`` My cousin , take courage ; your sorrows are ended . If I do not slay the Earthquaker , sacrifice me to your gods . '' `` The Prophecy is fulfilled , '' said the Inca , and wept for joy . `` Yet thou must hasten , for it draws near to noon . '' Then Prigio went up to the golden battlements , and saying no word , waved his hand . In a moment the square was empty , for the people rushed to give thanks in the temples . `` Wait my coming , my cousin , '' said Prigio to the Inca ; `` I shall bring you back the daughter that was lost , when I have slain your enemy . '' The Inca would have knelt at his feet ; but the king raised him , and bade him prepare such a feast as had never been seen in Manoa . `` The lost are found to-day , '' he said ; `` be you ready to welcome them . '' Then , mounting the Flying Horse , with Dick beside him , he rose towards the peak of the hill where the Earthquaker had his home . Already the ground was beginning to tremble ; the Earthquaker was stirring in his sleep , for the maiden of the new song had not been sent to him , and the year ended at noon , and then he would rise and ruin Manoa . The sun was approaching mid-day , and Prigio put spurs to the Flying Horse . Ten minutes more , and the sun would look straight down the crater of the hollow hill , and the Earthquaker would arouse himself when the light and the heat fell on his body . Already the light of the sun shone slanting half-way down the hollow cone as the whirlpool of air caught the Flying Horse , and drew him swiftly down and down to the shadowy halls . There knelt and wept the nurses of the Earthquaker on the marble floor ; but Jaqueline stood a little apart , very pale , but not weeping . Ricardo had leaped off before the horse touched the ground , and rushed to Jaqueline , and embraced her in his arms ; and , oh ! how glad she was to see him , so that she quite forgot her danger and laughed for joy . `` Oh ! you have come , you have come ; I knew you would come ! '' she cried .
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