1st UK Edition

Out of the mouth of the pit... sprang a vast column of water

It was... Zibalbay,... come back from the boundaries of death.

'Oh! that I were free to avenge you!'

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

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

The mass of stonework fell, ... taking Molas with it.

'You— false Lady of the Heart.'

'You shall pay for that, Englishman.'

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

She was mad.

Maya

'Can you read this writing?'

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

Presently the great pile was alight.

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