But what would Upanqui or Kari say? The Incas you declare are
always bigots and might interpret this law otherwise."
"I cannot tell, Lord, but let us cease from beating bushes. I will help
you if I can, if you will help me if _you_ can, though I daresay that in
the end you, who are not a bigot, must take the law into your own hands,
as perhaps the lady Quilla, who is a moon-worshipper, would be willing
to do also."
The finish of it was that this cunning priest and statesman and I made a
bargain. If I could win Kari over to his interests, then he swore by the
Sun that he would gain me access to the lady Quilla and help me to fly
with her, if so we both wished, while I on my part swore to plead his
cause with Kari. Moreover, as he showed me, there was little fear that
either of us would break these oaths since henceforth each lay in the
power of the other.
After this we passed on to public matters. I was charged to offer an
honourable truce to Huaracha and the Chancas with permission to them to
camp their armies in certain valleys near to Cuzco where they would
be fed until peace was declared, which peace would give them all they
needed, namely, their freedom and safeguards from attack.
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