BOOK FIVE.
CHAPTER I
PUBLIC OPINION
Guatamozin, accompanied by Hualpa, left the city a little after nightfall. Impressed, doubtless, by the great event of the day, the two journeyed in silence, until so far out that the fires of the capital faded into a rosy tint low on the horizon.
Then the ’tzin said, “I am tired, body and spirit; yet must I go back to Tenochtitlan.”
“To-night?” Hualpa asked.
“To-night; and I need help.”
“What I can, O ’tzin, that will I.”
“You are weary, also.”