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Tyope knew that the Queres were of one mind and that the official mourning alone kept them from replying to this act of unjustifiable hostility by an attack upon the Puye, but he also knew that as soon as the four days were past a campaign against the Tehuas would be set on foot. The Hishtanyi Chayan had retired to work, and that meant war!
At last the Hishtanyi Chayan rose. He threw a glance at his colleagues, who understood it, and rose also. Then the great medicine-man spoke in a hollow tone, "We will go now. We shall speak to our father the Hotshanyi, that he may help us to consult Those Above.
"No! we will give you nothing, nothing at all, even if you give us everything that the Koshare have schemed and stolen from the people!" The commanding voice of the Hishtanyi sounded through the tumult, "Hush! Hush!" but it was of no avail; passions were aroused, and both sides were embittered in the highest degree.
It was in the beginning of winter; not last winter, but the winter before." "Is that all?" inquired the Hishtanyi Chayan in turn. It displeased him to hear that Tyope had been eavesdropping in the dark, the man had no business in the big house at night. "I know also," continued Tyope, "that Shotaye gathered the feathers herself on the kauash toward the south." "Did you see her?"
Imbued with an idea that they are the mouth-pieces of Those Above, they listen anxiously to everything that is striking and strange, and attribute to inspiration forcible arguments as well as their own speeches and actions. So it was with the Hishtanyi Chayan.
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