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"It is well, and it is good for him and for the tribe," the old man asserted. "Afterward he came and said, 'Sanaya, I am going with that makatza; does she please you? I believe that was right also?" "It was right." The woman omitted the incident of her quarrel with Okoya as well as her interview with Shotaye, and said, "He also went to Hayoue and told him to speak to me for him.
"What do you think of the girl?" the woman inquired. "Very, very good!" Hayoue emphatically exclaimed. "But her mother and her father," he hissed through his teeth and shook his head with every sign of disgust, "they are very, very bad." "I think as you do," said Okoya's mother, "and yet I know that the boy is good and the girl is good. Why should they not go together?"
On the high mesa above, the wind roared through the timber; in the valley, it was yet quiet. Lightning flashed through the clouds. Hayoue stood still, grasped the arm of his companion, and pointed at the southern heights. "If you ever go up there," he warned, "be very careful." Okoya failed to understand, and only stared. "Be careful," the other insisted, "and if possible never go alone."
"Sit down," she added quietly, as she grasped after the stew-pot, placed it on the fire, and sat down so that she was in the shadow, whereas she could plainly see the features of both men. The visitors had squatted also; they feared to arouse the woman's anger, and the surprise they had planned had failed. Hayoue spoke up first, "You are good, sanaya, you give us food."
Unless you are willing to let him use you to grind his corn as a woman grinds it on the yanyi, you have no chance; he will barter away Mitsha to a Navajo, if thereby he reaches his ends." Okoya started, horrified. "Is Tyope as bad as that?" he asked. "Do you recollect Nacaytzusle, the savage stranger boy?" Hayoue inquired in return. "I do; but he has left us."
"I don't know; and nobody knows, except perhaps the young Navajo, that fiend. But sure it is, and it bodes no good for us at the Tyuonyi." A violent crash of thunder was followed by a few drops of rain. Hayoue looked up and said, "Kaatsh is coming; let us go." Both rose and walked toward the caves for shelter.
I tell you what it is, that boy is fit for nothing but a Koshare, and a real good one will he become." "But," Okoya rejoined, "if the Delight Makers have spoken about the yaya and me, there must be some cause for it." "Don't you know that these shutzuna always find some occasion for gossip?" Hayoue cried. "Don't they run into every house?
Hayoue made no definite promise beyond what he had already pledged himself to at the general meeting. Hayoue and Zashue had taken leave of the invisible ones as well as of the inhabitants of the Tyuonyi, and ascended to the brink of the southern mesa above the Rito. Here they turned around to look back upon the home to which neither of them was any longer strongly attached.
It was true; Okoya was too young yet, too inexperienced; he could not fully understand what Hayoue was suspecting, and could not give him any light or advice. It was useless to press him any further. But one thing Hayoue had achieved, at all events. He had enjoyed an opportunity to vent his feelings in full confidence, and that alone afforded him some relief. After musing a while he spoke again,
It was now the uncle who reminded the nephew of the voices from the higher world. Okoya hung his head. "Listen to me," continued Hayoue; "I know that you do not like it that I speak against Tyope, but I am right nevertheless. He is a bad man and a base man; he only looks at what he desires and to the welfare of his hanutsh.
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