1st US Edition

Maya

'This is your doing, woman! Are you not afraid?'

I did not so much as suffer my eyelids to tremble.

'You– false Lady of the Heart!'

'Can you read this writing?'

'You shall pay for that, Englishman.'

So beautiful was this bubble... that for some minutes Maya watched it.

Presently the curtain was drawn, and the lady Maya joined us.

For a moment he stood before her.

Presently the great pile was alight.

'It is I, Zibalbay, your lord, come home.'

Next came Maya herself.

She was mad.