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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

• BOOK ONE.

  Chapter

  Page

  • I. Our Mother has a Fortune waiting us yonder 1

  • II. Quetzal', the Fair God 7

  • III. A Challenge 13

  • IV. Tenochtitlan at Night 16

  • V. The Child of the Temple 20

  • VI. The Cû of Quetzal', and Mualox, the Paba 25

  • VII. The Prophecy on the Wall 30

  • VIII. A Business Man in Tenochtitlan 39

  • IX. The Questioner of the Morning 46

  • X. Going to the Combat 50

  • XI. The Combat 59

  • XII. Mualox, and his World 68

  • XIII. The Search for Quetzal' 74

• BOOK TWO.

  • I. Who are the Strangers? 83

  • II. A Tezcucan Lover 89

  • III. The Banishment of Guatamozin 95

  • IV. Guatamozin at Home 103

  • V. Night at the Chalcan's 112

  • VI. The Chinampa 120

  • VII. Court Gossip 126

  • VIII. Guatamozin and Mualox 130

  • IX. A King's Banquet 135

  • X. The 'Tzin's Love 141

  • XI. The Chant 150

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• BOOK THREE.

  • I. The First Combat 162

  • II. The Second Combat 169

  • III. The Portrait 180

  • IV. The Trial 183

• BOOK FOUR.

  • I. The King gives a Trust to Hualpa 192

  • II. The King and the 'Tzin 198

  • III. Love on the Lake 207

  • IV. The King demands a Sign of Mualox 214

  • V. The Massacre in Cholula 220

  • VI. The Conqueror will come 230

  • VII. Montezuma goes to meet Cortez 239

  • VIII. The Entry 246

• BOOK FIVE.

  • I. Public Opinion 257

  • II. A Message from the Gods 261

  • III. How Ills of State become Ills of Society 267

  • IV. Ennuyé in the Old Palace 275

  • V. Alvarado finds the Light of the World 282

  • VI. The Iron Cross 291

  • VII. The Christians in the Toils 299

  • VIII. The Iron Cross comes back to its Giver 306

  • IX. Truly Wonderful — A Fortunate Man hath a Memory 315

  • X. How the Iron Cross came back 317

  • XI. The Christian takes care of his own 325

• BOOK SIX.

  • I. The Lord Hualpa flees his Fortune 339

  • II. Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad 347

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  • III. The Public Opinion makes Way 357

  • IV. The 'Tzin's Farewell to Quetzal' 364

  • V. The Cells of Quetzal' again 374

  • VI. Lost in the Old Cû 379

  • VII. How the Holy Mother helps her Children 385

  • VIII. The Paba's Angel 392

  • IX. Life in the Paba's World 404

  • X. The Angel becomes a Beadswoman 410

  • XI. The Public Opinion proclaims itself — Battle 427

• BOOK SEVEN.

  • I. The Heart can be wiser than the Head 438

  • II. The Conqueror on the Causeway again 449

  • III. La Viruela 454

  • IV. Montezuma a Prophet. — His Prophecy 455

  • V. How to yield a Crown 462

  • VI. In the Leaguer 465

  • VII. In the Leaguer yet 473

  • VIII. The Battle of the Mantas 481

  • IX. Over the Wall, — Into the Palace 489

  • X. The Way through the Wall 499

  • XI. Battle in the Air 510

  • XII. In the Interval of the Battle — Love 524

  • XIII. The Beginning of the End 527

  • XIV. The King before his People again 532

  • XV. The Death of Montezuma 544

  • XVI. Adieu to the Palace 550

  • XVII. The Pursuit begins 559

  • XVIII. La Noche Triste 562

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