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During the food handout,new followers for Topiltzin The event was staged and oiled with the professionalisanization Uxn to subvert the government in Mexico City

He preached to the reat stone centers of the past-Teotihuacdn, Monte Albdn, ?"ula and Chichdn It7A He never appeared in Mexico's modern cities

The people cheered Topiltzin and shouted his nahts went off, his bodyguards hustled hie truck and seine was started and the truck, led by one car and followed by another sloound its way through the crowd until it h' way Then it turned toward the Yucatdn state capital of Mdrida and picked up speed

The interior of the trailer was expensively decorated and divided between a conference roo quarters

Topiltzin briefly discussed the next day's schedule with his close worshipers When thebroke up, the truck was stopped, and everyone bid hiht The two cars collected the weary followers and drove them to hotels in MA-rida

Once Topiltzin closed the door and shut off one world, he entered another

He removed a feathered headdress and stripped off his white robe, revealing a pair of expensive slacks and a sports shirt underneath He opened a hidden cabinet, re wine and swiftly extracted the cork The first glass was downed for thirst, but the second was slowly savored

Relaxed, Topiltzin entered a s coraphic telephone and turned to face the center of the roone and waited Slowly an indistinct figure began to materialize in three dimensions At the same time, Topiltzin was visible thousands of miles away

When the details cleared, another man sat on an ottoman couch and stared back at Topiltzin His colealeam The visitor was dressed in a silk paisley robe over pajamas He studied Topiltzin's shirt and slacks for a lass in one hand

"You live dangerously," he said sternly in Ane-next it will be women"

Topiltzin laughed "Don't tehteen hours a day is bad enough without practicing celibacy"

"I endure the same inconvenience"

"We both have our own cross to bear," Topiltzin said in a bored tone

"Do not get careless so close to success"

"I don't intend to None of my people would dare disturb my privacy