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He suppressed the thoughts of rebellion that had arisen, and strolled on, crossing the creek and hunting for his father among the corn-patches on the other side. But his good-humour had left him. Instead of being triumphantly buoyant, he felt morose and humiliated. Zashue Tihua was at work in the fields of the Water clan, on the southern border of the cultivated plots.
"I tell you," Zashue spoke up, "Shyuote will become a good one." Hayoue shrugged his shoulders and replied, "You should know your own children better than I, yet I tell you Okoya also is good; besides, he is wise and reserved." "Yes; but he is too much with the women, and his mother stands nearer to him than his father. He never follows me to the fields unless I tell him.
Furthermore, Zashue being Koshare, the Koshare of the Tanos held him back for certain performances of their own, and Hayoue could not or would not start alone. Afterward, Hayoue being Cuirana, the Cuirana held something in store for him, and Zashue did not care to start without his brother.
Shotaye met this objection with the assurance that the remedy was directed against the guilty ones only, and that she herself did not for a moment think that Zashue had participated in the evil manipulations against his wife; that consequently he was in no manner exposed to danger. Say finally told her visitor that she would wait and see, and then decide. Winter went and spring came.
But your father, Zashue, and Shiape, your grandfather's brother, do you believe they would forsake you? Mind, boy, even if the Koshare be against you, you are not lost. There is your umo, Topanashka, and he has great weight with the old men, with the council, and with the people. There is your clan, Tanyi, and in fine I and my people are here too."
"Hachshtze," Say said in a tone of serious reminder, "speak not thus. I know that you and Tyope are good to each other. I know that he gives you advice, and I know too" her voice rose and grew solemn "that you have told him many things which neither Tzitz hanutsh nor Tanyi hanutsh like him to know." "Tyope is wise." "And he is also very bad," the younger brother exclaimed. This made Zashue angry.
The latter rose, went over to Zashue, took his hand, breathed on it, and lifted it upward. He did the same to Hayoue; then he returned to his seat and gave a sign to the interpreter, who went on, "Those whom you long for are not here. But it may be that as you say, brother," he directed these words to Zashue "they went to our people farther south.
A short discussion followed, in which every one participated in turn; at last all seemed unanimous, and the interpreter, avoiding Hayoue, who sat with eyes gleaming like a loaded electric battery ready to send off flying and burning sparks, turned to Zashue with the query, "Have you any trace of your people?"
In the recess formed by the angle of the cliffs which contained her home, the usual bustle of the evening hours prevailed; and laughter, merry and boisterous, issued from a cave opposite that where Shotaye, concealed by folds of the half-lifted curtain, stood watching with eye and ear. In those caves fronting hers dwelt the family of Zashue, Say's husband.
Zashue had carried it thither, communicating the intelligence secretly to his mother and sister. They were speaking of it, the old woman with apprehensions, and Zashue in his usual frivolous manner, when Hayoue entered. "Do you know," said he, "that the nashtio of Tyame is doing penance?" "So does ours," remarked Zashue, growing serious. He began to see matters in a different light.
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