And it was thus until sunrise, and worse yet when its first rays illuminated the scene. The young girl was detached from the stake, and a hundred arms were stretched out to drag her to execution, when the name of Martin Paz involuntarily escaped her lips, and cries of hatred and of vengeance responded. It was necessary to climb by steep paths the immense pile of rocks which led to the upper level of the river, and the victim arrived there all bloody; a canoe of bark awaited her a hundred paces above the fall; she was deposited in it, and fastened by bonds which entered her flesh. "Vengeance and death!" exclaimed the whole tribe, with one voice. The canoe was hurried on with increasing rapidity and began to whirl. Suddenly a man appeared on the opposite shore-- It is Martin Paz! Beside him, are Don Vegal and Liberta. "My daughter! my daughter!" exclaims the father, kneeling on the shore. "My father!" replied Sarah, raising herself up with superhuman strength. The scene was indescribable. The canoe was rapidly hastening to the cataract, in whose foam it was already enveloped. Martin Paz, standing on a rock, balanced his lasso which whistled around his head. At the instant the boat was about to be precipitated, the long leathern thong unfolded from above the head of the Indian, and surrounded the canoe with its noose. "My daughter! my daughter!" exclaimed Don Vegal. "My betrothed! my beloved!" cried Martin Paz. "Death!" yelled the savage multitude. Meanwhile Martin Paz redoubles his efforts; the canoe remains suspended over the abyss; the current cannot prevail over the strength of the young Indian; the canoe is drawn to him; the enemies are far on the opposite shore; the young girl is saved. Suddenly an arrow whistles through the air, and pierces the heart of Martin Paz. He falls forward in the bark of the victim; and, re-descending the current of the river in her arms, is engulfed with Sarah in the vortex of the cataract. A yell of triumph is heard above the sound of the torrent. Liberta bore off the Spaniard amid a cloud of arrows, and disappeared with him. Don Vegal regained Lima, where he died with grief and exhaustion. The Sambo, who remained among his sanguinary tribes, was never heard of more. The Jew Samuel kept the hundred thousand piasters he had received, and continued his usuries at the expense of the Limanian nobles. Martin Paz and Sarah were, in their brief and final re-union, betrothed for eternity.