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Title: The Aztec Treasure-House

Author: Thomas Allibone Janvier

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THE AZTEC TREASURE-HOUSE

By Thomas Allibone Janvier

Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers.

_All rights reserved._

TO C. A. J.

Departimiento y ha entre los enganos. Catales y ha que son buenos,
e tales que malos, e buenos son aquellos que los omnes fazen a
buena fe e a buena intencion.--ALONZO el SABIO, Setena Partida,
Titulo xvi., Ley ii.

[Illustration: The Dying Cacique.]

CONTENTS.

PROLOGUE

I. FRAY ANTONIO

II. THE CACIQUE'S SECRET

III. THE MONK'S MANUSCRIPT

IV. MONTEZUMA'S MESSENGER

V. THE ENGINEER AND THE LOST-FREIGHT MAN

VI. THE KING'S SYMBOL

VII. THE FIGHT IN THE CANON

VIII. AFTER THE FIGHT

IX. THE CAVE OF THE DEAD

X. THE SWINGING STATUE

XI. THE SUBMERGED CITY

XII. IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH

XIII. UP THE CHAC-MOOL STAIR

XIV. THE HANGING CHAIN

XV. THE TEMPLE IN THE CLOUDS

XVI. AT THE BARRED PASS

XVII. OF OUR COMING INTO THE VALLY OF AZTLAN

XVIII. THE STRIKING OF A MATCH

XIX. THE SEEDS OF REVOLT

XX. THE PRIEST CAPTAIN'S SUMMONS

XXI. THE WALLED CITY OF CULHUACON

XXII. THE OUTBREAK OF REVOLUTION

XXIII. A RESCUE

XXIV. THE AFFAIR AT THE WATER-GATE

XXV. THE GOLD-MINERS OF HUITZILAN

XXVI. THE GATHERING FOR WAR

XXVII. AN OFFER OF TERMS

XXVIII. THE SURRENDER OF A LIFE

XXIX. THE ASSAULT IN THE NIGHT

XXX. THE FALL OF THE CITADEL

XXXI. DEFEAT

XXXII. EL SABIO'S DEFIANCE

XXXIII. IN THE AZTEC TREA