The time is come; and only by your help can the restitution be made." "Was there, then, a time fixed ?" "The stars tell me so.

And other events make it certain that there must be no delay.

The general has it in mind to discover the gates through which the waters under-ground may arise and again form the sea which flowed hereabouts in the ancient times.

Now, this sea will fill the ravine in which the treasure lies, and make it forever unattainable.

A youth has also come here who is skilled in the sciences, and whom the general will ask to help him in the thing he is to attempt." "Who is this youth ?" asked Semitzin.
"He is of the new people who inherit this land: his name is Freeman." "There is something in me--I know not what--that seems to tell me I have been near such a one.