Moreover, it was agreed that if I returned with soldiers at my
back, they and their followers would come out to join me to the number
of thousands, and help me to take my own again so that I may be Inca
after Upanqui my father. Therefore I have come back here to talk with
you and Huaracha.
"Such is my tale."
CHAPTER VIII
THE FIELD OF BLOOD
When on the morrow Huaracha, King of the Chancas, heard all this story
and that Urco had given poison to his daughter Quilla, who, if she still
lived at all, did so, it was said, as a blind woman, a kind of madness
took hold of him.
"Now let war come; I will not rest or stay," he cried, "till I see
this hound, Urco, dead, and hang up his skin stuffed with straw as an
offering to his own god, the Sun."
"Yet it was you, King Huaracha, who sent the lady Quilla to this Urco
for your own purposes," said Kari in his quiet fashion.
"Who and what are you that reprove me?" asked Huaracha turning on him.
"I only know you as the servant or slave of the White-Lord-from-the-Sea,
though it is true I have heard stories concerning you," he added.
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