Tula made a restless movement as if she would prevent him from saying anything more, but he went on,
“Do you remember the column of fire in the East at midnight, which shone every night for an entire year? Do you recall huge comets with fiery tails shooting through the sky in the daytime?”
“No – don’t say anything more!” Tula begged in a whisper, but he continued,
“Did you see the waters of the lake churned into a frenzy when not even a breeze was blowing and hear the voice of a woman wailing in the night?”
He saw Tula shiver, then, as she put up her hands to her face Lord Yelverton said quietly,
“I am sure just now that you were wondering if Quetzalcoatl could keep his promise that one day he would return.”
*
Later that night when Lord Yelverton lay in the comfortable bed in his ro
