thinks it should satisfy you." 
 
 " It wants nothing to be complete save the epi- 
 sode of the Cornet Lerma," said Villafana, with a 
 malicious grin ; " and, in reqiutal for the good turn 
 you have done me, when speaking of the mutiny 
 Tlascala, I will relate it, — ay, by St. James, I will ! 
 frown and storm as you may. The seilor Ca- 
 marga has avowed his curiosity in the matter. Our 
 dull Bernal, who is so frequent at boasting he tells 
 naught but truth, has confessed that he dares not 
 tell «// the truth ; which, I think, will be somewhat 
 of a qualification to the belief of his future admirers. 
 Najara, here, will say naught of any one but my- 
 self, and that with a crusty and bitter obstinacy, — 
 wherein he seems to me to resemble a silly ox, who 
 rubs his stupid head against a tree, much less to 
 the prejudice of the bark than his skin. And as for 
 thyself, senor Don Francisco, thou hast but thine 
 own fashion of telling the story. But I told thee 
 before, there are those in the army who have ano- 
 ther way of thinking; and I am one — I will not 
 boggle at a truth, like Diaz, because it is somewhat 
 discreditable to Cortes, or to a chief officer." 
 
 " Speak then," said Guzman, gravely ; " I have 
 said already I care not. I know full well how your 
 knavish companions belie me. I say again, I care 
 not. What you aver as your own belief, T will 
 make free to hold in consideration : for the leported 
 imputations of others, I release you from responsi- 
 bility." 
 
 " Oh, I speak not on rny own knowledge, nor of 
 my own personal belief," said Villafana, " and there- 
 fore, (but more especially in consequence of the de- 
 cree, sefior, the decree ! — we will not forget the 
 decree,) I shall fear neither dagger nor black looks. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 47 
 
 You called Lerma a ' favourite' of the general : pha ! 
 even Bernal smiled at that !" 
 
 *' What I have said in that matter," replied Guz- 
 man, with composure, " I will condescend to sup- 
 port with argument. The young man was received 
 into the household of Cortes, while Cortes was yet 
 a planter of Santiago : he picked him up, heaven 
 knows where, how, or why, a poor, vagabond boy. 
 It is notorious to all, that, in those days, Don Her- 
 nan employed him less as a servant than as a son, 
 or younger brother, and as such, bestowed upon 
 him affection and confidence, as well as the truest 
 protection. Thou knowest, and if thou art not an 
 infidel altogether, thou wilt allow, that the sword- 
 cut on the general's left hand was obtained in a 
 duel which he fought with a man, ('twas the seiior 
 Bocasucia,) who had thrown some sarcasm on the 
 youth's birth, and then ran him through the body, 
 when he sought for satisfaction." 
 
 " I allow all this," said Villafana ; " I confess the 
 youth was an ass, to match his boy's blade against 
 the weapon of the best swordsman in the island; 
 and I agree that it was both noble and truly affec- 
 tionate in Cortes, to take up the quarrel, and so 
 baste the bones of Bocasucia, that he will remem- 
 ber the correction to his dying day. I allow all 
 this ; and I add to it the greater proof of Don Her- 
 nan's love for the youth, that when Velasquez 
 granted him his commission to subdue these lands, 
 (I would the sea had swallowed them, some good 
 ten years since!) the captain did forthwith entrust 
 to the boy the honourable and distinguished duty 
 of recruiting soldiers for him, in Espanola, in which 
 island he was born." 
 
 " Ay," quoth Guzman, dryly, " and one may find 
 cause for the general's anger, in the diligence with 
 which the urchin prosecuted his task, and the suc- 
 cess that crowned it." 
 
 " By my faith," said Bernal Diaz, unable any 
 
48 THE INFIPEL. 
 
 longer to restrain liis desire to take part in a dis- 
 cussion of such historical moment, " the young man 
 sped well ; and that he came to us empty-handed 
 was no cause of Don Hernan's displeasure, as I 
 have heard Don Hernan say. It was, in the first 
 place, our liaste to embark, when we discovered 
 that the governor was about to revoke our cap- 
 tain's commission, that caused Lerma to be left be- 
 hind us ; and, secondly, it was the governor's own 
 act, that Lerma was not permitted to follow us, with 
 the forces he had raised and brought as far as San- 
 tiago. It is well known, that these men were ar- 
 rested on their course, and disbanded by Velas- 
 quez, — for some of them came afterwards with 
 Narvaez, and have so reported. Tlie youth was 
 thrown into prison, too, where he fell sick, — for he 
 had never entirely recovered from the effects of his 
 wound, — and it required all the exertions of Dona 
 Catalina, our leader's wife, backed by those of her 
 friends, to procure his release. His fidelity was 
 afterwards shown in his escape from Cuba, which 
 was truly wonderful, both in boldness q^ concep- 
 tion and success of accomplishment." 
 
 " His fidelity truly, and his folly, too," said Villa- 
 fana ; " for, 1 think, no one but a confirmed mad- 
 man could have projected and undertaken a voyage 
 across the gulf, in an open fitstOy* (by'r lady ! I 
 have heard 'twas nothing better than a piragua,) 
 with a few beggarly Indian fishermen for his crew. 
 But this he did, mad or not ; and if Cortes were 
 angry, he took but an ill way to punish, since he 
 gave him a horse and standard, and kept him, for 
 a long time, near to his own person. His favourite 
 for a time, I grant you he may have been, having 
 heard it so related ; but when I myself came to the 
 land, there were others much better beloved." 
 
 * Fusta — a sort of galley, very small and open, with 
 lateen sails. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 49 
 
 " If I am not mistaken," said Don Francisco, " he 
 was in favour at that time ; and I have heard it 
 affirmed it was some news of thy bringing, or some 
 good counsel of thy speaking, which first opened 
 the eyes of Cortes." - •' 
 
 " /, indeed ! — my news, and my counsel !" cried 
 Villafana, with a grin. " I was more like, at that 
 period, to get to the bastinado than the ears of Don 
 Hernan. I, indeed! — I loved not the young man, 
 I confess ; and who did ] He had even the fate of 
 a fallen minion ; all spoke of him with dispraise, — 
 all hated him, or seemed to hate him, save only the 
 Tlascalan chief, Xicotencal, who loved him out of 
 opposition ; and I remember a saying of this very 
 crabbed Corcobado, here, on the subject, namely, 
 that a hedgehog was the best fellow for a viper." 
 
 " Ay, by my faith," said Najara ; " yet I meant 
 not Xicotencal for the animal, but a worthy Chris- 
 tian cavalier ; who was, at that time, rolling the 
 snake out of his dwelling." As Najara spoke, he 
 fixed his eyes on Guzman. 
 
 " I understand thee, toad," said the latter, indif- 
 ferently. " It was natural, the young man should 
 be somewhat jealous. But this leads us from the 
 story. If it be needful to find a reason for Don 
 Hernan's change, I can myself give a thousand. In 
 the first place, mere human fickleness might be 
 enough, for no man is master of his affections. 
 It might be enough too, to know, that the youth was 
 no longer the gay and good-humoured lad he had 
 been described, but a sour, gloomy, and peevish 
 fool, exceedingly disagreeable and quarrelsome ; 
 and, perhaps, it might be more than enough, to re- 
 mind you, that, as was currently believed, this 
 change of temper was the consequence of certain 
 villanous acts, committed after our departure, and 
 which were thought to furnish a better and more 
 probable reason for the voyage in the fusta than 
 any particular zeal he had in the cause of Cortes. 
 
 VOL. I. 5 
 
50 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 If this be not enough," continued the cavalier, look- 
 ing round him with the air of one who feels that 
 his arguments are conclusive, " then I have but 
 to mention what you seem to have forgotten, 
 — to wit, that this petulant and meddlesome 
 boy did presume to make oj^position to, and veiy 
 arrogantly censure, certain acti(^ns of the general ; 
 and, in particular, the seizure and imprisonment 
 of king Montezuma, and the burning alive of the 
 Cholulan jirisoners, as well as the seventeen war- 
 riors, who had fought the battle with Escalante, at 
 Vera Cruz." — In the last of these instances, Don 
 Francisco made reference to the barbarous and most 
 unjust punishment of Q,uauhpopoco, — the military 
 governor of a Mexican province near to Vera Cruz, 
 — and of his chief officers, who had presumed to 
 resist with arms, and with fatal success, the Span- 
 ish commandant of the coast, in an unjustifiable 
 attack. 
 
 " All this is true," said Villafana, " and it is all 
 superfluous. What I desired to establish was, that 
 Lerma was no favourite, when sent on the expedi- 
 tion, as would have been inferred from your words. 
 I come now, seiior Camarga, to speak of that oc- 
 currence in relation to this boy, Juan Lerma, (I 
 call him a boy, for, at that time, he was not thought 
 to exceed nineteen years of age,) which, as Bernal 
 Diaz says, touches the honour of Don Hernan, and 
 which, others think, bears as heavily upon that of 
 Don Francisco. The senores must answer for 
 themselves: I only give what is one version of the 
 story." 
 
 " And, I warrant thee, it is the worst," said Na- 
 jara. "Thou hast very much the appetite of a 
 gallinaza, who chooses her meat according to the 
 roughness of the savour." 
 
 " Among the daughters of the captive Montezu- 
 ma," said Villafana, nodding to the hunchback, in 
 testimony of approbation, " was one, the youngest 
 
THE INFIDEL. 51 
 
 of all, and, in truth, the prettiest, as I have heard, 
 for I never beheld her, who was called Cillahula, — " 
 
 " Zelahualla,"" said Bernal Diaz. " It is a word 
 that signifies — " 
 
 " It signifies nothing, so long as you give it not 
 the proper accent," said Guzman, with infinite 
 composure. " Her true name was Citlaltihuatl ; 
 or, at least, it was by that the Mexicans designated 
 her ; for they of the royal family have, ordinarily, 
 a popular title, in addition to that used at court. 
 The name may be interpreted the Maiden of the 
 Star, or the Celestial Lady ; for so much is ex- 
 pressed by the two words of which it is com- 
 pounded." 
 
 " I maintain," said Bernal Diaz, stoutly, " that 
 the word Zelahualla is more agreeable of pronun- 
 ciation, as well as much more universal in the 
 army." 
 
 " I grant you that," said Guzman. " Nor is the 
 corruption so great as that of many names you 
 have recorded in your journal : but I leave these 
 things to be examined by your admirers hereafter. 
 We will call the princess, then, Zelahualla ; that 
 being the better and more common title. — And now, 
 Villafana, man, get thee on, in God's name; and 
 start not, seiior Camarga, at the damnable inven- 
 tions of slander, which will now be told you." 
 
 " Pho !" said the Alguazil, " I will not abuse thee 
 half so much as the General. Know, senor Camar- 
 ga, that there arose, between the young fool Lerma 
 and the excellent cavalier Don Francisco de Guz- 
 man, a quarrel, very hot and deadly, concerning 
 this same silly daughter of Montezuma; with whom 
 Don Francisco chose to be somewhat rougher and 
 more tyrannical, in displaying his affection, than 
 was proper towards a king's daughter and a cap- 
 tive." 
 
 " Dost thou speak this upon thine own personal 
 averment ?" demanded Don Francisco, with a coun- 
 
52 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 tenanco iinclinncfed, hut witli a voire protornaturally 
 subdued. 
 
 "No, faitli," said Villafaua, liastily, and with an 
 air that looked hke akirm ; "I repeat the innuen- 
 does of others, whieh may be slanders or not, — I 
 know not. liut it is certain, the younir man so 
 charged tlice to Cortes; aftirminrj that, but for his 
 interference, the villany meditated — But, pho ! thou 
 growest angry ! So much, certainly, he brought 
 against thee ]" 
 
 " He did," replied Guzman, smiling as if in deri- 
 sion ; " and I know not how any could have been 
 induced to believe him, except that man, — each 
 man, — being naturally a rogue himself, doth rather 
 delight to entertain those aspersions which bring 
 down his neighbour to his own level, than the com- 
 mendations w'hich acquaint him with a superior. 
 He did ! — He was a fool ! I can explain this thing 
 to your satisfaction." 
 
 " Ba.sta ! it does not need," replied Villafana. 
 " The rear-guard is passing, — there is a stir on the 
 temple-top, and presently we shall hear the trumpet, 
 which, like a curfew-bell, will command us to 
 put out the fires of our fancy and the lights of our 
 wit, on pain of having them, somewhat of a sudden, 
 ■whipped out with switches. I must tell mine own 
 story ; the seiior Camarga looks a little impatient. 
 The end of this quarrel," continued the Alguazil, 
 "was a duel ; in which neither of the rivals in love 
 and the general's favour, came to much hurt ; since 
 they were speedily seized ujion and introduced to 
 the Calabozo, for lighting against the express orders 
 of the general. Then, being released, they were 
 separated, — our excellent friend 13on Francisco 
 being sent on some duty to Tlascala, and the boy 
 Juan to — heaven." 
 
 " Saints !" exclaimed Camarga ; " he was not 
 executed ?" 
 
 " Not on the block or the gallows, to be sure/* 
 
THE INPIDEL. 53 
 
 said Villafana ; " but in a manner quite as effectual. 
 He was sent on some fool's errand of discovery, 
 or exploration, to the South Sea, which, it was told 
 us, washed the distant borders of this mighty em- 
 pire ; — his companions, two unlucky dogs of La 
 Mancha, and one Leoneseof Medina-del-Campo, — " 
 
 " Ay," said Bernal Diaz, with a groan, — " Gaspar 
 Olea ; he was my beloved friend and townsman, 
 and — " But Villafana was in no humour to be 
 interrupted : 
 
 " All three, like himself, out of favour," he conti- 
 nued. " Besides these, the young man had with 
 him a band of knavish infidels, from the western 
 province Matlatzinco ; and his guide and counsellor 
 was an old chief of the Ottomies — a half-savage, 
 (they called him Ocelotl or Ocelotzin, that is, the 
 Tiger,) who had been domesticated among Monte- 
 zuma's other wild beasts. Now, seiior, you may 
 make your own conclusions, or you may take those 
 of men who are true friends of Cortes, and yet will 
 speak their mind. It was said, at the time, that the 
 young man was sent to his death ; for the western 
 tribes are fierce and barbarous ; it was an easy 
 way to get rid of him — and so it has been proved. 
 This happened fourteen months ago : neither the 
 young man, nor any of his companions, were ever 
 heard of more. The thing was understood, and it 
 was called a cruel and unchristian act." 
 
 " Thou doest a foul wrong to Cortes, to say so," 
 exclaimed Don Francisco, " imputing to him such 
 sinister and perfidious motives. Such expeditions 
 were at that time common ; for we were then at 
 peace, and each explorer was furnished by Monte- 
 zuma with some royal officer by way of safe-con- 
 duct. Did not Don Hernan send his cousin, the 
 young Pizarro, to explore the gold-lands of Guazte- 
 pec, at that very time ] Were not others sent to 
 search for mines, in the southern and northern pro- 
 vinces ? I affirm, that this expedition of Lerma, fatal 
 
 5* 
 
54 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 though it lias proved, was not thought more, or 
 iniich more dangerous than Pizarro's : — thou know- 
 est, Pizarro lost three of his men. — Moreover, thou 
 doest the general an equal wrong, in the matter of 
 the three Spaniards, that went with Lerma. Olea, 
 at least, — Caspar Olea, the Barba-Roxa — was no 
 toriously a favourite and trusted soldier, and was 
 sent with tlie youth, as being the fittest man who 
 could be spared, to aid his inexperience." 
 
 "The history is finished," said Villafana, rising ; 
 '* the trumpet flourishes ; and, like hounds at tiie 
 horn of the hunter, we must e'en get us to the 
 genera], and add our howls to the yells of these 
 curs of Tlascala. The history is finished ; and I 
 have only to add, by way of annotation, that the 
 hatred you bore the youth, (I liave heard some say, 
 he had the better in the duel !) will sujiply you good 
 reasons for defending his punishment." 
 
 " I say to you again," cried Guzman, " I have 
 forgiven the youth, and I hate him not." 
 
 " Oh ! the brown horse, Bobadil, tiiat was sent 
 to him from Santo Domingo, a month since, and 
 given to your own excellent favour, as to his pro- 
 per heir, is a good peace-maker !" 
 
 " Thou art a fool," said Don Francisco ; " I la- 
 ment his death as much as another." 
 
 " Have masses then said for his soul, for, by 
 heaven and St. John, his spirit is among us !" 
 
 These w^ords, })ronounced by the hunchback, 
 Najara, suddenly, and with a voice of extreme 
 alarm, caused the cavalier, who, with Villafana and 
 Camarga, had already begun to walk towards the 
 city, to turn round ; when he instantly beheld, and 
 with similar agitation, the apparition which had 
 drawn forth the exclamation of the deformed. 
 
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THE INFIDEL. 55 
 
 CHAPTER 111. 
 
 As the Castilians followed the eyes of Najara, 
 they beheld, approaching them from behind, three 
 men, in whom, but for the direction given to their 
 thoughts by the exclamation, they would have seen 
 nothing but the persons of Indians, belonging to 
 some tribe more wild and savage than any which 
 inhabited the valley. Their garments were coarse 
 and singular ; their gait — at least, the gait of tw^o 
 of them,. — not unlike to that of barbarians ; and the 
 look of w^onder with which they surveyed the long 
 train of the rear-guard, in which the high penachos, 
 or plumes, and the copper-headed spears of Tlasca- 
 lan chiefs, shone among the iron casques of Spanish 
 cavaliers, was similar to the childish admiration of 
 natives, unused to such a spectacle. Their dark 
 countenances and long hair, their vestments and 
 arms, were all of an Aztec character ; yet a second 
 and more scrutinizing glance made it apparent, 
 that one, at least, if not two of them, was of ano- 
 ther and nobler race. 
 
 The foremost, or leader, of the little band, was 
 undoubtedly a savage ; as was seen by the de- 
 pressed forehead, the high cheek-bones, the eye of 
 a peculiar form, and the skin of even uncommon 
 swarthiness, which distinguished him from his com- 
 panions. His stature was short, almost dwarfish ; 
 his toes were turned inwards ; and as he moved 
 along with a shuffling gait, with advanced chest, 
 and head still more protruded, his long locks, griz- 
 zled as with extreme age, fell from either side of 
 
56 THE INFinEL. 
 
 his fare, like patclies of sfray moss from tlie bougli 
 of a tree, and almost swept tlie crcnmcl. A coarse 
 cloth was wrapi">ed round his loins ; another of a 
 square shape, — its opjiosite corners tied round his 
 neck, — huiifr like a mantle, or rather a shawl, from 
 his shoulders, over which were also strapped a bow 
 and quiver of arrows ; and a thick mat of cane- 
 work was secured by thongs to his left arm, in the 
 manner of a buckler, and swung at his side, or was 
 laid ui)()n his breast, as suited his mood or conve- 
 nience. In other respects, he was naked, — though 
 not without the native battle-axe of obsidian. This 
 weapon consisted of a rod, or bludgeon, of heavy 
 wood, (it was sometimes of copper,) at the extremi- 
 ty of which, and on either side, were fastened six 
 or seven broad blades, or flakes, of volcanic glass, 
 standing a litt]<:! apart from each other. Its native 
 name, maquahuitl^ was speedily corrupted by the 
 Spaniards into rnacana, — a name that is applied, in 
 Castile, to a sabre of lath ; and wiiich, being more 
 practicable to civilized organs of speech than the 
 original title, is worthy of being preserved. The 
 appearance of this aged warrior presented none of 
 the infirmities of years. His stooping carriage was 
 rather the result of habit than feebleness ; his step 
 was quick and firm, though ungainly ; and his eye 
 rolled with the piercing vivacity of youth over the 
 scene, which occupied so much of the attention of 
 his followers. 
 
 Of these, that one whom the Castilians at the 
 cypress-tree hesitated, for a moment, whether to 
 esteem an Indian or a Christian man, was of a 
 figure more remarkable for sturdiness than ele- 
 gance. The roll of cloth round his ])ody extended 
 from his waist, where it was secured by a leathern 
 girdle, to his knees. The mantle about his shoul- 
 ders was more capacious than his fellow's, but it 
 left his brawny chest in part exposed, and thereby 
 revealed a skin fairer than belonged to the natives 
 
THE INFIDEL. 67 
 
 of Anahuac. His hair, though very long, was of a 
 reddish-brown colour, and waving rather than 
 straight ; and a rough beard of a ruddy hue, though 
 so short that its growth seemed to have been 
 permitted for not more than the space of a week, 
 was another phenomenon not to be looked for in a 
 barbarian. But the indications of civilized origin 
 offered by these characteristics, were set at naught 
 by the step and bearing of the stranger, which 
 were to the full as wild and peculiar as those of his 
 more ancient companion ; like whom, he carried a 
 buckler and macana, though without the bow and 
 quiver. His eye rolled with a like wildness ; but 
 his features were European ; and instead of being 
 entirely barefoot, like the senior, his feet were de- 
 fended by stout sandals of untanned skin. 
 
 The third, and by far the most remarkable of all, 
 was he who had first caught the eye of Najara, 
 and upon whom was now concentrated the gaze 
 of the whole party. A figure of the most majestic 
 height, and noble proportions, though, at the pre- 
 sent moment, greatly wasted, was rather set off to 
 advantage than concealed by a costume as spare 
 and primitive as that of the red-bearded man. His 
 skin was much tawnier than his companion's ; in- 
 deed, it was of the darkest hue known among the 
 southern provinces of Spain and Portugal, where 
 the blood of Europe has mingled harmoniously with 
 the life-tides of Africa. His lofty stature was more 
 obvious, perhaps, since he adopted not the bearing 
 or gait of the others, but moved along erect, with a 
 graceful demeanour, and a step of natural ease and 
 dignity. He had but one characteristic of a Mexi- 
 can ; and that was the long hair, straight, and of 
 an intense blackness, that fell from his temples to 
 his breast, with much of a wild and savage profu- 
 sion, concealing, in part, a cheek of the finest con- 
 tour, though somewhat hollowed by hardship, and, 
 perhaps, suffering. The puffs of wind, blowing 
 
58 THE IN'FIDEL. 
 
 aside tliis sable eurtain, disclosed an elevated fore- 
 head, crowning a visage in which every feature 
 was of the mould of Castile, and after the happiest 
 model of that order of beauty, each being sculptured 
 with a touch that preserved delicacy, even while 
 giving boldness. His age would have been a ques- 
 tion wherewith to puzzle a physiognomist : there 
 was much in the smoothness of his brow, and the 
 unaltered freshness of a mouth, over which was 
 sprouting a mustache, short and bushy, as if as 
 lately submitted to the tonsure as the beard of his 
 companion, that spoke of youth just verging into 
 maturity; while, on the other hand, the complete 
 developement of his frame, and the seriousness of 
 his countenance, would have conveyed the impres- 
 sion of an age many years farther advanced. This 
 seriousness of expression was, indeed, more than 
 mere gravity ; it indicated a melancholy, or even 
 sadness, which, though of a gentle cast, was be- 
 come a settled and permanent characteristic. 
 
 As he approached, his eyes were, like his com- 
 panions', fixed with curiosity upon the long and 
 dense body of Tlascalans, from whom they were 
 only withdrawn, when the exclamation of Najara 
 attracted them suddenly to the group at the cypress. 
 The confusion of these personages was so manifest, 
 and they handled their arms with an air so indica- 
 tive of hostility, that the old warrior and the red- 
 bearded man came to an instant halt, and looked, 
 as if for instructions, to their taller and more noble- 
 visaged companion. He instantly stepped before 
 them, and waving his hand to Najara, who was 
 hastily fitting a bolt to his crossbow, and to the 
 historian, who presented his partisan with greater 
 alacrity of decision than would have been antici- 
 pated from his sluggish appearance, cried aloud, 
 
 " Hold, friends ! We are not enemies, but Chris- 
 tians and Castilians." 
 
 "Art thou Juan Lermal and art thou truly 
 
THE INFIDEL. 59 
 
 alive 1 or do I look upon thy phantom V cried the 
 hunchback, with an agitated voice. 
 
 " Out, fool ! we are good living men," exclaimed 
 the red-bearded man, angrily ; " and with flesh 
 enough upon our bones, to cudgel thee into better 
 manners, I trow. Is this the way you receive old 
 friends, returning from bondage among infidels? 
 What, Bernal Diaz, thou ass ! dost thou not know 
 Gaspar Olea, thine old townsman of Medina-del- 
 Campo, thy brother-in-arms and sworn friend ] nor 
 yet the senor Don Juan Lerma, my captain and 
 friend in trouble ] nor Ocelotzin, the old Ottomi 
 rascal, our guide here T" 
 
 " Ay, oho ! old rascal, old friend ; all friends, all 
 rascals," cried the Indian, looking affectionately 
 towards the Castilians, who still stood in doubt, 
 and using the few Spanish words with which he 
 was familiar ; " good friends, good rascals, — Cas- 
 tellanos, Cristianos ; — friends, rascals." 
 
 While the rest were hesitating, the cavalier Don 
 Francisco de Guzman suddenly stepped out from 
 among them, and, advancing towards the young 
 man Lerma, with a smiling countenance and ex- 
 tended hand, said, 
 
 " Though I am not thought to be the most loving 
 of thy friends, I will be the first to bid thee wel- 
 come, senor Lerma, in token that old feuds do not 
 mar the satisfaction with which I behold a Chris- 
 tian man rescued so happily, and as it appears to 
 me, so marvellously, from the grave." 
 
 The emotions and changes of countenance with 
 which the young man heard these words, were 
 various and strongly marked. At the first tones 
 of Guzman, he started back, as if a serpent had 
 suddenly crossed his path, and grew pale, while 
 his eyes flashed a ferocious and deadly fire. At 
 the next, the blood rushed over his visage, and 
 throbbed with a visible violence in the vessels of 
 his temples ; while he half raised the macana, which 
 
60 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 he carried, in lieu of a better weapon, as if to 
 cleave the speaker to the earth. Tiie next instant, 
 the angry suffusion departed, his brows relaxed 
 their severity, the deep melancholy gathered again 
 in his eyes, and he surveyed the cavalier with a 
 patient and grave placidity, until the latter had 
 finished his salutation. Tlien, bending his head, 
 and folding his hands upon his breast, he replied, 
 mildly, and without a shadow of anger, 
 
 " 1 have, as thou saycst, returned from the grave, 
 in the sight of which I strove, as a Christian should, 
 to make my peace with man as well as with hea- 
 ven. I have done so; I am at peace with all; I am 
 at peace with thee — But I cannot give thee my 
 hand." 
 
 The cavalier Don Francisco received this rejec- 
 tion of his good-will with no sign of dissatisfaction, 
 that was distinguishable by others, beyond a smile 
 or sneer ; but inclining his head towards Lerma, he 
 muttered in his ear — 
 
 " The strife is unequal ; but I accept thy defiance. 
 Thou art but a broken-legged wolf, and wilt fight 
 a fatted tiger — I am content." 
 
 So saying, or rather whispering, for his words 
 were only caught by the ears of Juan, the cavalier 
 turned upon his heel, and without condescending 
 to exhibit his mortification in the vain air of pride 
 and scorn, assumed by ordinary men on such oc- 
 casions, he began to walk towards the city. He 
 was presently followed by the seiior Camarga ; 
 who, having fastened upon Juan, for a few moments, 
 a look of intense curiosity, flung, when he had satis- 
 fied himself, his cloak over the lower part of his 
 visage, and thus departed. 
 
 " You give me but a cold welcome, good friends," 
 said Juan, looking after the retreating man with a 
 sigh. " Will no one else in this company offer his 
 hand to one who burns with joy at the sight of 
 Christian faces ]" 
 
THE INFIDEL. 61 
 
 " When thou art better acquainted with the bounty 
 of the compliment, doubtless, but no sooner," said 
 the hunchback, who had surveyed the youth with 
 an interest which was belied by his present scorn. 
 " A good day to you, seilor Juan Lerma, and God 
 keep you well. There is a good path over the 
 mountains, northward, by the way of Otumba. If 
 you like not the company of heathens, there are 
 fair maids enow in Cuba." 
 
 With these hints, which the young man listened 
 to with a disturbed aspect, and which the hunch- 
 back accompanied with sour and contemptuous 
 looks, he turned away, and began to hobble after 
 his companions. 
 
 " Now God be our stay !" exclaimed Juan, with 
 some emotion, " there is not a man who has a tear 
 for our sorrows, or a smile for our joy. It were 
 better we had perished, Gaspar !" 
 
 " / am not ashamed to give thee my hand," said 
 Bernal Diaz, shaking off his amazement, and ad- 
 vancing, " though I know not how far thou art de- 
 serving of such countenance. But I must first 
 claim to embrace my old friend and brother. Gas- 
 par ; whom, by my faith, I can scarce believe that 
 I see living before me ! How didst thou thus learn 
 to turn thy toes in, Gaspar ?" 
 
 " Away, thou dog-eared, ill-blooded block !" cried 
 the red-bearded Gaspar, who had watched the turn 
 of proceedings with indignation, and now poured 
 forth his accumulated wrath upon the worthy his- 
 torian. " Ashamed ! — thou ashamed ! — thy coun- 
 tenance ! — deserving of thy countenance, thou ill- 
 mannered, bog-brained churl and ass ! Thou wilt 
 give the young seSor thy hand ! If thou dost but 
 lift it, I will smite it off" with my battle-axe. Cur- 
 mudgeon ! / thy friend and brother ? — I discard 
 thee and forswear thee ; I do, marry — " 
 
 " Peace, Gaspar," said Lerma, mildly ; " quarrel 
 not with thy friend on my account ; thou hast no 
 
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 62 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 ofTenco on thine own. It is plnin, there is but cold 
 cheer in store for me : make none for tliyself " 
 
 " Oh, seiior !" said Caspar, sharply, for his ansrer 
 was waxin<r iiot and imrcspective, " I am no ser- 
 vant, no ^rinninir lackey, to be told, ' do me tliis,' 
 and ' do me that,' l)y your excellent favour ; no, by 
 your leave, no; — I am your soldier, not your foot- 
 man. I will quarrel when I like, and I will not be 
 chidden. I am your soldier, sefior, your soldier — " 
 
 " My friend, I think," said the young man ; 
 " though thou dost now afflict me more than those 
 who seem my enemies." 
 
 " Afflict ! — enemies ! — / afflict !" cried Caspar, 
 fiercely ; " I quarrel with your enemies ! — ay, a ou- 
 trance, as the Frenchmen, say. I have fought them 
 in Italy. Fuego ! enemies ! — call this knave by the 
 name, and if I do not smite him to the chine, towns- 
 man though he be — " 
 
 " Peace, Caspar, if thou art my friejid, as, I trust 
 this good Bernal is, — " 
 
 " Co to," said Bernal Diaz, in high dudgeon, ad- 
 dressing himself to Caspar, " thou art turned hea- 
 then, or thou wouldst not so abuse me. I care for 
 you not ; I have nothing to do with you, nor with 
 any of your companions. By and by you will re- 
 pent. God be with yon, and make you wiser." 
 
 With these words, the historian followed the ex- 
 ample of the others, and was straightway stalking, 
 with impetuous strides, towards Tezcuco. 
 
 " Now art you not ashamed, Caspar, to have 
 given way to this boy's wrath! Wilt thou be wo- 
 manish, too I" 
 
 " Ay," said Caspar, shaking his head with the 
 fury of a mastiff, rending some meaner animal, and 
 thus dashing away certain tears of rage or morti- 
 fication, that were starting in his eyes : " it doth 
 make a woman of me, to think we have escaped 
 from dangers such as were never dreamed of by 
 these false traitors, — from infidel prisons and hea- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 63 
 
 then maws, and come, at last, among Christian 
 men, whom I could have hugged, every ill loon of 
 them all ; and not one to stretch forth his hand, and 
 say God bless me ! You were right, senor ; it were 
 better to have remained slaves with the King of 
 the Humming-bird Valley, than to have left him for 
 such hangdog welcome." 
 
 " Thou wouldst have had nothing to complain of, 
 hadst thou bridled thy impatient temper. These 
 men meant not to provoke thee.'''' 
 
 " Bad friends, bad rascals !" said the Ottomi, who, 
 during these several passages, had been staring 
 from one Christian to another in unconcealed 
 amazement : " bad friends ! no good rascals !" he 
 muttered in Spanish ; then instantly changing to 
 Mexican, which though not his native tongue, was 
 more familiar to him, and was besides well under- 
 stood by Juan, he continued, 
 
 " Itzquauhtzin, the Great Eagle," (for thus he 
 chose to designate the youth,) " has settled upon 
 the hill of kites. Where are his wings 7 Malintzin 
 is angry ; he sends his young men to frown. Here 
 is another : he laughs with his eyes. — Ocelotzin is 
 an old tiger, — Techeechee is a dog without voice; 
 but the itzW^ is sharp in his hand. Shall he 
 strike ?" . 
 
 The wild eyes of the barbarian (for the Ottomies, 
 or mountain Indians, were the true savages of 
 Anahuac,) were bent with the subtle and malignant 
 keenness of the tiger whose name he bore, upon 
 the Alguazil, Villafana, who, standing a little aside, 
 and for a time unseen, had watched the salutations, 
 and, finally, the departure of his companions, with- 
 out himself saying a word. He now stepped for- 
 ward, disregarding the evil looks of the Indian, as 
 well as those of Gaspar, whose feelings of mortifi- 
 cation ^vere thirsting for some legitimate object 
 
 * ItzUy the obsidian or volcanic glass. 
 
04 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 whereon to exj>en(i their fury: and stretching fortli 
 his hand in tho most friendly manner, said to 
 Juan, 
 
 " How now, sefior ? drive tliis old cut-throat dog 
 away. — 1 claim to be an (jld acquaintance, an'd, at 
 this moment, not a cold one. The foxes being 
 gone, the goose may stretch her neck. — Here am 
 1, one man at least, heartily glad to find you coming 
 alive fr(jm the trap, and not afraid to say so. — Does 
 your favour forget me? Methinks you have the 
 gift of rejecting the hands tliat are offered, howso- 
 ever you may covet those that are witiiheld," 
 
 " You do me wrong — I remember you well," 
 said Juan, taking the hand, from which he had first 
 recoiled with a visible reluctance : " I thank you 
 for your kindness. Yes, I remember you," he re- 
 peated, with extreme sadness : " Would I did not." 
 
 " Come, seiior Caspar," continued the Alguazil, 
 turning to Olea. " You and I were never such 
 friends as true men should be ; but, notwithstand- 
 ing, I give you my true welcome and most Chris- 
 tian congratulations." 
 
 " I ever thought you a knave," said Caspar, 
 clutching Villafana's hand, with a sort of sulky 
 thankfulness, " being but an eternal grumbler and 
 reviler at the general. But I see you are more of 
 a Christian and man than any other villain of them 
 all. Fire and blood ! why do they treat us thus V* 
 
 " Oh, you shall soon know. But how now, seiior 
 Lerma, what is your will ? Will you walk with 
 me to the cityl We have royal commanders now: 
 'tis a matter for the stocks, and, sometimes, the 
 strappado, to loiter beyond the lines, after the 
 trumpet's call. Will you walk to Tezcuco 1 or do 
 you choose rather to betake you to the hills, as 
 Najara advised you] Cortes is another man now, 
 senor, and somewhat dangerous, as you may have 
 inferred from the bearing of his favourites. If you 
 
THE INFIDEL. 65 
 
 would be wise, go not near him. It is not too 
 late." 
 
 " Senor Villafana," said Juan, " what I have seen 
 and heard has filled me with trouble ; for, like 
 Gaspar, I looked for such reception as might be ex- 
 pected by men returning from among heathen op- 
 pressors, to Christian associates and old friends. I 
 know not well what has happened during the four- 
 teen months of my absence from the army, save 
 what was darkly spoken to me by a certain king, 
 in whose hands I have remained, with my com- 
 panions, many months in captivity. He gave me 
 to believe that my countrymen had all fallen in a 
 war with Montezuma, whom I left in peace, and in 
 strong, though undeserved, bonds. I perceive that 
 I have been cajoled : I rejoice that you are living 
 men ; but I know not why 1 should fear to join my- 
 self again among you. I claim to be conducted to 
 your general." 
 
 " It shall be as you choose ; but, seiior, you are 
 no longer in favour. As for Gaspar and the Indian, 
 it will be well enough with them : a good soldier 
 like Gaspar is worth something more than hanging; 
 and such a knave as this old savage can be put to 
 good use. Seiior, shall I speak a word with you] 
 Bid the two advance : I have somewhat to say to 
 you in private." 
 
 The young man regarded the Alguazil with an 
 anxious countenance ; and then, desiring his com- 
 panions to lead the way towards Tezcuco, followed, 
 at a little distance, with Villafana. 
 
 6 • 
 
GG THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 For a few moments, the two walked together in 
 silence, and at a slow pace, until the others were 
 beyond earshot ; M'hen Villafana, suddenly stopping 
 and casting his eyes upon Juan, said, with but 
 little ceremony, 
 
 " Seiior Juan Lerma, I am your friend ; and by 
 St. Peter, who was once a false one, you need one 
 that is both plain and true. Does your memory 
 tax you with the commission of any act deserving 
 death 1" 
 
 To this abrupt demand, the young man an- 
 swered, with an agitated voice, but without a mo- 
 ment's hesitation, 
 
 " It does. Thou knowest full well, and perhaps 
 all others know, now, that I have shed the blood 
 of my friend, the son of my oldest and truest 
 benefactor." 
 
 " Pho !" cried Villafana, hastily ; " I meant not 
 that. Your friend, indeed? Come, you gi'ieve too 
 much for this. At the worst, it was the mishap of 
 a duel, — a fair duel ; and, I am a witness, it was, 
 in a manner, forced upon you. You should not 
 think of this : there are but few who know of it, and 
 none blame you. What I meant to ask, was this — 
 are you conscious of any crime worthy of death at 
 the hands of Cortes V 
 
 " I am not," said Lerma, firmly, though very 
 sadly ; " no, by mine honour, no ! I am conscious, 
 and it is a thing long since known to all, that I 
 have entirely lost the favour with which he was 
 used to befriend me. Nay, this was apparent to 
 
THE INFIDEL. 67 
 
 me, before I was sent from his presence. I hoped 
 that in the long period of my exile, something might 
 occur to show him his anger was unjust; and, with 
 this hope, I looked this day, to end my wanderings 
 joyfully. I am deceived ; everything goes to prove, 
 that neither my long sufferings, (and they were 
 both long and many,) nor my supposed death have 
 made my appeal of innocence. But I wDl satisfy 
 him of this : I will demand to know my crime. If 
 it be indeed, as I think, the death of Hilario — " 
 
 " Pho ! be wise. He counts not this against thee, 
 — he has been himself a duellist. Say nothing of 
 Hilario, neither ; no, by the mass ! nor be thou so 
 mad as to question him of his anger. Thou art 
 very sure, then — I must be free with thee, even to 
 the dulness of repetition : — thou art very sure, 
 thou hast done nothing to deserve death at his 
 hands ?" 
 
 " I call heaven to witness," said Juan, " that, 
 save this unhappy mischance in the matter of 
 Hilario, which is itself deserving of death, I am 
 ignorant of aught that should bring me under his 
 displeasure." 
 
 " Enough," said Villafana : " But I would thou 
 shouldst never more speak of Hilario. He is dead, 
 heaven rest his soul ! He was a knave too ; peace, 
 then, to his bones ! — I am satisfied, thou hast done 
 naught to Cortes, deserving death at his hand. I 
 have but one more question to ask you: — Has 
 Cortes done nothing to deserve death at thine 3"^ 
 
 "Good heavens! what do you mean?" cried 
 Juan, starting as much at the sinister tones as the 
 surprising question of the Alguazil. 
 
 "Do you ask me? what, you?'''* said Villafana, 
 " Come, I am your friend." 
 
 As the Alguazil pronounced these words, with 
 an insinuating frankness and earnestness, he threw 
 into his countenance an expression that seemed 
 meant to invite the confidence of the young man, 
 
68 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 and encourasfo him to expose the mystery of his 
 breast, by laying bare the secrets of his own. It 
 was a transfiguration : the mean person was un- 
 changed, — tlie insignificant features did not alter 
 tiieir proportions, — but the smile that had contorted 
 them, was turned into a sneer of fiendish malig- 
 nancy, and the peculiar sweetness that character- 
 ized his eyes, was lost in a sudden glare of passion, 
 so demoniacal, that it seemed as if the flames of 
 hell were blazing in their sockets. It was the 
 look of but an instant : it made Juan recoil with 
 terror : but before he could express a word of this 
 feeling, of curiosity, or of suspicion, it had vanished. 
 The Alguazil touched his arm, and said quickly, 
 though without any peculiar emphasis, 
 
 " Judge for yourself: Heaven forbid I should 
 breed ill-will where there is none, or plant thorns 
 in my friend's flower-garden. Judge for yourself^ 
 seiior : if, being innocent of all crime, Cortes has 
 yet doomed you, basely and perfidiously, to 
 death,—" 
 
 " To death !" exclaimed Juan, with a voice that 
 reached the ears of his late companions, and brought 
 them to a sudden stand ; " Heaven be my help ! 
 and do I come back but to die !" 
 
 " You went forth but to die !" said Villafana ; 
 " and, you may judge, with what justice. Come, 
 senor, — the thing is said in a moment. The expe- 
 dition was designed for your death-warrant." 
 
 " Villain !" exclaimed Juan ; " dare you impute 
 this horrible treachery to Cortes ]" 
 
 " Not, — no, not, if it appear at all doubtful to 
 your own excellent penetration," re})lied the Al- 
 guazil, with a laugii. " I do but repeat you the be- 
 lief of some half the army — had it been but before 
 the Noche Triste, I might have said, all: but, in 
 truth, we are now, more than half of us, new men, 
 who know but little of the matter." 
 
THE INFIDEL. 69 
 
 " Does any one charge this upon the general T* 
 said Juan, with a look of horror. 
 
 '* Ay, — if you call them not ' villains,' " replied 
 the soldier. 
 
 " I will know the truth," said Juan. " I will 
 find who has belied me." 
 
 " You will find that of any one but Don Hernan. 
 Senor Don Juan, I pity you. You have returned 
 at an evil moment; your presence will chill old 
 friends, and sharpen ancient enemies." 
 
 "If he seek my life, it is his: but, by heaven, the 
 man who has wronged me, — " 
 
 " Get thy horse and arms first. Wilt thou be 
 wise] Thou shalt have friends to back thee. 
 Listen : A month since, there came for thee, in a 
 ship from the islands, two very noble horses, and 
 a suit of goodly armour, sent, as was said, by some 
 benevolent friend, whom thou mayst be quicker at 
 remembering than myself" 
 
 " Sent by heaven, I think," said Lerma, "for I 
 know not what earthly friend would so supply my 
 necessities." 
 
 " Oh, then," said Villafana, " the rumour is, they 
 were sent thee by the lady Catalina, our general's 
 wife." 
 
 " May heaven bless her !" exclaimed Juan ; " for 
 she is mine only friend : and this bounty I have 
 not deserved." 
 
 "In this matter," said Villafana, dryly, " she will 
 prove rather thine enemy ; that is, if thou art reso- 
 lute to demand the restoration of her gifts." 
 
 " The restoration !" 
 
 "In good truth, they were distributed among 
 thine heirs ; the horse Bobadil, thought by many to 
 be the best in the army, faUing to the share of thy 
 good friend Guzman." 
 
 "To Guzman?" cried Juan, angrily. "Could 
 they find no better friend to give him to 1 I will 
 
70 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 have him back again ; yea, by St. Juan, he shall 
 ride no steed of mine !'* 
 
 "Right!" exclaimed Villafana ; " for if tlKHi hast 
 an enemy, he is the man. Thou didst well, to re- 
 fuse his hand. He offered it not in love, but in 
 treachery. Thou wilt ask Crhtes for thy malignerl 
 It needs not : rememljer Don Francnsco," 
 
 " I will do so," said Juan, with a sigh. " I thought, 
 in my captivity, when I despaired of ever more 
 looking ui)on a Christian face, that I had forgiven 
 my enemies. I deceived myself, — I hate Don Fran- 
 cisco. I will proclaim him before tlie wiiole army, 
 if he refuse to do me reparation." 
 
 " I tell thee, thou sluilt have friends," said the 
 Alguazil, with an insinuating voice, " to back thee 
 in this matter, as well as in all others wherein thou 
 hast been wronged. But thou must be ruled. 
 Speak not to Cortes in complaint : he will do .thee 
 no justice. Send no defiance of battle to Guzman, 
 for this has been proclaimed a sin against God and 
 the king, to be punished with loss of arms, degra- 
 dation, and whipping with rods, — sometimes with 
 the loss of the right hand. You stare ! Oh, seiior 
 Juan Lerma, you will find we have a master now, — 
 a master by the king's patent, — who makes his own 
 laws, beats and dishonours, and gives us to the 
 gallows, when the fit moves him, without any ne- 
 cessity of cozening us to death in expeditions to the 
 gold mines, or the South Seas." 
 
 " Senor Villafana," said Juan, firmly, " I do not 
 believe that, in this thing, Cortes designed me any 
 wrong; nor will I permit myself to tiiink of it any 
 more. You seem to have something to say to me. 
 Gaspar and the Indian are beyond hearing. If you 
 will advise me as a friend, in what manner I shall 
 conduct myself in this difficult conjuncture, I will 
 listen to you with gratitude ; and with thanks more 
 hearty still, if you make me acquainted with a way 
 
THE INFIDEL. 71 
 
 to redeem my honom* and faith in the eyes of the 
 general." 
 
 " I have but two things to counsel you : Make 
 your report of adventures, good and bad, to the 
 general, without words of complaint or suspicion ; 
 and, this done, demand of liim, and care not how 
 boldly, the restoration of your horses and armour." 
 
 " If they be the gifts of his lady," said Juan, with 
 hesitation, " methinks, it will not become me to 
 press this demand on him ; but rather to leave it to 
 his own honour and generosity." 
 
 The Alguazil gave the youth a piercing look ; but 
 seeing in his visage no embarrassment beyond that 
 of a man who is debating a question of mere deli- 
 cacy, replied, coolly, — 
 
 "Ask him, then. It is not certainly known 
 that these horses came from Doiia Catalina ; and, 
 perhaps, they do not. Yet it will be but courteous 
 in thee to say, thou hast been so informed, and 
 that thou dost so believe. Get thy horses, by all 
 means : but again I say to thee, do nothing to in- 
 cense the general. If he provoke thee, show not 
 thy displeasure ; at least, show it not now. I will 
 give thee more reasons for what I counsel, as we 
 walk through the city." 
 
 By this time the speakers had reached the gates 
 of the city, where Gaspar and the Ottomi stood ia 
 waiting for them. 
 
72 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 The walls of Mexico were the foaming surges of 
 lier lake. The cities on the shore, when much ex- 
 posed by defencelessness of site, great wealth of in- 
 habitants, or other causes, to the attacks of ene- 
 mies, were surrounded by walls, commonly of 
 earth, though sometimes, as in the case of Tezcuco, 
 of stone. These were, ordinarily, of no great 
 height or strength, but sufficient, when well man- 
 ned, to repel the assaults of the slingers and archers 
 of America. 
 
 The external fortifications of Tezcuco were, .as 
 became the ancient rival of Tenochtitlan, of a more 
 imposing order. The walls were thick and high, 
 with embattled parapets, and deep ditches at the 
 base. The gates were protected in the manner 
 common to the land, by the overlapping, so to 
 speak, of the opposite walls ; that is, being made, 
 as they approached each other, to change from their 
 straight, to a circular course, the one traversing 
 upon a greater radius than the other, they thus 
 swept by and round each other, in parallel curves, 
 leaving a long and narrow passage between them, 
 commanded not only by the walls themselves, but 
 by strong stone turrets, built on their extremities. 
 
 Besides these defences, there was erected within 
 the walls, and directly opposed to each entrance, a 
 small pyramid, elevated fifteen or twenty feet above 
 the walls, and crowned with little sanctuaries, — 
 thus serving a religious as well as a military pur- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 73 
 
 pose. In the one sense, these structures might be 
 considered Chapels of Ease to the greater temples 
 of the quarters in which they stood ; in the other, 
 they were not unlike the cavaliers, or commanding 
 mounds, of European fortification, from the tops 
 and sides of which the besieger • could be annoyed, 
 whilst without the walls, and arrested on his course, 
 when within. 
 
 Thus, then, there were ready to his hands, forti- 
 fications, of which the Spanish commander, now 
 the Captain-General of New Spain, as the unsub- 
 dued Mexico was already called, was not slow to 
 reap the full advantage. A strong guard of Casti- 
 lian soldiers was posted before each gate ; a native 
 watchman sat on each turret ; and a line of Tlas- 
 calan sentries, stepping proudly along in their 
 places of trust, occupied the lofty terrace of the 
 walls. 
 
 The edifices disclosed to Juan, when he had, 
 with his companions, passed through the staring 
 warders into the town, were similar to those of 
 Mexico, — of stone, and low, though ofl;en adorned 
 with turrets. In all cases, the roofs were terraced, 
 and covered with shrubs and flowers ; and the 
 passion of the citizens for such delightful embellish- 
 ments, had converted many a spacious square into 
 gardens, wherein fluttered and warbled birds of a 
 thousand hues and voices. 
 
 Over these open spaces were seen, in different 
 quarters, the tops of high pyramids and towers, 
 scattered about the town in vast and picturesque 
 profusion. 
 
 The roaring sound of life that pervades a great 
 city, even when unassisted by the thundering din 
 of wheeled carriages, gave proof enough of the 
 dense multitudes that inhabited Tezcuco. The eye 
 detected the evidences of a population still more as- 
 tonishing, in the myriads of tawny bodies that 
 crowded the streets, the gardens, the temple 
 
 VOL. I. 7 
 
74 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 square.*;, and the housetops, many of whom seemed 
 to have no other habitation. In fact, the introduc- 
 tion of the many thousands who composed the 
 train, or, as it was called, the Anny of the Briiran- 
 tines, added to the hosts of other warriors previous- 
 ly collected by Cortes, and the presence of the ori- 
 ginal inhabitants, «rave to Tezcuco that aj^pearance 
 of an over-crowded, sulfocatinfj: vitality, which is 
 presented by the modern Babylons of France and 
 Great Britain. The murmur of voices, the patter- 
 ing: of feet, the rustling of garments, with the sounds 
 of instruments wielded by artisans, both native and 
 Christian, made, together, a din that seemed like 
 the roar of a tempest tt) the ears of one, wli<^, like 
 Lerma, had just esca})ed from the mute hills and 
 the silent forests of the desert. At a distance — be- 
 held from the cypress-tree, — the view of Tezcuco 
 seemed to embrace a scene made up of tranquillity 
 and repose. The same thing is true of all other 
 cities ; and the same thing may be said of human life, 
 when we sit aloof and contemplate the bright pa- 
 geant, in which we take no part. If we advance 
 and mingle with it, the picture is turned to life, the 
 peace to tumult, and we lose all the charms of the 
 prospect in the distractions of participation. 
 
 As Juan, C(jnducted by the Alguazil, made his 
 way through the torrents of bodies which poured 
 through every street, and became more accustomed 
 to move among them, the excitement gradually 
 subsided in his breast, the colour faded from his 
 cheeks ; and, by the time he had reached the end 
 of his journey, there remained no expression on his 
 visage beyond that of its usual and characteristic 
 sadness. This was deepened, perhaps, by the 
 scene around him ; for it is the virtue of melancholy, 
 where it exists as a temperament, or has become 
 a settled trait, to be increased by the excitements 
 of a city or crowd. Perhaps it was darkened also 
 by the reflection, as he raised his eyes to the vast 
 
THE INFIDEL. 75 
 
 palace in which Cortes had established his head- 
 quarters, that among all its crowds, — the military- 
 guards at the door, and the lounging courtiers 
 within, — there was not a single friend waiting to 
 rejoice over his return. 
 
 The house of Nezahualcojotl, who has been al- 
 ready mentioned as the most famous and refined of 
 the Tezcucan kings, possessed but little to distin- 
 guish it from the edifices of nobles around, except 
 its greatness of extent. It was a pile or cluster 
 of many houses built of vast blocks of basalt, well 
 cut and polished, surrounding divers courts and 
 gardens, — what might be termed the wings con- 
 sisting of but a basement story, which was relieved 
 from monotony by the presence of towers and bat- 
 tlements, and the sculptured effigies of animals and 
 serpents on the walls, and particularly around the 
 narrow loops which served for windows. The 
 centre, or principal portion, had an additional story, 
 loftier towers, and more imposing sculptures. The 
 windows were carved of stone, so as to resemble 
 the yawning mouths of beasts of prey ; the battle- 
 ments were crouching tigers ; and the pillars of the 
 great door were palm-trees, round the trunks of 
 which twined two immense serpents, whose necks 
 met at the lintel, among the interlocking branches, 
 and embraced and supported a huge tablet, on 
 which was engraven the Aztec calendar, according 
 to the singular and yet just system of the ancient 
 native astronomers. — Sixty years after this period, 
 the sages of Europe discovered and adopted a mode 
 of adjusting the civil to the astronomical time, so 
 as to avoid, for the future, the confusion — the utter 
 disjointing of seasons — which had been the conse- 
 quence of the Julian computation. At this very- 
 moment, the barbarians of America were in pos- 
 session of a system, which enabled them to antici- 
 pate, and rectify by proper intercalations, the disor- 
 ders not only of years, but of cycles, — and how 
 
70 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 much earlier, the wisdom of civilization has not yet 
 divined. 
 
 On tlie wiiole, there was something not less im- 
 pressive than peculiar in the appearance of an edi- 
 fice which had sheltered a lonir line of Autochtho- 
 nous monarchs ; and as Juan passed from the 
 square, in front of tiie artillery that commanded it, 
 under the folds of the mifrhty serpents at the door, 
 and into the sombre shadows of the interior, he was 
 struck with a feeline^ of awe, which was not imme- 
 diately removed even by the more stirring emotions 
 of the instant. 
 
 The hall, or rather vestibule, in which he now 
 found himself, was distinguished, rather than ani- 
 mated, by the presence of many S^ianiards of high 
 and low degree, some clustered together in groups, 
 some stalking to and fro in haughty solitude, while 
 others bustled about with an air of importance and 
 authority ; but all, as Lerma quickly observed, pre- 
 serving a decorous silence, — conversing in whis- 
 pers, and moving with a cautious tread, as if in the 
 anteroom of a king, instead of the hall of a soldier- 
 of-fortune like themselves. 
 
 A few of them bent their eyes upon the strangers, 
 and stepped forward to survey their savage equip- 
 ments. The keen glances which they cast towards 
 him, the hurried and somewhat sonorous exclama- 
 tions with which they pointed him out to one an- 
 other, but more than all, the presence of Najara, of 
 Bernal Diaz, and of the stranger Camarga, among 
 them, convinced Juan that he was recognized. 
 But with this conviction came also the sickening 
 consciousness that not one had a smile of satisfac- 
 tion to bestow upon him in the way of welcome. 
 He rememl)ercd the faces of many ; and, once or 
 twice, he raised his hand, and half stepped forward, 
 to meet some one or other who seemed disposed to 
 salute him. He was deceived ; those who came 
 Highest, were only the most curious. They nod- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 77 
 
 ded their heads familiarly to Villafana ; a few 
 returned the advances of Lerma with solemn and 
 reverential bows ; but none raised up their heads 
 to meet the exile's advances. 
 
 "The curse of ingratitude follow you all, cold 
 knaves !" muttered Gaspar between his teeth. The 
 eyes of the Ottomi twinkled upon the groups, with 
 a mixture of wonder and malignant wrath. Juan 
 smothered his sighs, and strode onwards. 
 
 He stopped suddenly at a door, wreathed, like 
 the outer, with snakes, though carved of wood, over 
 which hung curtains of some dark and heavy tex- 
 ture, and behind which, as it seemed to him, from 
 the murmuring of voices, was the apartment in 
 which the Captain-General gave audience to his 
 followers and the allied tribes of Mexico, who made 
 up what may be called, as it seemed to be con- 
 sidered, his court. Here Juan paused, and turning 
 to the Alguazil, said, calmly, and with a low voice, 
 
 " From what I have seen and now see, I perceive, 
 it will not be fitting I should approach the general 
 — especially in these weeds, which can scarce 
 extenuate the coldness of my old companions, — 
 without the ceremony of an announcement and ex- 
 pressed permission." 
 
 " Fear not," whispered Villafana, with a grim 
 smile : " thy friend Francisco will have done thee 
 this good turn. Remember — offend him not now : 
 but, still, lay claim to the horses." 
 
 As he spoke, the Alguazil, pushed aside the cur- 
 tain, and, in a moment more, the youth was in the 
 presence of Cortes. 
 
78 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 The apartment into which Juan now found him- 
 solfintroduced, was very spacious; and, indeed, had 
 the height of tlio ceilinsr corre.sponded in proportion 
 witii the len<zth and breadth, would have been es- 
 teemed vast. Without being so low as to be de- 
 cidedly mean, it was yet depressed enough to show 
 how little the principles of taste had extended 
 among the natives, to the art of architecture ; or, 
 what is equally probable, how wisely provision 
 was made against the earthquakes and other con- 
 vulsions, so naturally to be expected in a land of 
 volcanoes. 
 
 The huge rafters of cedar, carved into strange 
 and eml)lematic arabesques, were supported, at 
 intervals, by a double row of pillars of the most 
 grotesque shapes. On the walls were himg arras, 
 on which were painted rude scenes of battle and of 
 sacrifice, with hieroglyphic records of history, as 
 well as choice maxims of virtue and policy, selected 
 from the compositions of that king, who had finished, 
 and given name to the habitation, long since found- 
 ed b)"^ his ancestors. It was lighted in a manner 
 equally rare and magnificent. A considerable space 
 in the further or western wall, from which the tapestry 
 was drawn aside, was occupied by stone mullions 
 of strange forms, between which were fixed large 
 translucent blocks of alabaster, such as we now 
 behold in the church windows of Puebla de los 
 Angelos. Upon these were painted many incom- 
 prehensible figures, which would have deformed the 
 beauty of the stone, but for the brilliancy and de- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 79 
 
 licacy of their hues. As it was, the strong glare of 
 the evening sun, falling upon this transparent waH, 
 came through it, with the mellow lustre and har- 
 monious tints of a harvest-moon, shedding a soft but 
 sufficient light over the whole apartment, making 
 what was harsh tender, and what was lovely al- 
 most divine.* 
 
 On the left hand, were several narrow doors, 
 opening upon a garden, which was seen, some- 
 times, when the breeze stirred aside the curtains 
 that defended them ; on the right, were others 
 leading to certain chambers, and carefully protected 
 by a similar drapery. 
 
 The floor of this hall of audience was covered 
 with mats stained with various colours. 
 
 At the farther extremity of the apartment stood 
 a group of Spanish cavaliers, surrounding a plat- 
 form of slight elevation, on which, sumptuously 
 dressed, and leaning upon a camoncillo, or chair of 
 state, stood Hernan Cortes. At his right hand, sit- 
 ting and supported by two gallant cavaliers, was his 
 royal godson, Ixtlilxochitl, now Don Hernan Cortes, 
 the king of Tezcuco ; — a young man of mild aspect ; at 
 whose feet sat liis younger and more manly brother, 
 Suchel, from whom was afterwards derived one of 
 the noble families of New Spain. On the left of the 
 general, were two Indians of a far nobler presence, 
 and known by the singular loftiness of their plumes, 
 if not by the commanding sternness of their visages, 
 to be Tlascalans of high degree. They were, in 
 fact, the military chieftains Xicotencatl and Chi- 
 chimecatl, men of renown not only among their 
 tribes, but the Spaniards. Behind each stood his 
 page, or esquire, bearing the great shield of cere- 
 
 • Windows of this rich material were discovered in a 
 Koman villa at Pompeii. The effect of a lamp in an ala- 
 baster vase will be familiar to the reader. 
 
so THE IN'FIDEL. 
 
 mony, whereon were emblazoned, in native heraldic 
 devices, the various exploits of his master. 
 
 Besides these distintruished barbarians, there 
 were others of note among the cavaliers, at the side 
 of the platform. 
 
 All these several details of a spectacle both ro- 
 mantic and imposing, were seen by Juan at a single 
 glance ; for, almost at the moment of his entrance, 
 a movement was made aniong those who stood on 
 the left of the platform, in the direction of the. 
 great Conquistador, as if they desired to catch 
 something that instant falling from his lips. As 
 they left the view thus open, Juan saw that Cortes, 
 instead of speaking, was bending his head and 
 listening with eager interest to the senor Guzman, 
 who had ascended the platform, and was now 
 whispering in his ear. At the same moment, a 
 prodigiously large dog, with shaggy coat, hanging 
 lips, and ferocious eyes, roused by the motion of 
 the general, at whose feet he had been sleeping, 
 raised his head, and stared with the majestic gravity 
 of a lion, upon the speaker and his master. 
 
 There was something in the interested and agi- 
 tated eagerness with which the Captain-General 
 drank in the words of Guzman, that went to the 
 heart of Lerma. He doubted not, that Don Fran- 
 cisco was, at that moment, speaking of him^ — of 
 his return to the society of Christians, and to the 
 arms of his benefactor, — for such had Cortes once 
 been to him ; and he read in the varying play of 
 Don Hernan's features, nothing but refutation of 
 the malign charges of Villafana, and full proof that 
 the general was not indifferent to the friend of 
 former years. 
 
 As these thoughts entered his mind, he rushed 
 forward, under their impulse, with clasped hands, 
 and with an exclamation that brought the looks of 
 all instantly upon him. The huge dog raised him- 
 self half up from the platform, and uttered a savage 
 
THE INFIDEL. 81 
 
 growl. He advanced yet another step, and the 
 ferocious beast, with a roar that filled the whole 
 chamber, dashed furiously from the platform, as 
 against an enemy not to be doubted. The young 
 man paused, but not at the opposition of the ani- 
 mal : he had, that moment, caught the eye of Don 
 Hernan, and his heart failed as he beheld the frown 
 of rage, and, as it seemed to him, hate, with which 
 he was regarded. 
 
 " Down, Befo !" cried Cortes, with a voice of 
 thunder. 
 
 But Befo, who had leaped forward with such 
 ferocious determination, had, that instant, stopped 
 before Juan, whom he now eyed with a look of 
 wonder and recognition. Then, suddenly fetching 
 such a yelp of joy as would have better become the 
 playmate-cur of a child, than the grim blood-hound 
 of a soldier, he raised up his vast body, flung his 
 paws upon Juan's breast, and strove, evidently, to 
 throw them round his body, in the mode of human 
 embrace, whining all the time with the most ex- 
 pressive delight. 
 
 " Down, Befo ! Thick-lips ! thou cub of a false 
 wolf!" repeated the general, irefully, yet with an 
 expression that would have suited better, had he 
 been commanding him to tear the youth to pieces ; 
 " Down, fool, down ! I will stick thee with my ra- 
 pier." 
 
 As he spoke, he half drew his sword from the 
 scabbard, 
 
 "Harm him not, — call him not away," cried 
 Juan, with a thick voice ; " for by heaven and St. 
 Mary, he is all, of a troop of Christian men, once 
 my friends, who have any joy to see an old com- 
 panion return from bonds and the grave !" 
 
 As the young man spoke, he flung his arms 
 round the neck of the faithful beast, and bending 
 his head upon Befo's face, gave way to a passion 
 of tears. 
 
82 TTIE INFinEL. 
 
 " The shame of f^ul knavo>: and false companinri!? 
 be on you all !" cried tiic llaniing CJaspar, without 
 a whit reg^arding the presence in which he spake. 
 His wrath was cut short, befi)reir had been noticed 
 by any but tiie Ottonii, who .stocnl gaping, at a dis- 
 tance, with looks of visible alarm, first excited by 
 the appearance of the dog. 
 
 Among most of the cavaliers now present, Juan 
 had been once well known; and however their affec- 
 tions might be chilled and their respect destroyed, by 
 untoward circumstances, there was something so 
 painfully rejiroachful in the spectaclr of his tears, 
 that a strong impression was inmiediately pro<luced 
 among them. All seemed, at once, to remember, 
 that he had been once esteemed, notwithstanding 
 his youth, of a bold heart and manly blearing; and 
 all seemed to remember also, that fourteen months' 
 suffering among unknown pagans, was worthy of 
 .some little commiseration. 
 
 But there was one present of more fiery feelings 
 and determination more hasty than any of the 
 Christians. The elder and taller of the Tlascalan 
 chiefs, distinguished as much by a haughty and 
 darkly frowning visage as by an Herculean frame, 
 stepped down from the platform, and laid his hand 
 upon Juan's shoulder ; in which position he stood, 
 without speaking a word, but expressing in his 
 countenance the spirit of one who avowed himself 
 a patron and champion. The tall plume rustled 
 like a waving palm, as he raised up his head, and 
 the look that he cast upon Cortes, seemed to mingle 
 defiance w ith disdain. But this hostile expression 
 was perhaps concealed by the ai)proach of a cava- 
 lier of gallant appearance, who stepped suddenly 
 from the throng, and snatching up Juan's left hand 
 from the dog's neck, cried with hasty good-will, 
 
 " Santiago ! (and the devil take all of us that 
 have no better hearts than a cur or a wild Indian!) 
 I know no reason, certainly, why thou shouldst be 
 
THE INFIDEL. 83 
 
 treated like a dog. God be with thee, Juan Lerma! 
 I am glad thou art alive ; God bless thee : and so 
 hold up thy head. If thou hast no better raiment, 
 I will give thee my fustian breeches and liver- 
 coloured mantle, as well as a good sword of iron, 
 which I have to spare." 
 
 This quick-spoken and benevolent cavalier was 
 no less a man than the gallant Don Pedro de Al- 
 varado, at this time called, almost universally, in 
 memory of his famous leap over the ditch of Tacu- 
 ba, in the Night of Sorrow, the Capitan del Salto, 
 He gave place to another of still greater renown, 
 who would have been perhaps the first to extend 
 his hand, had he been as hasty of resolution as his 
 more mercurial comrade. This was the good 
 cavalier Don Gonzalo de Sandoval, better esteemed 
 for his skill in arms than any peculiar elegance of 
 conversation. 
 
 " Juan Lerma," said he, " I am not sorry thou art 
 alive and well ; and if thou wilt make any use of 
 the same, to put thee into more Christian bravery, 
 I will pray thee to take my gold chain, as well as 
 six good cotton shirts, which an Indian woman 
 made me." 
 
 To these friendly salutations and bountiful offers, 
 as well as the advances of other cavaliers who now 
 bustled around him, Juan replied with a manner 
 more expressive of indignation than gratitude. He 
 was ashamed of having exposed his weakness, and 
 sensible that it was this alone which had obtained 
 him a charitable notice. He raised his head proudly, 
 as one who would not accept such compelled kind- 
 ness, pushed Befo to the floor, though still keeping 
 a hand upon his neck, acknowledged the presence 
 of Xicotencal with a word, and turned towards 
 Cortes a countenance now quite composed, though 
 not without a touch of sorrowful resentment. 
 
 The emotion which had produced such an im- 
 pression among the cavaliers, v/as not without its 
 
84 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 effect even upon the Captain-Cicneral. His features 
 relaxed tlieir angry severity, he stepped forwards ; 
 and when Juan lifted up his eyes, he beheld a hand 
 extended towards him, and lieard the voice of Cortes 
 say, in tones of concession, though of embarrass- 
 ment, 
 
 " God be with you — you do us wrong in this 
 matter: as a Christian man escaped from bondage, 
 we are not unrejoiced to see you : as a soldier re- 
 turning from a delayed duty, we will declare our 
 thoughts of you anon." 
 
 There was nothing very gracious eitlier in the 
 words or tones of the speaker ; but tiiey were un- 
 expected. They swept away the proud and angry 
 resolutions of Juan, and restored to iiim the warm 
 feelings of affection and gratitude, with which he 
 had ever been accustomed to regard the general. 
 He seized the proffered hand, pressed it to his lips, 
 and seemed about to throw himself at Don Her- 
 nan's feet, when suddenly a noise was heard at a 
 curtained door hard by, accompanied by what 
 seemed the smothered shriek of a woman. At this 
 sound the young man started uji, with a look of 
 fear, and yielded up the hand which was abruptly 
 snatched from his own. He gazed round him and 
 plainly beheld the thick cloth before the nearest 
 passage, shaking, as if disturbed by the recent pas- 
 sage of some one, — but nothing else. He perceived 
 no new countenance added to those of the many in 
 audience, which were directed upon his own, with 
 an universal stare of wonder. His attention was 
 recalled by the voice of Cortes. He turned ; the 
 general was seated ; a stern and iron gravity had 
 taken the place of relenting feeling on his visage ; 
 and it was evident to the unfortunate Juan, that the 
 hour of reconciliation had passed away, and for 
 ever. The cavaliers retreated, — the Tlascalan and 
 the dog were all that remained by his side ; and, as 
 if to make his disgrace both undeniable and intole- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 85 
 
 rable, the senor Guzman maintained, throughout 
 the whole scene, his post at the general's side, con- 
 fronted face to face with his fallen rival. 
 
 " We are ready to hear thee, Juan Lerma," said 
 the Captain-General, with a voice at once cold and 
 commanding : " you went hence, to explore the 
 lands of the west, and the sea that rolls among 
 them. We argue much success, and great disco- 
 veries, from the time devoted to these purposes, 
 and from the discretion you evinced in pursuing 
 them for a whole year and more, rather than by 
 returning with your forces, to share in the danger- 
 ous fights of Mexico. What have you to sayl 
 You had some good followers, both Christian and 
 unconverted. — Stand thou aloof, Gaspar Olea! I 
 will presently speak with thee. — Hast thou brought 
 none back with thee but the Barba-Roxa, — Gas- 
 par of the Red Beard ]" 
 
 There was not a word in this address which did 
 not sting the young man to the heart ; and the in- 
 sulting insinuation which a portion of it conveyed, 
 was uttered in a tone of the most cutting sarcasm. 
 He trembled, reddened, clenched his hand in the 
 shaggy coat of Befo, — who still, though beckoned 
 by Cortes, refused to leave the exile, — until the ani- 
 mal whined with pain. Then, smothering his emo- 
 tions, like one who perceives that he is wronged, and, 
 knowing that complaint will be unavailing, is reso- 
 lute to suffer with fortitude, he elevated his lofty 
 figure with tranquil dignity, looked upon Cortes 
 with an aspect no longer reproachful, and replied, 
 
 " Besides Gaspar, who is worthy of your excel- 
 lency's confidence and thanks, no one returns with 
 me save the Ottomi, Ocelotzin, — the Tiger ; a man 
 to whom should be accorded the praise of having 
 saved the life of Gaspar, which is valuable to your 
 excellency, and my own, — which is worthless." 
 
 As he spoke, he pointed to the ancient barbarian, 
 who stepped forward with the same affectionate 
 
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86 THE INPIDEL. 
 
 smiles and grimaces which he had bestowed upon 
 the party at the cyiiress-tree, and with many un- 
 couth gestures of reverence, saymg, in imperfect 
 Castilian, after he had touched the floor with his 
 hand, and then kissed it, 
 
 " Ottomi I, — good friend, good rascal ; but Oce- 
 lotzin no more. I am Techeechee,* tlie Silent Dog, 
 — the little dog without voice, — Techeechee !" 
 
 As he spoke, he cast his eyes, with less of love 
 than admiring fear, upon the gigantic beast, M'hose 
 voice was to him, as well as to his countrymen, 
 more terrible than the yell of the mountain tiger. 
 
 " I remember thee,good fellow," said the Captain- 
 General. 
 
 Then, without bestowing any further present no- 
 tice on him, he turned again to Juan, speaking with 
 the same cold and magisterial tones : 
 
 " And where, then, are the two Christians of La 
 Mancha, and the seventy warriors of Matlatzinco, 
 who composed your party ? the arms you carried ! 
 and the four good horses entrusted to your 
 charge ]" 
 
 " Your excellency shall hear," said Juan, calmly : 
 " The two Manchegos were ill inclined to the ex- 
 pedition ; and therein were my followers but unfor- 
 tunately selected." 
 
 " They were mutineers !" cried Caspar, whose 
 anger was not mollified by being made a witness 
 to the ill fate of his young captain : " they were 
 mutineers ; and so the devil has them." 
 
 " Hah !" exclaimed Cortes, starting up, with what 
 seemed angry joy : " didst thou dare arrogate the 
 privileges of a judge, and condemn a Christian man 
 to death ?" 
 
 " I am guiltless of such presumption," said Juan. 
 " To their dissatisfaction, to their disobedience, — 
 
 * Techichl — a native animal of the dog kind, which does 
 not bark. It was domesticated. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 87 
 
 nay, to their frequent threats, and open disregard 
 of the commands yom' excellency had yourself im- 
 posed upon us, not to provoke the Indians among 
 whom we might be journeying, — I adjudged no 
 punishment but the assurance that your excellency 
 should certainly be made acquainted with their acts. 
 With much persuasion, I prevailed upon them to 
 follow me, until we had reached the sea, which it 
 was your excellency's command I should fii'st exa- 
 mine." 
 
 " Ay !" said Cortes, again starting up, but with 
 an air of exultation ; " thou hast found it then ] and 
 a port that may give shelter to ships of burthen 7" 
 
 " Not one port only, but many," said Juan, with 
 a faltering voice, mistaking the satisfaction of the 
 leader for approbation. "In a space of seventy 
 leagues, (for so much of the coast was I able to 
 survey,) there are many harbours, exceedingly 
 spacious, deep and secure ; and some of such ex- 
 cellence, that I question whether the world contains 
 any others to equal them. Near to some, there is 
 much good ship timber, as well as lands amazingly 
 fertile and beautiful." 
 
 " This is well," said the Captain-General, coldly. 
 " Thou hast well devoted a year of time to the ex- 
 amination of seventy leagues of coast." 
 
 " Had that been the only subject of your excel- 
 lency's orders," said Lerma, "you should have had 
 no cause for dissatisfaction. This accomplished, it 
 became me, as your excellency had commanded, 
 to explore those gold lands to the northwest, and 
 discover that kingdom of Huitzitzila, as it was er- 
 roneously called by Montezuma, which bordered 
 upon his dominions, and had ever maintained its 
 independence by force of arms." 
 
 At these words, many of the cavaliers looked 
 surprised, as if made acquainted with this article 
 of Juan's instructions for the first time, and some 
 
88 THE DfFID-EL. 
 
 exchanged meaning glances, which were not lost 
 on Cortes. He frowned, and hastilj'' exclaimed, 
 
 " You are wrong; I conwicmded yonnot. That 
 kingdom being at enmity with Mexico, it was not 
 fit your lives sliould he endangered, by rashly ad- 
 venturing within its confines. You were advised, 
 if you should find we had been deceived in the 
 character of those infidels of Huitzitzila, to make 
 yourself acquainted with them and their country : 
 but tliis was left to your discretion." 
 
 " It is true," said Juan mildly, " your excellency 
 did so advise me; and the fault which I committed 
 was in thinking that I should best please you, by 
 penetrating to that land, without much thought of 
 difficulty or danger. In this, as in other things, as 
 Caspar will be my witness, I was opposed by those 
 unhappy Manchegos ; who deserted from me in the 
 night, carrying with them, (to replace a horse which 
 they had lost in a river,) the charger which your 
 excellency had given to me for my own riding, — as 
 well as their arquebuses, — which was still more 
 unfortunate ; for Gaspares piece had been broken 
 by a fall, and we were thus left without firearms, 
 with but one horse, and no better weapon to pro- 
 cure us food, than mine own crossbow, and tlie ar- 
 rows of the Matlatzincos." 
 
 " Now, by my conscience," said Cortes, " I know 
 not which the more to admire, — the good vigilance 
 that allowed these knaves to escape, or the rash- 
 brained folly which led you to continue the expedi- 
 tion without them !" 
 
 The sarcasm produced no change in Juan's 
 visage. He seemed to have made up his mind not 
 only to endure injustice, but to expect it. 
 
 " Their desertion was neither unforeseen nor un- 
 opposed," he answered. " It is my grief to say, that 
 they forgot the obligations both of discipline and 
 Christianity, and desperately fired upon Gaspar 
 
THE INFIDEL. 89 
 
 and myself; whereby they killed our remaining 
 horse, and wounded myself in the side." 
 
 " And where then were thy knavish Indians, that 
 thou didst not slay the false traitors on the spot!" 
 cried Cortes, with an indignation, which, this time, 
 had the right direction. 
 
 The answer to this added but another item of 
 mischance to the young man's story. The arts of 
 the Manchegos had spread disaffection among his 
 Indian followers, many of whom had deserted with 
 them. Following after the mutineers, he was, 
 shortly after, abandoned by the rest; and then 
 his little party, consisting only of Caspar and the 
 Ottomi, was attacked, by hostile tribes, driven back 
 upon the path, and finally forced to take refuge in 
 the dominions of that native monarch, whose re- 
 puted grandeur and wealth had so long since ex- 
 cited the curiosity of Don Hernan. 
 
 The relation of Lerma, though of such thrilling 
 interest that it absorbed the attention of all present, 
 and even so wrought upon the mind of Cortes, that 
 he gradually discharged the severity of his counte- 
 nance, and even at last ceased altogether to interrupt 
 it with sarcasm or commentary of any kind, has too 
 little, or at least too indirect a connexion with the 
 present history, to require it to be given in the exile's 
 words, or at any length. With the main facts, — his 
 long captivity and final escape, — the reader is already 
 acquainted; and it is not perhaps necessary to add 
 more than that the kingdom of which so much has 
 been said, was that of Mechoacan, and that its 
 capital Tzintzontzan, (the Place of Hummingbirds,) 
 corrupted by the Mexicans into Huitzitzila, lies yet, 
 though dwindled into the meanest of villages, upon 
 the beautiful lake Pascuaro. Juan knew nothing of 
 the fate of the Manchegos. By a comparison of 
 dates, it was discovered that the sudden outbreak- 
 ing of hostilities, which had driven him into this re- 
 mote land, had followed almost immediately upon 
 
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90 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the tumults In Mexico, which had resulted In the 
 death of Montezuma and the expulsion of the Spa- 
 niards ; and it was not doubted, that the mutineers 
 had met a miserable and speedy death. With the 
 account of lands of unexampled beauty and fertility, 
 of rivers of gold and hills of silver, we have no- 
 thinsr to do, except to remark that it determined 
 the fate of Mechoacan as certainly as if tlie order 
 had been uttered for its immediate subjugation. The 
 whole account might have been omitted, except tliat 
 it was necessary, as the means of explaining some 
 of the feelings with which the young Lerma was re- 
 garded by the general and his chief followers. 
 
 There is no eloquence so persuasive as that of 
 distress, uttered without complaint ; and no story 
 of hardship and peril fails of exciting sympathy, 
 when recounted with truth and modesty. Accord- 
 ingly, the narrative of the exile produced among 
 the cavaliers a powerful impression in his favour, 
 which was heightened into admiration by the con- 
 sciousness that nothing but the greatest constancy 
 of purpose, and mental resources beyond those of 
 ordinary men, could have conducted him through his 
 long and perilous enterprise. Many of those, ^\'ho 
 seemed to remember with most interest the breach 
 between the general and one who had been for- 
 merly considered almost his adopted son, kept 
 their eyes curiously bent on Cortes ; and they did 
 not doubt, from the changes of his countenance, 
 that his better feelings were deeply engaged, and 
 would perhaps restore the young man to the con- 
 fidence and affection which all knew he had lost. 
 This belief became universal, when, at the close of 
 the story, the Captain-General arose, and addressing 
 the throng, said, 
 
 " Cavaliers and friends, we will free all present 
 from the tedium of this audience, saving only the 
 gentlemen of the Secret Counsel, and these our re- 
 turned friends. — Nay, by my faith, Gaspar of the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 91 
 
 Red Beard, thou mayst depart likewise, to speak 
 thy adventui'es to thine old friends, which thou art 
 doubtless itching to do ; or, if thou likest that better, 
 get thee to Antonio de Q^uinones, our Master of the 
 Armory, and choose thyself a good sword, buckler 
 and breastplate. Thou art a true soldier, and, by 
 and by, I have somewhat to say to thee. — The 
 knave has the gait of an infidel !" 
 
 At this signal for breaking up the audience, 
 which was pronounced with the grave and easy 
 authoritativeness of one long accustomed to com- 
 mand, the individuals present, Christian and hea- 
 then, princes, chieftains, and cavaliers, took their 
 departure, leaving behind them Sandoval, Alvarado, 
 and a few other officers of high standing. 
 
 As Juan stood, embarrassed between hope and 
 doubt, the senor Guzman descended from the plat- 
 form, and, passing him, said with a low voice and 
 a derisive smile, 
 
 " You mount, seiior, and Bobadil neighs for 
 you ! It is better — the war is equal." 
 
 So saying, he passed on. 
 
92 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 *' Senor Juan Lerma," said Cortes, wlien the last 
 of tlie assemblage had reluctantly departed : — He 
 had descended fi-om the platfinm, and spoke with 
 a voice, which, if not decidedly friendly, was, at 
 least, free from every trace of sternness : — " Seiior 
 Juan Lerma, I have to say, that for the result of 
 your enterprise, however it has been attended by 
 calamity, you deserve both thanks and honours ; 
 and it will rest upon your own determination whe- 
 ther you shall obtain them or not. Some things 
 there are, growing out of this affair, of which it be- 
 comes me to speak ; and thereby I shall give you 
 an opportunity to remove certain stains not yet 
 washed from your good name ; and after that, to 
 take off others that are thought to attach to mine. 
 Hast thou not heard of those fierce and fatal wars, 
 that broke out in Mexico shortly after thy depar- 
 ture." 
 
 " I have," said Juan ; " the king's spies brought 
 the news to Tzintzontzan ; and they were not only 
 lamentable to hear, but they caused us to be cast 
 into cages, and devoted, as we feared, to die the 
 death of sacrifice : For know, seiTor, the sanguina- 
 ry Mexitli is the god of all this land." 
 
 " And hadst thou no suspicion, before departing, 
 that these wars were brewing, and threatening us 
 with destruction] Thou wert somewhat quicker in 
 catching the heathen tongue than others, and wert 
 not without counsellors and friends even among 
 the household of Montezuma." 
 
 To this demand, the young man, though embar- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 
 
 9d 
 
 rassed by the innuendo that followed it, did not 
 hesitate to answer : 
 
 " I had such suspicions, and I made them known 
 to your excellency." 
 
 " You did indeed," said Cortes, musingly ; " and 
 I derided them, being somewhat heated at the time : 
 but counsel to an irritated temper is even sharper 
 than salt on a wounded skin. — This knowledge, 
 seiior," he went on, " some will impute to thee as 
 good reason why thou shouldst loiter fourteen 
 months in the wilderness, to avoid sharing in our 
 perils, which were somewhat more horrible than 
 have ever before beset Christian men." 
 
 " This," said Juan, firmly, and a little dryly, for 
 there was something in the tone of the speaker, 
 which, though he knew not why, impressed him 
 unpleasantly, — " this is to make me a coward, 
 which your excellency will not believe me to be." 
 
 " By my conscience, no !" said Cortes, with em- 
 phasis. " Without much thought of this present 
 expedition of which we speak, there is no man will 
 accuse thee of fear, who has heard of thy voyage 
 in the fusta. By my conscience, a most mad piece 
 of daring !" he continued as if in admiration, al- 
 though it was observable, that, while he spoke, his 
 countenance darkened, as though there were some 
 disagreeable thought associated with the recollec- 
 tion. " No," he went on, " there will be more said 
 of anger and ambition than of terror. Thou know- 
 est, we have envy and detraction about us, that 
 spare none. I can hear, already, how Villafana 
 and other knaves of his peevish, malicious temper, 
 will speak of thee. — They will speak of thy causes 
 for resentment, of the promised favour of the plot- 
 ting king, a principality among the lakes, with the 
 hope of loftier succession, and the hand of the 
 princely Maiden of the Star, " 
 
 " And this," cried Juan, interrupting the gene- 
 ral, " this is to make me a traitor and apostate i 
 
94 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 Senor, I doubt not tliat tho soitor Guzman is at the 
 bottom of all this slander: and I therefore claim to 
 defie,— " 
 
 " Peace! wilt thou put thyself in opposition aofainl 
 If thou dost but raise thy haml in wrath, save 
 against an infidel enemy, tiiou wert better never 
 to have been Ijorn !" 
 
 The sudden sternness with which these words 
 wore uttered, checked the impetuosity of the youth, 
 and filled him ajOfain with anxious forebodings. The 
 general, instantly resuming the milder tones with 
 which he had spoken before, continued, 
 
 " So much will be said of thee. Before I offer thee 
 my hand, in token that I desire to forget everything 
 of the past, but that I once truly loved thee, and 
 before 1 propose to thee a new and honourable 
 duty, — hear, — not what will l)e, but what has been 
 said of my self y in relation to thine expedition and to 
 thee." 
 
 Here the general paused a moment, eyeing the 
 youth intently, as if to read his most secret 
 thoughts ; then continuing, he said, with the utmost 
 gravity, 
 
 " It has been said of me, seiior Juan Lerma, that 
 I sent thee upon thy enterprise of the South Seas, 
 in the malicious thought that the blow of savages 
 might execute the sentence of vengeance I cared 
 not to commit to a Christian assassin. What 
 thinkest thou of this ]" 
 
 " Even that it is the blackest and insanest of 
 slanders ; and that it shows me, I have little cause 
 to marvel at my own loss of credit, when I find 
 that malice can aim even at your excellency's. 
 Whatever may have been your anger, I never be- 
 lieved your excellency would conceal it, much less 
 expend it, in secret vengeance upon a feeble wretch 
 like myself" 
 
 " Thou hast but little worldly knowledge," said 
 the Captain-General, half smiling, " or thou wouldst 
 
THE INFIDEL. 9& 
 
 know, that revenge is of a reptile's nature, crawling 
 rather in secret among dark thickets than openly 
 over sunny plains, and none the less venomous, 
 that it can lie half a year torpid. Neither put thou 
 much trust in innocent looks; which, to a shrewd 
 eye, are like sea-water, — the smoother they lie, 
 the deeper can they be looked into." 
 
 Having pronounced these metaphorical maxims 
 with much gravity, his eye all the time bent on the 
 youth, Cortes paused for a moment, as if for a re- 
 ply ; when, receiving none, for, in truth, Juan, not 
 well comprehending them, knew not what to an- 
 swer, he continued, 
 
 " Let us understand one another. There has 
 been strife between us, — strife and ill-will. I have 
 perhaps done you injustice : I thought I had cause. 
 By my conscience, young man, I once loved you 
 very well — I have been sorry for you." 
 
 " I have deserved your displeasure," said Juan, 
 hurriedly, moved by the earnestness with which 
 the general spoke ; " but, I hope, not beyond for- 
 giveness." 
 
 " Surely not, surely not," said Cortes ; " but what 
 I may forget as thy friend, I am still bound to con- 
 sider as thy general. I am now the king's officer, 
 and it becomes me, forgetting all private feelings, 
 to know no friends but those who approve them- 
 selves true and valuable servants of his majesty. 
 In this character, I must remember some of thy 
 past acts with disfavour ; but in both, it is not im- 
 proper I should desire thou shouldst have opportu- 
 nity fully to retrieve thy good name, and, in spite of 
 envy and detraction, to deserve such friendship as 
 I have shown thee in former years." 
 
 The exile pondered a moment over the words of 
 the general, in more indecision than before. They 
 spoke of friendship and kindness, and seemed to 
 offer an apology for severity that was rather offi- 
 cial than personal ; and yet, in this apology, was a 
 
96 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 de|9n*ee of reproach, of which it appeared Cortes's 
 resolution to keep liim always sensible. Neverthe- 
 less, this very tone of complaint served to soothe 
 the little exasperation of feelincrs which had remained 
 in Juan's breast, while smarting under a sense of 
 wroncr and injustice. Anuer botli irritates and har- 
 dens the heart ; reproach softens, while it distresses. 
 It seemed obvious to Juan, that Cortes, while ap- 
 prizing him that a full reconciliation had not yet 
 taken place, was willing, nay anxious, that it 
 should. He answered therefore with the greatest 
 fervour, 
 
 " If your excellency will but show me in what 
 manner I may regain your favour — at least your 
 belief that 1 have not wantonly rejected it — I call 
 heaven to witness, I will remember it as such an 
 act of kindness as that which this must ever keep 
 me in memory of" 
 
 As he spoke, he touched with his finger a ra- 
 pier-scar on his right breast, which the narrowness 
 and peculiar fashion of his mantle scarcely enabled 
 him to conceal, even when so disposed. 
 
 At this sight, Cortes seemed disordered, if not 
 ofl'ended, saying after striding to and fro for an 
 instant, 
 
 " Let these follies be forgotten ! Bury the past, 
 and think only of the future. It is true, I avenged 
 thy wrong — It gives me no pleasure to remember 
 it. — Did I think this, when I made thee my son, — 
 fed thee at my board, lodged thee on my couch, 
 advanced thee, honoured thee, fought thy battles ] 
 did I think this ? Pho ! Juan Lernui, thou ha.st not 
 repaid me well !" 
 
 " Seilor !" said Juan, surprised and confounded 
 by the sudden and reproachful bitterness of these 
 words ; " when 1 presumed to speak to you in op- 
 position to your measures, it was with the bold- 
 ness — the folly — of affection, jealous for your excel- 
 lency's — your excellency's — " 
 
THE INFIDEL. 97 
 
 *' Honour !" said Cortes, sharply. " Let us speak 
 of this no more. To business, seiior, to business. 
 Leave mine honour to mine own keeping : tliou 
 wilt find, I have it even in my thoughts. To 
 business, to business. V/hat say ye, Councillors T 
 — Wilt thou truly steal my dog from me 1 If you 
 rob me of naught else, it is no matter. — What say 
 you, seiior Capitan Del Salto ] wiiat say you, San- 
 doval 1 Is this young man fit to be entrusted with 
 a captain's command ? He was a good Cornet. — 
 Can we confide to him a duty of danger and trust 1 
 His pilgrimage to the Hummingbird-land, methinks, 
 was well conducted. What say you] I have a 
 goodly thought for him — But I will abide your bet- 
 ter judgment." 
 
 " By St. James," said Alvarado, " there is no 
 braver lad in the army; and were he but of clear 
 hidalgo lineage, I should say, give him a command 
 with the best. But here is my thought : he is a 
 good sailor, especially in piraguas and galleys : give 
 him a brigantine. I will crave to have him in the 
 squadron attached to mine own division." 
 
 " In my mind," said Sandoval, *' he is good for 
 the land service. It is needful we revenge the 
 death of Salcedo and his eighty loons, who suffered 
 themselves to be killed before Tochtepec. Lerma 
 has the love of the dog Xicotencal, who loves no- 
 body else. He can follow the young senor, with 
 some twenty thousand or so of his bare-legs ; and 
 they can take the town among them." 
 
 "A good thought," said Cortes, " a good thought: 
 for this is a command which, nobody coveting, 
 there will be none to envy. What sayst thou, 
 senor Lerma ] wilt thou adventure upon a deed 
 thought to be both dangerous and desperate 1 
 Choose for thyself: I will compel thee to nothing. 
 I tell thee the truth. — No captain seeks after this 
 employment, and three have refused, except upon 
 condition that I give them, besides as many Indians 
 
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98 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 as tho}'^ can raise, throo Inmdred picked Spaniards. 
 Thou canst not look for more than twenty, witli 
 some five or six horsemen." 
 
 The eyes of tlie exik^ sparkled. 
 
 " Your excellency honours me." 
 
 " Never think so ; deceive not thyself," said 
 Cortes, with apparent frankness. " The^terprise 
 is dangerous, nay, as I have said, desperate ; and 
 by my conscience, it will be said of it, as of the 
 South Sea journey, that it is devised for thy ruin. 
 — If I honour thee, I must suffer thereljy : no evil 
 can happen to thee, that will not be maliciously im- 
 puted to wicked and premeditated design. By my 
 conscience, there are many who think me but a 
 hangman in disguise !" 
 
 " I hope your excellency will not think of these 
 things," said Juan, fervently. " I will do battle 
 with any one who presumes — " 
 
 " Peace : have I not told thee already that the 
 duel is forbidden under heavy penalties 1 I swear 
 to thee, they shall be enforced, in all cases of diso- 
 bedience, were it upon my own brother. — I tell thee 
 again, 1 can advance thee to no service which wDl 
 not make me the mark of slander. There are fools 
 about us, who, I know not why, have tortured an- 
 ger into hatred, and will now interpret good-will 
 into malignant treachery. But I care not for this : 
 the tall tree catches the bolts that pass by the un- 
 derw^ood, — the rock that rises above the sea, is 
 lashed by breakers, while the grovellers at the bot- 
 tom lie in tranquillity. It is thus with the condi- 
 tion of man ; — peace abides with the lowly, envy 
 shoots arrows at the high. Think of this, think 
 of this, Juan Lernia, wlicii Ihou hearest me ma- 
 ligned." 
 
 "I shall not need," said Juan. "The more dan- 
 gerous the duty, the more must I thank your ex- 
 cellency for your confidence. I beseech, therefore,. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 99 
 
 tliat I may be permitted to undertake this present 
 enterprise." 
 
 " Wilt thou march them on foot, and with no bet- 
 ter arms than thy Indian battle-axe and buckler !" 
 demanded the general, gravely. 
 
 " I have heard," said Juan, with hesitation, " that 
 your excellency has in charge certain horses and 
 arms, which of right are mine, as being the gifts of 
 a bountiful friend." 
 
 " It is even so," said Cortes, " and the restora- 
 tion of them, which thou canst justly claim, will 
 cause some heart-burnings. I must crave your 
 pardon for having presumed to bestow them away, 
 as though they had been mine own property." 
 
 " Under your favour," said Juan, " considering 
 that they w^ere the gifts of your excellency's ever 
 honoured and beloved lady — " 
 
 " Ha !" cried Cortes^ with a darkening visage, 
 " what fiend possessed thee with this impertinent 
 conceit 1" 
 
 " I beg your excellency's pardon for my pre- 
 sumption," said Juan, " which was indeed caused 
 no more by rumour than by a belief that there was 
 no other being in the world, who could thus far 
 have befriended me." 
 
 " Why then," said Cortes, " if thou knowest not 
 the donor, it is the more remarkable ; for nobody 
 else does. Very strange ! Two horses, the worst 
 of which is w^orth full nine hundred crowns, and 
 Bobadil almost priceless ; — a suit of armour so well 
 chosen to thy stature, that never a man of us all 
 but is as loose in the cuirass as a shrivelled walnut 
 in the shell, — all very positively sent to thee from 
 Santiago, — for thee, seiior, and for nobody else !" 
 
 " They are saint's gifts," said Alvarado, devoutly: 
 " the young man-has suffered much, and has found 
 favour with heaven." 
 
 " Seiior," said Juan, mildly, " you are jesting with 
 me. I will hope, by and by, to discover this bene- 
 
1<M 
 
 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 volent patron. What I have to say now, Is that 
 my wants will be content with but one of the 
 horses ; the return of which will cause your excel- 
 lency no trouble, — the same beinjj in the hands of 
 the senor Guzman, who lias already signified his 
 intention to restore him." 
 
 *' Ha ! has he so, indeed 1 Why thy very enemies 
 have become thy friends !" 
 
 " As for the armour, senor," continued the youth, 
 without thinking fit to notice the latter exclama- 
 tion, " I will make no claim to it, if you have be- 
 stowed it away. A simple morion and breastplate, — 
 or indeed a good cap and doublet of escaupil, if 
 iron be scarce, — will content me, provided I have 
 but a good sword and steed." 
 
 •' Thou shalt have both," said Cortes, " and the 
 plate-mail also ; which being somewhat too gigan- 
 tic for any cavalier, and too good for a common 
 soldier, I have preserved, thinking some day to be- 
 stow it upon the Tlascalan Xicotencal. — Thou art 
 not loath to undertake this business 1 I will give 
 thee a day to think of it." 
 
 "Not an hour, sefior," said Juan, ardently. 
 " Give me but time to excliange these heathen 
 weeds and sandals for good armour and a war- 
 horse, and I will depart instantly, with whatsoever 
 force you may think fit to entrust to me." 
 
 " Art thou really, then, so hot after danger 1" 
 
 " God is my protection," said Juan ; " I thank 
 heaven, that this duty is the most dangerous your 
 excellency could charge me with : it is, for that rea- 
 son, the most honoui'al)le." 
 
 " Sayst thou so ?" cried the Captain-General, 
 quickly. " There is one duty, at least, I could im- 
 pose upon thee, which thou wouldst not be so hasty 
 to accept ] No, faith ; for the very name of it has 
 caused the boldest soldier in the army to turn pale. 
 — Get thee to the armory ; rest and refresh thyself: 
 to-morrow thou shalt to Tochtepec." 
 
• THE IITPIDBL. 101 
 
 " Seiior, for your love I will do what others will 
 not : I have years of benefaction to repay. I claim 
 to be appointed to that task which is so dreadful to 
 others." 
 
 "By my conscience, no," said Don Hernan: 
 " this would be sending thee to execution indeed. 
 And yet I know none so well fitted as thyself: 
 Thou art fearless, cunning, discreet, — at least thou 
 canst be so ; and thou art a master of the barba- 
 rous language, I think!" 
 
 " Your excellency once commended the success 
 with which I laboured to acquire it : my year's 
 wanderings in the west hava made it familiar to 
 me almost as the tongue of Castile." 
 
 " It is a good endowment," said Cortes. " What 
 thinkest thou of an embassage to Tenochtitlan V 
 
 As he spoke, pronouncing each word with deli- 
 berate emphasis, he bent his eyes searchingly on 
 Juan, and a smile crept over his features, as he per- 
 ceived the young man lose colour and start. 
 
 " The man that Would do me that duty," he con- 
 tinued, gravely, " would indeed deserve well, not 
 only of myself, teut of his majesty, the king of Spain. 
 But think not I mean to overtask thee, — or that I 
 seriously designed to try thee with this rack of pro- 
 bation. — There are bounds to the courage of us 
 all." 
 
 " Your excellency mistakes me," said Juan, dis- 
 pelling all emotion with a single effort, and speak- 
 ing with a voice as firm as it was serious : " if there 
 be but one good can come of such an embassy — " 
 
 " There might be many'"' said the general, " not 
 the least of which would be the conquest of the city, 
 and thereby of the whole land, without the loss of 
 Christian lives. Could I but find speech with the 
 prince Guatimozin, I have that which will move him 
 to peaceful submission. But this is impossible." 
 
 " Again your excellency is deceived," said Juan, 
 with the composure of one who has taken his reso- 
 
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103 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 liition. " I will do your bidding, — I will can*y your 
 message to Mexico." 
 
 " Pho ! I did but jest with thee. Three Indian 
 env^oys have I sent already : the infidel slew them 
 aU." 
 
 " And cannot your excellency answer why ? 
 Your envoys were Indians, — your exceilencj-'s al- 
 lies, but his subjects, who, in the act of alliance, had 
 committed the crimes of treason and rebellion ; for 
 which he punished them with death, as seemed to 
 him right and just. A Spanish ambassador would 
 be received with greater respect, and perhaps dis- 
 missed without injury. I will not, with a boastful 
 vanity, proclaim that I fear nothing ; but such fears 
 as I have, are not enough to deter me ; and again 
 I say, I wiU do your bidding." 
 
 " My bidding !" cried Cortes ; " I bid thee not ; 
 heaven forfend I should bid thee any such thing. 
 But if thou really thinkest the danger is not great, — 
 if thou art so persuaded — " He paused ; his eyes 
 sparkled ; he strode to and fro in disorder. Then 
 suddenly halting, he exclaimed, with a faint laugh, 
 " No, by my conscience ! no, by heaven ! no, by St. 
 James of Compostella ! thou art the bravest fool of 
 all, but thou shalt not die the death of a dog ! I will 
 not catch thee with tiger-traps !" 
 
 To these extraordinary expressions, Juan an- 
 swered with emotion, but still with unvarying reso- 
 lution, 
 
 " I wait your excellency's orders. I fear not 
 death ; I am alone in the world ; — father or mother, 
 brother or sister, kinsman or friend, there is not 
 one to lament me, should I come to disaster. If I 
 live, I will, as your excellency has said, have saved 
 the effusion of Christian blood ; if I die, heaven will 
 remember the motive, and none will miss me. — I 
 will go to Tenochtitlan." 
 
 " Thou art a fool," said Alvarado. « Seuor Cap- 
 
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 tain-General, this embassy may not be ; I protest 
 against it. The world will cry shame on us." 
 
 " I do oppose the same," said Sandoval, " as be- 
 ing the wilful throwing away of a Christian life." 
 
 The other cavaliers present were about to add 
 their voices against the measure, when Cortes cut 
 them short by saying, sternly, 
 
 " Are ye all mad, senores ] Think ye, this thing 
 was said seriously 1 I did but try the young man's 
 mettle, and I do think he hath somewhat less of 
 gaingiving about him, as well as much more folly, 
 than any one here present. I must get me an am- 
 bassador ; but, Juan Lerma, thou art not the 
 man." 
 
 " To my thought," said Sandoval, " this old In- 
 dian, Ocelotzin, will be a much safer emissary." 
 
 Apparently the Ottomi, who had listened through- 
 out the whole conference with great attention, and 
 who understood just enough of it to know the course 
 that affairs were taking, did not at all relish the 
 suggestion of Sandoval. He started, flung the gray 
 curtain of hair from his visage, and began to pour 
 forth a torrent of such objurgations and remon- 
 strances as he could find Spanish to express : 
 
 " I am not Ocelotzin, the Tiger," he exclaimed ; 
 " very weak and old I am, — no claw, no tooth, no 
 roar." — ^d here the barbarian, by way of con- 
 firming his speech, set up a yell, so wild, shrill, and 
 hideous, that the cavaliers started back, catching 
 at their swords in alarm, and two or three soldiers 
 from the ante-room rushed in, as if apprehending 
 some act of treason. But the dog Befo, who had 
 hitherto maintained his post at the feet of Lerma, 
 now rubbing against his knees, now rearing 
 against his breast, and sometimes, when pushed 
 down and too long neglected, expressing his impa- 
 tience or affection, by extending his vast jaws, as if 
 to swallow the hand that repelled him, — the dog 
 
104 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 Bofn hoard the cry of the .sava^o with siirli indicr- 
 nntioii as he would liavo bcstowod upon the howl 
 of a riv'al. He replied with a lion-like growl, and 
 stalkincf up to the Ottomi, lie stood watchinsr him, 
 ever and anon writhintr his lips so as to disclose his 
 hiiLTc fancrs, and seemed Avaitins" the signal to attack, 
 greatly to the terror of the orator. / 
 
 A wave of the general's hand disnl^ed the in- 
 truding soldiers from the a]\^rtment ; and at the 
 voice of Lerma, the dog returned to him. 
 
 " I am Techeechee," said the orator, resuming 
 his discourse, but with tones greatly subdued ; " I 
 am Techeechee, the Silent Dog, — the Silent Dog I 
 am ; Techeechee, the Silent Dog, — the Silent Dog 
 I am. — Techeechee." — 
 
 All this time, he kept his eyes fixed upon Befo as 
 if dreading an assault; and, in fact, his solicitude 
 had somewhat overpowered his mind, so that he 
 continued for some moments to reiterate the above 
 phi'ases, Avithout any seeming consciousness of 
 their absurdity. At last, he fell into his vernacular 
 language, and this happily releasing him from his 
 trammels, he poured forth, with amazing volubility, 
 a sti'ing of sounds, so harsh, guttural, inarticulate, 
 and unearthly, that they seemed rather the basso 
 chatterings of an ape than the meaning ^cents of 
 a human being. 
 
 " What says the knave ?" cried Cortes. 
 
 " He says," replied Juan, " that he is the little 
 dumb dog of the hills, and will harm nobody ; that 
 Montezuma was a big dog, like Defo, (wherein he 
 lies,) and that Guatimozin the prince is bigger still, 
 and will eat him, — which is to be understood fijiu- 
 ratively. He says, he is the Little Dog, and there- 
 fore not fit to be an ambassador ; but — Ha ! what 
 sayst thou, Techeechee 1" — 
 
 The young man spoke to the Ottomi in his own 
 tongue, and receiving an answer, turned immedi- 
 ately to Cortes, saying, 
 
THE INFIDEL. 105 
 
 " It becomes me to inform your excellency of his 
 words ; for savage though he be, this old man I 
 have ever found to be marvellously shrewd, as well 
 as faithful. It is his opinion, that the prince Guati- 
 mozin would not injure me, if I went on the em- 
 bassy ; wherefore, I beg your excellency to re- 
 consider your resolution. He says, too, he wiU go 
 with me." 
 
 " Your destiny, seiior, is to the rebellious and 
 bloody town Tochtepec," replied the general, quickly 
 and decidedly." 
 
 " He adds," continued Juan, "that he is Techee- 
 chee and no ambassador ; but that he is cousin to 
 Q,uimichin, the Ground Rat, and that he will be 
 your spy, — for quimichin is the word hy which 
 they express a spy throughout the whole land." 
 
 " I am Techeechee ; I will be Quimichin," said 
 the Indian, as if to confirm the words of Juan, and 
 twisting his withered features into a smile, that was 
 meant to express both cunning and affection. 
 
 " Dost thou think him faithful V said Cortes. " I 
 will find service for him. But go, amigo ! I have 
 kept thee till thou art as faint and weary as my- 
 self Get thee to Quinones, and the armory. 
 Make thy preparations and take thy rest. I will 
 see thee on the morrow — perhaps to-night, and ac- 
 quaint thee with thy force and instructions. God 
 be with you — Nay, heed not the dog — Adieu, 
 seiiores — He has much of your own fidelity, roam 
 he never so much. Take him with you." 
 
 When the last of the cavaliers had departed from 
 the chamber, the Captain-General, stepped upon the 
 platform, and throwing himself into the chair of 
 state, sat or reclined thereon, with the air of one 
 worn out by exertion of mind and body, and on the 
 eve of sinking into a swoon. 
 
106 Tlir INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER Vlll. 
 
 According to the apolojguc, every man carries on 
 his back a satchel, in which are deposited his infir- 
 mities and vices, and whicli, thoiiirli thus concealed 
 from his own eyes, lies very invitincrly open to the 
 inspection of his friends. Not satisfied with this 
 exposure of foibles, there are some good-natured 
 moralist.s, who would dive deeper into the secrets 
 of their neighbours, and who lament, with the old 
 heathen metaphysician, that heaven had not clapped 
 windows into their breasts, so that they might de- 
 tect ev^en the iniquity of thoughts. This regret 
 may be avoided by all who are willing to satisfy 
 curiosity at their own expense; for heaven has 
 fitted most bosoms with private loopholes, through 
 which each man may survey at his leisure the 
 workings of his own spirit. A peep through the 
 secret casement will disclose something startling, 
 if not humbling, to many, who, in the vanity of 
 good works, are disposed to uplift themselves 
 above their fellows ; — such, perhaps, as rational 
 principles, and even kindly feelings, taking their 
 hue from ' that smooth-fnced gentleman,' — that bias- 
 sing spirit which is more comprehensively express- 
 ed in Shakspeare's phrase of Commodifi/ than in the 
 more familiar one of interest; for it is true of us all, 
 that virtues are sometimes nothing but passions in 
 disguise, and that reason has a marvellous facility 
 in acquiring the tones of worldly-wisdom. If the 
 mere grovelling villain, — the robber, assassin, or 
 slayer of man's peace, — can find some such spec- 
 tacle near to his heart as the surgeon's knife ex- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 107 
 
 poses in the breast of a cankered corse, what may 
 he detect, whose sublimer villany has led, or is 
 leading him, to distinction, upon a highway paved 
 with the- miseries of mankinds Methinks, the 
 breast of the ambitious man is a labyrinth of some 
 such caverns as perforate the bowels of a volcano, 
 in whose depths are lost all the petty details of 
 crime, committed or meditated, — in which there is 
 no light but that which bubbles up from the lava of 
 the vast passion, — and in which there is even no 
 grandeur, that has not arisen from convulsions the 
 most disorganizing and unnatural. Such a heart 
 is, at least to the limited ken of others, a chaos, — 
 but a chaos from which he who imbosoms it, and 
 who alone can understand it, calls up, — less like a 
 god than a demon, — the evil elements, which create 
 the lurid sphere his greatness. 
 
 In the bosom of the Conquistador there was a 
 corner, into which the blaze of ambition had not 
 yet penetrated, and where the common passions of 
 our nature were left to rage and struggle as in the 
 heart of a meaner mortal. As he looked therein, 
 he gave himself up to thoughts which devoured 
 him, while his countenance betrayed, for a time at 
 least, nothing beyond such lassitude and faintness 
 as may have characterized the Spartan boy, while 
 bleeding under the fangs of the beast he concealed 
 in his bosom. 
 
 As he sat brooding in this apparently calm, yet 
 deeply suffering lethargy, there glided into the 
 apartment, from one of the curtained doors on the 
 right hand, a figure, which, seen for the first time 
 and in the dusky twilight already darkening around, 
 might, to superstitious eyes, have seemed an appa- 
 rition, — it was so strange, so fair, so majestic, and 
 so mournful. It presented a stature taller than be- 
 longs to the beauty of woman, yet not inconsistent 
 with the conception of a divinity ; and to this a 
 singular dignity was given by flowing and volu- 
 
108 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 niinoiis robes of a grayisli texture, vvhicli, both in 
 hue and fashion, bore an air of monastic siiiiphcity, 
 without precisely resembling those of any one order. 
 A sort of hood, or veil, drawn a little aside and 
 resting upon the brow, gave to view a female coun- 
 tenance of wonderful loveliness, and not without 
 a share of that commanding dignity, which dis- 
 tinguished her figure. Her hair, shorn, or porhajis 
 bound behind by a lillet, and thus almost altogether 
 concealed by the hood, gave yet to the gaze two 
 long locks, broad and black, which, falling over 
 either cheek, were lost among tlie folds of the veil 
 which her right hand held upon her bosom. A 
 complexion dark, yet not tawny, — a chin and nos- 
 trils carved like the most exquisite statuary, — lips 
 of dusky crimson, — a brow of marble, and an eye 
 of midnight, made up a countenance both beautiful 
 and characteristic, yet contradictory in the expres- 
 sion of its several parts, and sometimes even in 
 the expression of the same features. Thus, the 
 first impression made upon a spectator by the whole 
 visage, was such as could only be effected by ex- 
 treme gentleness of disposition ; while the second, 
 he scarce knew why, spoke of energy and decision^ 
 none the less striking for being concealed mider a 
 mask so captivating. Thus, also, the eyes, very 
 large and set widely apart, conveyed, on ordinary 
 occasions, the idea of a spirit passive, melancholy, 
 and inanimate ; though the slightest depression of 
 the brow, the smallest motion of the lid, transform- 
 ed them at once into the brightest torches of pas- 
 sion. If one could conceive the spirit of a Philomela 
 — a compound of sweet tenderness and still sweeter 
 melancholy — dashed witii tlio fire of a Penthesilca, 
 he might conjure up to his miners eye a correct re- 
 presentation of the mysterious bemg, (alluded to by 
 Villafana, under the name of La Moiijonaza, or the 
 Nun, the word being a sort of cant augmentative 
 of Monja, a nun,) whom an extraordinary destiny 
 had thrown among the warlike invaders of Mexico. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 109 
 
 As she passed from the thick curtain and ad- 
 vanced towards the platform, on which sat the 
 moody general, her visage presented none of its 
 ordinary mildness ; on the contrary, her brows were 
 knit together, her lip retracted, and the look with 
 which she regarded him whom all others were 
 learning to fear, was bold, stern, and even fiercely 
 hostile. 
 
 The rustling of the curtain, the light sound of her 
 footstep, the bright glance of her eye, when she 
 paused before him, all alike failed to make an im- 
 pression on the general's senses. She perceived 
 that he was in a waking dream, absorbingly pro- 
 found and painful, and she stood in silence, from 
 disdainful pride, or perhaps with a woman's curio- 
 sity, endeavouring to trace the workings of his 
 spirit from the revelations of his countenance, 
 which, by this time, had changed from a stony in- 
 expressiveness to agitation and distortion. At this 
 moment, the head of the Conqueror was bent for- 
 wards, and his eyes directed upon the floor ; but she 
 saw enough in the writhing features, and the fore- 
 head almost impurpled with blood, to know that 
 the passions then convulsing his bosom, were dark 
 and deadly. 
 
 At this sight, the frown gradually passed away 
 from her own visage, and she stood regarding him 
 for the space of several minutes, with a calm and 
 melancholy intentness. Then, perceiving that^his 
 lips, though moving as if in speech, gave out no 
 articulate sound, she exclaimed, with a voice that 
 thrilled to his soul, though subdued to the lowest 
 accents, 
 
 *' Arise, assassin ! It is not just, it is not expe- 
 dient ; and he shall NOT perish !" 
 
 It seemed as if she had read his heart. He start- 
 ed up, surprised and confounded; and his first act 
 was to cross himself, as if to exorcise a fiend, con- 
 
 VOL. I. 10 
 
110 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 jurod up by the more spell of evil thoughts. He 
 even gave voice to two or three interjections of 
 alarm, before perceiving that the rebuke came only 
 from lips of earth. 
 
 " Hah ! hah ! Santa Maria ! Santos y Angeles ! 
 hah ! — Ho ! ho ! Infeliz ! Magdalena ! fair conqueror 
 of hearts ! brigiit converter of souls that shalt be! 
 is it thou, Monja Diia Santi.sijna? most devout 
 saint of the veil 1" he cried, recovering his self-pos- 
 session, and banishing every trace of passion with 
 astonishing address. " By th)'- bright eyes of hea- 
 ven, — and thanks be thine for the good deed, — thou 
 hast waked me from a dream of night-mare, a most 
 horril)le vision. These naps o' the afternoon are 
 but provokers of Inculjus, — ay, and Succul)a into 
 the bargain. 1 thank thee, bright Infeliz : it is bet- 
 ter to be waked by thy voice, than by sweet 
 music !" 
 
 " And dost thou think," said the lady, witli a voice 
 whose deep but not unfeminine tones suited so well 
 M'ith the mournfulness of her emphasis, — " dost thou 
 think, I see not, this moment, into thy bosom .' 
 Visions and sleep ! Speak of visions to thy dull 
 conquerors : they who dream of immortal renown, 
 can best appreciate a vision of bUwdshed. Speak 
 of sleep to thy duller victims: the stupid wretches 
 who slumber with the chain at their necks, may 
 I well believe that the enslaver has also his seasons 
 of repose. But talk not of these to me, who look 
 upon thee neither with the eyes of follower nor of 
 foe. Thou canst not sleep, thou dost not dream : 
 thy head is too full of fime, thy foot too deep in 
 blood, thy heart too black with evil thoughts — No, 
 nevermore canst thou sleep, nevermore, never- 
 more !" 
 
 The last words were uttered with a cadence so 
 extremely melancholy, and witli a manner so much 
 like that of one who apostrojihizes self, that a stran- 
 ger overhearing them, and marking the look and 
 
THE INFIDEL. Ill 
 
 gesture — the upturned eye and the folding of arms 
 on the breast-— would have naturally supposed they 
 referred rather to herself than to another. This 
 was, indeed, a suspicion, entertained, in part, by 
 Cortes, who, somewhat confounded by the calm 
 decision with which she rejected a deceitful attempt 
 to explain expressions of countenance so ominous 
 as those he had displayed, now recovered himself, 
 and said, with an air of grave sympathy, in which 
 earnestness could not conceal a vein of sarcasm 
 and bagatelle, that were parts of his nature, 
 
 " Fair Infeliz, the Unhappy, (since by this lugu- 
 brious epithet you choose to be called,) it is now 
 some two months since you dropped among us 
 from the clouds, the fairest, shrewdest and strangest, 
 as well as the most broken-hearted and self-accus- 
 ing, of all the angels that have fallen from paradise. 
 For mine own part, however fervently I may thank 
 heaven for sending me such a minister, I have not 
 yet got over my amazement at your presence ; 
 which I indeed regard with much the same wonder 
 wherewith 1 should behold the sun of heaven take 
 up his quarters at my tent-door." 
 
 " In this particular," said the lady, with the ut- 
 most tranquillity, " you should have been satisfied, 
 (had it accorded with your nature to believe any 
 solution of a problem, that was not suggested by 
 your own imagination,) that the deceptions of others, 
 and no will of my own, brought me from Santiago 
 to Mexico, in a ship which should have carried me 
 to Jamaica. — Your allies do not fit out vessels open- 
 ly for this land, under the eye of Velasquez. — But 
 why ask you me this ] Hast thou no better device 
 to lure me from my purpose 1 I came, not to speak 
 of myself, but of others. Thou couldst have played 
 the lapwing more subtly, hadst thou dwelt upon the 
 whispers, the nods, the smiles of contempt and the 
 words of scorn, that heralded a compelled coming, 
 and which requite an inevitable stay. But learn, 
 
112 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 if thou hast not 5^ct learned it, that these things are 
 felt more tlian they are feared, and that she who 
 has not deserved it, may sometimes have the cou- 
 rage to endure even a degrading misconstruction. 
 Why hast thou not insinuated tJiis ?''' continued the 
 singular being, with a voice that betrayed more 
 feeling than iier pride confessed : " this would have 
 drowned every other tlioiight in a true woman ; for to 
 woman, good name and fame are more than life- 
 blood, — yes, more than life ! — I save thee, however, 
 the trouble ; I am reminded of my condition, — a 
 woman alone in thy camp, alone in thy liands; — 
 and yet I return to my jiurpose, which concerns not 
 myself, but another. Wilt thou have me speak 
 further of myself? If it last till tlic midnight, be sure 
 I will yet speak of tliat which I have in view." 
 
 " Of thyself, then, beauteous Infeliz," said Cortes, 
 .admiringly ; " for I vow to heaven, thou art the 
 marvel of womankind, whom I desire to understand 
 even more than to adore. Sit thou upon my bar- 
 barian throne, and I will fling me at thy feet, in 
 token that I acknowledge thy supremacy in wit, 
 wisdom, subtle observation, determination, and all 
 other virtues tiiat can grace woman, — ay, or man 
 either ; for I swear by my conscience, I think thou 
 art valiant also, fearing nothing that walks under 
 heaven or above the abyss. To the throne then, as 
 queen of my mystery." 
 
 " I will answer thee where I stand," said Infeliz, 
 calmly disengaging the hand wbicli the Conquista- 
 dor had taken to lead her to the platform; "and 
 think not, this gaUant folly will make me a whit 
 quicker of a]i]irehension, or r(>ply, Make thy de- 
 mands, and gain tliereby what time thou wilt to an- 
 swer mine; for this is thy purpose." 
 
 " Well then," said the Captain-General, with a 
 look of not less respect than curiosity, " make me 
 acquainted with this. Wherefore, as thy coming 
 
THE INFIDEL, 113 
 
 hither was so much against thy will, hast thou not 
 once demanded to be taken back to the islands ?" 
 
 " Because it is not yet my will to be discharged 
 from your presence," replied the lady, calmly. 
 
 " Be thou of this mind for ever," said the general, 
 with an air of sincerity. " Now let me know, I 
 pray you, why it is that I am somewhat more for- 
 ward in confiding to thy scrutiny my secret 
 thoughts than to the best and wisest of my bold 
 cavaliers ]" 
 
 " Because thou knowest I neither love thee nor 
 hate thee ; because I lose not good-will by asking 
 honours and spoils, nor by boasting of services and 
 ability ; but chiefly am I troubled with your confi- 
 dence, because I am the only one who lists not to 
 have it." 
 
 " By my faith, thou art very right, especially in 
 the last reason of all," said Cortes, with a laugh ; 
 " for secrets are like gnats and musket-bullets, they 
 ever crowd thickest after those who strive most to 
 avoid them. — Tell me now, fair and most provok- 
 ing Infeliz, why, when I have flung thee open the 
 whole book of my confidence, thou givest me not a 
 single chapter of thine 1" 
 
 " Because it extends not beyond that single chap- 
 ter," replied La Monjonaza, patiently, " hath neither 
 beginning nor end, and is, beside, in a language 
 which thou canst not understand." 
 
 " Pho, you put me off" with nothing," said Don 
 Hernan, again taking the hand of his remarkable 
 guest. " I have but one more question to ask you. 
 Why is it, (and I pray you to forgive me the ques- 
 tion,) that, with the consciousness that your situa- 
 tion in this mad land and knavish army, exposes 
 you not only to degrading suspicion, but even to 
 absolute personal danger, you betray no apprehen- 
 sion of the wild reprobates among whom you are 
 placed I that you show no dread even of me 1" 
 
 10* 
 
114 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 " Because," said the maiden, removing her right 
 hand, which slie had, up to this moment, preserved 
 upon her breast, and drawing aside the tliick folds 
 of veil and mantle, — " because, for the wretch who 
 fears jiot the woman's arms of modesty and help- 
 lessness, i bear with me a weapon which will secure 
 his respect." 
 
 And as she spoke, the eye of Don Hernan fell 
 U})on a naked and glittering poniard thrust through 
 her girdle, and worn as if it had long formed a part 
 of the habit. 
 
 There was something inexpressibly impressive 
 in the calm and simple dignity with which, in the 
 very gesture that jiointed out a protection so insuf- 
 ficient, she acknowledged a weakness, in all other 
 respects, unfriended. Cortes, in the multitude of 
 Jus base and graspingly selfish attributes, was not 
 without some traits of a more generous character ; 
 and especially admiring a courage so self-relying, 
 so unafiectedly real, and perhaps so much akin to 
 his own, he had enough of the old leaven of chival- 
 ric feeling, to understand and appreciate the claims 
 of the sex to his compassion and protection. That 
 he had other reasons for treating La Monjonaza 
 with respect, cannot be denied. 
 
 " Give me thy hand, Magdalena," he said, with 
 an action and voice rather indicating the familiarity 
 of a patron than that of a presumptuous suitor : 
 *' Thou art right ; thou art a creature after mine 
 own heart ; and I swear to thee, I will do thee no 
 wrong, nor suffer it to be done thee by another. 
 Heed not what may be said of thee : my dogs would 
 bay an angel, should one condescend to pay them 
 a visit. Thy cloister-like garments are not amiss ; 
 — there be more that venerate than malign thee, 
 for this reason ; and, thank heaven, the padre 01- 
 medo finds no sin in thy wearing them. Wilt thou 
 be seated 1 There is peace between us ; let there 
 
THE INFIDEL. 115 
 
 be confidence. What hast thou to ask of me, Mag- 
 dalena ? Thy revenge is at hand." 
 
 The maiden returned the scrutinizing look of the 
 general with one which, if not so piercing, was at 
 least quite as steady : 
 
 " Your excellency has thrice called me, who call 
 myself Infeliz, by a name not authorized by any 
 revealments of mine," she said: "you speak also of 
 rev^enge, — of my revenge ! — Yes," she muttered, 
 with a quivering lip; " this is a thing to be thought 
 of, not spoken." 
 
 She paused a moment, and Cortes, casting a 
 quick eye round the apartment, said, in a voice 
 confidentially low and insinuating, 
 
 " I would the story had come from yourself But 
 it matters not, — I have it ; and disguise is no longer 
 availing. You lose nothing by the change, for I 
 see, thy spirit hath the elements of mine own. Ah ! 
 water in the desert ! the first kiss of a lover ! breath 
 to the suffocating ! — such is revenge to the soul of 
 the mighty ! — I know thee, thy history and thy pur- 
 pose. — I have dandled the boy Hilario upon my 
 knee !" 
 
 The strong and meaning stress laid upon the last 
 abrupt words, only served to drive the colour from 
 the maiden's cheeks and lips. In all other respects, 
 she remained calm and collected, and replied grave- 
 ly,— 
 
 " The tale comes from the Alguazil Villafana — '* 
 
 " Hah !" said Cortes, in surprise ; " how knowest 
 thou that ]" 
 
 " Because there is no other, — no other, save one, 
 who will not speak it,— in all this land, who knows 
 so much of me ; and because, were there twenty, 
 the man whom heaven has cursed with the industri- 
 ous treachery of a spider, and the rage to entangle 
 all things in his flimsy web, would be the first to 
 betray me." 
 
1 IG THE INFIDEL. 
 
 " Thou sayst the triUli of Villafma," said Cortes, 
 with a laufrh of peculiar exultation. " In spirit and 
 intention, he is the insect you have named ; but yet 
 he spins his web, less like the spider, with the 
 chance of d(\stroyin_ir, than the silken-caterpillar, that 
 toils for his master, who will smother him in his 
 work, as soon as it is jierfected. Ay, thy penetra- 
 tion is clear, thy conc(^j)tion just; the knave is, in 
 all tliinofs, a traitor, — a double, a trii)le, — a centupled 
 traitor!'' 
 
 " And you l^oth spare him, and ^nve him the 
 means of multiplying liis dangerous villanies?" 
 
 "I do, by my conscience I" said Cortes, viva- 
 ciously. " There is a charm in it, and no little po- 
 licy. Dost thou think this little fly can deceive 1 
 can deceive me ? — "VVert thou n. man, thou wouldst 
 know, that even al)0vc the triumph of vengeance, is 
 the joy of him who watches the nets that his foe is 
 spreading, and, as* he watches, fastens them softly 
 down upon the ensnarer." 
 
 " And is the insect worthy to be toiled by the 
 Jionr 
 
 "Ay, — when the lion is a man I — This is my di- 
 version ; it is also my profit. 1 would not for a 
 thousand crowns, any harm should come to so ser- 
 viceable a tool : a better decoy never circled the 
 disaffected about him. He is the touchstone that 
 reveals me the metal of the doubtful, — the diamond 
 that cuts me the adamant of malignancy. I look 
 through him, as through the philosopher's glass, 
 and behold the million things of corruption that 
 swarm in the hearts of the curs beneath him. — By 
 heaven ! it joys me, that I have one to whom I can 
 sj)eak these secret blisses. Thou art my vizier, 
 my very familiar. Know then, that this very night, 
 the dog meditates a treachery, with which I will be 
 acquainted, and yet seem unacquainted. By my 
 conscience, it delights me to tell thee, with what 
 exquisite industry the poor knave works me a good, 
 
THE INFIDEL. 117 
 
 while foolishly believing he is doing me an ill. Dost 
 thou not remember that I have told thee, how much 
 it concerns me to procure some trusty envoy, to 
 go between me and the young infidel, Guatimozin 
 of Tenochtitlan V 
 
 " I am familiar with your wishes." 
 
 "Learn then, that, this night, Villafana himself 
 procures me the emissary I have myself sought after 
 in vain, — a Mexican noble of liigh rank. — I could 
 kiss the dog for his knavery !" 
 
 <• And wherefore does he thisl" 
 
 " Faith, in the amiable wish to reconcile some of 
 the jarring elements of his conspiracy ; to wit, the 
 Tlascalans and Mexicans ; the latter of whom, this 
 night, will, with his good help, show the black- 
 cheeked Xicotencal the advantages to be gained by 
 uniting with his mighty and royal enemy of Mexico, 
 to secure the destruction of my insignificant self 
 Ha ! ha ! Is not the thought absurdly delightful ! 
 Ah, Villafana ! Villafana ! I have no such merry con- 
 ceited good-fellow as thou !" 
 
 La Monjonaza beheld the exultation, and listened 
 to the mirthful laugh of the Conqueror with much 
 interest, and not a little surprise. It did indeed 
 seem extraordinary, tliat he should be so heartily 
 diverted by the audacity of a villany that aimed 
 at his downfall, and perhaps his life. But this 
 very merriment indicated how many majestic fa- 
 thoms he felt himself elevated above the reach of 
 any arts of human malevolence or opposition. It 
 was as if the eagle, flapping his wings among thun- 
 der-clouds, shrieked with contempt at schoolboys 
 shooting up birdbolts from the \illage-green. — It 
 gave a clew to a characteristic which Infeliz was 
 not slow to unravel. A deep sigh from her lips re- 
 called the general from his diversion. 
 
 *' Thou sighest, Magdalena V he cried. 
 
 " It was for thee," she answered : " I sighed, in- 
 deed, to think how much and how truly thou, thus 
 
118 THE INFinEL. 
 
 elevated by a touch of divinity above the children 
 of men, dost yet resemble this miserable, grovelling, 
 befooled Villafona !" 
 
 "What, n Resemble hi ml resemble Villafanal" 
 
 " Deny it, if thou canst," said the maiden, with 
 reljuking severity ; " and if thou canst not, then 
 humble thyself, and confess the base similitude. 
 Thou dilferest from him but in this, — that, wliereas, 
 in one quahty, thou art uplifted miles above his 
 head, thou art, in another, sunk even leagues below 
 liim. — Thou frownest ? Hast thou discovered that 
 anger adds aught to the state of dignity J Thou 
 dost, this moment, even with the crawling venom 
 of Villafana, with a rage still more abased, seek a 
 life thou hast not courage openly to destroy." 
 
 " Santiago !" cried Cortes, in a heat ; " by St. Pe- 
 ter, you are over-bitter. But pho, I will not be an- 
 gry with thee. Dost thou think me this coward 
 thing r' 
 
 " Hast thou not doomed the young man, Juan 
 Lerma, a second time, to death V cried La Monjo- 
 naza, with an eye that trembled not a moment in 
 .the gaze of the Captain-General ; " and was it not 
 with the embrace of a Judas ] Oh, sefior !" she con- 
 tinued, firmly, " say not that Villafana is either base 
 or craven. Jle strikes at the strong man, who sits 
 armed and with his eyes open : but thou, oh IhoK, — 
 thou art content to aim at the breast of the friend- 
 less and naked sleeper 1 — Judge between thyself and 
 Villafana:" 
 
 It is impossible to express the mingled effects of 
 shame and rage, that disfigured the visage and con- 
 vulsed the frame of the Captain-General, at this 
 powerful and altogether unexpected rebuke. He 
 smote his brow, he took two or three hasty steps 
 over the floor ; when, at last, a thought striking 
 him, he rushed back to the chider, snatched up her 
 hand, and said, Mith an attempt at laughter, pain* 
 
THE INFIDEL. 119 
 
 fully contrasted with his working and even ago- 
 nized visage, 
 
 " Dost thou quarrel with me for fighting thy bat- 
 tles ? Oh, by St. James, it is better to draw sword 
 on a friend i\mxi for him : ingratitude always comes 
 of it. Had I thought this of old, I had been a hap- 
 pier man, and thou never hadst mourned the death 
 of Hilario ; — no, by'r lady, Hilario had been a living 
 man, and thou happy with him in the island !" 
 
 As he hurried over these words, the diversion 
 they gave to his thoughts, enabled him rapidly to 
 recover his self-command, in which, as in affairs of 
 less personal consequence, he always exhibited 
 wonderful power. This accomplished, he continued, 
 with an earnest voice, 
 
 " Concealment is now useless : the time waxes, 
 when I must think of other things : let us shrive 
 one another even as two friars, and deceive one 
 another no further than they. Methinks, what I do 
 is for thy especial satisfaction. — An ill loon I am, to 
 do so much for one who so bitterly censures me ! — 
 Who thou art, and what thou art, I know not : 
 thou wert an angel, couldst thou give over chiding. 
 The young Hilario del Milagro was the son of mine 
 old friend Antonio : — a very noble boy, — I remem- 
 ber him well. — By heaven, thy hand is turned to 
 ice ! Art thou ill ]" 
 
 " Do I look so V said the maiden, with a faint 
 laugh. Her face had of a sudden become very pale, 
 yet she spoke firmly, though not without a visible 
 effort. " I listen to thy confession." 
 
 " To mine ! By my troth, I am confessing thy 
 sins and sorrows, and not mine. Well, Magdale- 
 na," he continued, " thy emotion is not amiss : it is 
 not every maiden can think calmly of the death of 
 her lover, knowing that his slayer is nigh. — I knew 
 Hilario, when a boy, — ay, good faith, and Juan 
 Lerma, too, his playmate and foster-brother, or his 
 
120 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 youn£r page and varlct, I know not which. It was 
 on Antonio's recommendation, that I afterwards 
 took this foundling knave to my bosom, and made 
 him — no, not what he is! for tliis is a thing of liis 
 own making. 1 sent him to Espanola to recruit : 
 he loitered, — he returned to the house of Milagro— 
 Sliall I say more ? Hilario, his brother, the son of 
 his best friend and jxUron, was the betrothed hus- 
 band of Magdalena ; and iiini did the wolf-cub 
 slay. Wo betide me ! for it was I that taught him 
 the use of his weapon. — Is not this enough ? Acci- 
 dent hath brought thee to Mexico; thou seest the 
 killer of thy lover ; and, like a true daughter of 
 Spain, thy heart is full of vengeance. — Is not this 
 true? Disguise thy wrath in wild sarca>;m no lon- 
 ger. Were he the king's son, he should Pho ! 
 
 recall thy words : Is it not ' just ?' is it not ' expe- 
 dient V " 
 
 To these sinister demands, Magdalena replied 
 with astonishing composure : 
 
 "All this is well. Shrive now tliyself — Hast 
 thou any cause, personally, to desire his death 1" 
 
 " Millions !" replied the general, grinding his 
 teeth; " millions, millions ! to which the death of 
 Hilario, wringing at thy breast, is but as a gnat- 
 bite to the sting of adders. — Millions, millions !" 
 
 " Give him then to death," said Magdalena, with 
 a voice so grave and passionless, that it instantly 
 surprised the Conquistador out of his fury ; " give 
 him to death, — but let it be in thy name, not 
 
 " Art thou wholly inexplicable ?" he cried. " I 
 read thee by the alphabet of human passions, and I 
 make thee not out, — no, not so much as a word. 
 Thy flesh warms and chills, tiiine eye swims and 
 flashes, thy brow bends, thy lip curls, thy breast 
 heaves, thy frame trembles ; and yet art thou more 
 than mortal, or less. When shall I understand 
 theel" 
 
THE INFIDEL. 121 
 
 " When thou canst look to heaven, and say, ' I 
 have done no wrong' — No, no ! not to heaven ; for 
 what child of earth can look thitherward, and un- 
 veil the actions of life 1 — When thou canst lay thy 
 hand upon thy bosom, and appealing, not to divine 
 justice, but to that of human reason, say, ' What I 
 do is just :' — in other words, never. You are sur- 
 prised : you bade me repeat my words : I do : — ' It 
 is not just, it is not expedient, and Juan Lerma 
 shall not die !' " 
 
 " Now by my conscience !" said Cortes, " this is 
 the true dog-star madness ! Wert thou not behind 
 the curtain, and didst thou not shriek at sight of 
 himi Mystery that thou art, unveil thyself— 
 Wherefore tarriest thou in this land, suspected, 
 scorned, degraded, if not to have vengeance on 
 him 1 Wherefore, I say, wherefore V 
 
 " To save him," replied the lady, boldly, — « to 
 save him from the fury that has brought thee to the 
 level of the Alguazil. i^lse had I long since return- 
 ed to the islands. Revoke therefore thy commis- 
 sion, and, in ^^y way thou wilt, so that it carry 
 with it neit'ier secret malice nor open insult, con- 
 trive to discharge him from thy service. His life 
 is charmed — it is in my keeping." 
 
 « Oho !" said the Captain-General, surveying La 
 Mcnjonaza with an exulting sneer ; " sits the wind 
 in that quarter ? And thou art but a woman after 
 all ! Now was I but a fool, I trow, not to bethink 
 me how the wife of Uriah forgot the death of her 
 husband, when she saw a path open to the arms of 
 his murderer. Is it so indeed? Thou hast fallen 
 from admiration to pity." 
 
 " She who withstands evil thoughts and malign- 
 ing words, will not weep even at the contempt of 
 commiseration," said Magdalena, with a sigh. 
 
 " Villafana has then deceived me, — or rather, 
 poor fool, has deceived himself, as is more natural," 
 said Cortes, with a malicious grin. " Never believe 
 
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122 THE INFIDLL. 
 
 me, but thou shalt rule me in this matter, as in 
 others. Juan Lerma shall thank thee for his life, 
 even for the sake of the Maid of Mexico, — thy 
 brown rival, Zelaliualla." 
 
 As he spoke thus, he watched closely the effect 
 of his words on Magdalena, and beheld a sudden 
 fire light up in her eyes, succeeded by such paleness 
 as had always covered her visage, when he refin-red 
 to the death of Hilario. Nevertheless, she did not 
 avert her glance, nor exhibit any other manifesta- 
 tion of feeling, except that she replied not a single 
 word. 
 
 " It is the truth that I tell thee," he muttered in a 
 low voice, taking up, as if in compassion, her hand, 
 which was yielded passively, and was again cold 
 and dewy ; " she is very lovely, — very, — and a 
 king's daughter. He fought for her love with Guz- 
 man. So, perhaps, ho fouglit Hilario for thine. 
 By my conscience! he makes love over blood- 
 thirstily ! When I spoke to Lim of Zelahualla,— 
 nay, I mentioned not her name ; 1 upoke only of his 
 friends in the palace of Mexico — y^t the colour 
 flushed over his cheeks. Nevertheless, Umu shalt 
 rule me ; thou shalt have time for consideration : 
 the expedition to Tochtepec can be delayed. Dost 
 thou think he would have consented to be ytiine 
 envoy to Tenochtitlan, but for the hope of seeing Us 
 princess 1 I could tell thee another thing — (there 
 are more rivals than one) — but it matters not, — it 
 matters not ! Thou wilt not be content with — 
 pity ! — Arouse thee, and speak. — Art thou marble ?" 
 
 At this moment, and while it seemed indeed that 
 the unhappy Monjonaza, notwithstanding that lier 
 countenance was still inexpressively placid, had 
 been turned to stone, the curtain of the great door, 
 or principal entrance, was drawn aside, and the 
 cavalier Don Francisco de Guzman strode hastily 
 into the apartment. The sound of his footsteps, 
 more than the warning gesture of Cortes, recalled 
 
THE INFIDEL. 123 
 
 her to her senses. She raised her hand to her 
 brow, and the long hood falling over her counte- 
 nance, she turned to depart through the door by 
 which she had entered. The evening was already- 
 closing fast, and the shadowy obscurity of the 
 chamber perhaps concealed her from the eyes of 
 the intruder. Nevertheless, Cortes perceived, as 
 she glided away, that her step was altered and 
 tottering, and that her hands fumbled for a moment 
 at the door curtain, as if she knew not how to re- 
 move it. It yielded, however, at last, and she 
 vanished from his eyes. 
 
 " Poor fool," he muttered, with a feeling divided 
 between scorn, anger, and pity, "thou hast dis- 
 covered to me the broken postern of thy spirit : the 
 walls are strong, but the citadel is in ruins. This 
 is somewhat marvellous, — I will know more of it. 
 It is a new and another thing to be remembered. — 
 Come, amigo : it is over dark here for thy business. 
 We will walk in the open air." 
 
 So saying, he took Guzman's arm, and departed 
 from the chamber. 
 
124 THE INFIDEL, 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Some two hours or more after he liad been dlfs- 
 eharged from the presence of the Captain-General, 
 Juan Lerma sat musing in one of the many lum- 
 dred chambers which composed tlie vast extent (»f 
 the palace of Nezahualcojotl, a diOerent being from 
 that the reader beheld him Returning from exile. 
 The coarse tilmallli^ or native cloak, and the bar- 
 barous tunic, had been exchanged for raiment of a 
 better material and fashion, a part of which, — the 
 bragas and xaqueta, at least — were from the ward- 
 robe of the genera], while modesty, or reluctance to 
 accept any further of such assistance than was abso- 
 lutely necessary, had induced him to substitute for 
 the plain but costly capa, or mantle, of velvet, the 
 long surcoat of black cloth, very richly embroidered, 
 which had, as he was told, accompanied the suit of 
 armour, sent by his unknown friend. This valua- 
 ble and well-timed gift lay upon a platform beside 
 his matted and canopied couch, shining brilliantly 
 in the light which a waxen candle diffused throngh- 
 out the apartment. He sat upon a native stool, 
 carved of a solid block of wood, and his fine coun- 
 tenance and majestic figure, besides the advantages 
 they received from becoming garments, apiieared 
 even of a more elevated beauty, when seen by this 
 solitary ray. 
 
 His only companion was the dog Befo, whose 
 shaggy coat, yet gleaming with moisture, betrayed 
 that he had shared with the young man his evening 
 bath in the lake. The attachment of this beast ^ 
 was much more natural than remarkable. Five 
 
THE INFIDEL. 125 
 
 years before, when Juan was but a boy in Santo 
 Domingo, Befo had been his playmate and com- 
 panion ; — had followed him to Cuba, when the youth 
 began to weary of dependence, and long for a life 
 of activity and distinction ; and was finally present- 
 ed by the grateful adventurer to Cortes, as the only 
 gift in his power to bestow ; for, at that time, saving 
 Jiis youth, health, and good spirits, Befo made up 
 the sum of his worldly possessions. In the change 
 of masters, however, Befo did not trouble himself 
 to acquiesce; nor did he perceive any necessity, 
 while treating Cortes with all surly good-will and 
 respect, to abate a jot of his love for the hand which 
 had first sustained and caressed him. The dog is 
 the only animal that shows disinclination to be 
 transferred from one master to another. The 
 horse cares not, the ox submits, and man makes 
 no opposition. The dog has a will of his own, and 
 acknowledges no change of servitude, until con- 
 scious of a change of affection. 
 
 The stirring and harassing events of the day, 
 tliough they had exhausted the spirit of the youth, 
 had yet brought with exhaustion that nervous irri- 
 tableness which drives away slumber from the eyes 
 of the over- weary. Twice or thrice, Juan had flung 
 himself on the couch to repose, but in vain ; and as 
 he now sat questioning himself how far the substi- 
 tution of soft mats and robes for a bed of earth, 
 might account for his inability to sleep, he began to 
 revolve in his mind, for the twentieth time, his 
 change of fortunes, and wonder at the inauspicious, 
 and, as it seemed to him, unnatural sadness, which 
 oppressed his spirits. 
 
 " I have been restored," he muttered, half aloud, 
 — and, as he spoke, Befo, roused by the accents 
 from the floor, thrust his rough head over his knees, 
 to testify his attention, — " I have been restored to 
 favour, and, in great part, to the friendship of the 
 General. — Thou whinest, Befo ! I would I could 
 
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126 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 read the heart of a man as clearly as thine. — Yet 
 has he not distinguished me with a high command, 
 — a captain's ? I trow, it is not every one who 
 can so soon st«^ii into this dignity, ospocially when 
 without the recommendation of birth, as Alvarado 
 hinted. — I will show this proud cavalier, that God 
 does not confine all merit to hidalgos' sons. If he 
 give me but a capable force — Twenty foot and six 
 horse ] — 'tis but a weak array for a field where 
 eighty men have perished. Yet I care not : if I 
 have but Xicotencal to back me, with some two or 
 three xiqiiipils* of his TIascalans, it will be enough. 
 If I fall, — perhaps that will be better : I am too faint- 
 hearted for those wars. Villafana says, that he 
 brands the prisoners too, and sells them for slaves. 
 This is surely imjust — He was another man at 
 Cuba." 
 
 At this moment, the dog raised his head and 
 growled, and Juan heard steps approaching through 
 the long passage, that ran by his door. Here they 
 stopped, and Befo continuing to give utterance to 
 his displeasure, the voice of Villafana whispered 
 through the curtain, 
 
 " Put thy hand on the beast's neck, or box him 
 o' the ears — He is no friend of mine." 
 
 " Enter," said Juan, " if thou art seeking me. He 
 will do thee no harm." 
 
 " Ay, marry," said Villafana, coming in ; " for at 
 the worst, and when other things fail, I will stop 
 him with my dudgeon, be he Cortes's, thine, or any 
 one's else. It stirs my choler to be growled at by 
 so base a thing as a dog." 
 
 " Put up thy weapon, nevertheless," said Juan, 
 observing that Villafana had a poniard in his hand; 
 " thou seest, the dog is quiet. In this he pays me 
 
 ^ *■ Xiquipll — u niiliUiry division of natives, consisting" of 
 eight thousand men. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 127 
 
 the compliment of supposing I can protect myself. 
 What is thy will with me, Villafana ]" 
 
 " First," said the Alguazil, with a laugh, " to give 
 thee my congratulations touching thy sudden rise 
 from the abyss, and thy meditated flight heaven- 
 ward. And, secondly," he continued, when Juan 
 had nodded his thanks, "to ask, in the way of 
 friendship, from how high a cliff" thou canst tumble 
 headlong, without danger of breaking thy neck "?" 
 
 " This is but a silly question, friendly though it 
 may be," replied Juan. 
 
 " Oh, sefior," said Villafana, " you must remem- 
 ber, the first night we slept with the army, at the 
 base of El Volcan, the mighty Popocatepetl, how 
 much we admired the great stones, that the devils 
 therein flung up against the stars ! You nod again : 
 good luck to your recollections ! Did you observe 
 any one of those ignited masses stick against the 
 vault, and there hang among the luminaries 1" 
 
 " Surely not," said Juan ; " those that fell not im- 
 mediately back into the crater, rolled down among 
 the snows on the mountain-side, and were there 
 extinguished." 
 
 *' Very well, sefior — When you are mounted, 
 you can remember the fire-stones, and make your 
 choice whether to tumble back into the fire of 
 wrath, that now sends you upward, or to quench 
 yourself for ever in the frozen bed of degradation. — 
 You go to Tochtepec ?" 
 
 " 1 do," said Juan, somewhat angrily ; " and I 
 warn thee, thy malicious metaphors will not make 
 me less grateful for the kindness that sends me." 
 
 " God rest you — it were better you had accepted 
 the embassy to Guatimozin." 
 
 " Hah !" said Juan, " how knowest thou of this 1 
 It was spoken only in secret council 3" 
 
 " Oh," said Villafana, with a second laugh, " if 
 thou wilt but scratch on one end of a long log, be 
 
128 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 snro I will hear it at the other. There is something 
 more in the world than magic." 
 
 He spoke with marked exultation ; indeed Juan 
 iiad already observed that his carriafre was freer 
 and bolder than common, and that he bore himself 
 like a man who cares not wholly to conceal a tri- 
 umph of spirit, which he thinks it not needful alto- 
 gether to divulge. 
 
 *' Harkee, seiior Don Juan," he went on, abruptly 
 and inquisitively, " thou art good friends with Xico- 
 tencal ?" 
 
 " So far as a Christian man can be with one, 
 who, though a very noble being, is yet a misbe- 
 liever." 
 
 " And thou wert sworn friends, at Mexico, with 
 the young prince, Guatimozin 7" 
 
 " Not so," said Juan : " the young man kept aloof 
 from us all, being of the hostile party ; and there 
 was scarce one of us who had ever seen his face. 
 I must confess, however, if I can believe Techee- 
 chee, that my preserv^ation in the expedition was 
 owing to his good act ; for Techeechee avers, that 
 it was through Guatimozin's good will that he was 
 sent with me, to secure me from the death which 
 was designed for all the rest of the party." 
 
 " Designed 1 dost thou allow it then ?" cried the 
 Alguazil, quickly. 
 
 " Ay," replied Juan, dryly ; " designed by the 
 Mexican lords, but not by Christian leaders." 
 
 " And art thou not sorry thou wert not desjvitched 
 to him as envoy?" 
 
 " Why need we talk of this ?" said Juan, hesitat- 
 ing. " Guatimozin the king, may be different from 
 Guatimozin the prince." 
 
 " He is not yet the king," said Villafana. " He 
 will not be crowned till the day of the great war- 
 festival, and not then, unless he can furnish a 
 Spaniard for the sacrifice. Ffaith, he loves not the 
 blood of his red neighbours." 
 
THE INFIDEL. 129 
 
 " Villafana," said Juan, struck with certain un- 
 easy suspicions, " thou seemest better acquainted 
 with these things than becomes a true follower of 
 Don Hernan." 
 
 " Not a whit, not a whit," cried the Alguazil, 
 hastily : " this is but the common talk, — the com- 
 mon talk, senor ; and I am but a fool to indulge in 
 it, to the prejudice of other business more urgent. 
 Come, seiior, — will you walk in the garden ) There 
 is a friend to speak with you." 
 
 " What friend ]" said Juan. — " Villafana, I half 
 suspect you are engaged in some foul work. I will 
 have naught to do with it." 
 
 " Lo you now," said the Alguazil, impatiently ; 
 " this is wild work. Do you think I will assassi- 
 nate you 1 Ho ! this is a thing thy best friend would 
 entrust to another. Come, senor ; — you have your 
 rapier, — you can take your casque, too, if you have 
 any fear. It is a friend, who has that to say which 
 it concerns your life to know. You know not your 
 danger. God be with you, and your blood be upon 
 your own head ! If you refuse, you will not repent 
 you : — no, faith — you will not have time left for 
 lamentation. — Farewell, seiior, — " 
 
 " Stay, Villafana," exclaimed Juan, much disturb- 
 ed : " Friend or foe, — it is not that which stays me, 
 but the fear of being entrapped into something more 
 to be dreaded than death. Thou art a schemer ; 
 it is thy nature : I will have nothing to do with thy 
 plots, or with those who — " 
 
 " Pho ! this concerns thyself alone, not me. My 
 only plot is to help one who desires to drag thee 
 out of the fire thou art so bent to burn in. I take 
 you to your friend, and depart : I have other things 
 to occupy me. I am but a messenger. Will you 
 go ? I must give you a token then. — You have not 
 forgotten Hilario ]" 
 
 At these words, muttered under breath, Juan 
 started and turned pale, exclaiming. 
 
130 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 " Saints and angels 1 and heaven forbid ! Mine 
 ears did not then deceive me ? Oh wo to us all ! 
 Alas for thine ill news I Have I not pain enough of 
 mine own !" 
 
 As he spoke, with a trembling voice, Villafana 
 handed him his cap and sword, saying, as he put 
 into his hand the latter, which was a light rapier, 
 
 "A good blade! and has hung at Don Hernan's 
 girdle. — Leave the dog behind : he will but set up 
 his cursed growling, and so bring upon you some 
 one who may not relish the meeting." 
 
 " It is true, then 3" cried Juan, with tones and 
 aspect of the greatest distress : " So fair, so young, 
 so noble, so fallen !" 
 
 " Back, cur ! thick-lips ! Befo !" cried the Algua- 
 zil, as the two left the chamber. — " He grumbles at 
 me, as if to say Ehem, with disdain. Command 
 him thyself: he is a superfluous companion." 
 
 The young man waved his hand to Befo ; at 
 which signal Befo threw himself upon his haunches, 
 looking after Juan till he beheld him issue from the 
 long passage into the open air. Then rising, with 
 the air of a servant who understands his duty 
 much better even than his master, he followed 
 slowly after the pair into the garden. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 131 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 The royal garden of Tezcuco was an extensive 
 piece of ground, fenced, on three sides, by the pa- 
 lace and its dependencies, and bounded on the 
 fourth, by the waters of the lake, from which it was 
 divided by a low wall, long since broken down by 
 the Conquerors, by certain shadowy buildings, and 
 by clumps of noble cypresses and other trees. The 
 moon, not yet near her full, shone westward of the 
 meridian, in a sky intensely azure and almost 
 cloudless ; and her beams could be traced, through 
 the wall of cypresses, glittering and dancing on the 
 light waves, as they rippled up merrily to the night- 
 breeze. What taste was displayed in the plan and 
 cultivation of the garden, could not be determined, 
 at this hour, and in this insufficient, though beauti- 
 ful, light. One could behold, indeed, obscurely, 
 flower-beds and shrubberies, winding alleys and 
 hanging groves, little still pools and even, here and 
 there, a jetting fountain, scattered about in a man- 
 ner which the imagination might believe was de- 
 signed and judicious ; but it seemed, at night, rather 
 a wilderness, in which the nostrils had greater rea- 
 son to be gratified than the eyes. A thousand 
 odours fell from the trees, a thousand scents rose 
 from the flowers, as the heads of the one and the 
 petals of the other were shaken by the flitting gusts. 
 It was a scene calculated at least to soothe exas- 
 perated feelings, and induce sentiment and melan- 
 choly in the breast of the contemplative. 
 
 To Juan's temperament, it would have been, at 
 any other moment, saddening enough ; but his 
 
132 THE INFIDEL, 
 
 thniiL'-hts were, at present, far too miicli, and far too 
 paiiifiiUy, engaged, to permit any to be wasted upon 
 it. 
 
 As he followed hastily at tlie heels of the Algua- 
 zil, he made one or two agitated attempts to draw 
 from him some further tokens to remove or confirm 
 his boding suspicions ; but the Alguazil had on the 
 sudden grown ver}' cautiously or very maliciously 
 silent, and answered only by pressing his finger on 
 his lijis, eyeing the youth significantly, and hurry- 
 ing him more rapidly along. 
 
 He led him to a spot, almost in the centre of the 
 garden, where a little oval-shaped pool lay embo- 
 somed among schinus-trees, whose long weeping 
 branches, stirred by the wind, swei)t gracefully 
 over and in the water, which was only agitated, 
 when thus disturbed by the motion of a bough, or 
 by the ])lunge of the fragrant berries, the harvest of 
 a former year, which dropjied at intervals from the 
 cluster. A single moonbeam found its way into 
 this solitary inclosure, foiling upon a limited portion 
 of a path which seemed to surround the pool. In 
 other respects, all was dark and invisible, and not 
 a ray could be seen on the water, save when the 
 spectator, peering over the brink, beheld some faint 
 star of the zenith glimmering down among the 
 shadowy depths. 
 
 Upon this path, and in this moonbeam, the Al- 
 guazil paused, and pointing hastily to a nook — the 
 darkest of all where all were dark, — Juan perceived 
 obscurely what seemed a moving figure. The next 
 moment, Villafana passed among the boughs, re- 
 tracing his steps, and strode again into the moon- 
 light. As he stood an instant shaking the dew- 
 drops from his cloak, he beheld a dark objcx^t ap- 
 proaching slowly on the path. It was the faithful 
 Befo, who, with his head to the ground, and his tail 
 draggling in the grass, as if sensible of having com- 
 mitted a breach of discipline, yet crawled along 
 
THE INFIDEL. 133 
 
 after his master, under the h'resistible instinct of 
 fidelity. 
 
 " This is ill thought on, and may be unlucky," 
 muttered Villafana, with a subdued voice. " Here, 
 Befo ! you rascal ! come with me, and you shall 
 have a bone. — Ay, thou ill devil !" he continued, in 
 the same whispered tones, as Befo, without stirring 
 to the right or the left, and merely showing his 
 teeth, when the Alguazil seemed disposed to check 
 him with his hand, passed on towards the grove, — 
 " go thy ways, and growl as thou wilt : thou art 
 the only thing in the land incorruptible. But thou 
 wilt be acquainted with my dagger yet, if thou hast 
 no better appetite for my dinner." 
 
 He resumed his path. He had not taken a dozen 
 steps, before he became sensible of the approach of 
 another intruder : but this time the intruder was 
 human. There was something in the fashion and 
 sweep of the garments, which, even at a distance, 
 apprized him of the character of the comer. 
 
 " The devil take these prying priests, monks, 
 friars, and all !" he muttered irreverently betwixt 
 
 his teeth. — " Holy father, Hah ! by the mass, 
 
 is it thou, Camarga ! my brother of all orders, 
 monkish, mendicant, martial, and so on? Thy 
 masking goes the wrong way : I told thee to meet 
 me at the prison. 'Tis my palace, man ; and the 
 princes are in waiting. — Come, these damp mazes 
 are ill for thy years and diseased liver. We will 
 walk together." 
 
 " Seiior Grunidor, as they call you," said Ca- 
 marga, flinging back the white cowl, and revealing 
 his sallow features in the moonshine, " senor Al- 
 guazil, carcelero, rogue, conspirator, devil, and 
 what-not, how I came to be so deep among your 
 damnable devices, in the short month I have been 
 in this land, I know not, except that I have, like 
 thyself, a greater aptitude to be groping among 
 caverns than journeying on kings' highways. But 
 
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134 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 know, sirrah, that besides thy subtleties, I have 
 some wliimseys of my own ; to which, when the 
 wind stirs them, yours must give place, were they 
 ten thousand times more macrnificent than your 
 wit strives to make them ajij^ear. Begone, there- 
 fore; get thee to thy scurvy Tlascalan, whom thou 
 art training to the gallows ; to thy Mexican Magni- 
 lico, who is an ass to trust his neck to thy keeping ; 
 and to what vagabond Christians will give thee 
 their countenance, who are e'en greater fools than 
 thyself, and the Indians together. Get thee away : 
 I have business of mine own ; and I will come to 
 you when it is despatched, or I will not come, — 
 just as the imp urges me. So away with you, and 
 leave me to myself" 
 
 " Under your favour, no," said Villafana, appa- 
 rently too well acquainted with the man to be much 
 surprised at a tone and manner so unlike to those 
 which Camarga had used at the cypress-tree : " I 
 must e'en have your saintly cowl and leaden cross, 
 to swear the two infidels together : otherwise there 
 is no trusting them. — They have much supersti- 
 tious reverence for our priests and ceremonies. 
 Come, seiior; I tell thee, the Mexican will make 
 our fortunes." 
 
 " Thine, rogue, thine /" said the disguised Ca- 
 marga, impatiently : " Why talkest thou to me in 
 this stupid wise ] I am an older villain than thou.^ — 
 I have a fancy for this lad of the Anakim, this thick- 
 witted, turtle-brained young Magog. Thou makest 
 a mystery of him, too. 'Slid ! I will penetrate it ; 
 for 1 have a use to make of him, as well as thou." 
 
 " Demonios !" said Villafana; "are you seeking 
 Juan Lerrna ?" 
 
 " Ay, marry. I dogged thee hitherward, I saw 
 thee hide him in the bush, and by St. Dominic, 
 (who will fry my soul to cinders, for defiling his 
 garments — -pcccavi I) I will know what's i' the 
 wind betwixt yon, ere 1 stir a step further in your 
 
THE INFIDEL. 135 
 
 counsels. Dost thou think I will be thine accom- 
 plice, and have anything hidden from me 7 Thou 
 swearest, he is to be murdered to-morrow, too. 
 There is no time to be lost." 
 
 " Thou art mad," said Villafana : " he is engaged 
 on our business. I make no mystery ; I will tell 
 you all. It is well I met thee. He has company, — a 
 good sword, — and would think no more of lunging 
 through thy holy lion's skin, if he caught thee eaves- 
 dropping — " 
 
 " Hark ! dost thou not hear tuck and corselet ]" 
 said Camarga, smiling grimly, and ratthng the hilt 
 of a sword against his concealed armour. " I must 
 know his companion too. I tell thee, I will have 
 all thy secrets, or I drop thee, perhaps denounce 
 thee." 
 
 " Thou shalt have them," said Villafana, gradual- 
 ly drawing him further from the pool. " His com- 
 panion is La Monjonaza." 
 
 " Ha ! sits the wind there 1 I must have a peep 
 at her : they say, she is lovely as a goddess." 
 
 " Thou wilt incense her," said Villafana, emphati- 
 cally. " By heaven, thou knowest not the temper 
 of this woman, which is deadly. Leave the two 
 cooing fools to themselves. Our fortunes, — nay, 
 faith, our lives, depend upon them. La Monjonaza 
 is deep in our secrets, — " 
 
 " Knave !" muttered the pretended friar, in a low 
 but furious voice, " hast thou trusted my life in the 
 keeping of a woman?" 
 
 " Pho, she is an older conspirator than thou ; a 
 wi£»er, too, for she can keep her temper. Out of 
 her love for the young man, we draw our truest 
 safety and quickest success." 
 
 " Her love ! oh f u ! and is she of this corrupt 
 fickleness, that she will have two lovers in one 
 hour ] But it is the way with these creatures !" 
 
 " They are old lovers, very old lovers, senor," 
 said Villafana, endeavouring, as he spoke, but in 
 
136 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 vain, to quicken tlie steps of Camarfra. " You 
 shall hear the story. — Juan Lerma's father was 
 some low, poor, base fellow, killed in some tumult 
 at Isabelvi. The old hidalfjo, Antonio del Milagro, 
 took the boy out of charity, first as a servant — " 
 
 "A servant] Dios mio! — Is he of no better be- 
 ginning ]" 
 
 " Not a jot ; but the old fellow liked him, and, in 
 the end, treated him full as well as his own son, — 
 a knavish lad, called Hilario, some two or three 
 years older than Juan." 
 
 'Slife!" said Camarga, "tell me no granddam's 
 tale, with all tedious jiarticulars. How came the 
 youth into the hands of Cortes !" 
 
 " Even by setting out to seek his fortune, some- 
 what early, and getting to Santiago, where Cortes 
 took him into kee])ing. You heard us say, that 
 Don Hernan, when he received his commission 
 from Velasquez, sent Juan back to his native island, 
 to recruit forces. It was natural he should visit 
 his old friends at Isabela. It was here he met with, 
 and quarrelled about, Magdalena — " 
 
 " Magdalena '." said Camarga, with surprise. 
 " You swore her name was Infeliz !" 
 
 " Ay ; but the true one is Magdalena. When 
 she came from Spain — " 
 
 " From Spain !" cried Camarga, starting : " is she 
 not an islander V* 
 
 " Pho ! didst thou ever see a creature of her 
 beauty, born out of Andalusia 3" 
 
 " I have not seen her — l)ut I will, — yes, by all 
 the saints of heaven, I will, — 1 must. — How came 
 she to the island J" 
 
 " Oh, a-horseback, I think," said Villafana ; " for 
 the shij) was never seen at Isabela : never question 
 about that. The two young dogs, Hilario and 
 Juan, found her somewhere, brought her to old Mi- 
 lagro, and, Juan being more favoured and better 
 beloved than Hilario, who, to say truth, was both 
 
THE INFIDEL. 137 
 
 Ugly and vicious, they fought about her, and Hila- 
 rio was killed. Thus, Juan was left the master of 
 the beauty ; but being tired of her, or afraid of old 
 Milagro's vengeance, or perhaps both, he fled again 
 to Cuba, and thence as you heard, came to Mexico 
 in a fusta. What brought Magdalena after him I 
 know not, unless 'twas mad, raging love ; yes, faith, 
 that's the cause ; for she cares not half so much for 
 Don Hernan. But they did say, at Isabela, she had 
 a better cause ; for the ship, it was well known — " 
 
 " Fool of all fools !" said Camarga, with a strange 
 and unnatural laugh, " didst thou not say the ship 
 was never seen at Isabela V 
 
 " Ay, truly ; but it was seen on the rocks at the 
 Point of Alonso, not many leagues distant," replied 
 Villafana ; and then added, " I would thou couldst 
 be more choice of thine epithets of endearment. 
 These ' knaves,' ' rogues,' and ' fools,' do well 
 enough among friends ; but one may season dis- 
 course too strongly with them, even for the rough- 
 est appetite. — The ship was a wreck : there was 
 said to be foul work about it ; but that's neither 
 here nor there. The girl was brought ashore by 
 the young men, Juan being good in the manage- 
 ment of a skiff", — indeed, a notoriously skilful and 
 fearless sailor. What was said of Magdalena, was 
 this," continued the Alguazil, with a low, confiden- 
 tial voice : " It was discovered, or at least conjec- 
 tured, that the ship was no other than the Santa 
 Anonciacion, a vessel sent from Seville with a bevy 
 of nuns, — faith, some worshippers of thine own 
 good St. Dominic, — who were to found a convent at 
 the Havana. It was whispered, that the fair Mag- 
 dalena was even one of the number, and therefore 
 — But the thing must be plain ! To be a nun, and 
 to love young fellows /?«?' amours — this is a matter 
 for the Inquisition. But thanks be to God, we have 
 no good Brothers in Mexico !— I will tell thee more, 
 as we walk, and show thee, if thou hast not the wit 
 
 12^ 
 
138 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 to see it, how much it concerns us to have a friend 
 like La Monjonaza." 
 
 " I have heard enough,'' said Camarga, with tones 
 deep and hoarse ; " enough, and more than enough. 
 And this woman was, theih the leman of Juan 
 Lerma, and, now, the creature of Cortes !" — Here 
 he muttered something to liimself Then, speaking 
 with an audible voice, he said, 
 
 " Get thee to thy den, and look to thyself: there 
 is danger afloat, and full enough to excuse me from 
 meddling with thee to-night. There is a force of 
 men concealed near to the prison, and commanded 
 by Guzman. Ask no questions — look to thyself: 
 thou art suspected." 
 
 At tliese words, Villafana became greatly alarmed, 
 and exchanging but a few words more with Ca- 
 marga, hastily departed. He was no sooner gone, 
 than Camarga, yielding to an emotion he had long 
 suppressed, fell upon his knees and uttered wild 
 prayers, mingled with groans and maledictions, all 
 the while beating his breast and brows. Then 
 rising and whipi)ing out his sword, as if to execute 
 some deadly purpose of vengeance, he strode to- 
 wards the pool. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 139 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 No sooner had the Alguazil departed from the 
 enclosure, than the figure which Juan had beheld 
 obscurely among the shadows, stepped slowly into 
 the moonshine, looking like a phantom, because so 
 closely shrouded from head to foot that nothing 
 was seen but the similitude of a human being, 
 wrapped, as it might be imagined, in a gray wind- 
 ing-sheet. The thick hood and veil concealed her 
 countenance, and even her hands were hidden 
 among the folds. 
 
 It seemed, for a moment, as if she were about to 
 speak, for low murmurs came inarticulately from 
 the veil. As for Juan himself, he was kept silent 
 by the most painful agitation. At last, and when 
 it appeared as if the unhappy being was conscious 
 that no other mode of revealment was in her power, 
 she raised her hand to her head, and the next mo- 
 ment, the hood falling back, the moonbeams fell 
 upon the exposed visage of La Monjonaza. It was 
 exceedingly, indeed deadly, pale ; and the gleaming 
 of her dewy forehead indicated how feebly even 
 her powerful strength of mind contended with a 
 sense of humiliation. She made an effort to ele- 
 vate her head, to compose her features into wo- 
 manly dignity, but all in vain ; her hands sought 
 each other, and were clasped together upon her 
 breast, her lips quivered, her head fell, and her eyes, 
 after one wild, brief, and supplicating glance, were 
 cast upon the earth. 
 
 " Alas, Magdalena !" exclaimed Juan, with tones 
 
140 THE INFIDEL, 
 
 of the deepest feeling, " do I see you liere, do I see 
 you thus?'''' 
 
 At these words she raised lier liead, with a sud- 
 den and convulsive start, as if tlie imputation they 
 conveyed had stung her to the soul ; and as she 
 bent her eyes ujion Juan, though they were filled 
 with tears, y(^t they flashed with what seemed a 
 nol^le indignation. But this was soon changed to 
 a milder and sadder expression, and the flush which 
 had accompanied it, was quickly replaced by her 
 former paleness. 
 
 " Thou dost indeed see me here," she replied, 
 summoning her resolution, and speaking firmly, 
 "and tliou seest me thus, — degraded, not in tliino 
 imagination only, but in the suspicions of all, down 
 to tlie level of scorn. Yes," she continued, bitterly, 
 " and while thou pitiest me for a shame endured 
 only for thyself, — endured only that I may requite 
 thee with life for life, — thou art sorry thy hand ever 
 snatched me from the billows. Speak, Juan Ler- 
 ma, is it not so]" 
 
 " It had been better, Magdalcna," said the youth, 
 reproachfully, " for, besides that the act caused me 
 to 1)0 stained with blood, it afflicts me with a curse 
 still more heavy. I do not mourn the death of 
 Hilario, as I mourn the downfall of one whom I 
 once esteemed almost a seraph." 
 
 " Villain that he was !" cried Magdalena, with 
 vindictive impetuosity, " mean and malignant in life 
 and in death ! who, with a lie, living, destroyed the 
 peace and the fame of the friendless, and died with 
 a lie, that ])oth miirht remain l)]igiited for ever ! O 
 wretch ! O wretch ! there is no punishment for 
 him among the fiends, for he was of their nature. 
 And thou mournest his death, too! Thou cursest 
 the hand tliat avenged the wrong of a feeble wo- 
 man !" 
 
 " I lament that I slew the son of my benefactor," 
 said Juan, with a deep sigh ; and then added with 
 
THE INFIDEL. 141 
 
 one still deeper, " but, sinner that I am, I rejoice 
 while looking on thee, in the fierce thought, that I 
 killed the destroyer of innocence." 
 
 " The destroyer of innocence indeed," replied 
 Magdalena, with a voice broken and suffocating. 
 " Yes, innocence !" she exclaimed more wildly, " or 
 at least, the/ame of innocence! for innocence her- 
 self he could not harm. No, by heaven ! oh, no ! 
 for what I came from the sea, that I am now ; yes, 
 now, I tell thee, now ! and if thou darest give 
 tongue to aught else, if thou darest think — Oh hea- 
 ven ! this is more than I can bear ! Say, Juan 
 Lerma ! say ! dost thou, too, believe me the thing 
 I am called ? the base, the fallen, the degraded 1" 
 
 " Alas, Magdalena," replied Juan, to the wild de- 
 mand : " with his dying lips, Hilario " 
 
 " With his dying lips, he perjured his soul for 
 ever !" exclaimed Magdalena, " for ever, for ever !" 
 she went on, with inexpressible energy and fury ; 
 " and may the curse of a broken-hearted woman, 
 destroyed by his defaming malice, cling to him as 
 long, scorching him with fresh torments, even when 
 fiends grow relentful and forbearing. Mountains 
 of fire requite the coals he has thrown upon my 
 bosom ! May God never forgive him ! no, never ! 
 never !" 
 
 " This is horrid !" said Juan. " Revoke thy 
 malediction: it is impiety. Alas, alas!" he con- 
 tinued, moved with compassion, as the singular 
 being, passing at once from a sibyl-like rage to the 
 deepest and most feminine abasement of grief, 
 wrung her hands, and sobbed aloud and bitterly ; 
 " Would indeed that thou hadst perished with the 
 others !" 
 
 " Would that I had !" said Magdalena, more 
 calmly ; " but thou hadst then been left to a malice 
 like that which has slain me. — No, not like that ; 
 for it is content with thy life! — I would ask thee 
 more of myself," she went on, more composedly, 
 
142 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 after a little pause, " but it needs not. If I can 
 show thee thou wroiiaest me concerning Hilario, 
 canst thou not believe I may be even here without 
 stain? Well, I care not; one daj', thou wilt know 
 thou hast wronir(^l me. But let the shame rest \\\\on 
 me now; for it needs I should think, not of m5^<elf, 
 but of thee. Listen to me, Juan Lerma ; for fallen 
 or not, yet am I thine only friend amonc a thousand 
 enemies. Give up thy service, thy hopes of fame 
 and fortune in this land, and leave it. Leave 
 Mexico, return to the islands. Thou hast marvel- 
 lously escaped a death, subtly and cruelly de- 
 signed ; and now thou art destined to an end as 
 vengeful, and perhaps even more inevitable. Yet 
 there is one way of escape, and there is one mo- 
 ment to take advantage of it. Leave Mexico: 
 Cortes is thy foe. — Leave Mexico." 
 
 " These are but wild words, Magdalena," said 
 Juan, with a troubled voice. " I would do much to 
 remove thee from a situation, the thought whereof 
 is bitterer to me than my own misfortunes." 
 
 " Wouldst thou ?" said Magdalena, eagerly. 
 " Go then, and I go likewise ; go then, and know 
 that thy departure not only releases me from a 
 situation of disgrace, but enables me to make clear 
 a reputation which thou — yes, Mom, — believest to 
 be sullied and lost. I am not what I seem — Saints 
 of heaven, that I should have to say it ! But by the 
 grave of my mother, I swear, Juan Lerma, thou doest 
 me as deep a wrong as others. Leave this land, and 
 thou shalt see that the fame of an angel is not purer 
 than mine own scorned name, — no, by heaven, no 
 freer from a deserved shame. Thou shakest thy 
 head ! — I could kill thee, Juan Lerma, T could kill 
 thee!" — she went on, with a strange mingling of 
 fierce resentment and beseeching grief; " I could 
 kill thee, for I have not deserved this of thee !" 
 Then, changing her tone, and clasping her hands 
 submissively, she said, " But think not of me, or 
 
THE INFIDEL. 143 
 
 rather continue to think me unworthy of aught but 
 pity : think not, above all, that what I do is with 
 any reference to myself No, heaven is my witness, 
 I claim of thee neither affection nor respect ; I am 
 content to be mistaken, to be despised. All this I 
 can endure, and will, uncomplaining, — so that I can 
 rescue thee from the danger in which thou art 
 placed. Leave this land : Don Hernan deceives 
 thee ; he hates thee, and thirsts after thy blood. 
 He has confessed it !" 
 
 " God be my help !" said Juan, despairingly ; " my 
 life is in his hands. If this be true — " 
 
 " If it be true !" repeated Magdalena : " It is 
 known to all but thyself" 
 
 " It is not true !" exclaimed the young man, ve- 
 hemently : " I have done him no wrong, and he is 
 not the detestable being you would make him. If 
 he be, I owe him a life — let him have it ; it is in 
 his hands." 
 
 " Leave Mexico," reiterated Magdalena. " If 
 thou goest to Tochtepec, thou art lost. I have it in 
 my power to aid, — nay, to secure thy escape. Say, 
 therefore, thou wilt consent, say thou wilt leave 
 Mexico !" 
 
 " It cannot be," said Juan, with a sad and sullen 
 resolution : " I will await my fate in Mexico !" 
 
 " And wilt thou stand, like the fat ox, till the 
 noose is cast upon thy neck ? till thou art butch- 
 ered r' 
 
 " My life is nothing — I live not for myself: the 
 redemption of others depends upon my acts. I 
 have a duty that speaks more urgently than fear. 
 My lot is cast in Mexico ; I cannot leave it." 
 
 As he spoke, with a firm voice, he bent his looks 
 expressively on his companion. Her eyes flashed 
 fire, and they shone from her pale face like living 
 coals : 
 
 " Sayst thou this to me ]" she exclaimed, her 
 voice trembling with fury, " sayst thou this to 
 
144 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 meV Thon advancing a step, and laying her 
 hand upon liis arm, she continued, her accents 
 sinking ahnost into wiiispers, they were so subdued, 
 or so feeble, " Lay not upon thy soul a sin greater 
 than stains it already. Leave Mexico ; resolve or 
 die : leave Mexico, or perish ! — Oh, thou art guiltier 
 than thou thinkest! Tliou hast cursed Ililario for 
 my fall: curse thyself, — not Hilario, but thyself; 
 for but for thee, but for thee, I had been happy ! 
 yes, happy, hajipy !" 
 
 To these words, Juan, though greatly compas- 
 sionating the distress of the speaker, would have 
 replied with remonstrance ; but she gave him no 
 opportunity. She c(nitinued to repeat over and 
 over again, with a kind of hysterical pertinacity, 
 the words ' Leave Mexico ! leave Mexico !' so that 
 Juan was not only prevented rei)lying, but con- 
 founded. He was relieved from embarrassment by 
 a sudden growl, coming from the bushes at his 
 side. La Monjonaza started at the sound, and in 
 the moment of silence that succeeded, both could 
 distinguish the steps of a man rapidly approaching 
 the pool. At the same instant, another growl was 
 heard, and Befo, issuing from the leafy covert, took 
 a stand by his master's side, as if to defend him 
 from an enemy. The veil of Magdalena fell over 
 her visage ; she paused but to whisper, in tones of 
 such energy that they thrilled him to the soul, 
 ' Leave Mexico, or die !' and then instantly vanished 
 among the boughs. It was too late for Juan to fol- 
 low her: he had scarce time to lay his hand upon, 
 Befo's neck and moderate his ferocity, befc^re his 
 eyes were struck with the strange spectacle of a 
 tall man, in the garb of a Dominican friar, his face 
 pale as death, his hand holding a naked sword, who 
 strode into the inclosure and upon that part of the 
 path which was illuminated by the moonbeams. No 
 sooner had he cast his eyes upon Juan than he ex- 
 claimed, " Die, wretch !" and made a pass at him 
 with his weapon. Had the lunge been skilfully 
 
THE INFIDEL. 145 
 
 made, it must have proved fatal ; for though Juan 
 still held the sheathless rapier he had brought from 
 his chamber, he was so much surprised at the sud- 
 denness of the apparition, that his attempt to ward 
 it could not have succeeded against a good fencer. 
 A better protection was given by the faithful Befo, 
 who, darting from Juan's hand, against the assail- 
 ant's breast, attacked him with a shock so violent, 
 that, in an instant, the seiior Camarga (for it was 
 he who played this insane part) lay rolling upon his 
 back, his grizzled locks streaming in the pool. 
 
 " In the name of heaven, what dost thou mean, 
 and who art thou, impostor and assassin !" cried 
 Juan, pulling off the dog, and helping Camarga to 
 his feet. " Thou art mad, I think !" 
 
 There was something in the man's countenance, 
 as well as in the murderous attempt, to confinn the 
 idea; for Camarga's agitation was singular and 
 extreme, and he seemed unable to answer a word. 
 
 " Who art thou "?" continued Juan angrily, im- 
 pressed with the certainty that he had seen the face 
 of the assailant before, yet without knowing when 
 or where. " Confess thyself straight, or I will have 
 thee to the Alguazil, and see the friar's frock 
 scourged from thy base body !" 
 
 However eager and foreboding the young man's 
 curiosity, it was doomed to be disappointed by a 
 new interruption. While he yet spoke, he was 
 alarmed by a sudden discharge of firearms, follow- 
 ed by shrieks and cries, at the bottom of the gar- 
 den; and presently the whole solitude was trans- 
 formed into a scene of tumult and uproar. Lights 
 were seen flashing among the trees, and men were 
 heard running confusedly to and fro, calling to one 
 another. 
 
 The last word had hardly parted from his lips, 
 before the boughs crashed on the opposite side of 
 the pool, and a new actor was suddenly added to 
 the scene. 
 
 VOL. 1. 13 
 
IIG THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 As tlie bushes parted, a tall figure sprang inta 
 the path, and running round the pool, would in- 
 stantly have been at the side of the two Castilians, 
 who were yet unobserved, had it not been tliat 
 Befo, his ferocity greatly whetted by his former en- 
 counter, darted forward as at first, with a sudden 
 roar, with inpial violence, and with similar success. 
 As the stranger fell to the earth under an attack so 
 impetuous and unexpected, he uttered an exclama- 
 tion in which Juan recognized the language of 
 Mexico. He ran forwards, guided by the growls 
 of the beast and the stifled cries of the man, (for the 
 spot on which the two contended was covered with 
 impenetrable gloom,) and, by accident, caught the 
 stranger's arm, and felt that it wielded a heavy 
 macana, now uplifted against the animal. As his 
 other hand was stretched forward, again to remove 
 the victorious Befo from a fallen antagonist, it fell 
 upon the naked breast of a barbarian. — In a mo- 
 ment more, he had torn the dog away, and dragged 
 the savage into the moonshine, where he had left 
 Camarga standing, but where Camarga stood no 
 longer. He had fled away in the confusion, unob- 
 served, and now almost forgotten. 
 
 Here Juan released the captive from his power- 
 ful grasp, for his rapier was in his hand, and the 
 macana of the Mexican he had already cast into the 
 pool ; and thus standing, confiding as much in the 
 aid of Befo as in the menacing attitude of his wea- 
 pon, he began to address his prisoner. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 147 
 
 " What art thou V he demanded, in the tongue 
 which, as he had boasted, was almost as familiar to 
 him as the language of Spain : " What art thou 1 
 and what dost thou here 3" 
 
 Instead of answering, the Mexican, gazing over 
 his conqueror's shoulder, seemed to survey, with 
 looks of admiration and alarm, some spectacle be- 
 hind his back. Juan cast his eye in the direction 
 thus indicated, and beheld the visage of Magdalena, 
 recalled by the tumult, gleaming hard by. In an 
 instant more, she had vanished, and he turned again 
 to the captive, who, when the vision, to him so in- 
 explicable, had faded away, now directed his atten- 
 tion to an object equally surprising and much more 
 formidable in his estimation than even the redoubt- 
 able Juan. As he rolled his eyes, in mingled won- 
 der, trepidation, and anger, on the huge Befo, who 
 now stood regarding him, writhing his lips and 
 showing his tusks, in the manner with which he 
 was wont so expressively to intimate his readiness 
 to obey any signal of attack, Juan had full leisure 
 to observe that the Indian was a young man not 
 above twenty-three or twenty-four years old, of 
 good and manly stature, and limbs nobly propor- 
 tioned. His only garments were a tunic and man- 
 tle of some dark-coloured stuff, but little ornament- 
 ed, the former extending from the waist to the 
 knees, the latter, knotted, as usual, about his throat, 
 but so disordered and torn by the teeth of the dog, 
 as to leave the upper part of his body nearly naked. 
 His only defensive armour was a little round buck- 
 ler of the skin of the danta or tapir, not exceeding 
 fourteen inches in diameter, strapped to his left 
 arm. The loss of the macana had left him without 
 any offensive weapon. As he raised his head at 
 the second salutation of his capturer, he flung back 
 the long masses of black hair from his forehead, and 
 displayed a visage, as well, at least, as it could be 
 
148 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 seen in tho moonlight, not unworthy liis manly- 
 person. 
 
 " Olin, the tongiie of the Teiictli, is a prisoner." 
 
 As he pronounced these words, in his own lan- 
 fruacre, sijinifyiiifr that he was an orator of his 
 high class, and that he confessed himself a captive, 
 he touched the earth with his hand and kissed it, 
 in token of submission. The tones of his voice 
 caused Juan to start. 
 
 He dropped his sword-point, advanced nearer to 
 him, and perused his features with intense curiosi- 
 ty. His gaze was returned with a look of equal 
 surprise, which betrayed a touch of fear ; for the 
 Mexican at once exclaimed, withdrawing a step 
 backward, 
 
 " The Great Eagle fell among the archers of Mat- 
 latzinco !" 
 
 " The king is not wise — Guatimozin is in the 
 hands of Cortes !" said Juan, with deep earnest- 
 ness. 
 
 " Olin is the orator — the king is wise," replied the 
 Indian, hastily. 
 
 " It is in vain," said Juan. " Thou art Guatimo- 
 zin ! and a captive, too, ere a blow has been struck, 
 in the camp of thy foeman ! Is this an end for the 
 king of Mexico "?" 
 
 " Q,uauhtimozin can die : there are other kings 
 for the free warriors of Tenochtitlan," replied the 
 young monarch, boldly and haughtily, avowing his 
 name, — which is here given in its original and 
 genuine harslmess, that the reader may be made 
 acquainted with it ; though it is not intended to sub- 
 stitute it for its more agreeable and familiar cor- 
 ruption : " Guatimozin is a prisoner," he continued, 
 with a firm voice and lofty demeanour, " but the 
 king of Mexico is free. — When did the Great Eagle 
 become the foe of Guatimozin ?" 
 
 " I am not thy foe," replied Juan, " but thy friend ; 
 
THE INriDEL. 149 
 
 SO far, at least, as it becomes a Christian and 
 Spaniard to be. I lament to see thee in this place — 
 I am not thy foe." 
 
 " Raise then thy weapon," said the prince, drop- 
 ping his haughty manner and ceremonious style, 
 and speaking, as he laid his hand on Juan's arm, 
 with fierce emotion ; " strike me through the neck, 
 and cast my body into the pool. — It is not fit that 
 Guatimozin should wear the bonds of Montezu- 
 ma !" 
 
 It must not be supposed that this conversation 
 took place in quiet. During the whole time, on the 
 contrary, the garden continued to resound with the 
 voices of men running from copse to copse, from 
 alley to alley, sometimes drawing nigh, and, at other 
 moments, appearing to be removed to the furthest 
 limits of the grounds. At the moment when the 
 Mexican made his abrupt and insane appeal to the 
 friendship of his capturer, a party of Spaniards 
 rushed by at so short a distance and with so much 
 clamour, that he had good reason to conceive him- 
 self almost already in their hands. They passed 
 by, however, and with them fled a portion of Juan's 
 embarrassment. As soon as he perceived they 
 were beyond hearing, he repUed : 
 
 " This were to be thy foe uideed. But, oh, un- 
 wise and imprudent ! what tempted thee to this 
 mad confidence 1" 
 
 " The craft of Malintzin," replied the Mexican, 
 making use of a name which his people had long 
 since attached to Cortes, — " the craft of Malintzin, 
 who ensnares his foe like the wild Ottomi, hidden 
 among the reeds ; — he scatters the sweet berry on 
 the lake, and steals upon the feeding sheldrake ; so 
 steals Malintzin. He sends words of peace to the 
 foe afar ; when the foe is asleep, Malintzin is a 
 tiger !" 
 
 " And thou hast been deceived by these perfi- 
 dious and unworthy artsl" said Juan, the innuen- 
 
 13* 
 
150 THE tXFIDEL. 
 
 does of Villafiina and the monitions of Magdalena, 
 recurrinsr to his mind with painful force. 
 
 ♦' Derpiv(Hl and trai)]H'(i \" yi'\)\ic(.\ tlio infidel, with 
 fierce indijrnation ; " cajoled by lies, circumvented 
 by treachery, sedticcd and betrayed ! — Is the Great 
 Ea^rle like Malintzin V As he spoke thus, sinking 
 his voice, which was indeed all the time cautiously 
 subdued, he again laid his hand on the young 
 C'hristian's arm, and continued, 
 
 " Art thou such a man, and dost thou desire the 
 blood of thy friend ? What shall be said to the little 
 Cetitzontli, the mocking-bird ? The little Centzontli 
 sang the song to Guatimozin, ' Let not the Great 
 Eagle die in the trap !' What sings she now ? Does 
 the Great Eagle listen to the little Centzontli V 
 
 " He does," replied Juan, on whom these meta- 
 phors, however mysterious they may seem to the 
 reader, produced a strong impression. " Thou art 
 my prisoner, not Don Hernan's ; and it rests with 
 me to liberate or to bind, not with him. Answer 
 me, therefore, truly ; for if thou hast been trained 
 by treachery into this present danger, coming wdth 
 thoughts of peace and composition, and not with 
 an army, to surprise and slay, thou shalt be made 
 free, even though the act cost me my life." 
 
 " I come in peace : does the leader of an army 
 walk bareheaded and naked ? My canoe lies hid 
 among the reeds : my warriors are asleep on the 
 island. The Christian sent for a lord of the city, to 
 give his hand to the angry men of Tlascala. Gua- 
 timozin is not the king, but he brought them the 
 hand of the king. — It was the lie of Malintzin ! I 
 am betrayed !" 
 
 " If I suffer thee to depart," said Juan, anxiously, 
 " canst thou make good thy escape 1" 
 
 " Is not Guatimozin a soldier?" replied the Mexi- 
 can, with a gleaming eye. " Give me a sword, and 
 hold fast the Christian tiger." — 
 
 " Hark ! — peace !" whispered Juan, drawing the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 151 
 
 prisoner suddenly among the boughs : " we are be- 
 set. Hist, Befo, hist !" 
 
 With a degree of uneasiness, which approached 
 almost to fear, when he found that Befo, instead of 
 following him into his concealment, remained out 
 upon the illuminated path, where he attracted no- 
 tice, while expressing fidelity, by setting up an 
 audible growl, Juan heard a man crash through the 
 boughs on the further side of the pool, all the while 
 calling loudly and cheerily to his companions. 
 
 " Hither, knaves !" he cried ; " the fox is in cover ! 
 Hither ! quick, hither !" 
 
 It was the voice of Guzman. He had caught the 
 growl of the dog, and responded with a shout of 
 triumph, as he ran forward, closely followed by 
 three or four soldiers armed with spears ; 
 
 " The bloodhound for ever ! he has the fox in his 
 mouth, I know by his growling! — Hah, Befo, fooH" 
 he continued, when he had reached the animal ; 
 " art thou baying the moon then ? — Pass on, pass 
 on : no Indian passes scotfree by Befo at midnight 
 — Pass on, pass on !" 
 
 In a moment more, the nook was left to its soli- 
 tude, and Juan reappeared, with the prince. The 
 sight and voice of Guzman had stirred up his wrath, 
 and he took his measures with a quicker and sterner 
 resolution. 
 
 " He protects and loves this man, who is a vil- 
 lain," he muttered through his teeth. " There is 
 nothing else left. Follow me prince : if we are seen, 
 thy fate is not more certain than mine — Follow me 
 in silence." 
 
 The garden was still alive with men ; they could 
 be seen running about in different directions, though 
 the greatest numbers seemed to be collected at the 
 bottom, near to the lake side. It was not from this 
 circumstance, however, so much as from his igno- 
 rance of every portion of the grounds except that 
 by which he had approached the pool, that he bent 
 
152 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 his steps towards the wing of the palace he had so 
 lately left. He advanced cautiously, takincr advan- 
 tage of every clump of trees, which could afford 
 concealment from any passing group ; and once or 
 twice, to allay susjiicion, adding his voice to those 
 of the others, as if engaged in the same duty; in 
 which latter stratagem lie was ably seconded by 
 the unconscious Befo, whose bark, excited by the 
 shout of his master, was a sufficient warrant to all 
 within hearing, of the friendly charactt^r of th<^ party. 
 
 Thus assisted by the undesigned help of the dog, 
 and by the imitative caution of the Mexican, he suc- 
 ceeded in reaching the wing of the palace, and the 
 passage that led to his chamber, which was illu- 
 mined by torches of resinous wood. A door, lead- 
 ing to the oj>en square tliat surrounded the pa- 
 lace, opened opposite to that by which he entered 
 from the garden. It was his intention, if ])ossible, 
 to pass through this into the city, not doubting that 
 it would be easy to conceal the fugitive among the 
 thousand barbarians of his own colour and aj^pear- 
 ance, who yet thronged the streets ; after which, it 
 would not perhaps be impracticable to find some 
 way to discharge him from the gates. But, imfor- 
 tunately, as he pressed towards it, he found the outer 
 door beset by armed men, thronging tunniltuously 
 in, as if to join their comrades in the garden. Tiiere 
 was nothing left him, then, but to seek his apart- 
 ment, as hastily as he could, and there conceal tlie 
 Mexican until the heat of pursuit was over. A mo- 
 tion of his hand apprized the fugitive of his change 
 of purpose^ and Guatimozin, darting quirkly for- 
 ward, was already ste;iling into the chamber, when 
 a harsh voice suddenly bawled behind, 
 
 " Mutiny and miracles ! here runs the rat with 
 the viper ! Treason, treason !" 
 
 It was the hunchback Najara, whose quick eye 
 detected the vanishing hair, and who now ran 
 forward in pursuit, followed by a confused throng 
 
THE INFIDEL. 153 
 
 of soldiers, from among whom suddenly darted the 
 cavalier Don Francisco de Guzman. 
 
 Juan had reached the door. The cry of Najara 
 assured him that he was discovered ; and conscious 
 that his act of generosity was, or of right ought to 
 be, considered little better than sheer treason, the 
 varied passions of hope, grief, indignation and 
 wrath, which had been, the whole ev^ening, chasing 
 one another through his bosom, gave place at once 
 to the single feeling of despair. He felt that he was 
 now lost. 
 
 At this very moment, while his brain was con- 
 fused, and his heart dying within him, a laugh 
 sounded in his ear, and he heard, even above the 
 clamorous shouts of the soldiers, the voice of Guz- 
 man, exclaiming, 
 
 " What think'st thou now^ senor ? Art thou con- 
 quered 1 — Stand ! I arrest thee." 
 
 He turned ; the cavalier was within reach of his 
 arm, and the malignant sneer was yet writhing over 
 his visage. The words of scorn, the look of exulta- 
 tion, were intolerable ; the rapier was already naked 
 in his hand, and almost before he was himself aware 
 of the act, it was aimed, with a deadly lunge, at 
 Don Francisco's throat. 
 
 "The deed has slain thee !" cried Guzman, leap- 
 ing backwards, so as to avoid a thrust too fiercely 
 sudden to be parried, and then again rushing for- 
 ward, before he could be supported by the soldiers, 
 who had also recoiled at this show of resistance ; 
 " the act has slain thee ; and so take the fate thou 
 art seeking !" 
 
 As he spoke, he advanced his weapon, which was 
 before unsheathed, against an adversary, whom the 
 recollection of a thousand wrongs had inflamed to 
 frenzy, but who could scarcely be supposed to have 
 retained, during a year of servitude and suffering, 
 the skill in arms, which once made him an equal 
 antagonist. Nevertheless, Guzman's pass was turn- 
 
154 THE r?fFIDEL. 
 
 ed aside, and returned with such interest, that, had 
 the field been fair and unincumbered, it is ques- 
 tionable how lono: he niiirht have lived to repeat it. 
 As it was, the combat was cut slioit by the inter- 
 position of the bloodhound, who, whining, at first, 
 as if unwilling to attack a cavalier so long and so 
 well known as Don Francisco, and yet unable to 
 remain neuter, at last added his fierce yell to the 
 clash of the weapons, and decided the battle by 
 springing against Guzman's breast. It w^as per- 
 haps fortunate for the cavalier that he did. He had 
 a breast-plate on ; and, for this reason, Juan aimed 
 the few blows that w^ere made, full at his throat, 
 wuth the fatal determination of one, who, hopeless 
 of life himself, had sworn a vow to his soul tiiat his 
 enemy should die. It was but the third thrust he had 
 made, (they had scarce occupied so many seconds,) 
 and it was directed with such irresistible skill and 
 violence, that the point of the weapon was already 
 gliding through Guzman's beard and razing his 
 skin, when the weight of Befo's assault, for the third 
 time successful, hurled him from his feet, and thus 
 saved his life, at the expense of a severe gash made 
 through his right cheek and ear. 
 
 The whole of this encounter, from the first attack 
 to the fall of Guzman, had not occupied the space 
 of twenty seconds ; and Don Francisco was at the 
 mercy of his rival, before even the rapid Najara 
 could advance a spear to protect him. It was not 
 improl^able that Juan would have taken a deadly 
 advantage of the mishap, for, as he had declared, 
 in a cooler moment, he hated Don Francisco, and 
 his blo(Kl w^as now boiling. If such, however, was 
 his purpose, he was prevented putting it into exe- 
 cution by another one of those opposing accidents, 
 which seemed this night, to pursue him with such 
 unrelenting rigour. 
 
 Before he could advance a single step, a cavalier, 
 bareheaded and unarmed, save that he flourished 
 
THE INFIDEL. 155 
 
 a naked sword, sprang from the throng of soldiers, 
 followed by the seiior Camarga, now without his 
 masking habit, the latter of whom cried with fierce 
 emphasis, all the time, " Kill him ! cut him down ! 
 kill him !" until the soldiers caught up the cry, and 
 the whole passage echoed with their furious ex- 
 clamations. These served but the end of still fur- 
 ther exasperating the choler of the young man, 
 thus beset as it seemed by the tyranny of numbers; 
 and seeing the bareheaded cavalier advancing 
 against him, and already betwixt him and his fallen 
 rival, he turned upon him with fresh fury. 
 
 " Hah !" cried the new antagonist, when Juan's 
 weapon clashed against his own ; " traitor ! dost 
 thou provoke thy fate 7" 
 
 The words were not out of his lips, before Juan 
 perceived that he had raised his rapier against the 
 bosom of Cortes. He beheld, in the countenance 
 which he had once loved, the scowl of an evil spirit, 
 and the fire flashing from the general's eyes, was 
 no longer to be mistaken for aught but the revela- 
 tion of the deadliest hatred. He flung down his 
 sword, resisting no longer, and the next instant 
 would have been run through the body, but that 
 Befo, fearing to attack, and yet unable to resist the 
 impulse of fidelity, sprang up, with a howl, and 
 seized the weapon with his teeth. Before Cortes 
 could disengage it, and again turn it upon the un- 
 fortunate youth, the Mexican fugitive glided from 
 the apartment, threw himself before the latter, and 
 taking the point of the weapon in his hand, placed 
 it against his own naked breast. Then bowing his 
 head submissively, he stood in tranquillity, expect- 
 ing his death. 
 
 At his sudden appearance, the soldiers set up a 
 shout, and Cortes was sufficiently diverted from his 
 bloody purpose, to smooth his frowning brow into 
 an air of official sternness. 
 
 " Ohn is the prisoner of the Teuctli," murmured 
 
156 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the captive, in words scarce understood by any one 
 present, except Juan. 
 
 " Where bide mine Al^ruazils ?" demanded the 
 Captain-General, witliout condescending to notice 
 the Mexican any further than merely by removing 
 the rapier from his grasp. " Plali, Guzman ! tliou 
 art hurt, art tliou ? 13y heaven," — But he checked 
 the oath, when he observed that Guzman, already 
 on his feet, notwithstanding the frightful appear- 
 ance that was given him by the blood running 
 down his cheek and neck, and drippling slowly 
 from his beard, replied to the exclamation with a 
 smile of peculiar coolness : " Get thee to a surgeon. 
 Where bide the Alguazils ? Is there no officer to 
 rid me of a traitor !" 
 
 " Senor General," said Juan, sullenly, " I am no 
 traitor — " 
 
 He was interrupted by the appearance of two 
 men, carrying batons, who bustled from among the 
 crowd, and laid hands upon him. The readiest 
 and the most officious was Villafana, who concealed 
 a vast deal of agitation under an air of extravagant 
 zeal. 
 
 " Ha, Villafana ! art thou found at last 1" cried 
 Don Hernan, with apparent anger. *' Hast thou 
 no better care of thy ward on the water-side, but 
 that spies may come stealing into my garden.'" 
 
 " May it please your excellency," said Villafana, 
 recovering his wit, " I was neither gambling nor 
 asleep ; but — 'Slid, this is a pretty piece of villany! 
 Oho, senor mutineer, this is hanging-wi^rk ? — Speak 
 not a word, as you love life." — This was spoken 
 apart into Juan's ear. — " What is your excellency's 
 will, touching the prisoner?" 
 
 "Have him to prison, and see that he escape 
 not." 
 
 These words were pronounced with a coolness 
 and gravity that amazed all who had witnessed 
 the rage, which, but a moment before, Imd shaken 
 
THE INFIDEL. 157 
 
 the frame of the Captain-General. " And you, ye 
 idle fellows," he continued, addressing the soldiers, 
 " get you to your quarters, to your \vatch, or to 
 your beds. Begone. — Why loiter ye, Villafana? 
 Conduct away the prisoner." 
 
 Juan raised his eyes once more to the general, 
 and seemed as if he would have spoken ; but, con- 
 fused and bewildered by the extraordinary termi- 
 nation of the drama of the day, chilled by frowns, 
 oppressed by a consciousness of having provoked 
 his fate, his head sunk in a deep dejection on his 
 breast, and he suffered himself to be led silently 
 away. 
 
 A gleam of light, such as flares up at night from 
 a decaying brand, just lost in ashes, sprang up in 
 the leader's eyes, as they followed the steps of the 
 unhappy youth, until, passing from that door, which 
 he had so vainly sought to gain with the Mexican, he 
 vanished from sight. Its lustre was hidden from 
 all but the captive, who, maintaining throughout 
 the whole scene, the self-possession, characteristic of 
 all the American race, from the pygmies of the 
 Frozen Sea to the giants of Patagonia, did not lose 
 the opportunity thus afforded, of diving into the 
 thoughts of the Invader. 
 
 As soon as Juan Lerma had departed, with the 
 mass of the soldiers, Cortes turned to the Mexican, 
 and with a mild countenance, and a gentle voice, 
 which w^ere designed to convey the proper inter- 
 pretation of his Castilian speech, said, 
 
 " Let my young friend, the Tlatoani, be at 
 peace, and fear not ; no harm is designed him." 
 
 Then, making a signal to those who remained, 
 to lead the captive after him, he passed into the 
 garden, and thence, by a private entrance, into the 
 hall of audience, 
 
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158 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 It has been already mentioned, that the person 
 of Guatimozin was familiar to few, or none, of the 
 Spaniards. Intensely and consistently hostile to 
 the invaders, from the first moment of their appear- 
 ance in the Valley, he had ever kept a](K)f from 
 them, and was one of the few princes of Mexico, 
 whom neither force nor stratagem could reduce to 
 thraldom. Plis youth, indeed, — his want of authority, 
 (for though of the loftiest birth and the highest mili- 
 tary fame, he enjoyed, at first, no independent com- 
 mand or government,) and, hence, his apparent 
 insignificance, — had made the possession of his per- 
 son of no great consequence ; and it was not until 
 he was seen leading the incensed citizens up against 
 the guns of the garrison, and directing tlie assault 
 which terminated in the life of Montezuma, that he 
 began to be considered an enemy worthy to be 
 feared. Even then, however, he was but one 
 among the warlike followers of Cuitlahuatzin, — the 
 successor of Montezuma, — and on the famous bat- 
 tle-field of Otumba, he fought only as a second in 
 command. But from that time until the present 
 moment, his name was constantly before the Span- 
 iards, first as the king of Iztapalapan, then as a 
 leader among those royal warriors, sent forth by 
 Cuitlahuatzin, now to annoy the Spaniards, even 
 among their fortresses on the borders of Tlascala, 
 and now to chastise those rebellious tribes 
 which were daily acknowdedging allegiance to the 
 Spaniard, and preparing to march with him against 
 Tenochtitlan. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 159 
 
 The death of Cuitlahuatzin had suddenly ex- 
 posed him to view as the probable successor to the 
 imperial dignity ; and the act of the royal electors, 
 (the kings of Mexico were chosen by the crowned 
 vassals of the empire,) in bestowing the mantle and 
 sceptre, had left nothing to be done to confirm his 
 authority, save a solemn inauguration on the day of 
 an august religious and national festival. 
 
 He had thus assumed the attitude which Monte- 
 zuma had once preserved in the eyes of the Con- 
 quistador ; and it was as much the policy of Cortes 
 to attempt the acts of delusion with him, as it had 
 been with his predecessor. The craftier and 
 haughtier Guatimozin had, however, rejected his 
 overtures with disdain ; and, justly appreciating the 
 character and designs of his enemy, he prepared for 
 war as the only alternative of slavery. He had 
 already concentrated in his city, and in the neigh- 
 bouring towns, the whole martial force of the tribes 
 yet valiant and faithful ; he had laboured, with an 
 address that was not always ineffectual, to regain 
 the false and rebellious ; and, rising above the 
 weakness of national resentments, he had even 
 striven to unite his hereditary foes in a league of 
 resistance against the stranger, who, whether 
 frowning or smiling, whether courting with friend- 
 ship, or subduing with arms, was yet, and equally, 
 the enemy of all. 
 
 Enough has been said to explain the purpose for 
 which he so rashly threw himself into the power of 
 the Conqueror. The certain assurance of disaffec- 
 tion in the invader's camp, not only among the 
 allies, but among the Spaniards themselves, was 
 enough to fire his heart with the desire of employ- 
 ing against Don Hernan a weapon which his foe 
 had used so fatally against him ; and, besides, the 
 opportunity of detaching the Tlascalans from the 
 Spanish interest, was too captivating to be rejected. 
 These were advantages to be investigated and pro- 
 
160 TTIC IXFinEL. 
 
 motcd by himself, ratlior than by afjents; and, con- 
 fiding in his enemies' iirnorance of his person, in 
 his cunning, and in tlie interested fidelity of trai- 
 tors, who had already grasped at bribes, and were 
 eager to be better acquainted with his bounty, ho 
 did not scruple to direct his midnight skiff among 
 the reeds on the lakeside, and, in the guise of a 
 mere noble, trust himself alone in their power. 
 
 If the reader desire to know what could induce 
 any of the followers of Cortes to treat thus perfi- 
 diously with the infidel enemy whose wealth was 
 promised as the certain guerdon of war, he may 
 be answered almost in a word. The dangers of the 
 war were manifold and obvious to all, and the hor- 
 rors of the five days' battles in the streets of Mexi- 
 co, and more than all, the calamities of the midnight 
 retreat, had given such a foretaste of what might 
 be expected fi'om a prosecution of the campaign, 
 that full half the army looked forward to it with 
 equal terror and repugnance. A majority of those 
 who survived the Noche Triste, were followers of 
 the unfortunate Narvaez, and some of them yet 
 friendly to the deceived Velasquez. They remain- 
 ed with Cortes upon compulsion, and tliey hated 
 him not only for their inability to return to their 
 peaceable farms among the islands, for past calami- 
 ties, and coming misfortunes, but for the superior 
 favours showered so liberally, and indeed so natu- 
 rally, upon those who had been his original, and 
 were yet his faithful, adherents. In a word, they 
 regarded the reduction of the Mexican empire as 
 hopeless, and their own fate, if they remained, as 
 already written in characters of blood. The bolder 
 scowled and complained, the feeble and the crafty 
 dissembled, but evil thoughts and fierce resolutions 
 were common to all. They burned to be released 
 from wliat was to them intolerable bondage, and 
 the means were not to be questioned, even though 
 they might involve connivance and collusion with 
 
THE INFIDEL. 161 
 
 the foe. But such collusion was by no means 
 known, nor even suspected, by any save the few 
 desperadoes who had risen to the bad eminence of 
 leaders. Even Villafana was ignorant of the true 
 character of his guest, and esteemed him to be 
 only wJiat he represented himself, — Olin, the young 
 noble, an orator, counsellor, and confidential agent 
 of Guatimozin. It was not possible for the Cap- 
 tain-General to regard him in any other light. 
 
 Whatever may have been the young monarch's 
 thoughts, his secret misgivings and self-reproaches, 
 as he strode, closely environed by cavaliers, into the 
 great hall, now dimly lighted by tapers of vegetable 
 wax and torches of fragrant wood, they were ex- 
 posed by no agitation of countenance or hesitation 
 of step ; and when Cortes ascended the platform to 
 his seat, and turned his penetrating eye upon him, 
 he preserved an air of the most fearless tranquillity. 
 For the space of several moments, the general re- 
 garded him in silence ; then commanding all to 
 leave the apartment, excepting Sandoval, Alvarado, 
 and another cavaher who officiated as interpreter, 
 he said to Alvarado, with a mild voice, very 
 strangely contrasted with the rudeness of his 
 words, 
 
 " Look into the face o-' this heathen dog, and tell 
 me if thou knowest him." 
 
 Alvarado had been, as the historical reader is 
 aware, left in Mexico, the jailer of Montezuma and 
 the warden of the city, during the absence of 
 Cortes, when he marched against Narvaez. It was 
 supposed, therefore, that Don Pedro was better ac- 
 quainted with the persons of the principal nobles 
 than any other cavalier. He examined the captive 
 curiously, and at last said, shaking his head, 
 
 *' Methinks his visage is not unknown ; and yet 
 I wot not to whom it belongs. The knave is 
 but a boy. If he be a noble, never trust me but he 
 
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162 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 is ono of Gunlimozin's mnkinsr, and therefore not 
 yet of consequence." 
 
 At the .sound of his own name, tlie only word 
 distingnisliable by the prisoner, Alvarado observed 
 that his brow contracted a little. But this awoke 
 no suspicion. 
 
 "Demand of him," said Cortes to the interpreter, 
 "his name, and the purpose of his coming to Tez- 
 cuco ?" 
 
 When this was expkiined to the Mexican, his 
 brow contracted still further, but rather with in- 
 quisitiveness tlian embarrassment : 
 
 " I am Olin-pilli," (that is, Olin the Lord, or Lord 
 Olin,) he replied, " the speaker of wise things to the 
 kinc", and tlie mouth of n()l)les." 
 
 He then paused, as if to examine with what de- 
 gree of belief he was listened to ; and being satis- 
 fied, from the countenance of Don Hernan, that he 
 w^as really imknown, lie continued, with a more 
 confident tone, 
 
 "And I come to the Lord of the East, the Son of 
 the God of Air, to hear the words of his children. 
 Did not the Teuctli send for mel" 
 
 " Not I," replied the Cajitain-General, sternly. 
 " Speaker of wise things, I look into thy heart, and 
 I see thy falsehood. Thou art a spy, — a quiini- 
 chin, — sent by Guatimozin the king, to speak dark 
 things to the men of Tlascala." 
 
 The captive, though somewhat disconcerted, 
 maintained a fearless countenance : 
 
 " The Teuctli is the son of the gods, and knows 
 everything," he answered. 
 
 " And charged also," continued Cortes, " to whis- 
 l^er in the ears of fools, who send good words to the 
 king, that the king may enrich them with gold. Is 
 not this true, Sir (iuimichin ?" 
 
 " Is not IMalintzin the Son of Q,uetzalcoatl, the 
 White God with a beard, who proclaimed from the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 163 
 
 Hill of Shouting"^ and from the Speaking Mountain,! 
 the coming of his offspring ? and shall Olin know 
 more things than Malintzini Guatimozin thinks, 
 that the Spaniard should not slay his people." 
 
 " Wherefore, then, sent he not thee to me .^" de- 
 manded the Captain-General. " I will listen to his 
 words. It was not wise to send his ambassador to 
 the soldier, when the general sat by, in his tent- 
 Hearken to me, friend Olin," he continued, with 
 gravity : " Hadst thou brought his discourse to me, 
 thou hadst then been listened to with honour, and 
 dismissed in peace. Art thou a soldier 1" 
 
 " Olin is a counsellor," replied the Mexican, 
 proudly ; " but he has bled in battle." 
 
 " And is not Guatimozin a warrior 1" 
 
 " He is the king of the House of Darts, and he 
 has struck his foe." 
 
 " When tiie lurking Ottomi is fiund skulking in 
 his camp ; when the angry Tlascalan creeps up to 
 his fort ; what does Guatimozin then with the pri- 
 soner ? what says he to the Ottomi ? what wills he 
 with the Tlascalan ]" 
 
 " He binds them to the stone, and they die like 
 the dogs of the altar !" replied the barbarian, with 
 a fierce utterance. 
 
 " Thou hast spoken thine own doom," replied 
 Cortes, sternly ; " only that, instead of perishing 
 according to thy damnable customs, a sacrifice to 
 spirits accurst, thou shalt have such death as we 
 give to the dogs of Castile. Thou hast crept into 
 my camp, like the spying Ottomi ; thou comest with 
 sword and shield, hke the bravo of Tlascala; and 
 thou hast addressed thyself to traitors and conspi- 
 rators, to make them mine enemies. Why then 
 should I not hang thee upon a tree '? or why," he 
 continued, with an elevated voice, descending from 
 
 * Tzafzitepec, a mountain near Tula, 
 f Catcitepetly a volcano. 
 
164 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the platform, and, with a single motion, unsheath- 
 ing his rapier and aiming it against the captive's 
 breast — *' why should 1 not kill thee, thou cur! 
 upon the spot ]" 
 
 " I am a Mexican !" replied the young king, ra- 
 ther opposing his body to the expected thrust than 
 seeking to avoid it ; "I look upon my death, and I 
 spit upon thee, Spaniard !" 
 
 " Hah !" cried Cortes, whose desire was to inti- 
 midate, not to slay, and who could not but admire 
 the fearless air of defiance, so boldly assumed by 
 the ca))tive, " thou hast either a true heart, or a pene- 
 trating eye. — Fear not ; thy life is in my hands, but 
 I design thee no wrong : death were but a just 
 punishment for thy viilany, yet I mean not to en- 
 f(MTe it. What wilt thou do, if I discharge thee 
 unharmed !" 
 
 " I will know," said the barbarian, with a look of 
 surprise, as soon as this was interpreted, " that 
 Malintzin is not always hungry for blood ; or rather, 
 I will ask of my thoughts, what mischief to Mexico 
 is meditated in the act of mercy." 
 
 "A shrewd knave, i'faith, a shrewd knave!" 
 cried Cortes, admiringly : " by my conscience, this 
 fellow hath somewhat the wit of a Christian politi- 
 cian. — Infidel," he continued, " hearken to what I 
 say. I desire to speak the words of peace with my 
 young brother Guatimozin. Wherefore will he not 
 listen to me ?" 
 
 " Because his ears are open to the groans of his 
 children," replied the Mexican, promptly. " When 
 Malintzin smiles, the brand hisses on the flesh of 
 the prisoner ; when he talks of peace, the great 
 war-horse paws the breast of the dead. Let this 
 thing be not, let his insurgent subjects be sent to 
 their villages, and Guatimozin will listen to the 
 Teuctli." 
 
 " He has slain my ambassadors," said Cortes. 
 
 ** Shall the slave say to his master, * I am the 
 
THE INriDEL. 165 
 
 bondman of another,' and laugh in the king's face ] 
 Let Malintzin send a Christian to Guatimozin. I 
 will row him in my skiff, and he shall return un- 
 harmed." 
 
 " What thinkest thou of this ? I will send him 
 such an envoy, and thou shalt remain a hostage in 
 his place. What will be said to him by the king of 
 Mexico ]" 
 
 " This," replied the captive, without a moment's 
 hesitation : " The Christian is in Mexico, and Olin- 
 pilli in the prisons of Malintzin : let the Christian 
 therefore die." 
 
 " Ay, by my conscience, he speaks well," said 
 Cortes. " But were friendship offered, and twenty 
 thousand hostages left behind, I should like to know 
 what Spaniard of us all would perform the pilgrim- 
 age 1 Thqre is but 0726.- -But that is naught. By 
 heaven and St. John, we will think of other 
 things! we will think of other things! — Is it not 
 death by the decree V 
 
 " Seiior !" cried Alvarado in surprise. Cortes 
 started. — In the moment of entranced thought, he 
 had stridden away from the group to some distance, 
 and, he now perceived, they were gazing at him 
 with wonder. 
 
 " We will entrust this thing to him, then, as I 
 said," he cried, hurriedly, " and he shall return with 
 the misbeliever's answer. We have no other 
 choice. What think ye of it, my masters 3" 
 
 " Of what F" said Alvarado, bluntly : " You have 
 said nothing. By'r lady, and with reverence to 
 your excellency, you are dreaming !" 
 
 " Pho !" cried the Captain-General, " did I not 
 speak it ? Our thoughts sometimes sound in our 
 ears, like words. This is the philosophy of the 
 marvel : Hast thou never, when thine eyes were 
 shut, yet beheld in them the objects of which thou 
 wert thinking ] If thou couldst think music, never 
 believe me but thou wouldst also hear it. — This, 
 then, is the thought which I forgot to utter : I will 
 
166 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 give this dos his freedom, and, for lack of a better, 
 make him my envoy to Guatimozin. If he return, it 
 will be well ; if not, we are left where we were ; 
 and we can hang- him heroaftor." 
 
 " Let us first know," said Sandoval, coolly, ♦• by 
 what sort of charm he prevailed on tliis mad young 
 man, Juan Lerma, to peril limb and life for him, 
 and, what is more, honour too." 
 
 " Ay, by my conscience !" said Cortes, huniedly ; 
 " this thing I had forgotten. — He shall die the 
 death ! Connive with a spy] conceal him from the 
 pursuers ? draw sword upon a cavalier ? strike at 
 an officer's life 1 Were he mine own brother, he 
 should abide his doom. Who will say I wrong 
 him now ? — Hah ! what says the dog } How came 
 this thing to pass ]" 
 
 While Cortes was yet pursuing the subject 
 nearest to his heart, half soliloquizing, the question 
 was asked and answered ; and the reply, to Gua- 
 timozin's great relief, was received with unexpect- 
 ed belief 
 
 " He was caught by the blood-hound ; (An ex- 
 cellent dog, that Befo!)" said Alvarado ; " and mak- 
 ing his moan to Lerma, (whom lieaven take to its 
 rest ! for I know not how he can be so brave, and 
 yet an ass,) the young fool fell to his old tricks. 
 When did an Indian ever ask him for pity in vain ? — 
 This is his story ; it is too natural to be false ; yet, 
 Indians are great liars. — But you said something of 
 making this cur your envoy !" 
 
 " Ay," replied Cortes : " What sayst thou, Olin, 
 speaker of wise things ! wilt thou bear my thoughts 
 to thy master Guatimozin !" 
 
 *' The lord of Tenochtitlan shall hear them," said 
 Guatimozin, his eyes gleaming with expectation. 
 
 " And thou wilt return to me with his answer 1 
 Swear this upon the cross of my sword; ay, and 
 swear it by thy diabolical gods also." 
 
 " Guatimozin shall send back to Malintzin a no- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 167 
 
 ble Mexican ; or, otherwise, Olin will return. How 
 shall the Mexican noble know that the Teuctli will 
 not take his life ]" 
 
 " Does that deter you 1" said Cortes : " I swear 
 by the cross which I worship, that, come thou or 
 another, or come Guatimozin himself, provided he 
 come to me in peace, and with the king's message, 
 he shall depart in safety, with good-will and with 
 favours such as this." 
 
 As he spoke, he took from his own neck, and 
 flung round the Mexican's, a chain of beads, which 
 were neither of diamond, sapphire, nor ruby, but 
 sufficiently resembling each and all, to gratify the 
 vanity of a barbarian. The young king smiled — 
 but it was at the thought of freedom. 
 
 " Thou shalt have more such, and richer," said 
 Cortes, misconceiving his joy. " Why is not Olin 
 the friend of Mahntzin 1" 
 
 " Malintzin is a great prince," said the prisoner, 
 softly. 
 
 " Is Olin content to be the slav^e of Guatimozin V 
 pursued the Captain-General, insidiously. " Will 
 Olin do Malintzin's bidding, and be the king of 
 Chalco 1" 
 
 " Shall Olin slay Guatimozin ]" cried the prisoner, 
 with a gleam of subtle intelligence, and so abruptly, 
 that Cortes was startled. 
 
 " Hah ! by my conscience !" he cried, " I under- 
 stand thee : thou art even more knave than I 
 thought thee. — Kill the king indeed ? By no means ; 
 harm not a hair of his head : we will have no as- 
 sassination. It is better this young boy should be 
 king than another. — This is a very proper knave. 
 Gentlemen, by your leave, I will bid you good- 
 night : I will see the dog to the water-side. Antonio, 
 do thou walk with us, and explain between us. — 
 A very excellent shrewd villain." 
 
 So saying, the Captain-General turned to the 
 door by which he had lately entered, and taking 
 
168 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the prisoner's arm, in tlic most familiar and fricndl}' 
 manner, he stepped forthwith into the garden. The 
 Mexican's flesli crept, when it came in contact with 
 thatof the Sjianiard; but this, the Spaniard doubted 
 not, was the tribute of awe to his greatness. His 
 voice became yet Inlander, as, walking onwards 
 towards the lake, he poured into Guatimozin's 
 ear his wishes and instructions. 
 
 As they passed by the little pool and its dark 
 enclosure of schinus-trees, the inlidel looked to- 
 wards it anxiously and lingeringly, as if hoping to 
 behold once more the pale and beautiful coun- 
 tenance which had shone upon it. — It lay in deep 
 silence and solitude. 
 
 A few moments after, the Mexican had passed 
 tln'ough the broken wall, and by the centries who 
 guarded it, receiving the last instructions of the 
 invader. The next instant he was alone, stalking 
 towards a little green point, where a fringe of reeds 
 and water-lilies shook in the diminutive surges. He 
 cast his eye backward to the two cavaliers, and 
 beheld them pass into the garden. Then, taking 
 the chain of beads from his neck, and rending it 
 with foot and hand, he cast the broken jewels into 
 the lake, A moment after, his light skiff shot from 
 its concealment, and the sound of his paddle startled 
 the droning wild-fowl from their slumbers. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 169 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 When Ovid describes the memorable encounter 
 between Perseus and the geat sea-monster of Ethi- 
 opia, he is at the pains to narrate with what fury 
 the creature snapped at the shadow of the flying 
 hero, — a circumstance of trivial importance in itself, 
 though both striking and characteristic; nay, he 
 even relates how the warrior, at the first sight of 
 the fair Andromeda, chained to the rock, and wait- 
 ing to be devoured, was so moved with admiration 
 that he forgot, for an instant, to flap his wings, — 
 another detail of more fitness than moment. Thus 
 stooping to the consideration of trifles, the poet 
 does not scruple entirely to pass by matters of the 
 most palpable consequence. He disdains, for 
 example, to tell us even whether the monster died 
 or not in the encounter, leaving that to be inferred ; 
 and, in like manner, he scorns even to answer the 
 question that might have been anticipated, namely, 
 ivhy Perseus, like a sensible soldier, did not whip 
 out his gorgon's head, instead of his 'crooked 
 sword,' and, by turning the beast into stone, save 
 himself the trouble of despatching him with his 
 steel. 
 
 The writer of historical works, like the present, 
 must claim the privilege of the poet, and be allowed, 
 while expatiating on events of interest so inferior 
 that they have been almost rejected by his prede- 
 cessors, to leave many others of manifest import- 
 ance to be supplied, not indeed by the imagination, 
 but by the learning of the reader. Our only desire 
 
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170 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 is to follow the adventures of two individuals, so 
 obscure and so unfortunate, that the worthy and 
 somewhat over-conscientious Bernal Diaz del 
 Castillo has despatched the whole history of the 
 first in the few vague frafrnients which we have 
 prefixed tt) the story ; while he has scrupulously 
 abstained from saying a single word of the second. 
 If the reader will turn to the pages of this con- 
 scientious historian, of De Solis, or of Clavigero, he 
 will be made acquainted with the stirring exploits 
 of the eight or nine weeks that followed after the 
 arrest of Juan Lerma. In this time, the Captain- 
 General, at the head of all the Spaniards, save those 
 who were left in garrison at Tczcuco, and the few 
 sailors and shipwrights who remained hi the dock- 
 yards, to preside over Indian artificers, compelled 
 to work at the brigantines — in this time, we say, 
 and at the head of this force, assisted by many thou- 
 sand TIascalans, Cortes commenced and completed 
 the circuit of the whole valley, storming and burn- 
 ing cities and towns without number, resisted 
 valiantly in all that were not disaffected, and some- 
 times, as at the city of Tacuba, repulsed with great 
 loss and no little dishonour. The whole campaign 
 abounds with singular and exciting incidents, of 
 which, however, it does not suit our purpose to 
 mention any but one, and that almost in a word. 
 At the city of Xochimilco, or the Garden of Flowers, 
 (foi- this is the signification of the word,) where the 
 resistance was sanguinary and noble, though, in 
 the end, ineffectual, Cortes was wounded, surround- 
 ed, struck down from his horse, whicli was killed, 
 and he himself, for a moment, a prisoner ; and he 
 owed his life and liberty only to the extraordinary 
 valour of Caspar Olea of the Red Beard, who, with 
 the help of a few resolute TIascalans, succeeded in 
 bringing him off". The aid thus rendered by Olea 
 was the more remarkable, since, from the moment 
 of Juan's arrest, he had become sullen, morose, and 
 
THE INFIDEL. 171 
 
 was sometimes even charged to be mutinous. In this 
 last imputation, however, as far as it implied any 
 treasonable thoughts or practices, the rude Gaspar 
 was wronged. His dissatisfaction was caused 
 solely by the fall and anticipated fate of his young 
 captain. The heinousness of Juan's crime — the 
 drawing his sword upon an officer in the execution 
 of his duty, as Guzman had been, and, worse yet, 
 the aiming of that at the breast of the General — 
 had left it, apparently, impossible to be forgiven. It 
 was universally expected that Juan would expiate 
 the crime with his life; and the only wonder was, 
 that he had not been immediately tried, condemned, . 
 and executed. His destiny was therefore antici- 
 pated with more curiosity than doubt, and appa- 
 rently with less pity than either. Gaspar did not 
 attempt to deny Juan's guilt; but when he remem- 
 bered the sufferings and perils they had shared to- 
 gether, his heart burned with fury, to think how 
 soon the brave and well-beloved youth should die 
 the death of a caitiff. His dissatisfaction expended 
 itself in anger towards the Captain-General ; and 
 hence the surprise of his comrades at his act of 
 daring and generosity. But Gaspar had his own 
 ends in view, when he saved the life of Cortes. 
 
 It was now many weeks since his arrest, and 
 Juan yet lay in imprisonment, ignorant not so much 
 of his fate, as of the causes which delayed it. On 
 the fourth day of his captivity, he was apprized, by 
 the sound of trumpets and artillery, the cries of men, 
 and the neighing of horses, and, in general, by the 
 prodigious bustle which accompanies the setting- 
 out of an army from a populous city, that some en- 
 terprise was meditated and begun ; but of its cha- 
 racter he was kept wholly ignorant. The custody 
 of his person seemed to be committed to Villafana 
 and the hunchback Najara, conjointly ; but it was 
 observable, that, although Najara frequently entered 
 
172 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 liis den alono, Villafana never made liis appearance 
 without being aecompanied l)y the Corcol^ado. 
 
 From Najara he trained not a word of intelligence, 
 the Imnchback ever replying to his questions with 
 scowls, or with pithy sarcasms in allusion to the 
 crimes of treason and mutiny. From Villafana, 
 attended, and, as it seemed to Juan, watched, by 
 the jealous Najara, he obtained nothing but un- 
 meaning nods of the head, and sometimes looks, 
 too significant to be doubted, and yet too oraculous 
 to be understood. 
 
 After the first fortnight, Villafana failed to visit 
 him altogether, and he saw not the face of a human 
 being, except once each morning, when Najara was 
 accustomed to make his appearance, followed by 
 an Indian slave, bearing food and a jar of water. 
 With this latter being, a decrepit old man, on 
 whose naked shoulder was imprinted the horrible 
 letter G, (for guerra, indicating that he was a pri- 
 soner of war, — in other words, a branded bondman,) 
 he endeavoured to speak, using all the native dia- 
 lects with which he was acquainted ; but, though 
 Najara made no ofl^er to ]-)revent such conversation, 
 the barbarian replied only by touching his ear and 
 then his breast, signifying thereby that, though he 
 heard the words, he did not understand them. 
 Though Najara permitted these little attempts at 
 speech, with contemptuous indifference, Juan per- 
 ceived that he ever kept his eyes fastened upon the 
 Indian, as if to prevent any effort at communica- 
 tion of another sort. Thus, if any benevolent fiiend 
 had endeavoured to convey a message by letter or 
 otherwise, it was apparent that Najara took the best 
 steps to insure its miscarriage. 
 
 Foiled thus in every attempt to exchange thoughts 
 with a fellow-being, and reduced to commune only 
 with his own, the unhaj^p}'' prisoner ceased, at last, 
 to make any effort; and, )aelding gradually to a 
 despair that was not the less consuming for being 
 
THE INFIDEL. 173 
 
 entirely without complaint, he began, in the end, to 
 be indifferent even to the coming and presence of 
 his jailer, neither rising to meet him, nor even lift- 
 ing his eyes from the floor, on which they were 
 fixed with a lethargic dejection. 
 
 He became also indifferent to his food ; and 
 once, when Najara entered, he perceived that the wa- 
 ter-jar, the dish of tortillas^ or maize-cakes, the sa- 
 voury wild-fowl, and the fragrant c/wcolatl, (for in 
 regard to food, he was liberally supplied,) stood 
 upon the little table, where they had been placed 
 the day before, untasted and even untouched. He 
 cast his eyes upon the youth, and, for the first time, 
 began to feel a sentiment of pity for his condition. 
 Indeed, the noble figure of the young man was be- 
 ginning to waste away; his cheeks were hollow, his 
 neglected beard was springing uncouthly over his 
 lips, and his sunken eyes drooped upon the earth, 
 as if never more to gleam with the light of hope 
 and pleasure. The hunchback hesitated for a mo- 
 ment, and then growled out a few words, — the first 
 he had uttered for a week. But these, though com- 
 miseration prompted them, he succeeded in making 
 expressive only of scorn or anger. 
 
 " Hark you, seiior Juan Lerma," he said, " do 
 you mean to starve ]" 
 
 At the sound of his voice, so unusual and so unex- 
 pected, the young man raised his eyes, but with a 
 vague, wo-begone look, and answered nothing. 
 
 " I say, senor," continued Najara, somewhat more 
 blandly, " is it your will to die by starvation rather 
 than in any other way ]" 
 
 " Ah, Najara ! is it thou ?" said Juan, rising feebly, 
 or indolently, to his feet. "Heaven give you a 
 good-morrow." 
 
 " Pshaw !" returned the jailer, gruffly ; " pray me 
 no such prayers : keep them for yourself I ask 
 you, if it be your purpose to starve yourself to 
 death, out of a mere unsoldierly fear of hanging V 
 
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174 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 " Thou hast not said so mucli to nie, I know not 
 when," rcjilied the youth, not with any intention of 
 shuiflincf off the question, but speakinf; of what was 
 uppermost in iiis mind. His voice was very mild, 
 and Najara, by no means without his weaker 
 points, felt it as a reproach. 
 
 " I care not," he rci)lied, " if I answer you any two 
 or three questions, that may be nearest to your lieart. 
 But first 0VC me to know, wherefore you have 
 eaten nothinfj ] Are you sick '?" 
 
 " Surely I am, at heart ; Init, bodily, I am M-ell." 
 
 " And you are not resolute to die of hunger, be- 
 fore the judgment-day ] — Pho, if you have that spi- 
 rit, ]ierhaiis it were l^etter. But it is a death of 
 great torment. — Yet, why should one be afraid of 
 the shame 1 'Tis nothing, when we are dead." 
 
 "Is this thy fear then !" said Juan, patiently. " It 
 is not permitted us to commit suicide in any form. 
 I will eat, to satisfy thee ; but food is bitter in pri- 
 son." 
 
 " What a pity," muttered Najara, as Juan ate a 
 morsel of food, "that heaven should give thee such 
 a goodly and godlike body, and such a brave soul, 
 (for, o' my life, I believe thou art entirely without 
 fear,) and yet make thee a madman aiid traitor !" 
 
 " A traitor !" said Juan, without taking any of- 
 fence, for, indeed, he seemed to have been robbed 
 of all the fire of his spirit. " It is not possible any- 
 body can believe me a traitor." 
 
 " Pho ! did I not, with mine own eyes, see thee 
 lunge at Cortes ? It is base of thee to deny it." 
 
 " I do not deny it," said Juan ; adding, vehe- 
 mently, " but I call heaven to witness, I saw not his 
 face, and knew him not. He may persecute me to 
 death, as I believe he is doing : Yet could I do him 
 no wrong ; no, I think, I could not. — But it is bitter, 
 to feel we are trampled on !" 
 
 " Well, senor, it is better you should be in a pas- 
 sion than a trance. But be not utterly without 
 
THE INFIDEL, 175 
 
 hope. If you can truly make it appear you knew 
 not the general, it is thought by one or two, you 
 may be pardoned. I have talked with Guzman; 
 and I think he may be brought to forgive and even 
 intercede for you." 
 
 " I will neither receive his forgiveness nor his in- 
 tercession," said Juan, frowning. " And I wonder 
 you mention to me his detested name." 
 
 " Oh, seiior !" said Najara, sharply, " you may 
 choose your own friends, and hunt them again 
 among heathen Indians. — That you should sell your 
 life for this dog of a noble ! — B'are you well, senor, 
 fare you well." 
 
 " Stay, Najara," said Juan, following him towards 
 the door : " you said you would answer me such 
 questions as were nearest my heart. Give not over 
 the kindly thought. There are many things, which if 
 I knew, my lot would not be so hard, my dungeon 
 not so killing to my spirit. The army is gone — is 
 Mexico invested ]" 
 
 " Not so," replied the hunchback ; " it has a 
 month or two's grace yet. — The troops have 
 mai'ched against the shore-towns. — But for this 
 mad fit, thou mightst have been with them, or mak- 
 ing thyself famous at T och tepee !" 
 
 Juan sighed heavily. 
 
 " And the Indian, of whom you spoke, — the 
 young noble, — Olin the orator," he demanded, at 
 first, not without hesitation. 
 
 " Oh, the cur," replied Najara ; " I think Cortes 
 was even as mad as thyself, touching the knave. 
 But wit is like a river, sometimes too full, washing 
 away its own banks — it may be said to drown it- 
 self — He made the dog his ambassador, swore him 
 to return faithfully from Guatimozin, and waited 
 three days for him in vain. Such rogues are like 
 arrows, — good weapons, when you have the cast 
 of them, but not to be expected in hand again, un- 
 less shot back by a foeman," 
 
170 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 It was fortunate, perhaps, that Najara liad relax- 
 ed so far from his austerity as to resume the vein of 
 metaphor common to his softer moments. Had he 
 been as ol)servant as usual, he nmst have been 
 struck with suspicion at the sudden gleam of satis- 
 faction, with which Juan hoard the good fortune of 
 the Mexican. But he marked it not. 
 
 " Tell me now," said Juan, " how thou comest to 
 be my jailer ; and why it is that Villafana seems to 
 have given up his trust to thee V 
 
 At this question, Najara's good-humour imme- 
 diately vanished, and he replied, sourly, 
 
 " Oh, content you, you shall be in good keei> 
 ing." 
 
 "I doubt it not," said Juan, calmly. " But Villafana 
 is, or methinks he is, more friendly to me than 
 you. I did but desire to know what changes had 
 taken place in the government of the city, from the 
 watchman up to the commandant, since my impri- 
 sonment." 
 
 " Ay, indeed !" replied Najara, grimly : " such 
 changes, that hadst thou fifty friends waiting to 
 aid thee, thou shouldst be caught, before getting 
 twenty steps from the door. Know then, that I 
 am made Alguazil, as well as Villafana ; and what 
 is more, I am captain of the prison. The Alcalde 
 is Antonio de Quinones, master of the armory; 
 and the Corregidor of the city is thy good friend 
 Guzman, — an honour thou gavest him, by hacking 
 his face so freely, and so leaving him in the hos- 
 pital." 
 
 " You speak to me in sarcasm," said Juan, 
 mildly : " I have not deserved it. And methinks 
 you should be more generous of temper, than to 
 oppress with words of insult, a fallen and helpless 
 man. — Well, heed it not — I forgive"you. I have but 
 one more question to ask you. — The lady, — this 
 lady, La Monjonaza — " 
 
 "Ay!" cried Najara, with singular bitterness, 
 
THE INFIDEL. 177 
 
 " I have heard of that too. You were seen talking 
 with lier in the garden. You will play chamberer 
 with Cortes ! ay, and rival too ! Pho, canst thou 
 not be at peace 1 Meddle with the" general's fancy. 
 Why that were enough to hang thee. I had some 
 soft thoughts of thee ; but everything shows thou 
 art unworthy. Farewell ; think of these things no 
 more ; but repent and make your peace with hea- 
 ven." 
 
 So saying, the hunchback flung out of the room, 
 and securing the thick door of plank, Juan was 
 again left to his meditations. 
 
178 THE INFIDEL, 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Then followed another period of silence and de- 
 jection, in which the prisoner wasted away as 
 much in body as in spirit, becoming so listlessly 
 indifferent to everything, that he no longer betray- 
 ed any desire to draw Najara into conversation, 
 nor even to meet the advances which his jailer now 
 often made. The thought of escaping from con- 
 finement, perhaps, never entered his mind ; for, 
 had he been even less resigned to his fate, the strict 
 watch kept over him, and the condition of his pri- 
 son, added to his apparent friendlessness, must 
 have been enough to banish all such thoughts. His 
 chamber was neither dark nor damp, but made 
 strong by its bulky door, barred on the outside, 
 and by windows, high above the floor, so very 
 narrow that no human being could hope to pass 
 through them. 
 
 Narrow as they were, however, it was the 
 jailer's custom to examine them very closely each 
 morning ; a degree of vigilance that Juan had, in 
 the earlier days of captivity, remarked with some 
 surprise. He became acquainted with Najara's 
 object at last. One morning, he was roused out 
 of his stupefaction by a liarsii exclamation from 
 his jailer, and looking up, he beheld him take from 
 the floor, immediately under one of the loopholes, 
 what seemed a slip of paper, tied to a little stick, 
 which appeared, some time during the night, to have 
 been thus thrust into the prison. What were its 
 contents he never could divine ; for Najara had no 
 sooner cast his eyes over it, than mingling a laugh 
 
THE INFIDEL. 179 
 
 of satisfaction at its miscarriage with some natural 
 compassion for the profound wretchedness which 
 had sealed the ears and eyes of the prisoner, he 
 immediately departed with the prize. 
 
 From this time, Juan became more vigilant and 
 wary ; but the following night, he was admonished, 
 by the clank of armour and the occasional sound 
 of voices without, that sentinels were now stationed 
 under the windows, thus precluding all hope of 
 friendly communication from that quarter. 
 
 Before he had again entirely relapsed into his 
 listless gloom, he began to have a vague con- 
 sciousness that the Indian slave, who accompanied 
 Najara, was becoming more officious than of old, 
 in setting his meals before him, and particularly in 
 placing the jar of water at his side, instead of de- 
 positing it on his table, as he had done before. His 
 suspicion was confirmed, when, one morning, as 
 Najara was making his wonted survey of the win- 
 dows, the slave gave him a quick, impatient look, 
 and shaking the jar as he set it down, made him 
 sensible, by a rattling sound within it, that there 
 was something besides the innocent element con- 
 cealed at the bottom. As soon as Najara had de- 
 parted, he made an examination of the mystery, 
 and drew forth, with some astonishment, a plate of 
 transparent obsidian, on which had been scratched 
 by some hard instrument or precious stone, a few 
 words which he was soon able to decypher. " If 
 thou wilt leave Mexico, and live, take the stone 
 from the pitcher." 
 
 He strode about the apartment for a moment in 
 disorder ; then, crushing the glassy temptation under 
 his heel, and returning the fragments to the jar, he 
 sat down again to brood over his despair. — The 
 next morning the pitcher contained nothing but 
 water. 
 
 Thus, then, the time passed away, in the ordi- 
 nary listlessness of confinement, — the dull and 
 
180 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 sleepy torture of solitude ; until Najara, waxing 
 more compassionate as his prisoner grew more 
 obviously indifferent to light, to food, and to speech, 
 bethought him of a mode of indulgence from which 
 no danger could be apprehended, and accordingly 
 introduced the dog Befo into the apartment. 
 
 The loud yells of joy with which Befo beheld his 
 young master, recalled Juan from his lethargy; and 
 Najara was touched still furtlier with compunction 
 at the sight of the animal's transports. 
 
 "He has been whining every day at the prison 
 gate," he muttered ; " and doubtless he would liave 
 whined full as much, though he were to be let in 
 only to be beaten. Such a fond fool is this young 
 Juan himself: he returns to his master, though ho 
 knows the scourge is ready. It were better he 
 had taken my advice, and passed to the sea by 
 Otumba : He should have known Cortes would 
 never forgive hmi." 
 
 The presence of this faithful animal, if it did not 
 recall Juan's spirits, at least preserved him from 
 sinking further into stupeftiction; and nothing gave 
 him more evident delight, than when, each morning, 
 having prevailed upon Najara to lead his dumb 
 companion into the air for exercise, he could liear 
 Befo, in the joy of a liberty which he did not share, 
 dashing frantically through the garden, now 
 coursing by the water-side, now prancing by the 
 palace, and, all the time, yelping and barking with 
 the most clamorous delight. From these daily 
 sorties the dog was used to return, with fresh 
 spirits and increased attachment, to share, for the 
 remainder of the day, the confinement of his mas- 
 ter, upon whom, at his entrance, he jumped and 
 fawned almost as boisterously as when enjoying 
 his sports in the garden. 
 
 One day, howev^er, he returned with a much 
 graver aspect than usual, and stalking up to where 
 Juan sat, he stood, wagging his tail, and gazing up 
 
THE INFIDEL. 157 
 
 the frame of the Captain-General. " And you, ye 
 idle fellows," he continued, addressing the soldiers, 
 " get you to your quarters, to your watch, or to 
 your beds. Begone. — Why loiter ye, Villafanal 
 Conduct away the prisoner." 
 
 Juan raised his eyes once more to the general, 
 and seemed as if he would hav^e spoken ; but, con- 
 fused and bewildered by the extraordinary termi- 
 nation of the drama of the day, chilled by frowns, 
 oppressed by a consciousness of having provoked 
 his fate, his head sunk in a deep dejection on his 
 breast, and he suffered himself to be led silently 
 away. 
 
 A gleam of light, such as flares up at night from 
 a decaying brand, just lost in ashes, sprang up in 
 the leader's eyes, as they followed the steps of the 
 unhappy youth, until, passing from that door, which 
 he had so vainly sought to gain with the Mexican, he 
 vanished from siglit. Its lustre was hidden from 
 all but the captive, who, maintaining throughout 
 the whole scene, the self-possession, characteristic of 
 all the American race, from tlie pygmies of the 
 Frozen Sea to the giants of Patagonia, did not lose 
 the opportunity thus afforded, of diving into the 
 thoughts of the Invader. 
 
 As soon as Juan Lerma had departed, with the 
 mass of the soldiers, Cortes turned to the Mexican, 
 and with a mild countenance, and a gentle voice, 
 which were designed to convey the proper inter- 
 pretation of his Castilian speech, said, 
 
 " Let my young friend, the Tlatoani, be at 
 peace, and fear not ; no harm is designed him." 
 
 Then, making a signal to those who remained, 
 to lead the captive after him, he passed into the 
 garden, and thence, by a private entrance, into the 
 hall of audience. 
 
 VOL. I. 14 
 
158 THE INFIPEL. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 It has been already mentioned, that the person 
 of Guatimozin was familiar to few, or none, of the 
 Spaniards. Intensely and consistently hostile to 
 the invaders, from the first moment of their appear- 
 ance in the Valley, he had cv^er kept aloof from 
 them, and was one of the few princes of ]Mexic<\ 
 whom neither force nor stratagem could reduce to 
 thraldom. His youth, indeed, — his want of authority, 
 (for though of the loftiest birth and the highest mili- 
 tary fame, he enjoyed, at first, no independent com- 
 mand or government,) and, hence, his apparent 
 insignificance, — had made the possession of his per- 
 son of no great consequence ; and it was not until 
 he was seen leading the incensed citizens up against 
 the guns of the garrison, and directing the assault 
 W'hich terminated in the life of Montezuma, that he 
 began to be considered an enemy worthy to be 
 feared. Even then, however, he was but one 
 among the warlike followers of Cuitlahuatzin, — the 
 successor of Montezuma, — and on the famous bat- 
 tle-field of Otumba, he fought only as a second in 
 command. But from that time until tlie present 
 moment, his name was constantly before the Span- 
 iards, first as the king of Iztapalapan, then as a 
 leader among those royal warriors, sent forth by 
 Cuitlahuatzin, now to annoy the Spaniards, even 
 among their fortresses on the borders of Tlascala, 
 and now to chastise those rebellious tribes 
 which were daily acknowledging allegiance to the 
 Spaniard, and preparing to march with him against 
 Tenochtitlan. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 159 
 
 The death of Cuitlahuatzin had suddenly ex- 
 posed him to view as the probable successor to the 
 imperial dignity ; and the act of the royal electors, 
 (the kings of Mexico were chosen by the crowned 
 vassals of the empire,) in bestowing thamantle and 
 sceptre, had left nothing to be done to confirm his 
 authority, save a solemn inauguration on the day of 
 an august religious and national festival. 
 
 He had thus assumed the attitude which Monte- 
 zuma had once preserved in the eyes of the Con- 
 quistador; and it was as much the policy of Cortes 
 to attempt the acts of delusion with him, as it had 
 been with his predecessor. The craftier and 
 liaughtier Guatimozin had, however, rejected his 
 overtures with disdain ; and, justly appreciating the 
 character and designs of his enemy, he prepared for 
 war as the only alternative of slavery. He had 
 already concentrated in his city, and in the neigh- 
 bouring towns, the whole martial force of the tribes 
 yet valiant and faithful ; he had laboured, with an 
 address that was not always inefiectual, to regain 
 the false and rebellious; and, rising above the 
 weakness of national resentments, he had even 
 striven to unite his hereditary foes in a league of 
 resistance against the stranger, who, whether 
 frowning or smiling, whether courting with friend- 
 ship, or subduing with arms, was yet, and equally, 
 the enemy of all. 
 
 Enough has been said to explain the purpose for 
 which he so rashly threw himself into the power of 
 the Conqueror. The certain assurance of disaffec- 
 tion in the invader's camp, not only among the 
 allies, but among the Spaniards themselves, was 
 enough to fire liis heart with the desire of employ- 
 ing agamst Don Hernan a weapon which his foe 
 had used so fatally against him ; and, besides, the 
 opportunity of detaching the Tlascalans from the 
 Spanish interest, was too captivating to be rejected. 
 These were advantages to be investigated and pro- 
 
160 TIIC IXFinEL. 
 
 moted by himself, rnthor than by afrents; and, con- 
 fiding in his ononiies' iirnoranco of his person, in 
 his cunning, and in the interested fidelity of trai- 
 tors, who had already grasped at bribes, and were 
 eager to l)e better acquainted with his bounty, ho 
 did not scruple to direct his midnight skiff among 
 the reeds on the lakeside, and, in the guise of a 
 mere noble, trust himself alone in their power. 
 
 If the reader desire to know what could induce 
 any of the followers of Cortes to treat thus perfi- 
 diously with the infidel enemy whose wealth was 
 promised as the certain guerdon of war, he may 
 be answered almost in a word. The dani^ers of tlie 
 war were manifold and obvious to all, and the hor- 
 rors of the five days' battles in the streets of ?»Iexi- 
 co, and more than all, the calamities of the midnight 
 retreat, had given such a foretaste of what might 
 be expected from a prosecution of the campaign, 
 that full half the army looked forward to it with 
 equal terror and repugnance. A majority of those 
 who survived the Noche Triste, were followers of 
 the unfortunate Narvaez, and some of them yet 
 friendly to the deceived Velasquez. They remain- 
 ed with Cortes upon compulsitm, and they hated 
 him not only for their inabihty to return to their 
 peaceable farms among the islands, for past calami- 
 ties, and coming misfortunes, but for the superior 
 favours showered so liberally, and indeed so natu- 
 rally, upon those who had been his original, and 
 were yet his faithful, adherents. In a word, they 
 regarded the reduction of the Mexican empire as 
 hopeless, and tlieir own fiite, if they remained, as 
 already written in characters of blood. The bolder 
 scowled and complained, the feeble and the crafty 
 dissembled, but evil thoughts and fierce resolutions 
 were common to all. They burned to be released 
 from what was to them intolerable bondage, and 
 the means were not to be questioned, even though 
 they might involve connivance and collusion with 
 
THE INFIDEL. 161 
 
 the foe. But such collusion was by no means 
 known, nor even suspected, by any save the few 
 desperadoes who had risen to the bad eminence of 
 leaders. Even Villafana was ignorant of the true 
 character of his guest, and esteemed him to be 
 only what he represented himself, — Olin, the young 
 noble, an orator, counsellor, and confidential agent 
 of Guatimozin. It was not possible for the Cap- 
 tain-General to regard him in any other light. 
 
 Whatever may have been the young monarch's 
 thoughts, his secret misgivings and self-reproaches, 
 as he strode, closely environed by cavaliers, into the 
 great hall, now dimly lighted by tapers of vegetable 
 wax and torches of fragrant wood, they were ex- 
 posed by no agitation of countenance or hesitation 
 of step ; and when Cortes ascended the platform to 
 his seat, and turned his penetrating eye upon him, 
 he preserved an air of the most fearless tranquillity. 
 For the space of several moments, the general re- 
 garded him in silence; then commanding all to 
 leave the apartment, excepting Sandoval, Alvarado, 
 and another cavalier who officiated as interpreter, 
 he said to Alvarado, with a mild voice, very 
 strangely contrasted with the rudeness of his 
 words, 
 
 " Look into the face of this heathen dog, and tell 
 me if thou knowest him." 
 
 Alvarado had been, as the historical reader is 
 aware, left in Mexico, the jailer of Montezuma and 
 the warden of the city, during the absence of 
 Cortes, when he marched against Narvaez. It was 
 supposed, therefore, that Don Pedro was better ac- 
 quainted with the persons of the principal nobles 
 than any other cavalier. He examined the captive 
 curiously, and at last said, shaking his head, 
 
 " Methinks his visage is not unknown ; and yet 
 I wot not to whom it belongs. The knave is 
 but a boy. If he be a noble, never trust me but he 
 
 14* 
 
162 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 is one of Guatimoziii's making, and therefore not 
 yet of consequence." 
 
 At tlie sound of his own name, the only word 
 distinii^iii8hal)le by the prisoner, Alvarado observed 
 that his iDrow contracted a little. But this awoke 
 no suspicion. 
 
 " Demand of liim," said Cortes to the interpreter, 
 "his name, and tlio purpose of his coming to Tez- 
 cuco V 
 
 When this was explained to the Mexican, his 
 brow contracted still further, but rather with in- 
 quisitiveness than embarrassment: 
 
 " I am Olin-pilli," (that is, Olin the Lord, or Lord 
 Olin,) he replied, " the speaker of wise tilings to the 
 king, and the mouth of nobles." 
 
 He then paused, as if to examine with wliat de- 
 gree of belief he was listened to ; and being satis- 
 fied, from the countenance of Don Hernan, that he 
 was really unknown, he continued, Avitli a more 
 confident tone, 
 
 " And I come to the Lord of the East, the Son of 
 the God of Air, to hear the words of his children. 
 Did not the Teuctli send Coy me 1" 
 
 " Not I," replied the Captain-General, sternl3^ 
 " Speaker of wise things, I look into thy heart, and 
 I see thy falsehood. Thou art a spy, — a qitimi- 
 chi?i, — sent by Guatimozin the king, to speak dark 
 things to the men of Tlascala." 
 
 The captive, though somewhat disconcerted, 
 maintained a fearless countenance : 
 
 " The Teuctli is the son of the gods, and knows 
 everything," he answered. 
 
 " And charged also," continued Cortes, " to whis- 
 per in the ears of fools, who send good words to {h6 
 king, that the king may enrich them with gold. Is 
 not this true. Sir Quimichin ?" 
 
 "Is not Malintzin the Son of Q,uetzalcoatl, the 
 AVhite God with a beard, who proclaimed from the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 163 
 
 Hill of Shouting* and from the Speaking Mountain,! 
 the coming of his offspring ! and shall Olin know 
 more things than Malintzin] Guatimozin thinks, 
 that the Spaniard should not slay his people." 
 
 " Wherefore, then, sent he not thee to me,^" de- 
 manded the Captain-General. " I will listen to his 
 words. It was not wise to send his ambassador to 
 the soldier, when the general sat by, in his tent. — 
 Hearken to me, friend Olin," he continued, with 
 gravity : " Hadst thou brought his discourse to me, 
 thou hadst then been listened to with honour, and 
 dismissed in peace. Art thou a soldier 1" 
 
 " Olin is a counsellor," replied the Mexican, 
 proudly ; " but lie has bled in battle." 
 
 " And is not Guatimozin a warrior?" 
 
 " He is the king of the House of Darts, and he 
 has struck his foe." 
 
 " When the lurking Ottorni is found skulking in 
 his camp ; when the angry Tlascalan creeps up to 
 his fort ; what does Guatimozin then with the pri- 
 soner 1 what says he to the Ottomi 1 what wills he 
 with the Tlascalan T" 
 
 " He binds them to the stone, and they die like 
 the dogs of the altar !" replied the barbarian, with 
 a fierce utterance. 
 
 " Thou hast spoken thine own doom," replied 
 Cortes, sternly ; " only that, instead of perishing 
 according to thy damnable customs, a sacrifice to 
 spirits accurst, thou shalt have such death as we 
 give to the dogs of Castile. Thou hast crept into 
 my camp, like the spying Ottomi ; thou comest with 
 sword and shield, like the bravo of Tlascala ; and 
 thou hast addressed thyself to traitors and conspi- 
 rators, to make them mine enemies. Why then 
 should I not hang thee upon a tree 1 or why," he 
 continued, with an elevated voice, descending from 
 
 • Tzafzltepecy a mountain near Tula. 
 I Catciiepet/, a volcano. 
 
164 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the platform, and, with a sintrle motion, unsheath- 
 ing his rapier and aiming it against the captive's 
 breast — " why should I not kill thee, thou cur ! 
 upon the spot ?" 
 
 " I am a Mexican !" replied the young king, ra- 
 ther opposing his body to the expected thrust than 
 seeking to avoid it ; "I look upon my death, and I 
 spit u])on thee, Sjxiniard !" 
 
 " Hah !" cried Cortes, whose desire was to inti- 
 midate, not to slay, and who could not but admire 
 the fearless air of defiance, so boldly assumed by 
 the cajitive, " thou hast either a true heart, or a pene- 
 trating eye. — Fear not ; thy life is in my hands, but 
 I design thee no wrong : death were but a just 
 punishment for thy villany, yet I mean not to en- 
 foice i.t. What wilt thou do, if I discharge thee 
 unharmed ?" 
 
 " 1 will know," said the barbarian, with a look of 
 surprise, as soon as this was interpreted, " that 
 Malintzin is not always hungry for blood; or rather, 
 I will ask of my thoughts, what mischief to Mexico 
 is meditated in the act of mercy." 
 
 " A shrewd knave, i'faith, a shrewd knave !" 
 cried Cortes, admiringly : " by my conscience, this 
 fellow hath somewhat the wit of a Christian politi- 
 cian. — Infidel," he continued, " hearken to what I 
 say. I desire to speak the words of peace with my 
 young brother Guatimozin. Wherefore will he not 
 listen to me ?" 
 
 " Because his ears are open to the groans of his 
 children," replied the Mexican, promptly. " When 
 Malintzin smiles, the brand hisses on the flesh of 
 the prisoner ; when he talks of peace, the great 
 war-horse paws the breast of the dead. Let this 
 thing be not, let his insurgent subjects be sent to 
 their villages, and Guatimozin will listen to the 
 Teuctli." 
 
 *' He has slain my ambassadors," said Cortes. 
 
 " Shall the slave say to his master, * I am the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 165 
 
 bondman of another,' and laugh in the king's face'? 
 Let Malintzin send a Christian to Guatimozin. I 
 will row him in my skiff, and he shall return un- 
 harmed." 
 
 " What thinkest thou of this ? I will send him 
 such an envoy, and thou shalt remain a hostage in 
 his place. What will be said to him by the king of 
 Mexico ]" 
 
 " This," replied the captive, without a moment's 
 hesitation: "The Christian is in Mexico, and Olin- 
 pilli in the prisons of Malintzin : let the Christian 
 therefore die." 
 
 " Ay, by my conscience, he speaks well," said 
 Cortes. " But were friendship offered, and twenty 
 thousand hostages left behind, I should like to know 
 what Spaniard of us all would perform the pilgrim- 
 age 1 There is but one. — But that is naught. By 
 heaven and St. John, we will think of other 
 things ! we will think of other things ! — Is it not 
 death by the decree V 
 
 " Seiior !" cried Alvarado in surprise. Cortes 
 started. — In the moment of entranced thought, he 
 had stridden away from the group to some distance, 
 and, he now perceived, they were gazing at him 
 with wonder. 
 
 " We will entrust this thing to him, then, as I 
 said," he cried, hurriedly, " and he shall return with 
 the misbeliever's answer. We have no other 
 choice. What think ye of it, my masters 1" 
 
 " Of lohat ?'" said Alvarado, bluntly : " You have 
 said nothing. By'r lady, and with reverence to 
 your excellency, you are dreaming !" 
 
 " Pho !" cried the Captain-General, " did I not 
 speak it ] Our thoughts sometimes sound in our 
 ears, like words. This is the philosophy of the 
 marvel : Hast thou never, when thine eyes were 
 shut, yet beheld in them the objects of which thou 
 wert thinking ] If thou couldst think music, never 
 believe me but thou wouldst also hear it. — This, 
 then, is the thought which I forgot to utter : I will 
 
166 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 give this dog liis freedom, and, for lack of a better, 
 make liim my envoy to Guatimozin. If he return, it 
 will be well ; if not, we are left where we were; 
 and we can hang him hereafter.'' 
 
 " Let us first know," said Sandoval, coolly, " by 
 what sort of charm he prevailed on this mad young 
 man, Juan Lerma, to i)eril limb and life for him, 
 and, what is more, honour too." 
 
 " Ay, by my conscience !" said Cortes, hurriedly ; 
 " this thing I had forgotten. — He shall die the 
 death ! Connive with a spy ? conceal him from the 
 pursuers ? draw sword upon a cavalier ? strike at 
 an officer's life 1 Were he mine own brother, he 
 should abide his doom. Who will say I wrong 
 him now ? — Hah ! what says the dog ] How came 
 this thing to pass ]" 
 
 While Cortes was yet pursuing the subject 
 nearest to his heart, half soliloquizing, the question 
 was asked and answered ; and the reply, to Gua- 
 timozin's great relief, was received with unexpect- 
 ed belief 
 
 " He was caught by the blood-hound ; (An ex- 
 cellent dog, that Befo !)" said Alvarado ; " and mak- 
 ing his moan to Lerma, (whom heaven take to its 
 rest ! for I know not how he can be so brave, and 
 yet an ass,) the young fool fell to his old tricks. 
 When did an Indian ever ask him for pity in vain ? — 
 This is his story ; it is too natural to be false ; yet, 
 Indians are great liars. — But you said something of 
 making this cur your envoy .'" 
 
 " Ay," replied Cortes : " What sayst thou, Olin, 
 speaker of wise things ! wilt thou bear my thoughts 
 to thy master Guatimozin V 
 
 " The lord of Tenochtitlan shall hear them," said 
 Guatimozin, his eyes gleaming with expectation. 
 
 "And thou wilt return to me with his answer 1 
 Swear this upon the cross of my sword ; ay, and 
 swear it by thy diabolical gods also." 
 
 " Guatimozin shall send back to Malintzin a no- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 167 
 
 ble Mexican ; or, otherwise, Olin will return. How 
 shall the Mexican noble know that the Teuctli will 
 not take his life 1" 
 
 " Does that deter you 1" said Cortes : " I swear 
 by the cross which I worship, that, come thou or 
 another, or come Guatimozin himself, provided he 
 come to me in peace, and with the king's message, 
 he shall depart in safety, with good- will and with 
 favours such as this." 
 
 As he spoke, he took from his own neck, and 
 flung round the Mexican's, a chain of beads, which 
 were neither of diamond, sapphire, nor ruby, but 
 sufficiently resembling each and all, to gratify the 
 vanity of a barbarian. The young king smiled — 
 but it was at the thought of freedom. 
 
 " Thou shalt have more such, and richer," said 
 Cortes, misconceiving his joy. " Why is not Olin 
 the friend of Malintzin ]" 
 
 " Malintzin is a great prince," said the prisoner, 
 softly. 
 
 " Is Olin content to be the slave of Guatimozin 7" 
 pursued the Captain-General, insidiously. " Will 
 Olin do Malintzin's bidding, and be the king of 
 Chalco ]" 
 
 " Shall Olin slay Guatimozin ?" cried the prisoner, 
 with a gleam of subtle intelligence, and so abruptly, 
 that Cortes was startled. 
 
 " Hah ! by my conscience !" he cried, " I under- 
 stand thee: thou art even more knave than I 
 thought thee. — Kill the king indeed! By no means ; 
 harm not a hair of his head : we will have no as- 
 sassination. It is better this young boy should be 
 king than another. — This is a very proper knave. 
 Gentlemen, by your leave, I will bid you good- 
 night : I will see the dog to the water-side. Antonio, 
 do thou walk with us, and explain between us. — 
 A very excellent shrewd villain." 
 
 So saying, the Captain-General turned to the 
 door by which he had lately entered, and taking 
 
168 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the prisoner's arm, in tlie most familiar and friondly 
 manner, lie stepped forth with into the garden. The 
 Mexican's flesh crept, when it came in contact with 
 thatof the Spaniard; but this, the S])aniard doubted 
 not, was the tribute of nwe to his irreatness. His 
 voice became yet blander, as, walking onwards 
 towards the lake, he poured into Guatimozin's 
 ear his wishes and instructions. 
 
 As they passed by the little pool and its dark 
 enclosure of schinus-trees, the infidel looked to- 
 wards it anxiously and lingeringly, as if hoping to 
 behold once more the pale and beautiful coun- 
 tenance which had shone upon it. — It lay in deep 
 silence and solitude. 
 
 A few moments after, the Mexican had passed 
 through the broken wall, and by the centries who 
 guarded it, receiving the last instructions of the 
 invader. The next instant he was alone, stalking 
 towards a little green point, where a fringe of reeds 
 and water-lilies shook in the diminutive surges. He 
 cast his eye backward to the two cavaliers, and 
 beheld them pass into the garden. Then, taking 
 the chain of beads from his neck, and rending it 
 with foot and hand, he cast the broken jewels into 
 the lake. A moment after, his light skiff shot from 
 its concealment, and the sound of his paddle startled 
 the droning wild-fowl from their slumbers. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 193 
 
 dogs may look upon the artillery," said the Cap- 
 tain-General ; and perhaps added in his thoughts, 
 " that they may creep up to my footstool, taking in 
 my greatness from afar, until their humility dwin- 
 dles into submissiveness." 
 
 Presently the curtain of the great door was 
 pushed aside, and the Mexicans entered, preceded 
 and followed by armed men ; the old Ottomi being 
 in advance of all. They were twelve in number, 
 the chief or principal being a man of lofty stature 
 and manly years, wholly differing from the orator 
 Olin, for whom Cortes looked in vain among the 
 others. To indicate the high rank of the ambassa- 
 dor, two attendants sustained over his head, on 
 little rods, a gay canopy or penthouse of feathers. 
 His green mantle (for that was the colour worn by 
 an ambassador,) was of the richest material, the 
 border being wrought into scroll-work with little 
 studs of solid gold. His buskins, for such they 
 might be called, were of crimson leather, and a 
 crimson fillet was wound round his hair, which 
 was, otherwise, almost covered with little tufts or 
 tassels of cotton-down of the same hue. Each of 
 these singular decorations was the evidence and 
 distinguishing badge of some valiant exploit in bat- 
 tle ; and it was therefore manifest to all in the 
 slightest degree acquainted with the customs of Ana- 
 huac, even at the first sight, that the barbarian was 
 a man of renown among the Mexicans. A cluster 
 of rattling grains of gold, suspended to his nostrils, 
 indicated that he belonged to the order of Teuctli, 
 — a race of nobles inferior only to the Tlamantli^ 
 or vassal-kings ; and the red fillets showed that he 
 was a Prince of the House of Darts, the highest of 
 the several chivalric branches into which this order 
 was divided, the two next appertaining to the House 
 of Eagles and the House of Tigers. — In introducing 
 these barbaric terms, we have no desire to inflict 
 upon the reader a dissertation on Aztec chivalry, 
 
 VOL. I. 17 
 
194 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 but simply to make liim aware, that these singular 
 infidels were, in their way, nearly as well provided 
 with the vanities of kniirhthood and nobility as 
 some of the European nations in the Middle Ages. 
 
 The general appearance of the ambassador was 
 commanding; his features weie bold and harsh, 
 yet manly, — his forehead expanded, thougli inclined, 
 and furrowed as with the frowns of battle, — and 
 his eye had a touch of wildness and ferocity, at 
 variance with his modest bearing while advanc- 
 ing towards the Captain-General, and still more 
 strongly contrasted with that melancholy sweetness 
 of mouth, which seems to be a characteristic of all 
 the children of America. — Perhaps it is fillij cha- 
 racteristic, since the proclivity of their fate is 
 equally mournful, throughout all the continent, lie 
 bore in his hand the gold net and white j»lume, 
 hanging to a headless spear, wliich had been dis- 
 played and distinguished afar in the piragua, — 
 as Avell as a golden arrow, — both being the 
 emblems of a Mexican envoy. He was entirely 
 without arms, as were all the rest. 
 
 Behind the canopy-bearers came three old men, 
 with tablets of dressed skin, or maguey paper, in 
 their hands, known, at once, to be writers, — secre- 
 taries or annalists, — who accompanied ambassa- 
 dors, and other high officers, in expeditions of im- 
 portance, to record their actions and preserve the 
 proofe of treaties. 
 
 After these followed six Tlameme, or common 
 carriers, bearing presents, which, with Mexicans 
 of that day, as with Orientals of this, made no 
 small share of the materiel of diplomacy. 
 
 As this train was led forward up to the chair of 
 state, Cortes fixed his eye with a smile of appro- 
 bation on the Ottomi, but did not think fit to honour 
 him with any further evidence of thankfulness. 
 He had other matters to fill his thoughts ; for, at 
 the first glance, he recognized in the ambassador 
 
THE INFIDEL. 195 
 
 a noble, famous even in the days of Montezuma, 
 for skill, audacity, and unconquerable aversion to 
 the strangers, and who, under the ominous title of 
 Masquaza-teuctli,* or the Lord of Death, was 
 known to have commanded bodies of reinforcement, 
 sent to several different shore-towns, to oppose the 
 arms of Cortes in the late campaign. In especial, he 
 was known to have devised the plan of cutting the 
 dikes of Iztapalapan, after decoying the Spaniards 
 into that city, where they escaped drowning almost 
 by a miracle; it was equally certain that he had 
 commanded the multitudes of warriors, who, scarce 
 ten days since, had repulsed the Spaniards from 
 Tacuba with consideralDle loss ; and he was even 
 supposed to have been present in the sack of Xochi- 
 milco, where Cortes had been in such imminent peril. 
 The appearance of this man was doubly disagree- 
 able, as being heartily detested himself, and as 
 showing the temper of Guatimozin's mind, who 
 chose to send an envoy so little inclined to compo- 
 sition. A murmur of dissatisfaction arose among 
 the Spaniards present, as soon as they were made 
 aware of the ambassador's character ; and if looks 
 could have destroyed, it is certain the Lord of 
 Death would have passed to the world of shades, 
 before speaking a word of his embassy. 
 
 Without, however, seeming to regard these 
 boding glances any more than he had done the 
 hostile opposition of the brigantines, he began with- 
 out delay the usual native forms of salutation. 
 But before he could pass to those rhetorical and 
 reverential flourishes of compliment, which consti- 
 tuted the exordium of an ambassador's speech, he 
 
 * The name is corrupted, as are all those handed down 
 by the early historians. The suffixes, pilU and teudll, in- 
 dicate the title, and are therefore not a purt of the name. 
 We translate both brd; though it would be more germain 
 to the matter, however ludicrous it might seem, to say at 
 once Duke Death and Earl Olin. 
 
196 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 was interrupted by Cortes, wliose words were in- 
 terpreted by the same cavalier who had officiated 
 before, in the interview with Olin. 
 
 " Masquaza-teuctJi, Lord of Death !" said the 
 Captain-General, sternly, " what dost thou here in 
 Tezcuco ]" 
 
 The infidel looked up witli surprise, and havinfj 
 eyed the Spaniard a moment, replied with another 
 question, which was only remarkable as indicating 
 the composure of the speaker, and as giving utter- 
 ance to tones exceedingly soft and pleasant : 
 
 " Was Olin deceived, and did Techeechee lie ?" 
 he said. " I bring the words of Guatimozin toMa- 
 lintzin, son of Q,uetzalcoatl, and Lord of the Big 
 Canoes with legs of crocodiles and wings of peli- 
 cans." 
 
 " Art thou not stained with the blood of Casti- 
 lians ?" rejoined Cortes, but little pleased with the 
 frank and una wed bearing of the envoy. " This 
 thing is ill of Guatimozin : why does he send me 
 an enemy from Tenochtitlan V 
 
 The Lord of Death replied with what seemed a 
 lurking smile, if such could be traced in a peculiar 
 and slight motion of lips, always sedate, if not al- 
 ways melancholy ; 
 
 " Has the Teuctli di friend in Tenochtitlan ] — Let 
 Malintzin speak his name : I will return. — My little 
 children are yet awkward with the bow and ar- 
 row." 
 
 " Hark to the hound !" exclaimed the Captain- 
 General, struck more by the hint conveyed by the 
 last words than by the sarcasm so gently expressed 
 in the first : " He would have me believe the very 
 boys of Mexico are training to resist us ! and that 
 he thinks it better honour to encourage the young 
 cubs to malice, than to speak to me for terms of 
 peace. — Hearken, infidel : you spoke of the young 
 man Olin. Why returned not he to Tezcuco 1" 
 
 " Malintzin was in a hurry for the blood of Izta- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 197 
 
 pa"'apan : the king saw the glitter of spears on the 
 lakeside, and said to his servant, ' Go not to Tez- 
 cuco with gold and sweet words, but to Iztapala- 
 pan with axes and spears.' — " 
 
 " Ay, marry ; but Olin, what of Olin-pilli ] — I 
 warrant me, the knavish king discovered the craft 
 of the knavish noble, and so killed himi — I was a 
 fool to give him the beads. — What sayst thou, infi- 
 del ! what has become of the Speaker of Wise 
 Things 1 I sent him to Guatimozin for an envoy ; 
 and, lo you, this old savage, the Silent Dog, has 
 brought me what Olin could not, or did not. Is 
 Olin living ]" 
 
 " How shall I answer 1 Ipalnemoani* is the ma- 
 ker of life ; it is the king who takes it. Olin-pilli is 
 forgotten." 
 
 " Ay then, let him sleep ; and to thy work, infi- 
 del, to thy work. Will Guatimozin have peace ! 
 He is somewhat late of decision ; but the great 
 monarch of Spain, who sends me to speak with 
 him, and to enforce the vassalage acknowledged by 
 Montezuma, is merciful. Speak, then, and quickly. 
 My ships are on the lake, my soldiers are thicker 
 than the reeds on its banks, and fiercer than its 
 waters, when the torrents rush down from the 
 mountains. Will he have the blood of his people 
 flow through the streets, as the waters of an inun- 
 dation, when the dikes are broken 1 Speak then, 
 Lord of Death ; will Guatimozin acknowledge him- 
 self the king's vassal, pay tribute, and govern his 
 empire in peace ?" 
 
 " Hear the words of Guatimozin," said the am- 
 bassador, beckoning to the Tlameme to open their 
 packs : " The king sends you the history of his 
 land," — taking up, from among many books, which 
 
 * One of the titles of the Supreme God, (Teotl,) who 
 was not worshipped directly, but through the medium of 
 his agents, the inferior divinities. 
 
 17* 
 
198 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 made the contents of the first bundle, a volume of 
 hieroglyphics, and displaying its pictured pages : 
 " He has searched for the time when the king of 
 Castile was the lord of his people ; but it is not 
 written. How then shall he kiss the earth before 
 the Teuctli ? He has sought to find to what race, 
 besides the race of heaven, the men of Mexico have 
 paid tribute : It is not written, — except this, — that 
 once, when his fathers were poor and few, the men 
 of Cojohuacan called on them for tribute, and they 
 paid it in the skulls of their foes. The men of Cas- 
 tile call for tribute : Guatimozin sends them such 
 tribute as his fathers paid ; here it is — twelve 
 skulls of the dogs of Chalco, taken in the act of re- 
 bellion." And as he spoke, the grinning orbs rolled 
 under his foot against the platform, 
 
 " Hah !" cried Cortes, starting up, with as nuich 
 admiration as wrath, for he was keenly alive to 
 every burst of audacious and heroic daring, " is not 
 this a merlin of a royal stock, that will try buffets 
 with an eagle ? But, pho ! the young man is besot- 
 ted." 
 
 " Hear, further, the words of Guatimozin," con- 
 tinued the envoy, taking from the third bundle two 
 more books, and displaying them, as he had done 
 the first : " the king remembers that the wild Otto- 
 mies came down from their hills, saying that they 
 were foolish and pitiful, because Ipalnemoani had 
 kept them in darkness, so that they robbed one 
 another, and were blasphemers against heaven. 
 The king gave them religion and laws ; and, behold, 
 those that live upon the skirts of the valley, are be- 
 come wise and happy. The king says, ' Have not 
 the Spaniards come like the Ottomies 1 and are 
 they not very ignorant and miserable V These are 
 the king's words to Malintzin : 'Take this book, 
 and learn how to worship the gods : religion is a 
 good thing, and will make you happy. Take this 
 
THE INFIDEL. 199 
 
 book also, and understand the laws of men : justice 
 is a good thing, and will make you happy." 
 
 It would be difficult to express the varied feel- 
 ings of wonder, anger, scorn, and merriment, with 
 which the Spaniards hearkened to this extraordi- 
 nary exhortation. Some stared, some frowned, 
 some smiled, and a few laughed outiight ; but all 
 immediately betook themselves to looks of sympa- 
 thetic anger, when Cortes, again rising, stamped 
 upon the platform, crying with a fierceness that 
 was in part unassumed, 
 
 " Knave of a heathen and savage, dost thou pass 
 this scorn upon the religion of Christ ] this slight 
 upon the laws of Castile ] this slur upon religious 
 and civilized men 1 Look upon this cross, and say 
 to Guatimozin, that not a Spaniard shall leave his 
 valley, till every slave that acknowledges his sway, 
 has knelt before it, and, abjuring the fiendish idola- 
 try of Mexitli, has sworn with a kiss, to worship 
 naught else. Look, too, upon this sword, and say 
 to thine insolent prince, that it shall not cease to 
 strike and slay, until his whole people have ac- 
 knowledged it to be the abrogator of the old, and 
 the teacher of a new law, such as his brutish 
 sages never dreamed of. In one word, give him 
 to know, that my purpose in his land, is to bestow 
 upon it the cross of heaven and the laws of Spain ; 
 and these I will bestow, — both, — so help me the 
 sword which I grasp, and the cross that I wor- 
 ship !" 
 
 A murmur of satisfaction and responsive resolu- 
 tion passed through the assemblage, which had 
 been considerably increased by the appearance of 
 such officers, returning from the lake-side, as were 
 privileged to enter the presence on such an occa- 
 sion. But the stern voice of the Captain-General 
 produced no effect on the Mexicans, except, indeed, 
 that one of the three writers who had been all the 
 
200 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 time busily engag^ed, as tliey squatted upon the floor, 
 recording the speeches, in their inexplicable manner, 
 raised his eyes, when the Christian's voice was at 
 the higliest, and eyed him askant for a minute or 
 two. The Lord of Death kept his glance firmly 
 fixed on the aspect of the general, while listening to 
 the interpretation of his angry vows. Then, when 
 Cortes had concluded, he turned to the fourth pack, 
 and resumed his discourse, as if it were no part of 
 his duty to reply to anything not immediately touch- 
 ing his instructions. 
 
 "Hear, further, the words of Guatimozin," he 
 said, pointing to an ear of maize, a bundle of cacao- 
 berries, a cluster of bananas, and divers other 
 fruits, as well as nuts and esculent roots, which 
 appeared in the pack :• " Thus says the king of 
 Mexico : — Is Castile a naked rock, where the food 
 of man grows not? Malintzin said to Montezuma, 
 ' The land is like other lands, with earth over the 
 flint-stone, and with rivers to make it fertile ; soil 
 comes down from the mountains, and heaven sends 
 frequent rains.' Look at Mexico : the sun parches 
 it, till it becomes like sand, half the year ; the other 
 half, the sky turns to water, and drowns the gar- 
 dens and corn-fields. But is man a dog, that he 
 should how^l w^hen he is hungry, and run abroad 
 for food ] God gave these good things to the king ; 
 the king gives them to the Spaniard. Let him 
 throw them upon the earth, and sit hard by in pa- 
 tience, while the rain drops upon tliem ; and, by and 
 by, he will have food for himself and his children : 
 he will not be hungry, and run forth, like a dog, to 
 strange lands, seeking for food. — Hear, further, the 
 words of the king," continued the grave barbarian, 
 observing the impatience of Cortes, and turning his 
 anger into admiration, by suddenly displaying the 
 contents of the fifth pack, which consisted of di- 
 A'ers ornaments and jewels of gold, with a huge 
 plate of extraordinary value, representing the sun: 
 
THE INFIDEL. 201 
 
 " Is there no yellow dirt in Castile, to make play- 
 things for the women and children 1 Thus says the 
 king : ' Let Malintzin take these things to his wo- 
 men and children ; and, lest they should, by and 
 by, cry for more, let him send a ship to Guatimo- 
 zin, at the end of the Tlalpitli,* and more shall be 
 given him. Thus it shall be while Guatimozin 
 lives ; and thus it shall be hereafter, if the king 
 wills, — for what is Guatimozin, that he should 
 make a law for his successors ]" 
 
 The admiration with which the Captain-General 
 surveyed the gorgeous present, greatly moderated 
 his disgust at the mode of making it. He stepped 
 down from the platform, and taking the massive 
 disk into his hands, gloated over its almost insup- 
 portable weight and dazzling splendour, with the 
 relish of one who seemed never to have felt any 
 passion less sordid than that of avarice. While 
 thus engaged, ruddy at once with delight and with 
 the effort of sustaining such a precious burthen, a 
 paper was put into his hand, or rather held out 
 for him to receive, while a voice murmured in his 
 ear, 
 
 " The award of the judges, sent to your excel- 
 lency for confirmation." 
 
 The golden luminary fell, with a heavy clang, 
 upon the floor, the flush fled from his cheeks, 
 and the look with which he turned to the untimely 
 and ill-omened messenger, Villafana, was even 
 more ghastly with affright than that which distin- 
 guished the aspect of the Alguazil. 
 
 " If your excellency thinks of mercy," continued 
 the Alguazil, in the same low and hurried voice, — 
 " it is not yet too late. They have him on the 
 square, and are confessing him. — He has but a dog's 
 life, and a gnat's death, who puts them in the 
 hands of De Olid." — 
 
 * Tlalpilli — the quarter-cycle, or epoch of 13 years. 
 
202 THE INFIDEL, 
 
 Cortes cast liis eye upon tlie paper, and beheld, 
 besides the date, a preamble of two lines, and the 
 signatures of the judges, the following brief and 
 pithy sentences : 
 
 " Concealing a spy and fugitive from justice — 
 Guilty. 
 
 *' Drawing sword upon a Christian — Guilty. 
 
 " Resisting with arms an officer in the execution 
 of his duty — Guilty. 
 
 " Sentence — To be beheaded, his right hand 
 struck off and nailed to the prison-door. — To take 
 effect in half an hour. 
 
 *' In the name of God and the king. 
 
 " De Olid, 
 " Marin, 
 " De Ircio." 
 
 " Butchers !" cried Cortes, with accents of un- 
 speakable horror. " What ho, a pen ! a pen, 
 knave ! a pen !" 
 
 Tlie agitation and violence of his voice surprised 
 even the stoical Mexicans ; and the writers looking 
 up, he became suddenly aware that the implements 
 with which they practised their rude art, would 
 answer all his purpose. Darting forward, he 
 snatched from the hand of the nearest, one of the 
 Uiany reeds which he held. The barbarian, al- 
 though apparently the oldest and most infirm of the 
 three, mistaking the ])urpose of the assault, started 
 to his feet with a vivacity of effort, which, at any 
 other moment, would have drawn a sharp look of 
 suspicion from the Captain-General. But his thoughts 
 w€;re too much excited to be diverted by any such 
 seeming inconsistency. 
 
 It happened, by a natural accident, (for each reed 
 was api)ropriated to its peculiar colour,) that that 
 which Cortes had seized contained a dark crimson 
 
THE INFIDEL. 203 
 
 ink. Still, natural as the circumstance was. it had 
 no sooner touched the paper than he shuddered, 
 and muttering ' Blood ! blood !' seemed as if he 
 would have cast it away. But recovering himself 
 in an instant, with a faint and forced laugh, he 
 subscribed the few words, 
 
 " Confirmed. — Respite for twenty-four hours. 
 
 " Cortes." 
 
 and putting the paper into Villafana's hands, he 
 dismissed him with the hurried charge, 
 
 " Away — see to it." 
 
 He then flung the reed back to the writer who 
 had already resumed his squatting attitude, and 
 reascended the platform. 
 
 On those who surmised the cause of this sudden 
 interruption, the agitation of Don Hernan had the 
 good effect of banishing from their minds any lin- 
 gering suspicions of his entertaining personal ill- 
 will towards the unfortunate Lerma. All went to 
 show that he was shocked at the young man's fate, 
 and the necessity of ministering to it, even in the 
 simple act of confirming a judgment, awarded by 
 others ; but, unhappily, the same feeling that exo- 
 nerated the judge, still further increased the odium 
 attached to the criminal. How great, they thought, 
 must be the guilt of him whom it causes Cortes so 
 much suffering to condemn. — But the Captain-Gene- 
 ral, recovering himself, gave them little time for 
 such speculations. 
 
 " Well, infidel, thou speakest well," he cried, his 
 voice becoming firmer with each syllable ; " What 
 hidest thou in the sixth bundle ? — or rather, what 
 if I should accept thy master's niggardly offer, and 
 depart with these baubles for women and children, 
 as thou hast rightly called them V 
 
 " Hear the words of Guatimozin," replied the 
 ambassador, with a careless emphasis, as if pro- 
 
204 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 peiiy understanding tlie futility of the proposal, 
 and, indeed, with a look of scorn, as if learning to 
 despise one capable of Don Hernan's late weakness : 
 " If Malintzin depart with the fifth pack, cast the 
 sixth into the lake, and tell him, that, in its place, 
 he shall have sent after him to the seaside, a thou- 
 sand sacks of robes and four thousand sacks of 
 corn, to clothe and feed his people as they sail 
 over the endless sea. Say to him besides — " 
 
 " Pho," interrupted Cortes, " have done with 
 this mummery, and get thee to the sixth sack, which 
 I am impatient to examine. What hast thou 
 there 1" 
 
 " The riches which are more precious to Mexico 
 than the trinkets of her children," replied the stately 
 barbarian; and, as he spoke, he rolled upon the 
 floor, arrowheads and spearpoints of bright copper, 
 sharp blades of itzli and heavy maces of flint, which 
 made up the contents of the last bundle : " Hear 
 the words of Guatimozin," he continued, with a 
 dignity of bearing that might have become a Spar- 
 tan envoy in the camp of the Persian ; " thus says 
 the king: ' What is the Lord of Castile, that Guati- 
 mozin should call him master "? what is Malintzin, 
 that Guatimozin should make him his friend ! The 
 Teuctli burns my cities, murders my children, and 
 spits in the face of my gods. His religion is mur- 
 der, his law robbery : he is strong, yet very unjust ; 
 he is wise, yet he makes men mad. Guatimozin 
 has called together the chiefs and the planters of 
 corn, the wise men and the foolish, the strong and 
 the feeble, the old men, the women and the chil- 
 dren. He has spoken to them, and they have re- 
 plied : ' Is not the sword better than the whip ? is 
 not the arrow softer than the brand J is not the 
 fagot of fire pleasanter than the chain of captivity ! 
 is not death sweeter than slavery ]' Thus says the 
 old man, — ' I am old ; wherefore, then, should I be 
 a ^lave for a day r Thus says the little infant, — 
 
THE INFIDEL. 205 
 
 *I am a little child; why should I be a slave for 
 many years V This, then, is the word of the whole 
 people ; it is Guatimozin who speaks it : 'If the 
 gods desert me, what have I to yield but life ! if 
 they help me, as they have helped my fathers, 
 what have I to do, but to drive away my foe ] Let 
 Malintzin look at my weapons, and put two plates 
 of the black-copper of Castile on his bosom, for I am 
 very strong in my sorrow, and I will strike very 
 hard. Let Malintzin fear : the rebels of Tezcuco 
 and Cholula, the traitors of Chalco and Otumba, 
 are but straws to help him : can they look in the 
 face of a Mexican? Let Malintzin fear: is he 
 stronger than when he fled from Tenochtitlan, in 
 the month of Mourning I* has not Mexico more 
 fighting men than when the horn of the gods sound- 
 ed at midnight, and the Teuctli sat on the stone 
 and wept] — on the stone of Tacuba, by the water- 
 side, when the morning came, and his people slept 
 in the ditches 1 If Malintzin will fight, so will Guati- 
 mozin.' These are the words of the king ; these 
 are the words of the people: they are said. The 
 gods behold us." 
 
 So spake the bold savage ; and as if to show that 
 even the basest and feeblest shared his courage, 
 and sanctioned his defiance, the very Tlameme 
 looked around them with a show of spirit, and the 
 three old men expressed their satisfaction with au- 
 dible murmurs. 
 
 The Spaniards were surprised at the fearless 
 tones of the Lord of Death, and not a few were 
 impressed with alarm as well as anger, when he 
 referred so unceremoniously to the events of the 
 fatal Noche Triste. As for Cortes himself, though 
 the frown with which he listened to the whole ora- 
 
 * Enibrac'ing' a portion respectively of June and July, 
 and devoted to austere and penitential preparation for a 
 coming festival. 
 
 VOL. I. 18 
 
206 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 tion, had become darker and darker as the warrior- 
 noble proceeded, yet, apparently, he had become 
 sensible, both from the tenor of the discourse and 
 the resolute bearincr of the speaker, that it should 
 be answered with g^ravity rather than anger. Hence, 
 when he en me to reply, it was in terms briefly im- 
 pressive and solemn : 
 
 " My young brother Guatimozin is unwise, and 
 he is digging the grave of his whole people. He 
 has evil counsellors about him. I have somewhat 
 to say to him ; and, to-morrow, you shall be sent 
 back with an answer, which will perhaps dispel his 
 foolish dream of resistance." — He observed that the 
 Lord of Death looked displeased and even alarmed, 
 when the interpreter made him sensible tiiat he was 
 to be detained until the morrow. " Be not alarm- 
 ed," he continued, sternly : " when didst thou ever 
 hear of a Christian aping the treachery of thy na- 
 tive princes, and doing wrong to an ambassador 1 
 I tell thee, fellow, infidel though thou be, I will do 
 thee honour, in respect of thy young master. To- 
 morrow thou shalt eat at my board, for it is a day 
 of banqueting ; and to-morrow, also, shalt thou be 
 made acquainted with my answer to the king's 
 message, which it is not possible I should speak to- 
 day. Rest you then content. — Hark thee, Villafa- 
 na," (for the Alguazil had returned,) " have thou 
 charge of this bitter-tongued knave and his dumb 
 companions. Entreat them well, but see that they 
 neither escape nor communicate with any one in this 
 army. Christian or misbeliever. And look well to thy 
 prison too. — This knave, Techeechee, — bring him 
 to me when thou changest guards at the prison," 
 
 Then, breaking up the audience, he remained for 
 a time in conference with a few of the chief officers^ 
 debating subjects of great importance, but which 
 would be of no interest to the readers of this his- 
 tory. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 207 
 
 CHAPTER XVIIL 
 
 Some two hours after* nightfall, as the unhappy 
 Lerma lay in darkness and solitude, (for Befo was 
 no longer permitted to be his companion,) the door 
 of the prison opened, and the Alguazil, Villafana, 
 entered, bearing a lantern, which emitted just suf- 
 ficient hght to allow his features to be distinguished, 
 together with what seemed a flask of wine — a luxu- 
 ry now to be occasionally obtained, since vessels 
 arrived not unfrequently from the islands. 
 
 " How now, what cheer, seiior ?" he exclaimed, 
 setting down the flask upon the table, and turning 
 the light full upon Juan's face ; " are you saying 
 your prayers ? Here's that shall give you better 
 comfort, — something from the vineyards of Xeres 
 de la Frontera, — stout Sherry, that shall make your 
 heart bounce, were it broken twice over. — Come, 
 faith, it will make you merry." 
 
 " I shall never be merry more," said Juan ; " and 
 why should 11 It is better I should not. I thank 
 you for your good- will, Villafana ; but I would that, 
 instead of this wine, if it be not contrary to your 
 duty, you would fetch me the good father Olmedo, 
 to finish the confession, begun upon the block, and 
 so abruptly interrupted, this morning." 
 
 " Pho, be not in such a hurry : you have time 
 enough. The priest is busy, and knowing he must 
 shrive you to-morrow, he will be ill inclined to 
 trouble himself superfluously to-night. Come, sit 
 up, drink, laugh, and curse thy foes. Come, now, 
 
208 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 — a merry God's blessing ! may you live a thousand 
 years ! — Dzooa: ! ball : dzoog ! — Now could I fight 
 sev^en tigers !" 
 
 " It is better thou shouldst drink it than I," said 
 Juan, observing the strong and somewhat flintastic 
 gestures with whicli the Alguazil expressed liis ap- 
 probation, after having taken a hearty draught of 
 the liquor ; " yet betliink thee, Villafana, — " 
 
 " 'Slid !" interrupted the jailer, " bethink thyself! 
 and bethink thee that this will make thee a good 
 fellow of a warhorse mettle, whereas, now, thou art 
 but a sick lambkin. What makes a beggar a king, 
 hah ] a tailor's 'prentice a Cid Ruy Diaz of Castile, 
 — a doughty Campeador 1 Pho, there is more of 
 this, and to-morrow it will flow : Dost thou not 
 know, Don Demonios, our king, has invited us to a 
 banquet to-morrow ? Thou shalt hear this banquet 
 spoken of for a thousand years. Ah, the good ship ! 
 the good ship ! there is a better thing she brings us 
 than wine. — But that is neither here nor there. 
 Why dost thou not drink !" 
 
 " Am I not condemned to death for the infraction 
 of a decree?" said Juan, somewhat sternly, for he 
 thought he perceived in Villafana's levity a symp- 
 tom of undue excitement ; " and dost thou not re- 
 member that there is a decree also against drunk- 
 enness ? Thou hast suffered somewhat from this 
 already." 
 
 " Dost thou suppose there is a hell ?" said Villa- 
 fana, with some such look as that which had ap- 
 palled Juan, when he walked -with him over the 
 meadows beyond the city : " For, if thou dost, 
 know then, that I make my promise to the infernal 
 fiend, to broil with him seven times seven thousand 
 years, if I do not, with a stab for every lash, make 
 up my reckoning with the man who degraded me ! 
 Ojala and Amen ! — So now, there's enough to keep 
 thee quiet. — Hast thou any gall any where but in 
 thy liver .'" 
 
 " Thou art besotted, or insane, I think," said 
 
THE INFIDEL. 209 
 
 Juan, angrily. " I am a dying- man : begone, and 
 suffer me to make my peace with lieaven." 
 
 " Come, you think I am drunk," said Villafana, 
 somewliat more rationally : " I grant you ; but it is 
 with a stuff stronger than strong drink ; — ay, faith, 
 for, to-morrow, I see my way to heaven ! — Answer 
 me, truly : have you no thirst for vengeance on 
 those who have brought you to this pass ] — You 
 see I am sober, hah? One would not die like a 
 sheep. — You may play the wolf yet. What if you 
 had an opportunity — " 
 
 " Tempt me not, knave," said Juan, turning 
 away his face — " Avoid thee, Satan !" 
 
 " What if I should knock open thy doors, and put 
 a sword into thy hand ?" said Villafana, bending 
 over, so as to whisper into his ear ; " what wouldst 
 thou do with it ]" 
 
 *' Break it," replied the prisoner, wrapping his 
 mantle about his head, as if to shut out all further 
 temptation. 
 
 " Thou art a fool," said the Alguazil, with a 
 growl, and left the apartment. 
 
 Juan heard his retreating steps, followed by the 
 clanking of the chain, which, with a strong padlock, 
 on the outside, secured the door of the prison ; yet 
 he neither raised his head, nor removed the mantle 
 from his face, but endeavoured to drive from his 
 heart the thoughts of passion, excited by the words 
 of the tempter. From this gloomy task he was 
 roused by a soft voice, murmuring, as it seemed to 
 him from the air, for he was not aware of the 
 presence of any human being in the apartment, — 
 
 " Does the Great Eagle fear the face of his 
 friend ]" 
 
 He started to his feet, and beheld in the light of 
 the lantern, which Villafana had left on the table, 
 the figure of an ancient Indian, standing hard 
 by. 
 
 " Techeechee !" he exclaimed — " But no ; thy 
 18^ 
 
210 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 speech is pure, thy tonirne is another's. Who art 
 thou, gray-head of Mexico I" 
 
 " To-day, Cojotl, the cunning fox of scribes, — 
 yesterday, Olin, the tongue of nobles, — but before, 
 and iiereafler, Guatiinozin, the friend of the Great 
 Eagle," replied the Indian, and as he spoke, he 
 exchanged the decrepit stooj) of age for the lofty 
 demeanour of youth, and parted the gray locks 
 ■wliich had hitherto almost concealed his coun- 
 tenance. 
 
 " Rash jH'ince," said Juan, " will you yet wear 
 the cliains of Montezuma] Why dost thou again 
 entrust thyself among Spaniards I" 
 
 " How came the Great Eagle into the place of 
 Guatimozinl" demanded the young Mexican, ex- 
 jiressively : " Shall he die for Guatimozin, and 
 Guatimozin stand afar off !" 
 
 " Alas, prince," said Juan, " thy friendship is 
 noble, but can do me no good. Leave this place, 
 where thou art in great danger, and think of me 
 no more. I am beyond the reach of help. Think 
 of thyself, — of thy people, (for, surely, it is thy 
 duty to i)rotect them,) and depart while thou 
 canst." 
 
 " And what am I, that I should do this thing 3" 
 said Guatimozin. " Listen to me, son of the day- 
 spring : the cliildren of Spain are wolves and rep- 
 tiles ; the iztli is sharp for them, and it must not 
 spare. But thou, the young Eagle, shalt remain 
 the fiiend of Guatimozin, Has not Mahntzin eaten 
 of thy blood ! is he not like the big tiger that takes 
 by the throat? and who shall draw him away? 
 Canst thou remain, and smile on another sunset ? 
 I bring thee liberty." 
 
 " How !" said Juan ; " is Villafana this traitor, 
 that he will permit me to escape ?" 
 
 " He is a rat with tw^o faces," said the prince, 
 significantly; "he fears the WTath of Malintzin; he 
 loves gold, but he says thou shalt not go till to- 
 
THE INPiDEL, 21 1 
 
 morrow, and to-morrow thou wilt be in Mictlan, 
 the world of caves. But Guatimozin can do what 
 the traitor Christian will not. The Eagle is very 
 brave : he shall kill his foe." 
 
 As Guatimozin spoke, he drew from his cloak a 
 Spanish dagger, long, sharp and exceedingly bright, 
 — a relic of the spoils won from the invaders in the 
 Night of Sorrow, — and offered it to the prisoner, 
 adding, 
 
 " When I depart, a soldier will fasten the door. 
 If thou art strong-hearted, thou canst rush by, 
 dealing him a blow. At the water's edge, by the 
 broken wall, thou wilt find a friend with a canoe ; 
 it is Techeechee. Is not Tenochtitlan hard by J 
 Guatimozin, the king of Mexico, will make his friend 
 welcome." 
 
 " Prince," said Juan, sadly, " this thing cannot 
 be. Why should 1 strike down the poor sentinel 1 
 He has done me no wrong. What would become 
 of thee] Thou couldst not escape. What would 
 become of Villafana, who, knave though he be, has 
 3''et done much to serve me? And what, to con- 
 clude, would become of me, escaping from Chris- 
 tians, to take refuge among thy unbelieving people? 
 I can die, prince, but I can be" neither renegade nor 
 apostate." 
 
 " Is there nothing in Tenochtitlan, that dwells 
 in the thoughts of the captive I I will be very 
 good to thee ; and thou shalt drink the blood of 
 thy foe." 
 
 " Prince," said Juan, firmly, " thine eye cannot 
 search the soul of a Christian. Malintzin has 
 done me a great wrong, yet would I not harm a 
 hair of his head ; no, heaven is my witness ! I can 
 forgive him even my death, howev^er unjust and 
 cruel." 
 
 " It is a dove of Cholula that speaks in the voice 
 of my friend," said the infidel, struck with as much 
 disdain as surprise at the want of spirit, which his 
 
212 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 barbarous code of honour discovored in a lack of 
 vindictiveness : " Is a man a worm that he should 
 be trampled on 1" 
 
 "No," said Juan, bitterly, — for he could not re- 
 sist his feelings of inditrnation, when he suffered 
 himself to consider his degradation in this light. 
 " Had I resisted him in his first anger, had I re- 
 sented his first injustice, had I provoked liim by 
 any complaint, then might I think of his course with 
 submission. But I have not; I have been, indeed, 
 as thou sayest, a worm, at all times helpless, at all 
 times unresisting. Others have com}">lained, some 
 have defied him, but they passed unpunished. I, who 
 have yielded, like a woman, escape not : I creep 
 from the ]iath of his anger, but his foot follows me, 
 — turn which way I will, it crushes me. Even 
 Befo will show his teeth sometimes — I have seen 
 him growl when Cortes struck him — and by mine 
 nonour, I think he struck him, because he was 
 once mine !" 
 
 How far, by indulging such thoughts, he might 
 have wrought himself into the veiy spirit which 
 Guatimozin was surprised to lind absent, we will 
 not venture to say. He was interrupted by the 
 sudden re-entrance of Villafana, who immediately 
 exclaimed, 
 
 " Will you have my brother Najara diving in 
 upon you ] Pho, you talk too loud : 'tis well you 
 were gabbling in Mexican. Hark ye, Olin, you 
 knave, get you gone ! to your den, sirrah ! — Pray, 
 senor Juan, tell this rascal, in his own gibberish, 
 that he cannot remain a moment longer from his 
 lock-up, without ])eing discovered. — Come, fellow, 
 come: you shall have more talk to-morrow." 
 
 So saying, the Alguazil conducted the Mexican 
 away. A few moments after, he returned alone. 
 Juan, still disordered and brooding over his wrongs, 
 paced to and fro over the narrow limits of his cell. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 213 
 
 His agitation increased with each step, and, at last, 
 finding that Villafana did not speak, he exclaimed, 
 
 " Come, Villafana, — I know what thou wilt say, 
 —am I not used dog-like ] He disdained even to 
 sit upon the trial, to ask me what I had to urge in 
 excuse of my folly ; but left this to judges, who 
 were content to ask ' Didst thou this ]' and ' Didst 
 thou that ]' without permitting me a word of de- 
 fence. Surely, I had much provocation in the mat- 
 ter of Guzman ; and as for the decree, it should 
 have been remembered, that I w^as come into the 
 camp too short a time to have made it as fast in my 
 mind as others, who had heard it daily proclaimed 
 for months. I must die for this ! — die like a hunted 
 assassin ! — my hand stuck against the prison-door, 
 my body given, perhaps, to fatten the lean hogs 
 that will fatten my judges ! Oh, by heaven, this is 
 intolerable to think on !" 
 
 " Thou wilt believe, now, that thou wert sent to 
 the South Sea for no good ]" 
 
 " Ay, I will believe anything," said Juan, in in- 
 creasing excitement. "And this too ! scarce an hour 
 returned from my sufferings, endured for him, — 
 endured to regain his good-will ! Ay, and before I 
 had done speaking, he would have sent me to 
 Mexico, to be sacrificed there ! — before I had eaten 
 and drunk ! before I had rested my wearied body, 
 before I had recruited my exhausted strength ! — 
 Tell me, Villafana ! was it not by his design I was 
 entrapped into giving shelter to — But, no ! that 
 could not be ; in that, at least, he must be innocent. 
 But, in the rest, it is oppression, grinding, intolera- 
 ble oppression !" 
 
 " Well, 1 marvel he did not let thee off with a 
 scourging," said Villafana, swallowing another 
 draught from the neglected flask. " Come, drink, 
 and we will discourse together." 
 
 " A scourging !" said Juan, seizing the Alguazil's 
 
214 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 arm with a grasp which showed that imprisonment 
 and sorrow had not altoircthor robbed him of 
 strength ; " dare you talk to me of scourging !" 
 
 " Ay, marry," said Villafana, whose object seemed 
 to be to excite the shimbering fury of the young 
 man, and who now, in the effect of a word used for 
 another purpose, discovered a point on which his 
 equanimity was not impregnable ; " ay, faith ; for 
 the whole army cries out upon his barbarity, saying 
 that he is murdering you ; so that he already talks 
 of letting you off with a scourging. — He was as 
 good with me." 
 
 " By the saints of heaven !" cried Juan, snatcliing 
 up the dagger which Guatimozin had left, and .strik- 
 ing it into the table with a fury which split the 
 plank in twain, " were it his own, I would drive this 
 steel into the breast of the man that designed me 
 such dishonour. Scourge me ! Thanks be to hea- 
 ven, that sends this weapon !" 
 
 " Oho, seiior !" said Villafana, with counterfeited 
 indignation, " you will resist, will you ! Hah ! and 
 you have a dagger, too ! Come, senor, give it up." 
 
 " Fool," said the prisoner, " tliy bitter words have 
 unchained me at last, and driven me to desperation. 
 I will not yield this weapon but with my life. Wo 
 betide him that comes to me with a scourge, were 
 it Don Hernan himself!" 
 
 " You will resist him then 1 — Why now you are 
 a man again ! Sit down ; fear not : you shall 
 have a better weapon. Come, let us drink a 
 little : 'tis a raw night, and rainy. Here's success 
 to our vengeance — a quart of blood apiece ! Me- 
 thinks, you are more wronged than myself — There- 
 fore, you shall strike the first blow. I give you 
 this privilege, out of friendship. The second is 
 mine." 
 
 While Villafana held forth in these extraordinary 
 terms, Juan, shocked into composure, became 
 aware that the wine, which the Alguazil plied with 
 
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 THE INFIDEL. 215 
 
 characteristic infatuation, had ah'eady made serious 
 inroads upon his brain. He ogled and smiled, with 
 a stupid contortion of countenance, which was 
 meant to be significant ; his articulation was im- 
 peded, and his expressions coarser than usual ; and 
 without being positively drunk, he was reduced to 
 that condition in which the natural propensities get 
 the better of all artificial qualities. Hence, he be- 
 came fierce and bloody-minded, without displaying 
 any of the subtle cautiousness and cunning inquisi- 
 tiveness, that were common to him in his sober 
 hours. It was for this reason that he proceeded to 
 unfold the secrets of his breast, without being in 
 any degree abashed by the looks of horror, with 
 which Juan heard him. 
 
 " Know then, brother Juan," said he, " that thou 
 shalt lap the blood of Don Demonios to-morrow 
 morning, at the banquet-table ; and afterwards 
 hang up Guzman with thine own hands. Thou art 
 too white-livered, or thou shouldst have known of 
 the matter earlier. Also, thou shalt have thy fair 
 nun again, as before : — that is, upon condition she 
 likes thee better than me ; which may be, or may 
 not, for who can tell whether the star will shoot 
 into the marsh, or fall upon the mountain 1 — Bah ! 
 it is a pity I brought thee not another flagon. Bus- 
 ta ! I will drink no more ; for this is no time to be 
 thick-witted. — Know then, Jifctnito querido, we have 
 brought our conspiracy to a head ; and out of the 
 nine hundred Christians in this town there are two 
 hundred and forty sworn on dirk, buckler, and cru- 
 cifix, to our whole game, — three hundred, who will 
 wink and stand by, till the play is over, — three hun- 
 dred who will swear faith to the devil himself, when 
 Don Demonios lies hid in his pocket, — and as for 
 the rest, why we must e'en have some hanging and 
 stabbing." 
 
 " In heaven's name," said Juan, " what dost thou 
 
216 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 mean? Art tliou really mad? Bethink thee what 
 thou art saying !" 
 
 " Hah !" cried Villafana, " wilt thou skulk back- 
 wards, after all ? Dost thou jiretend to oppose us ? 
 We had some thoughts of n^aking thee one of the 
 three chief captains. This Olea stands to ; for he 
 swears thou art the best leader in the camp." 
 
 " Is Caspar sworn among you ?" said Juan, with 
 a faint voice, his detestation of the bloody scheme 
 arousing him to the necessity of sifting it to the 
 bottom — for he forgot his captivity, and thought 
 only of arresting the progress of a treason so fear- 
 ful. 
 
 " Ay," returned the Alguazil ; " and better men 
 than he. Come, claj) thy name to the paper, and 
 I swear thou shalt have a command among us, 
 though I should kill thy rival-candidate Gil Gonzales^ 
 with my own hand. Dost thou not know these 
 fellows ] We have hidalgos among us." 
 
 As he spoke, he pulled from his bosom a paper, 
 on which Juan read with affright the names of se- 
 veral men of rank, mingled with those of common 
 soldiers, with many of which he was familiar. His 
 first thought was to secure this dreadful list, and 
 calling to the guards about the prison, arrest the 
 Alguazil upon the spot. A moment's consideration 
 determined him to take further advantage of the 
 communicativeness of the traitor, until made ac- 
 quainted with all the details of the conspiracy. 
 He bridled his anger, therefore, and concealing his 
 horror under an apjiearance of doubt and hesitation, 
 to which his trembling agitation gave no little 
 force, he said, 
 
 " How is this ? Are these names good and 
 true?"— 
 
 " See you not Barba Roxa's sign-manual, near 
 the bottom of the list ? He subscribed it last night- 
 He draws the figure of a knife well, as one who 
 
THE INFIDEL. 217 
 
 knows how to use it. But as for thee, nino miOj 
 thou art able to write thy signature in full." 
 
 " Stay," cried Juan. " What are you to do 1 
 You spoke of a banquet, and the morning. Assas- 
 sination, hah?" 
 
 " Did I not tell thee before ? Look," said the 
 Alguazil, with a harsh laugh, displaying a letter, 
 well secured with wax and fillet, on which was 
 written the name of the Captain-General. " Know, 
 that this letter, written carefully on the outside, by 
 mine own hand, (for there is nothing within,) comes 
 from the seiior's sire, old Don Martin, whom the 
 devil take to his rest, for fathering so ill-tempered 
 a son. This letter, thou must know," he went on 
 with a chuckle of self-approving craft, " came in 
 the ship of Seville that brought this good wine, 
 and was, by an evil accident, detained on the way. 
 Know, sirrah, and this is my device : The general 
 hath forgotten to invite me to his feast to-morrow, 
 in honour of his saint-day, or some other thing — 
 Quien sabe ? It is very rude. But he has invited 
 all my caballeros on this paper, and some four 
 score soldiers, w'ho are down likewise. The rest 
 will take their ease in the vestibule, and on the 
 square, to be ready. What do I then ? Marry, this : 
 I break in upon the revel with the letter in my hand, 
 and a dagger in my sleeve ; the others crowd 
 round with congratulations, and I strike him under 
 the ribs — Pho ! I forgot ; thou canst not have the 
 first blow, as I promised thee ; but thou shalt fol- 
 low, cloaked up to the eyes, and be free to take the 
 second. — What dost thou think of my plot, hah, 
 dear devil T Hah ! — " 
 
 " That it is the most damnable and dastardly 
 ever devised by villain, and shall bring thee to a 
 villain's death. Rogue ! didst thou think thou 
 couldst tell this to wie, and live ] I have thy trea- 
 son in my hand, and will use it as it becomes an 
 
 VOL. I. 19 
 
218 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 honourable man and Christian. "What ho, guards ! 
 treason, treason !" 
 
 Greatly astounded as Villafana was by this un- 
 expected defection, the shock served rather to sober 
 than affriiiht him. He irave the prisoner a look of 
 unspeakable malice, and whii>ping out his sword 
 and calling for help as clamorously as Juan, he 
 assaulted him with the utmost fury. At the same 
 time, five or six of the guardsmen rushed in, and 
 to Juan's utter dismay, instead of aiding him to 
 secure the Alguazil, rushed upon him, some with 
 their spears, to transfix him against the wall, while 
 others, springing behind him, secured him in their 
 arms, and hurled him upon the floor. In an instant, 
 he had lost both the fatal list and the dagger of 
 Guatimozin, and was at the mercy of Villafana, 
 who knelt upon his breast, and shortened his 
 sword, to despatch him with a thrust. But at the 
 very moment when he had given up all hope, and 
 was commending his soul to his Maker, the savage 
 and exulting laugh with which the Alguazil aimed 
 at his throat, was changed to an exclamation of 
 alarm and pain. Up started the assassin, and Juan, 
 springing also to his feet, he beheld, with surprise, 
 the figure of La Monjonaza standing betwixt him 
 and the assailants. The gray mantle had fallen 
 from her head and shoulders, revealing a form of 
 the finest symmetry, and a countenance convulsed 
 into beauty, such as might have become a war- 
 ring Bellona ; to whom she might have been well 
 compared, only that in place of the whip and torch 
 which a moralizing mythology has put into the 
 hands of the goddess, she held an emblem equally 
 expressive, in a short dagger, gleaming with blood 
 from the shoulder of Villafana. 
 
 " Villain !" she cried, after looking as if she 
 would have repeated the blow, " art thou not yet 
 requited I Begone ! ' ' 
 
THE INFIDEL. 219 
 
 And the discomfited traitor, scowling and point- 
 ing at the blood trickling from his arm, and yet 
 obviously quailing before her stern frown, left the 
 prison, followed by the guards, who seemed even 
 more terrified than himself 
 
220 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 Juan stood, for a moment, confounded in the pre- 
 sence of his preserver ; and Magdalena, gradually 
 exchanging her fierce expression for one more be- 
 coming her sex, appeared at last, as he had seen 
 her before, pale, saddened, and subdued. As she 
 sank into this softened temper, her eye fell upon 
 the crimsoned blade ; and it was curious to see 
 with what feminine horror, disgust, and shame, she 
 cast it from her, and to contrast this display of un- 
 dissembled feelings with her late Amazonian bear- 
 ing and act. 
 
 " Magdalena," said Juan, a thousand emotions 
 at once contending in his bosom, " you have saved 
 my life. Haste now and protect that of Cortes : for, 
 be it dear to thee or not, yet it is not fitting he 
 should be lefl to the knife of an assassin. Acquaint 
 him fi'om me — Nay, bear it not from me ; for I will 
 not seem as if I sought to purchase my life with the 
 confession — Acquaint him that a dreadful conspira- 
 cy, headed by the knave Villafana, is about to burst 
 upon his head. If he seize not the traitor to-night, 
 let him beware who approaches the banquet to- 
 morrow. Above all, let him be on his guard 
 against any one who affects to bring letters from 
 his father. Haste, maiden, haste ! for perhaps Vil- 
 laflina, wrought upon by his fears, may discharge 
 his train of horrors this very night." 
 
 " Dost thou thus seek to preserve him who has 
 so basely compassed thine own life !" said Mag- 
 dalena, less with surprise than sorrowing admi- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 221 
 
 ration. " Think not of Cortes, but of thyself: thou 
 hast not many hours for thought." 
 
 " Alas, Magdalena," said Juan, impatiently, " you 
 do not believe me. I swear to you, that what I say 
 is true : Villafana is a traitor, and is now on the 
 point of assassinating the Captain-General." 
 
 " If he were about assassinating thee, and the 
 Captain-General knew it, what aid wouldst thou 
 expect from the Captain-General V rejoined La 
 Monjonaza. 
 
 " Maiden !" said Juan, frowning severely, " in 
 this coldness of purpose, now that thou art ac- 
 quainted with the act, thou art conniving at mur- 
 der !" 
 
 Apparently this reproof touched Magdalena to 
 the quick. She started, shuddered, and turned as 
 if to leave the prison ; but changing her purpose, 
 stepping up to the light, and assuming a boldness 
 which she did not feel, she falteringly asked, 
 
 " Is there no case, in which such connivance 
 might be excusable 1 But a moment since," (and 
 here she bent her head upon her bosom,) " I was 
 about to commit murder — Had I slain Villafana, 
 wouldst thou then have thought the act crimi- 
 nal ]" 
 
 " Surely not, surely not," said Juan ; " for, in 
 this case, thou wert arresting the blow of a cut- 
 throat, to kill whom in the act, were but sheer jus- 
 tice, and according to law. And yet I would that 
 the blow had been struck by another. It is not 
 seemly for a woman to carry a dagger, and still 
 more improper that she should use it." 
 
 " What if she be attacked by a villain, and no 
 helper nigh ?" demanded the forlorn girl. " Heaven 
 has given me no protector — My father, my brother, 
 and my friend — they all lie in this little steel ;" and 
 as she picked up the weapon from the floor, as if 
 no longer ashamed to bear it, a ghastly smile 
 
 19* 
 
222 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 beamed from lier visas^e, like the flash of a Medusa 
 amid the foam of a midnitrht l)illow." 
 
 " Speak no more of Cortes," she continued, ob- 
 serving tiiat Juan was about to resume the subject 
 of tlie conspiracy ; " lie is far better able to jn'otect 
 himself than thou. Were there twenty poniards in 
 Villafana's hand, and were his arm as extended as 
 his malice, yet could he not reach even to the heel 
 of Don Hernan. His fate is written, — yes, more 
 inevitably than thine ; for thou hast yet one hope 
 of deliverance, and Villafana has none. — Listen to 
 me, Juan Lerma ; it is perhaps the last time on 
 earth that I shall speak to thee. If thou reject mine 
 offer this nii?ht, I call heaven to witness that I will 
 leave thee to thy fate." 
 
 " Ma^rdalena," said Juan, firmly, " we have spo- 
 ken of this ])efore. God protect thee, for there is 
 a wall of adamant between us." 
 
 " Be it so," said the lady ; " and let it be higher 
 than thy wishes, deeper than thy scorn, so thou wilt 
 leave this land, and return to it no more." 
 
 " On the morrow, Magdalena, I die," said Lerma, 
 with unabated resolution. " Hear then the coun- 
 sel of a dying man, who can yet call himself your 
 friend. Do what you have recommended to me : 
 leave this land, and, in the gloom of a cloister, ex- 
 piate — " 
 
 " Yet again V exclaimed the maiden, with an 
 eye of fire. " This is to distract me ! Oh, if thou 
 knew how unjustly thou hast planted daggers in 
 my bosom — daggers to which tliis thing of steel is 
 but as the thorn of a rosebud — thou wouldst kill 
 thyself, rather than speak them again ! But it mat- 
 ters not : whether thou livest or diest, still must 
 thou know that I am wronged. — Listen to me — I 
 wull speak of Hilario. — " 
 
 " Let it not be so," said Juan ; and then solemn- 
 ly added, " Learn that, yesternight, the wretched 
 Villafana, who, by some magical science, seems ac- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 223 
 
 quainted with the secrets of all in this camp, gave 
 me to know what I did not before dream. Magda- 
 lena, when I plucked thee from the wreck, I dream- 
 ed, for a moment, that I loved thee — " The maid- 
 en trembled from head to foot, and Juan was him- 
 self greatly agitated ; " I beheld one, in whom, from 
 the act of giving her a life, I might fancy a tie, such 
 as did not exist between me and any other human 
 being, from the time of the death of my poor father 
 up to that happy hour. But had that affection 
 ripened even into such as Hilario avowed," — (Here 
 Magdalena waved her hand impatiently ;) " nay, had 
 I plighted with thee faith and troth, and did we 
 stand this moment before the altar, my passion 
 would be at once changed to awe and horror, to 
 know that I was wedding the spouse of Heaven. 
 Magdalena, a life of penitence can scarcely remove 
 the sin of broken vows !" 
 
 " Say not this," exclaimed the unhappy Magda- 
 lena, vehemently : " What knew I of earth or hea- 
 ven, when, imprisoned in a cell from childoood up- 
 wards, I gave up the one for the other 1 Heaven 
 broke the oath which oppressors exacted ; else, 
 wherefore was I saved of all the sisters, and thrown 
 upon a land where cloisters were unknown ? For 
 these vows could I have procured a dispensation. 
 Hast thou never heard of such being dissolved]" 
 
 " Surely I have," said Juan, mildly, desiring to 
 allay the agitation of his visitor : " It was told to 
 me, by Villafana, that the senior Camarga (an in- 
 sane man, who made an attempt on my life,) was 
 once a monk of St. Dominic and an Inquisitor, and 
 permitted to revoke his vows for some worldly 
 purpose, I know not what ; and I have heard it 
 also said, that the sister of Don Hernan was al- 
 lowed to leave a nunnery, to wed some great 
 nobleman of Andalusia." 
 
 " It is enough," said Magdalena, calmly, " the 
 vow was suspended, not broken ; it will be resumed, 
 
224 THE INFIDKL. 
 
 when the purpose for which I now Hve, 19 acconv 
 plished, and would have been before, but for the 
 accident which brought me to this land. — Juan 
 Lerma, I will not ask thee why thou refusest life 
 at my hands : but it is offered thee by one wronged 
 and defamed, not degraded. If thou live, it is well 
 thou shouldst know the truth, and remember me 
 without contempt ; if thou die, the grave shall not 
 cover thee in ignorance. Hilario — Start not, frown 
 not, tremble not, for the truth must be spoken — 
 Hilario abused thy belief, that he might break my 
 heart, and perhaps, also, thine ; for he hated me, 
 because I repelled his love with contempt, and 
 thee, because he knew — because he suspected, — 
 that thou wert the cause. You fought ; he fell, — 
 and, with what seemed his dying lips, (for, even in 
 death, his spite was not diminished,) repeated the 
 demoniacal falsehood ; boasting of the degradation 
 of one whose only shame was that she did not re- 
 quite his presumption with a dagger !" 
 
 Again the figure of the unhappy girl was elevated 
 by passion into the port of a destroying deity. But 
 she perceived that Juan was shocked by a display 
 of fire so unwomanly and, indeed, so fearful ; and 
 this instantly transformed her into another being : 
 
 " This too, thin too," she cried, shedding tears ofhu- 
 miliation, " this, too, is a consequence of his malice, 
 for it has converted me into the thing I am not, — into 
 what seems a fury or a demon. Dost thou believe I 
 am — dost thou believe 1 was a creature formed of 
 passions, that should belong only to men ? No ! oh 
 heav^en, oh no! it is the madness that comes from 
 the viper's tooth. Stung, vilified, robbed of respect 
 and happiness, how even can a woman sit down in 
 peace, unless she can diel unless she can die? She 
 will have her vengeance, believe it ; and well is it 
 for her, when it is won by the hands of a brother or 
 sire.— Yet, believe this, if thou wilt, for I am not 
 what I was ; believe aught,— anything, save the 
 
THE INFIDEL. 225 
 
 lies of Hilario. With his dying lips he defamed 
 me — with his dying hand he revoked the slander, 
 and avowed himself a villain. Behold the refuta- 
 tion of calmnny." 
 
 As she spoke, she drew^ from her bosom, with a 
 trembling grasp, and put into Juan's, a scrap of 
 paper, on which he read, with extreme surprise, the 
 following words, traced with a hand feeble and 
 agitated, yet well known to him, — 
 
 " What I have said of Magdalena del Naufragio," 
 (or Magdalena of the Wreck, for by this name she 
 w^as known at Isabela,) " is false. In malice and 
 folly I have laid perjury on my soul ; and, as I now 
 speak the truth, I pray heaven to forgive me. — 
 Amen. 
 
 " Antonio del Milagro." 
 
 " Good heaven !" said Juan, " is it possible An- 
 tonio could commit this dastardly crime? Alas, 
 Magdalena, I have done you a grievous wrong, and 
 I beseech you, pardon me. — This thing w^as not 
 only wicked, but marvellous. The paper is stained 
 with blood — The saints acquit me of his death, for 
 it was I w^ho shed it ! I am glad he died penitent 
 —-What brought him to this justice 1 I held my 
 dagger to his throat, yet he cried, with a devilish 
 malice and courage, ' Strike, for — ' But I will not 
 repeat his sinful and exulting falsehoods, — Alas, 
 that his blood should be upon my soul ! the blood 
 of his father's son !" 
 
 Magdalena surveyed the self-accusing looks of 
 the prisoner, wath much emotion ; and twice or 
 thrice she opened her lips, to give him comfort, or 
 to continue her dark and singular story, and yet 
 failed, as many times, to speak. At last, she clasp- 
 ed her hands upon her bosom, as if, by an effort of 
 physical strength, to give support and resolution to 
 
226 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 her heart, and said, with low and interrupted ac- 
 cents, 
 
 " Lament no more for a sin thou hast not com- 
 mitted. Thou wert deceived — Hilario died not by 
 thy hands." 
 
 " Hah !" exclaimed Juan, " dost thou tell me the 
 truth 1 Is Hilario yet living 1 God be thanked! 
 God be thanked ! for I am not a murderer !" 
 
 He fell upon his knees, and looking up to heaven 
 with joy, beheld not the grief and trepidation with 
 which his companion surveyed his rai)tures. 
 
 " I told thee, not that he lived, but that thou didst 
 not slay him," said the nun, with an effort. — " Had 
 my father come to my side, and looked upon this 
 paper, after hearing the story of Hilarious baseness, 
 what think you he should have done V 
 
 " Killed him, I must allow," said Juan, rising to 
 his feet ; " for even his deep penitence could 
 scarcely be permitted to stand as the sole penalty 
 of such an offence. — Alas, Magdalena, my mind is 
 beset with sore misgivings. How was that paper 
 obtained] How did Hilario die? Thou growest 
 pale ! Heaven shield me ! didst thou, didst ihou — ?" 
 
 He paused with terror. The maiden replied 
 instantly, and almost with firmness : 
 
 " Hear the truth, even to the last syllable ; for 
 even thy good opinion I will not purchase by sub- 
 terfuge. To Villafana, — a wretch, whose manifold 
 villanies thou couldst not dream, (for know, that, 
 being a sailor in the ship that bore the unlucky 
 sisters, he devised and accomplished its destruction, 
 that he might impiously obtain the holy vessels of 
 silver and gold — Ay, it was Villafana, and not the 
 tempest, tliat drove us upon the rocks of Alonso — ) 
 to Villafana, from whom I learned the cause of the 
 duel and of thy flight, I committed the charge of 
 obtaining this recantation. — Was this wTongI" 
 she exclaimed, giving way to affright, for Juan's 
 looks of horror could not be mistaken : '• they were 
 
THE INFIDEL. 227 
 
 two fiends together, — the villain struck the villain, 
 —the—" 
 
 " Murderess ! murderess !" cried Juan aloud, re- 
 coiling from her. 
 
 A ghastly smile passed over her countenance, 
 and it grew into a faint laugh, w^hich, to Juan's 
 mistaken eye, (for he thought it the merriment of 
 satisfaction or indifference,) seemed unnatural and 
 dreadful, while she replied, her voice hysterically 
 belying her feelings, as much as did her counte- 
 nance, 
 
 " Thou dost not think I employed him to do mur- 
 der 1 I appeal to heaven, I did not dream he would 
 do aught but compel the recantation from the 
 wounded man. — What ! bid him kill one so de- 
 fenceless ! Had he been strong and well armed, 
 then perhaps, indeed, — then perhaps, I might have 
 thought it. I sought but for the paper ; the rest 
 was the deed of Villafana." 
 
 " Oh heaven ! oh holy heaven !" cried Juan ; 
 " speak not another word : rather let me die than 
 hear more. Away ! avaunt ! thou art not a wo- 
 man, but a fiend ! and all is now as it was, and 
 worse. — What, blood-stained ! blood-stained !" — 
 
 Magdalena strode towards him, striving to speak, 
 but could only utter the words, ' Injustice ! injus- 
 tice !' mingled with the charge, ' Leave Mexico,' 
 that still made a part of her perturbed thoughts. 
 Had not Juan been entirely overwhelmed by his 
 horror, he must have observed, that her mind was, 
 at this moment, convulsed beyond the degree of 
 any former agitation ; that she was, in fact, in a 
 condition both alarming and pitiable. Her counte- 
 nance was most deathlike, her accents wholly un- 
 natural, and there was something of delirium or 
 idiotcy in the manner with which, while still mutter- 
 ing the broken reproof, ' Injustice,' and the charge, 
 ' Leave Mexico,' she, all the while, extended the 
 
228 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 blood-stained paper, as if entreating him again to 
 receive and peruse it. 
 
 As it was, he gave utterance to his horror in 
 the words, — 
 
 " Miserable woman ! the denial forced from the 
 lips of the murdered man, is of a jiiece with the 
 spirit that compelled it — False, false, all !" 
 
 At these words, the paper dropped from her 
 hands, another vacant smile distorted her visage, 
 and she turned to depart ; but before she had taken 
 two steps, she tottered, and fell to the floor, with a 
 dreadful scream, that instantly brought the guards 
 into the prison. 
 
 The absorbing nature of their conversation had, 
 for the last two or three moments, rendered both 
 incapable of observing tliat some scene of alterca- 
 tion had suddenly arisen at the dungeon door. 
 High voices might be heard, as of one alternately 
 entreating and demanding admittance, which was 
 gruffly denied by others. The shriek of Magdale- 
 na, ringing in their ears like a cry of death, brought 
 the contention to an end ; and all rushing in toge- 
 ther, they beheld Juan endeavouring to raise the 
 figure of his unhappy and lifeless guest from the 
 floor. 
 
 " Dios Qnio ! y peccavi ! I will kill him where he 
 stands," exclaimed one, rushing forward. 
 
 *' Not so fast, senor Camarga," cried the hunch- 
 back, who was at the head of all, snatching the 
 weapon from the hands of this individual, who 
 seemed peculiarly to thirst for the blood of the 
 young islander. " Here's work for the bastinado ! 
 Where's Villafana, ye treacherous dogs, that let 
 women into the prison \ He shall pay for it. — 
 Harkee, seiior Camarga ; if you have any interest 
 in this fair lady, you may help bear her to the pa- 
 lace. Poor fool ! these women love as arquebuses 
 shoot : if you make them any obstruction, they 
 
THE INFIDEL. 229 
 
 burst in your hands — and this is truer still of a 
 musket, if you thrust it into the earth. In mine 
 own opinion, the young hound has scorned her." 
 
 While Najara gave vent to these growling obser- 
 vations, Magdalena was carried out of the prison. 
 The hunchback had reached the door, before Juan, 
 in the confusion of the moment, thought of calling 
 him back, to impart to him the secret of the trea- 
 chery. But Najara replied only with a malediction, 
 and departed with the lantern ; so that Juan was 
 again left to night and solitude. 
 
 VOL. I. 20 
 
23.0 THE INFIDKL. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 Mkanwiiile, a scene of still more tiai^ical cha- 
 racter was on the point of being represented with- 
 in the w^alls of the palace. 
 
 It was a tempestuous niirht. TIk^ (JDuds, which 
 had all day enveloped the pagan metropolis, were, 
 at last, gathered over Tezcuco. The wind blew in 
 gusts, with frequent rain ; and as the distant thun- 
 derbolts rolled with a rumbling cadence over Mexi- 
 co, vast sheets of lightning shot up in the west, illu- 
 minating sky, lake, and mountain, with a cadave- 
 rous glare. 
 
 Some five or six of the principal caviiliers were 
 assembled with Cortes, in the great Hall of Au- 
 dience, engaged in earnest and anxious debate. It 
 happened, by accident, that the huge curtain, which, 
 at night, was usually drawn over the window of 
 alabaster, had been, this evening, neglected by the 
 attendants ; so that it remained, drooping in gigan- 
 tic festoons from the great beam, carved into a ser- 
 pent's head, which held it at the top, down to the 
 lesser ornaments that supported it on the sides, ofthe 
 casement. The strong cords, by which it could be 
 dragged into its place, hung over the central beam, 
 flapping occasionally against the alabaster wall, 
 as the gust, puffing in through the great door, 
 whirled the smoke and flame of the lamps and 
 torches, from the walls and pillars, to which they 
 were attached. 
 
 Thus, though tlie alabaster slabs were too thick 
 
THE INPIDEL. 231 
 
 to transmit any ordinary ray, the brighter flashes 
 of lightning made their way through, and added, 
 at times, a ghastly glare to the light of the lamps ; 
 in which the countenances of the cavaliers, per- 
 turbed as they were, assumed such an unnatural 
 hue as might have beseemed the ghosts of dead 
 heroes, rising to earth, to meddle again in the sport 
 of slaughter. 
 
 The visage of the Captain-General betrayed 
 greater anxiety, mingled with sterner wrath, than 
 appeared on any other ; and when he spoke, it was 
 in accents brief and low, and exceedingly em- 
 phatic. 
 
 *' I tell you, cavaliers," he cried, " the mystery 
 that shrouds this treason is more frightful than the 
 treason itself We are at fault, seiiores, we are at 
 fault. We behold enough to show us that the de- 
 vils are at work about us, but not to discover in 
 what mode they are toiling. It is clear enough that 
 Villafana is a dog, and one day he shall hang ; but 
 I know not, in what manner, nor at what time, he 
 will bite. This is certain : he has suffered one of 
 the Mexicans to leave his cell, and communi- 
 cate with Xicotencal : it is certain, also, that this 
 cur of Tlascala will leave the camp before day- 
 dawn ; and how many of his warriors will follow 
 after him, that I leave you to conjecture. This 
 I have from a true mouth. He is incensed, first, 
 on account of Juan Lerma ; and, secondly, I doubt 
 not, the Mexican has made the most of his growl- 
 ing temper and present discontent. What sayst 
 thou, Sandoval? What hinders thee to lie in wait, 
 and, following at his heels, so do with him, that his 
 Tlascalans who desert afterwards, may be frighten- 
 ed on the path, and so return to us ? There are 
 good trees on the wayside !" 
 
 " Ay," replied Don Gonzalo, grimly, " when there 
 is any executioner's work towards, I am sure to 
 play jack-ketch. I am loath to deal with a man 
 
232 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 that hath been so valiant ; but if he be a traitor, it 
 is right he should die. What if I give him the bas- 
 tinado, Turk-wise? Methinks that would bring him 
 into a sounder temper." 
 
 It would but inflame the choler of his proud 
 people," said the shrewder general ; " whereas his 
 sudden death, dealt upon him in the act of deser- 
 tion, will strike them with fear. Take thou a rope 
 with thee, my son, and fear not to use it." 
 
 The young cavaUer nodded assent ; and the ge- 
 neral went on : 
 
 " Concerning the ambassadors, thus secretly 
 treating with a traitor, methinks they have forfeited 
 all claim to protection 1" 
 
 " Ay," said Alvarado ; " and the bastinado, of 
 which Sandoval spake, may serve the good pur- 
 pose of opening their lips, and thereby revealing, 
 not only the depth of the Tlascalan defection, but 
 the length to which Villafana and his curs have 
 gone with them. Let us send for them, and try the 
 experiment. Or stay — here are cords enough on 
 the curtain. One of these, twisted round the brow 
 with a sword-hilt, I have known to bring out a 
 man's tongue as far as his eyes." 
 
 The cavaliers turned to the window; and the 
 bitter smile of the Captain-General was made death- 
 like, by a flash, brighter than usual, shooting 
 through the wall. 
 
 " A good thought," he said ; " but we will not 
 be precipitate. We have them secured ; and how- 
 ever Villafana may permit them to speak with 
 others, he is somewhat too wise to set them free. 
 We will have this thing considered in the morn- 
 ing." 
 
 At this moment, Don Francisco de Guzman 
 made his appearance in the chamber, his visage 
 disfigured by a black patch, and somewhat pale. 
 But this, as it was soon discovered, was caused 
 rather by care than sickness. 
 
THE INFIDEL. 233 
 
 " Sefior," he exclaimed, " I have been to seek the 
 ambassadors — They have escaped !" 
 
 *' Escaped !" echoed Cortes. "Thou art beside 
 thyself! And the villain Alguazil, has he fled with 
 them ? I will tear his flesh with pincers ! What ! re- 
 lease the infldels, under my eye .'" 
 
 " So please you," said Guzman, " this, I think, 
 was no resolved treachery, but an effect of infatua- 
 tion. The wine that came to us to-day, was too 
 strong for the watchmen : where they got it, I 
 know not ; but I found them sound asleep at the 
 open door." 
 
 " They shall be scourged, till they drop more 
 blood than they have drunk wine," said Don Her- 
 nan, furiously. " And the prison-guards also ! Hah ] 
 The prisoner has escaped ?" 
 
 " Not so," said the cavalier : " all's well there, 
 save — " 
 
 -'* And Villafana 1 Speak me the word — Has he 
 fled ]" 
 
 " Seiior mio, no : he is in the prison, carousing 
 with Juan Lerma, as the guards say. I heard his 
 voice through the door." 
 
 " Carousing ] does Juan Lerma take his death so 
 merrily ] By'r lady, devil as he is, it is a sin to slay 
 him !" 
 
 ^* As to the prisoner," said Guzman, " I know not 
 whether he be merry or not ; but I myself (for I 
 had mine ear to the door,) heard Villafana smack 
 his lips, and vow he ' would drink no more, this 
 being no time to be thick-witted.' But every one 
 knows Villafana : his bibbing once brought him to 
 the strappado." 
 
 " Ay ; and it shall bring him to the gallows. — It 
 is the fate of the can-clinker — all spoken in three 
 words — drunk, whipped, and gibbeted ! — Didst 
 thou worm naught from the guards 1 They were of 
 his own appointing." 
 
 " Not a syllable," replied Guzman : " I do believe 
 20* 
 
234 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 they linvo been too mucli frightened, and are now 
 penitent men." 
 
 " It may be," said Cortes, " it may be ; but I 
 would I could look into the dreams of Villafana. If 
 I punish him for the flight of the ambassadors, it 
 may be that I disperse an imposthume before it 
 comes to a head ; or it may prove, that I drive the 
 matter into tlie more vital organs of this body poli- 
 tic, till all be corrupted and consumed. What say 
 ye to a little torture inflicted on Villafana himself? 
 Yet he is a bold dog, and may not speak. They 
 say he winced not under the lash. I swear to you, 
 my fi lends, I am in a strait." 
 
 While Cortes thus admitted the difficulty in 
 which he felt himself pressed, and the cavaliers 
 were divided in their counsels, they perceived a 
 common soldier intrude himself into the chamber, 
 and boldly approach them. 
 
 " Hah !" cried Alvarado, ever hot of temper, 
 " who art thou, Sir Gallows-bird, that bringest thy 
 knave's pate among cavaliers in council ]" 
 
 " Hold ! touch him not ; 'tis the Barba-Roxa !" 
 exclaimed Don Hernan. " What impertinence is 
 this, sirrah ? Who bade thee hitherward V 
 
 " God and my good saint," said Gaspar, flinging 
 himself on his knees, and adding, with the greatest 
 impetuosity, " Pardon, senor ! pardon for two un- 
 happy men ! Or if that cannot be, why pardon then 
 for one ; and I care not how soon you hang up the 
 others." 
 
 " What means the fool 1 Art thou distracted?" 
 
 " Seiior !" cried the soldier, wringing his hands, 
 " I am a knave and traitor. Grant me the life of 
 Juan Lerma, who meant you no wrong, and I will 
 give you, for the rope and sword, two hundred and 
 forty such traitors as the world never saw, and 
 myself among them ; for I have signed my name 
 with knife and arrow, and sworn myself to brother- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 235 
 
 hood, under the pains of hell, which I care not how 
 soon may came upon me." 
 
 " Let some one of you look to the door," said 
 Cortes, quickly : " and see that the sentinels keep 
 their eyes open. — How now, Gaspar ! what is this 
 thou sayst ] Art thou indeed a villain 1 I should 
 have struck on the mouth any soldier that had said 
 it of thee." 
 
 " I am what I said," replied Gaspar ; " your 
 excellency refused to listen to me, when I pleaded 
 for Juan Lerma ; and I was incensed. I said to my- 
 self, senor, ' I have saved your life, and yet you 
 deny me the life of my friend, who, in ignorance, 
 broke a decree, yet knew no malice.' Besides, se- 
 ll or, you called me a dog, — ' an officious, presum- 
 ing dog;' whereas I was not a dog then, but now. 
 Well, senor, while I was in a passion, the devil 
 came to me, and tempted me, and I signed my 
 name to my perdition." 
 
 " What !" said Alvarado, recoiling with devout 
 horror, " hast thou really signed over thy soul to 
 Satan 1 We will burn thee, thou devil's penitent, in 
 a hot fire !" 
 
 " Speak on," said Cortes. " What meanest thou 
 by this mummery ? What devil is this ] for, though 
 Satan be walking now among us, yet, I think, it 
 could not be he." 
 
 " It was Villafana," replied Gaspar ; " and heaven 
 pardon me, for I think it must be Apollyon in his 
 likeness !" 
 
 At this communication, the cavaliers all stared at 
 one another, and Cortes exclaimed, 
 
 " Two hundred and forty men ! What ! are there 
 so many knaves of his party ?" 
 
 " Ay, and many more, who will help, but will not 
 put down their names upon paper," replied Gaspar. 
 " But your excellency says nothing of Juan Lerma. 
 If you will pardon him, your excellency shall hear 
 all." 
 
230 THE INPIDEL. 
 
 " How, sirrali !" rriod Cortos, sternly, " Do you 
 avow yourself a sworn traitor, and yet dictate to 
 me terms of n>ercy ? Sjx^ak, or you shall have that 
 to your brows, which will brinir out words with 
 screams." 
 
 Gaspar spniiiLr l<> his feet, — boklly, fearlessly, 
 and even insolently, returning the look of the Cap- 
 tain-General : 
 
 " Your excellency li;i« no heart, and 1 have," 
 he cried. " Do your will upon us both; and reckon 
 my death to your conscience, as you do that of 
 Juan Lerma. You shall not have a word more. 
 Here are my arms. — What cavalier will demean 
 himself to ti(^ them ? I will meet your excellency at 
 the jiidixinont-seat." 
 
 " Thou art but a fool," said Cortes, moderating 
 his anger, — or, at least, mollifying the severity of 
 his accents ; for his countenance yet gleamed with 
 wrath. " Thou knowest, that, having saved my 
 life at Xochimilco, I can, in no case, take thine." 
 
 " But I leave that to the laws, with(mt asking any 
 mercy," said the Red Beard, obstinately : " 1 ask 
 the life of Juan Lerma, condemned without law." 
 
 " Dost thou impugn my justice, fellow V cried 
 the ferocious De Olid. " I swear to thee, when 
 thou art brought to be judged, 1 will give thee a 
 double quantity, for this very reason." 
 
 While the cavalier gave utterance to so excellent 
 a proof of his equity, Alvarado, with whom Gaspar 
 had been a favourite, whispered in his ear, 
 
 " Rpeak out, and fear not. It stands not with 
 the captain's Iwnour to barti^r men's lives for 
 knave's confessions ; yet he shall pardon the young 
 man, thy friend, as I am thy guarantee." 
 
 " Wiiat say ye, cavaliers !" cried Cortes : " does 
 it become me, to remit a sentence of death, at such 
 mutinous intercession ?" 
 
 Before any of the officers could reply, Gaspar, 
 
THE INPIDEL. 237 
 
 confiding in the promise of Alvarado, threw himself 
 again at the general's feet, crying, 
 
 " Seiior, I am not a mutineer, but a penitent. I 
 am mad to think that one, — so good a friend, so 
 valiant a soldier, so true a follower, (for there is no 
 falsehood in Juan Lerma,) should die for a small 
 matter, — saving Don Francisco's presence, — when 
 there are so many rogues about us, that go unpun- 
 ished. But I leave him to your excellency's mercy, 
 trusting that your excellency will reconsider the 
 judgment, and release him. Therefore I will speak, 
 in this trust ; and I pray heaven to remember the 
 act, be it merciful or be it cruel. — This is what I 
 have to say : In my passion, I betook me to Villa- 
 fana ; who, promising to save Lerma' s life, I signed 
 with him ; though the first act of guilt was to take 
 your excellency's life. Holy mother of heaven ! 
 pardon jne ; but I was very much incensed. Well, 
 seiior, I found on the paper the names of two hun- 
 dred and forty men, and I will tell you such as I 
 remember ; but if you will send to the prison, and 
 suddenly seize the Alguazil, you will find the list 
 in his bosom. — " 
 
 " Q,uinones, see thou to this," said Cortes, turn- 
 ing to the master of the armory, who made one 
 of the council. " Take with thee none but hidal- 
 gos, and be sudden, making no noise and shedding 
 no blood — Yet stay: this will not do, neither. 
 Hark thee, Gaspar, man, when shall this precious 
 earthquake rumble into the upper airl" 
 
 " To-morrow," replied the soldier ; and then, to 
 the horror and astonishment of all present, he 
 divulged the whole scheme of assassination, as 
 Villafana had himself spoken it in the prison. 
 
 " With a letter from my father, too '." cried 
 Cortes, apparently more struck with the heartless 
 barbarity of tlie stratagem, than with anything 
 else in Caspar's communication : " This is indeed 
 
238 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 the Judas-kiss, tho — FaiiL^li ! tlioso wore tlio words 
 of Mairdalena !" 
 
 While he muttered tliese words to himself, he 
 was roused by a sudden voice at the great door, 
 and heard distinctly the unexpected voice of Villa- 
 fana, sayincr, as he wran<rled with the «xuards, 
 
 " Oh, 'slid, you take upon you too much. I come 
 at the order of the o-eneral." 
 
 "Admit Villafana," said Cortes, in tones that pene- 
 trated loudly to the farthest limits of the room, for 
 the cavaliers were stricken into a bodinfi silence 
 at the accents of the Alscuazil : " Admit my trusty 
 Villafana." And Villafana entered. 
 
 lie was evidently flushed with wine, and it was 
 for that reason, doubtless, that he tlid not seem to 
 observe the presence of his forsworn associate, nor 
 the suspicious act of two cavaliers, who stole from 
 the fjroup, and took possession of the floor by which 
 he had entered. He approached with a reckless 
 and confident, though somewhat stupid, air, ex- 
 claiming, after divers humble scrapes and salaams, 
 
 " I come at your excellency's bidding, according 
 to appointment. This was the hour, please your 
 excellency — But 'tis a scurvy night, with nmch 
 thunder and lightning." 
 
 " Ay, truly," said Cortes, with a mild voice, while 
 all the rest stood in the silence of death ; " but, 
 being so observant, Villafana, how comes it you 
 have not remarked that you are here without the 
 Indian Techeechee, whom I commanded you to 
 bring hither at this hour]" 
 
 " Seiior," said the Alguazil, a little confused, 
 " that old Ottomi is a sly dog, and, I doubt me, not 
 over-honest." 
 
 " I doubt me so, too," said Cortes, in the same 
 encouraging tones ; " yet, honest or false, sly or 
 simple, methinks thou shouldst not have sutiered 
 him to escape." 
 
 "Escape! what, Techeechee escape!" cried Vil- 
 
THE INFIDEL. 239 
 
 lafana with unaffected surprise : " Ho, no ! I did 
 but giv e the gray infidel a sop of wine, and straight- 
 way he hid himself in a corner, to sleep off his 
 drunkenness. And, — and, — " continued he, with 
 instinctive though clumsy cunning, — '* and I thought 
 it would be unbeseemly to bring him to your ex- 
 cellency, in that condition. I beg your excellency's 
 pardon for making him acquainted with such Chris- 
 tian liquor ; but it w^as out of pity, together with 
 some little hope of converting him to the faith ; and, 
 besides, I knew not his head was so weak. I will 
 fetch him to your excellency in the morning." 
 
 " Why, this is well," said the Captain-General, 
 with such insinuating gentleness as characterizes 
 the snake, when closing softly on his prey ; " and 
 I doubt not thou canst give me as good an account 
 of the ambassadors. It is said to me, that they also 
 have escaped."' 
 
 " Good God !" cried Villafana, startled not only 
 out of his confidence, but, in great measure, out of 
 his intoxication, by such an announcement ; " the 
 ambassadors escaped ! It cannot be !" 
 
 " Pho, they have hurt thee more than I thought, 
 — even to the point of destroying thy memory," 
 rejoined the Captain-General, with the blandishment 
 of a smile. " There is blood upon thy shoulder: I 
 doubt not, thou w^ert severely hurt, while attempt- 
 ing to prevent their flight. No one ever questioned 
 the courage of Villafana." 
 
 " Yes, seiior, yes — no — yes ; that is, — I mean to 
 say — Saints of heaven !" — And here the Alguazil 
 paused, completely sobered, — that is, restored to 
 his senses, but not to his wits ; for he perceived 
 himself in a difficulty, and his invention pointed out 
 no means of escape. He rolled his eyes, haggard 
 at once with debauch and alarm, over the cavaliers, 
 and, though the lofty figure of Alvarado concealed 
 Gaspar from his view, he beheld enough in the ex- 
 traordinary sedateness of all present, to fill him 
 
240 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 ■with the most racking suspicions. He turned again 
 to Cortes, and commanding his fears as much as 
 he could, went on, with an appearance of bold- 
 ness, 
 
 " Alas, noble senor, if the ambassadors be es- 
 caped, I am a lost man, — for I trusted too much to 
 the vigilance of others, and I should not have done 
 so. Alas, seiior," he continued with more energy, 
 as his mind began to work more clearly, " I have 
 committed a great offence in this negligence ; but I 
 vow to heaven, it was owing to my fears of Juan 
 Lerma, who made many efforts to escape, and had 
 strong friends to help him. Your excellency may 
 see the necessity I was under, to give all my 
 thoughts to him ; for, some one having furnished 
 him with a dagger, he foully attacked me, not on 
 my guard, giving me this wound ; and had it not 
 been for the sudden rushing in of the guard, I should 
 certainly have been killed." 
 
 Thus spoke the Alguazil, with returning craft, 
 mingling together fiction and fact with an address 
 which astonished even himself: 
 
 *' Yes, seiTor," he continued, satisfied with the 
 strength of his argument, and now elated with a 
 prospect of providing against the effects of his im- 
 prudent disclosures in the prison ; " yes, senor, 
 and the young man, besides thus wounding me, 
 swore he would have me hanged for a conspiracy ; 
 stating roundly, as the guards will witness, (I am 
 certain that Esteban, the Left-Handed, heard him,) 
 that, being a notorious grumbler, any such fiction 
 would be believed of me. As if tliis would make 
 me a conspirator ! whereas, your excellency knows, 
 according to the proverb. Barking dogs are no 
 biters." And the audacious ruffian, relapsing into 
 security, attested his innocence by a gentle laugh 
 and the sweetest of his smiles. 
 
 " Again I say, thou speakest well," said Cortes, 
 carelessly descending from the platform, on which 
 
THE INFIDEL. 241 
 
 he had mounted at the approach of Villafana. 
 " Thine arguments have even satisfied me of the 
 folly of certain charges, brought against thee by 
 this mad fellow, here, at thy elbow." 
 
 As he spoke, Alvarado, taking his instructions 
 rather from a consentaneous feeling of propriety 
 than from any hint of Don Hernan's, moved aside, 
 and Villafana' s eyes fell upon the figure of Gas- 
 par. 
 
 " Think of it, good fellow," said Cortes, laying 
 his hand upon Villafana's shoulder, as if to support 
 himself a little ; " the things he said of thee are in- 
 numerable, and excessively preposterous. He 
 averred, for instance, that thou wert peevishly of- 
 fended, because I had not invited thy presence to 
 the festivities of the morning banquet, and wert re- 
 solved to come, whether I would or not, and that 
 with a letter from my father in one hand, and a 
 dagger in the other. Eh! is not this outrageous? 
 He said, besides, — But, o' my life, thou hast bled 
 too much from this wound ! Juan Lerma strikes 
 deep, when the fit is on him. I hope thou art not 
 faint, man]" 
 
 To these benevolent expressions, the Alguazil 
 replied by turning upon the general a countenance 
 so bloodless, and an eye filled with such ecstacy 
 of despair, (for if the poniards of all had been at his 
 throat, he could not have been more perfectly ap- 
 prized of his coming fate,) that Cortes must have 
 been struck with some feeling of commiseration, 
 had not his nature been somewhat akin to that of 
 a cat, which delights less to kill than to sport with 
 the agonies of a dying victim. As it was, he con- 
 tinued to torment the abandoned wretch, by add- 
 ing, pleasantly, 
 
 " And what thinkest thou of this, too, my Villafa- 
 na 1 Two hundred and forty conspirators, to rush 
 in when the blow was struck ! — doubtless to carve 
 their dinners from the ribs of my cavaliers ! — Ah, 
 
 VOL. 1. 21 
 
242 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 Villafana, Villafana ! thou shouldst have a care of 
 thy friends. Our enemies are harmless, but our 
 friends are always danixerous. — What dost thou 
 say to all this, Villafana ? — Knave ! hadst thou 
 twenty dasrjrers in thy jerkin, thou wert still but 
 an unfan^ed reptile !" 
 
 While he spoke, in this jestful mood, he was sen- 
 sible that Villafiina, (doubtless with an instinctive 
 motion, of which he was himself unconscious, be- 
 ing apparently turned to stone,) was stealing his 
 hand up towards his bosom, as if to grasp a wea- 
 pon. The moment the member had reached the 
 opening of his garment, Cortes caught him by the 
 throat, and giving utterance to his last words with 
 a voice of thunder, and employing a strength irre- 
 sistible by such a man as Villafana, he hurled him 
 to the floor, at the same instant placing his foot on 
 his throat. Then stooping down, and thrusting his 
 hand into the traitor's bosom, he jilucked out, at a 
 single grasp, a poniard, a letter, and the fatal list 
 of conspirators. He pushed the first aside, read 
 the superscription of the second with a laugh, and 
 casting his eye upon the third, devoured its con- 
 tents with an avidity that left him unconscious of 
 the murmurs of the fierce cavaliers, and the groans 
 of the wretched Alguazil, strangling under his 
 foot. 
 
 " What, seiior ! will you rob the gallows of its 
 prey ]" cried Alvarado, pointing his sword at the 
 prostrate traitor, as, indeed, did all the rest, (hav- 
 ing drawn them at the moment when Cortes seized 
 him by the throat :) " His crime is manifest to all : 
 what need of trial ? Every man his steel through 
 the dog !" 
 
 " Hold !" cried the Captain-General ; " this were 
 a death for an hidalgo. Up, cur ! up, and meet thy 
 fate ! Up !" And he spurned the wretch with his 
 foot. 
 
 The Alguazil rose up, his face black with blood, 
 
THE INFIDEL. 243 
 
 which, not perfectly disj^ersing even at release from 
 strangulation, remained in leopard-like blotches 
 over his visage, ghastfully contrasted with the ashy 
 hues that gathered between them. As he rose, his 
 arms were seized by two or three cavaliers ; and 
 Sandoval, as quick in action as he was sluggish 
 in speech, snatching the rich sword-sash of samite 
 from his own shoulders, instantly secured them be- 
 hind his back. 
 
 " For the love of God, senores !" cried Villafana, 
 finding speech at last, " what do you mean 1 what 
 do you design 1 You will not kill an innocent man ] 
 Will you judge me at the charge of a liar 1 Gaspar 
 is my sworn foe. I will make all clear. — Senor, I 
 have been drinking, and my mind is confused: 
 take me not at this disadvantage. Oh, for God's 
 sake, what do you mean ] — The list 1 what, the list ? 
 'Tis for a merry-making — a rejoicing for my birth- 
 day. I will explain all to your excellencies. — I am 
 an innocent man. — Gaspar is a forsworn caitiff— ^a 
 caitiff, seiiores, a caitiff! — I claim trial by the civil 
 judges." — 
 
 " Gag him," cried one. 
 
 " Strike him on the mouth," said another. And 
 Villafana, gasping for breath, uttered, for a moment, 
 nothing but inarticulate murmurs. 
 
 " De Olid, Marin, De Ircio," cried Cortes, rapid- 
 ly, and with inexpressible decision, " ye are judges 
 of life and death ; Sandoval and Alvarado, by right 
 of office, ye can sit in judgment ; Quinones, Guz- 
 man, and the rest, I make you, in the king's name, 
 special associates of the others. — Why, here is a 
 court, not martial, but civil ; and the dog shall have 
 judgment to his content ! He stands charged of 
 treason. — Guilty, seiiores 1 or not guilty 1" 
 
 " Guilty !" cried all with one voice : and De Olid 
 added, " Let us take him into the garden, and hang 
 him to the cedar-tree." 
 
 " To the window," said Cortes, pointing with his 
 
244 THE mriDEL. 
 
 sword to the stout cords, lianging so invitingly 
 from the serpent's-head ; and in an instant the vic- 
 tim was dragged upon tlie platform. 
 
 Up to this moment, his (bars had been uttered 
 rather in vehement complaints than in outcries ; 
 but now, when he perceived that he was condemn- 
 ed by a mockery of trial, doomed without tlie re- 
 spite of a minute's space to pray, the rope dangling 
 before his eyes, and already in the hands of a cava- 
 lier, who was bending it into a noose, he uttered a 
 piercing scream, and endeavoured to throw himself 
 on his knees. 
 
 " Mercy !" he cried, " mercy ! mercy ! I will 
 confess — I can save all your lives — Mercy ! 
 mercy !" 
 
 Of all the sights of horror and disgust, villany, 
 transformed at the death-hour, into its natural cha- 
 racter and original of cowardice, is among the most 
 appalling. Villafana was as brave as a ruffian could 
 be ; but when imagination is linked in the same 
 spirit with vice, courage expires almost at the same 
 moment with hope. With a weapon in his hand, 
 and that at liberty, Villafana, perhaps, would have 
 manifested all the valour in which despair perceives 
 the only hope, and died like a man. As it was, 
 bound and grasped in the arms of strong men, 
 entirely helpless and equally without hope, his death 
 staring him in the face, he gave himself up at once 
 to unmanly fears, and wept, screamed, and prayed, 
 until the guards, at watch in the vestibule, sank 
 upon their knees and conned over their beads, to 
 divert their senses from cries so agonized and so 
 horrible. 
 
 As he strove to prostrate himself before his in- 
 exorable judges, he was pulled up by the cavaliers, 
 and among others by Don Francisco de Guzman, 
 whose countenance he recognized. 
 
 " Save me, Guzman ! save me !" he cried ; " for 
 thou wert once of the party — Save me !" 
 
TBE INPIDEL. 245 
 
 " Peace, wolf — " 
 
 " Mercy ! mercy ! noble seiior !" he continued, 
 turning to Cortes : " I am but one of many. Guz- 
 man is as false as I ; I charge him with treason : 
 he has abused your excellency's ear '.—-Listen, 
 senores, and spare me my life : give me a day — 
 give me but to-night, to pray and confess, and you 
 shall have all. There are cavaliers among us — 
 Mere)'', for the love of heaven! — Camarga, the Do 
 minican, — Don Palmerino de Castro, — Muertazo of 
 Toledo, Carabo of Seville, — Artiaga, Santa-Rosa, 
 Bravo, Aljaraz, and an hundred more — " 
 
 *' Peace, lying villain !" cried the Captain-Gene- 
 ral — " What ho, the rope ! quick, the rope !" 
 
 " A moment to repent ! a moment to repent '." 
 shrieked the victim, struggling so violently to bring 
 his hands before him, as if to clasp them in prayer, 
 that the silken band crackled behind him, and his 
 hands turned black with congested blood ; "a mo- 
 ment to repent ! for I am a sinner. What ! would 
 you condemn my soul, too 1 Saints, hear me ! 
 angels, plead for me ! A priest, for the love of 
 heaven ! I killed Artiaga of Cadiz ; I scuttled the 
 ship at Alonso, drowned the nuns, and stole the 
 church-plate — Call Magdalena — Where's Magda- 
 lena ? — You are murdering me ! Mercy ! mercy ! 
 I killed Hilario, too — I poniarded him in the old 
 wounds, inflicted by Juan Lerma — I have much to 
 repent — A priest, for the love of God ! A priest, 
 oh, a priest !" 
 
 Thus raved the villain, stained with a thousand 
 crimes ; and if aught had been wanting to steel the 
 hearts of his executioners, enough was divulged in 
 the unavailing abandonment with which he accused 
 himself of misdeeds, so many and so atrocious. 
 While his neck was yet free from the rope, he 
 struggled violently, but without any attempt to do 
 a mischief to his unrelenting murderers ; his re- 
 sistance was, indeed, like that of a cur, under the 
 
 21 * 
 
246 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 chastisement of a cruel and brutal master, which 
 howls and contends, and yet fears to employ its 
 fangs against the tyrant. But when he found, at 
 last, that the cavaliers were actually putting the 
 hasty halter about his neck, his struggles were not 
 greater to escape than to inflict injury. He shook 
 and tossed his head in distraction, and Don Fran- 
 cisco de Guzman, endeavouring to seize him by 
 the beard, he caught the hand of the cavalier be- 
 twixt his teeth, and held it with the gripe of a 
 tiger. 
 
 " Hell confound thee, wolf!" cried Guzman, 
 groaning with pain, and striking him over the face 
 with the hilt of his sword, but in vain : " Help me, 
 cavaliers, or he will have my hand off! — Villain, 
 unlock thy teeth. — " 
 
 " Stand aside — This will unloose thee," said 
 one, thrusting his rapier into the thigh of the vin- 
 dictive wretch ; who no sooner felt the cold steel 
 penetrate his flesh, than he opened his mouth to 
 utter a yell. " Whip him up now. — So much for 
 traitors !" 
 
 It was the last scream of the assassin. His lips 
 uttered one more cry to heaven ; the name of 
 Magdalena was cut short, as the noose closed upon 
 his throat, and ended in a hoarse, rattling, gulphing 
 whine, that did not itself prevail beyond the space 
 of a second. As he shot up to the top of the win- 
 dow, an intense glare of lightning flashed through 
 the alabaster, and his figure, traced upon that lus- 
 trous and ghastly medium, was seen dangling and 
 writhing in the death-agony. The next moment, 
 the huge curtain was drawn over the dreadful 
 spectacle : but those who paused a moment, to look 
 back, could behold the convulsions of the dying 
 miscreant giving motion, and sometimes protrusion, 
 to the dark folds of the drapery. — When all was 
 silent, in the darkness of the night, the watchmen 
 in the vestibule could yet hear the pattering of 
 
THE INFIDEL. 247 
 
 blood-drops falling from his mangled limb, upon the 
 sonorous wood of the platform. 
 
 But there were other scenes now occurring, 
 which, for a time, drove from their thoughts the 
 memory of Villafana. 
 
248 TUE INFIDEL. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 The scene of death in which they were engaged, 
 had so employed the thoughts of the cavaliers, that 
 they were, for a time, insensible to many tumuli ii- 
 ous noises in the city, which, beginning at the mo- 
 ment when the struggles and outcries of Villafana 
 were fiercest and loudest, increased every instant, 
 until all was uproar. 
 
 At first, as they rushed in disorder to the doors, 
 they thought the din was caused by a renewal of 
 the storm, or rather the sudden outbursting of a 
 tornado ; which, overwhelming the houses ol^ some 
 of the poorer citizens, and burying them among the 
 ruins, might account for the screams and yells, that 
 were mingled with other noises. But they soon 
 exchanged this fear for one more stirring, when, as 
 they rushed into the air, they heard an alarum ring- 
 ing from the chapel-bell on the top of the pyramid, 
 drums beating to arms, arquebuses firing in several 
 different quarters, and were made sensible that a 
 conflict was raging in the town. 
 
 " Dios !" cried one ; " the conspirators are upon 
 us ! Let us back to the hall and defend our- 
 selves !" 
 
 " My life upon it," said Gaspar, " the conspirators 
 will not stir till Villafana opens his lips to them. — 
 Heaven rest his soul 1 — Hark ! these are the yells 
 of Indians." 
 
 " On, friends !" exclaimed Cortes, perceiving the 
 garden full of soldiers, rushing from various parts 
 
THE INFIDEL. 249 
 
 of the palace, as if to seek the fray. " This is Tlas- 
 calan work — a knavery of Xicotencal. Hah ! hark ! 
 see ! 'tis an assault upon the prison ! Ho, Castilians ! 
 ho, Christians ! cavaliers and soldiers, to arms ! 
 haste, to arms !" 
 
 While the soldiers, collecting together at the 
 well-known voice of the Captain-General, began to 
 rush with him towards the prison, over which, be- 
 sides hearing the shouting of the watchmen at the 
 doors, they beheld three blazing arrows shot up 
 into the air, their alarm was directed to another 
 quarter, by a violent cannonade from the squadron, 
 moored yet at the entrance of the little river ; and 
 looking that way, they perceived to their astonish- 
 ment and fear, no less than four of the brigantines 
 suddenly enveloped in flames. 
 
 " Guzman and Quinones !" cried Cortes, with in- 
 stant determination, " to the prison, with what force 
 ye can pick up on the way. Shoot all fugitives, as 
 well as all assailants. The rest follow me to the 
 river; for I would mine arms should be burned, 
 rather than my vessels." 
 
 By this time, all the Spaniards who were capable 
 of bearing arms, were in the open air, and follow- 
 ing not less the shouts of Cortes than the crash of 
 the falconets, ran hastily towards the fleet, which, 
 it was now evident, was furiously beset by multi- 
 tudes of Indians in canoes. The flash of the explo- 
 sions and the flames bursting ruddily out from sails 
 and cordage, revealed them clustering with impe- 
 tuosity around the devoted vessels, whose crews, it 
 was equally apparent, were making a gallant re- 
 sistance. In this light, the houses bordering upon 
 the water were seen covered with citizens, looking 
 on with a tranquillity, which showed that their 
 share in the unexpected hostilities, if indeed they 
 had any, was entirely passive. A more agreeable 
 sight was disclosed to Cortes, as he ran onwards, 
 in the appearance of many thousand Tlascalans, 
 
250 THE ixriDEL. 
 
 rushing down the narrow meadows wliich bordered 
 the canal, with such alacrity of speed and such fu- 
 rious cries of ' Tlascala !' and ' Castilla !' as con- 
 vinced him of their fidehty and aflc^ction. 
 
 " It is a Mexican device, after all," he mutter- 
 ed ; "a })lan of the ambassadors. Well done for 
 thee, Villufana ! — Bold varlets, these ! What ! down 
 with your demi-culverins and sakers, Orozca ! 
 Where is my good cannonier, Juan Catalan 1 We 
 will aid the vessels from the shore." 
 
 The mariners, however hotly engaged, replied to 
 the cries of their friends with shouts of courage ; 
 and redoubling their exertions, they succeeded not 
 only in repelling the assailants, whose obvious aim 
 was to fire the whole fleet, from those ships not 
 yet ignited, but even in extinguishing the flames in 
 the less fortunate four. In this, they were doubt- 
 less materially assisted by the condition of the 
 planks and timbers, which being of green wood, 
 the flames would perhaps have confined their 
 ravages to the more combustible sails and cordage, 
 and soon expired for want of fuel. They weighed 
 anchor also, and taking advantage of the gusts 
 which still blew over the lake, six of the largest 
 and strongest set sail, and boldly plunged among 
 the canoes, overturning and sinking many, while 
 the others, receiving assistance from the shore, be- 
 took themselves to the little harbour, dragging 
 with them their disabled consorts. 
 
 In this manner, it soon became evident that the 
 danger in this quarter was over ; and Cortes, di- 
 recting that the position of the brigantines should 
 be strengthened by a temjwrary battery at the 
 mouth of the river, returned to inspect the condi- 
 tion of the city in the neighbourhood of the palace. 
 
 The sounds of contention were over ; and one 
 passing through the garden, and listening to the 
 moaning of the winds through the trees, could 
 scarce have believed that half an hour before it had 
 
THE INFIDEL. 251 
 
 been a scene of such warlike bustle. The bell rang 
 no longer, the drums, trumpets, and arquebuses 
 were silent, and the sentinels paced to and fro at their 
 stations, as if nothing unusual had happened. The 
 only sounds indeed that now vexed the calm of the 
 night, were the occasional explosion of a falconet 
 from some brigantine, afar among the shadows of 
 the lake, still pursuing the retreating canoes. The 
 attack was perhaps unpremeditated ; or, perhaps, 
 its only object was to taunt and defy. At all events, 
 it was now over ; and in less than an hour from 
 the time of the first alarm, the cry of aW s-irell could 
 be heard through the different quarters of the 
 city. 
 
 Before this satisfactory conclusion of an evening 
 so eventful, the Captain-General was doomed to 
 have his equanimity put to the proof by a new 
 trial. A double line of guards surrounded the 
 prison, and Guzman, Q,uinones, and Gaspar Olea 
 were among them, the last wringing his hands, and 
 bewailing ; but the prison-door was open, a thin 
 smoke issued from it, and he could see, at a glance, 
 that the only persons in the apartment were a few 
 soldiers, dashing water over its partly consumed 
 floor. Under the very threshold lay the bodies of 
 two soldiers, fearfully mangled ; another was 
 writhing, gasping, and dying in the arms of his 
 conn'ades ; and a fourth, severely wounded, was 
 narrating to Quinones the particulars of an assault, 
 made, as he averred, by ten thousand devils, or 
 Mexicans, who sprang suddenly out of the earth, 
 killed or dispersed the whole guard, carried off the 
 prisoner, or burned him, he knew not which, (for 
 he lay upon the ground, counterfeiting death,) and 
 then, setting fire to the building, vanished quite as 
 suddenly as they came. 
 
 " Were these men Mexicans or Tlascalans ?" 
 demanded Cortes, without betraying any sign of 
 feeling. 
 
252 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 The soldier started at the sound of his leader's 
 voice, and hastily replied, 
 
 " In good faith, senor, I know not, for I was 
 somewhat overcome with fear." 
 
 " And with wine, sirrah !" exclaimed the General. 
 " But it matters not — thou art too stupid to answer 
 now. Have this fellow into the den, Q^uinones, and 
 let him be brought to me to-morrow. — Seiior Don 
 Francisco, we will walk to the palace. 
 
 He put his arm into Guzman's, and dragging 
 him to a little distance, where no beam of torch 
 or cresset illuminated his visage, exclaimed, eagerly, 
 
 " Tell me the truth, Francisco : — has he perished 
 by fire in the prison, or has he escaped me V 
 
 " Senor," replied Guzman, " his star, or his devil, 
 has helped him." 
 
 " Why then the fiends seize thee, and all false 
 friends, who plague me !" cried Cortes, giving way 
 to passion. " Is it thus I am to be cheated 1" 
 
 " Seiior," said Guzman, moderately, but without 
 fear ; " I have mine own cause of distress, for my 
 hand is horribly mangled, and I have heard that 
 the bite of a dying man causes mortification. So, 
 with this pain of body and mind, I may not speak 
 good counsel or good defence. — When I reached 
 the prison, it was empty and on fire. Had not 
 your excellency interfered with the execution this 
 day—-" 
 
 " Ay, there again !" muttered the Captain-Gene- 
 ral ; " mine own hand is made to befool me ; it 
 pulls out of the pit faster than my foot tramples 
 in. Hark thee, Guzman, dost thou not think 
 this young man is protected by some special 
 providence ?" 
 
 " I, seiior V 
 
 *' Why, look you, what could have carried him 
 through the tribes of the West, to the South Sea, 
 and back again '? — (a device of thy scheming, too !) 
 And, didst thou not see, I was about to run him 
 
THE INFIDEL. 253 
 
 through, in the very act of mutinous resistance, 
 when a brute and insensate dog seized my sword- 
 blade in his mouth 1 And now, for the third time, 
 what but his angel could have brought to his pri- 
 son-door yonder infidels of Mexico — his only friends, 
 I think 1" 
 
 " Let your excellency question if this circum- 
 stance will not, without removing him from punish- 
 ment, give a still stronger excuse for it 1 The scribe 
 visited him in the dungeon ; a paction with the 
 enemy, sealed by the act of flight with them to their 
 stronghold, has confirmed him thrice over a 
 traitor." 
 
 "Ay, by heaven ! it is true !" said Cortes, smiting 
 his hands together ; " and, by and by, I will take 
 him out of his hiding-place, and crown the day of 
 victory with a double triumph '" 
 
 " And who can affirm," quoth Don Francisco, 
 " that the misbelievers have not taken him for a 
 sacrifice] It is said, the coronation of Guatimozin 
 is deferred only until he can provide a Castilian 
 victim to do honour to the ceremony. By my faith, 
 seiior, there is a pleasant twitch in my cheek, — ay, 
 in the scar of the rapier-wound — at the very thought 
 of this retribution !" 
 
 " Now, by heaven," said Cortes, with an altered 
 voice, " villain as he is, I cannot rejoice that such 
 a dismal fate should befall him. Death, indeed, but 
 not a death of horror ! Dost thou think this, then, 
 can be his doom ? Alas, poor youth ! had he but 
 some one to lament him or to avenge, I were better 
 satisfied with what I have done. I swear to thee, 
 Francisco, we are e'en as base knaves as himself; 
 for we have employed our strength — our cunning 
 and our strength — against a creature that is utterly 
 friendless. Alas, I say ; for I remember me of the 
 days of old ; and surely I loved him once as my 
 own soul." 
 
 This outbreaking of feeling did not at all surprise 
 VOL. I. 22 
 
254 THE INFIDEL. 
 
 Guzman, who had been familiar from the boginnino; 
 with the el)binrrs and flowings of Don Her nan's 
 hate, and who had several times seen him, when 
 the destiny of Juan seemed already closed, affected 
 so much that he shed tears, as he did at the present 
 moment. But Guzman was acquainted with a 
 spell which never failed to banish all compunction 
 from the General's breast ; and he did not scruple 
 to employ it now. 
 
 " It is enouG^h !" muttered Cortes, through his 
 cicnched teeth. " Heaven and my conscience ac- 
 quit me, and I will think of it no more." 
 
 With these words, he seemed to discharge from 
 his mind all thoughts of the youth so deeply detest- 
 ed, and addressing himself to the task of inspecting 
 ill person the condition of all assailable points in 
 the city, betook himself at last, and at the day- 
 dawn, to his repose. 
 
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