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"Is our father the Naua still alive?" "He lives and mourns. After you were gone with the people, he retired to the place in the cliffs with the Koshare; and when the Moshome came, nearly all the men were up there." Tyope's head was swimming.
He gave a chuckle which he intended for a benevolent smile. "See," Say's husband exclaimed, turning to Tyope; "the Naua believes as I do. My wife is no " the evil word he suppressed in time. He stopped, biting his lips in embarrassment. Tyope's features moved not. He spoke to the chief of the Delight Makers as quietly and calmly as possible,
"I believe as you do, nashtio; but while Say may be guiltless, Shotaye is not." "Hush!" the Naua sternly interrupted; "think of those here." He pointed toward the symbols. "Don't you know that they must not hear the name of that woman?" Tyope replied hastily, and eager to drown the reprimand his chief had given him, "What shall we do, Naua?" The old man became impatient.
On the outer circumference were placed the nashtio, or fathers, the delegates of the clans. The Koshare Naua and his colleague of the Cuirana held an intermediate position. Topanashka, as military head, and the assistant governor, who had neither voice nor vote, sat beside the entrance, guarding it. A lieutenant of the maseua crouched outside to prevent the approach of eavesdroppers.
You are only a few people, and you are lazy; whereas we are many and thrifty; you are a liar!" "Hush! hush!" sounded the voice of the principal shaman, between the shouts and screams of the disputing parties. "No! no!" shrieked Kauaitshe, "I will not hush. I will speak! I will tell these friends " "Water-mole!" yelled the tapop in response; and both the Koshare Naua and Tyope cried at once,
But the great medicine-man was not so much a man of action as a man of words, and the force of his oracular utterances Tyope hoped to destroy through the powerful speeches of the Koshare Naua and the strong medicine of the Shkuy Chayan. The plans of Tyope had been immensely furthered by the terrible accident; they had advanced so much that he felt it indispensable to modify them to some extent.
It vexed him, and he inquired rather gruffly what he had to say. Shyuote made a very wise and important face, placed a finger to his lips, and whispered, "The Koshare Naua told me to tell you that you should go to see him, not to-morrow, but the day after, when the moon goes behind the mountains." "Is that all!" exclaimed Zashue, disappointed and angry, "is that all you had to say?
Tyope held his head erect, watching the face of the old maseua. Topanashka's features had not moved; he was looking at the Koshare Naua with an air of utter unconcern. The Hishtanyi Chayan, on the contrary, raised his head; and the expression of his features became sharp, like those of an anxious inquisitor. In the eye of the Shkuy Chayan a sinister glow appeared.
There the representative of the Bear clan was in retirement. In the big house news circulated faster than anywhere else on the Tyuonyi, and in a very short time it became known that not only the nashtio from Kohaio, but especially that the Hishtanyi Chayan and the Cuirana Naua were secluding themselves.
Tyope squatted by his side, while Zashue remained erect. "Sa nashtio," began the former, "we have not found anything." "There is nothing," added Zashue, rather excitedly; "my wife is innocent." The Naua raised his eyes with an expression of astonishment and surprise, as if failing to understand. "What is it that you have not found?" he asked, rather dreamily.
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