That night, when we were back safe in Cuzco, Kari and the high-priest,
Larico talked together in secret. Of what passed between them he only
told me that they had come to an agreement which satisfied them both.
Larico said the same to me when next I saw him, adding:
"You have kept your word and served my turn, Lord-from-the-Sea,
therefore I will keep mine and serve yours when the time comes. Yet be
warned by me and say nothing of a certain lady to the prince Kari, since
when I spoke a word to him on the matter, hinting that her surrender to
her father Huaracha would make peace with him more easy and lasting, he
answered that first would he fight Huaracha, and the Yuncas as well, to
the last man in Cuzco.
"To the Sun she has gone," he said, "and with the Sun she must stay,
lest the curse of the Sun and of Pachacamac, the Spirit above the sun,
should fall on me and all of us."
Larico told me also that, fearing something, the great lords, who were
of Urco's party, had borne him away in a litter to a strong city in the
mountains about five leagues from Cuzco, escorted by thousands of picked
men who would stay in and about that city.
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