Because Cortés lands on a day specified in t ings, because ain ugliness ers taken as a group -- for tezuma siders Cortés to be Quetzalcoatl, t god    of snakes, voo return.

        Montezuma gives Cortés a carved jade drinking cup.

        Cortés places around Montezumas neck a necklace of glass beads strung on a cord sted h musk.

        Montezuma offers Cortés aer taining small pieeat ligés dees because    are human fingers.

        Cortés sends Montezuma a    of t Spanisezumas messengers    entering t;As to t is like    is    ly s. . ."

        Cortés and Montezuma are tle green flies fill tés and Montezuma are ime to time one of to brush away a fly.

        Montezuma receives neure ing, from t Cortés    lears. Cortés is trimming his black beard.

        Do?a Marina, translator, is sleeping és in tezuma. Cortés ae. Sired, Cortés thinks.

        Doés and Montezuma ed ; Montezuma asks. "Sancs o?" says Cortés. "Overturning idols," says Montezuma. "Yes," Cortés says vaguely, "yes, , everyw;

        At a cert later t evening, Cortés is bitten on t. to    slipper. Cortés removes t. "Is t; ;Perfectly," she says.

        Montezuma ion upon Cortéss sen place s. Soon the docks.

        Montezuma es, in a letter to ;ty y took pains to ion, to pretend t ting tion in t disgusting    saso    in t poo stand in pairs on little s t visiting of one anotil early in the m. . .

        "t beired of o deal ions, of unc t, of keeping track of ts -- in s, of o t to remember tiveness,    reminds us of times, is easier. teresting question is, o emerge from obscurity at time? hy now?

        "Many people    it is a direct sequence of tly. It is easily seen t, against a y    only be sidered a more or less tolerable circumstance -- t    sie years of t Buing, farting, oo, we ;

        A group of great lords ile to Montezuma    meeting in Vera Cruz, ue of te is fierce; a he room.

        Do?a Marina, altress of Cortés, o Fatouc;laically. I ot give you absolution, but I ;

        In teno, ine, y, temperament.

        Cortéss me bes, and sacred birds.

        Doés and Montezuma ive to folloezuma; Montezuma ective to follo;tectives of talent in teno," says Montezuma. "t I dont use t -- better t detective."

        Atop t Cue, or pyramid, Cortés strikes an effigy of ts golden mask; an image of talled in its place.

        "t; says Do?a Marina, "Juan de Este and t be."

        Cortés screams.

        t Cristóbal de Olid, and following apia.

        Cortés is raving. o ts and is greeted by Montezuma. t lords stand oezuma supp ing. tezumas arms around Cortés. Cortés speaks urgently into Montezumas ear.

        Montezuma removes from us t repeatedly, until the blood flows.

        Do?a Marina is laer. "; says Cuitla;I    scezuma. rast to t of us, remarkably ce. A very religious man, a great student -- Ill s alk about, Montezuma and Cortés. t; Do?a Marina tucks a , at the back.

        Bernal Diaz del Castillo, rue ory of t of Neands in a square e. tion of Vera Cruz is read, in ezuma is denounced as trary to t is of t unborn.

        Cortés and Montezuma are ;I especially like t. Qua idea," says Montezuma. "t; "One God, t; Cortés corrects gently. "t t; Montezuma tinues, "seems to me    seems to me o. Furt; Montezuma stops and taps Cortés meaningfully on t ;w;

        Bernal asks Montezuma, as a great favor, for a young pretty ezuma sends ogetle, some crickets in cages, and a quantity of fresezuma observes, of Bernal, t "o be a gentleman."

        "t; Montezuma says.

        Cortés, sitting in an armchair, nods.

        "Because tivation of maize requires on ty days labor per person per year, ted in ternal struggle to o retain, tzalcoatl. . ."

        Cortés smiles and bows.

        "Easing train on to face alo of    of tself. . ."

        Cortés blinks.

        "If t of my auts are not trollable by me --"

        Cortés has no reply.

        "t is incumbent upon you, dear broto disclose to me t least    I may attempt to manipulate it in a favorable dire ion of    to me."

        Cortés has no reply.

        Breaking téss men discover, on tiny puddle of gold. tion is circulated t ty; is sent to oties.

        Bernal builds a stout eno darkens; flasning; the lake.

        Doés and Montezuma take ser in a door;Do?a Marina translated it; I ; says Cortés.

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        "You may take t. My gift."

        "Your    kind."

        "Your ser."

        "I ot leave until all of t, present and future, is stacked in t;

        "Impossible on t."

        "I agree. Let us talk of somet;

        Montezuma notices t a certain amount of    ed on    doublet. ake better care of him.

        In bed és, Do?a Marina displays for iful golden buttocks, ly. A tiny green fly is buzzing about tés brus aells    a vision. In tezuma is stru tone, and falls. s ones.

        "Dont ; says Cortés. "trust me."

        Fats Cortés    of tective o folloogets, dots, pograpés orders t all of tectives in ty be arrested, t tective be aboliseno, and t Fat back to Cuba in s.

        In tplaces and ters of ty, ranquillity, vinegar, entitlement, sell.

        On anotezuma and Cortés and Do?a Marina and tés aai lords of teno leave to t of ty called Cotaxtla.

        t before a great .

        " is t; Cortés asks, for    before.

        Montezuma replies t it is ting place of tec cil islature he laws of his people.

        Cortés expresses surprise and states t it anding t Montezuma is an absolute ruler anso no one -- a statement Do?a Marina tactfully s to translate lest Montezuma be given offense by it.

        Cortés,    ezuma at    ers the building.

        At tionaries eace goose quills filled és aery braziers, but Montezuma is not, t look at    greet    reverence saying, "Lord, my Lord, my Great Lord."

        ty is usall doors rant cedar into a vast c to tocks a pair of mirrors as is appropriate to y, ter raised somee feating a licue i in attitudes id attention, arms    ted, eyes fixed on tés lays a    s;ttery," o Montezuma. Montezuma és begins to laugezuma begins to laugés is cerical. Cortés and Montezuma run around t    of t some, turning ots. "I am tate!" ss Montezuma, and Cortés ss, "Mot know w ;

        In t possible és places Montezuma under .

        "Best you e to stay ;

        "t Id rat."

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        "t uand."

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        "I t it albor."

        "Pitalpitoque, Quintalbor, tendile."

        "Ill send te."

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        "I dont k;

        "Cutting peoples s out, forty, fifty, sixty at a crack."

        "Its tom around ;

        "take too mucribute."

        "t run an empire    tribute."

        "Our Lord Jesus C loves you."

        "Ill send e."

        "e a;

        Doés and Montezuma are    a respectful distance carrying ts taining many delicacies: caviar, uffed thrushes, gumbo.

        ontezuma is saying; Cortés brustle green flies, using a fly ernative?" C;I did    best," says Cortés, "proceeding y and sce." "I am murdered," says Montezuma.

        teno darkens; flasning; the lake.

        t of Montezuma rebukes t of Cortés. " te?"
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