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XXX. THE ESCAPE

XXXI. OTOMIE PLEADS WITH HER PEOPLE

XXXII. THE END OF GUATEMOC

XXXIII. ISABELLA DE SIGUENZA IS AVENGED

XXXIV. THE SIEGE OF THE CITY OF PINES

XXXV. THE LAST SACRIFICE OF THE WOMEN OF THE OTOMIE

XXXVI. THE SURRENDER

XXXVII. VENGEANCE

XXXVIII. OTOMIE'S FAREWELL

XXXIX. THOMAS COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD

XL. AMEN



Montezuma's Daughter


CHAPTER I

WHY THOMAS WINGFIELD TELLS HIS TALE


Now glory be to God who has given us the victory! It is true, the
strength of Spain is shattered, her ships are sunk or fled, the sea
has swallowed her soldiers and her sailors by hundreds and by
thousands, and England breathes again. They came to conquer, to
bring us to the torture and the stake--to do to us free Englishmen
as Cortes did by the Indians of Anahuac. Our manhood to the slave
bench, our daughters to dishonour, our souls to the loving-kindness
of the priest, our wealth to the Emperor and the Pope! God has
answered them with his winds, Drake has answered them with his
guns. They are gone, and with them the glory of Spain.

I, Thomas Wingfield, heard the news to-day on this very Thursday in
the Bungay market-place, whither I went to gossip and to sell the
apples which these dreadful gales have left me, as they hang upon
my trees.

Before there had been rumours of this and of that, but here in
Bungay was a man named Young, of the Youngs of Yarmouth, who had