You may have trouble in the future, but for the time Montezuma's love of art has overcome his doubts and fears as to good and evil omens." "Shall I have to take up my residence in Mexico ?" "I hardly think so," Cacama replied.

"Tezcuco is still acknowledged the center of the arts and sciences of Anahuac.

Here are the best schools of the scribes, and they come here to be instructed in hieroglyphic writing from all parts of the kingdom.

Moreover, in that way Montezuma will have less uneasiness concerning you.

He will think that, even if the omens be unfavorable, there will be no danger so long as you are at a distance from his capital; therefore, I think he is more likely to order some of the scribes to take up their residence here, for a time, than he is to bid you to cross to teach them there." Such in fact was the purport of the message received from Montezuma on the following day.