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Marksman followed Atoyac to the Palace of the Virgins of the Sun. In spite of himself, the intrepid hunter felt his heart contract when he thought of the perilous situation in which he was about to place himself, and the terrible consequences discovery would entail. Still, he stood up against this emotion, and succeeded in regaining sufficient power over himself to affect a tranquillity and indifference which were far from real. The two men walked silently side by side. The hunter, fearing this prolonged dumbness might inspire his pride with doubts, resolved to make him talk, in order to give his thoughts a different direction from that he feared to see them take. "My brother has travelled much? " he asked him.
"Where is the warrior of our race whose life has not been spent in long journeys? " the Indian answered, sententiously. "The Palefaces -- my brother knows it better than I -- chase us like wild beasts, and compel us incessantly to retire before their successive encroachments."