1st UK Edition

Maya

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

Presently the great pile was alight.

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

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

'Can you read this writing?'

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

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

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

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

'You— false Lady of the Heart.'

'You shall pay for that, Englishman.'

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

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

She was mad.