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Furthermore, he enjoyed the material advantage that the latter could not have noticed him. Everything depended on ascertaining unseen as much as possible about the enemy's movements. From some of Shotaye's gesticulations the maseua had concluded that the Tehua would proceed on the old trail leading from the Rito to the Puye, or at least keep himself very near that trail.
He motioned Hayoue to come, and this time Hayoue was eager to meet Okoya. The uncle wore a gloomy face, and the nephew noticed it at once. But he thought that if his friend intended to confide in him he would do so spontaneously. He had not long to wait. Hayoue sat down alongside of him and began, "Do you know where sa umo is, the maseua?" "He is at home, I think.
So great was the surprise caused by this that Tyope lifted his face and looked at the old man in blank astonishment. Kauaitshe stared at Topanashka like one suddenly aroused by a wondrous piece of news. "Tyope is right," continued the maseua; "Shyuamo has not soil enough. He is also right in saying that there is not room enough on the Tyuonyi for making new plantations."
"Who is the makatza, and to which hanutsh does she belong?" "She belongs to your people." "To Tyame? Who is her mother, and what is the name of the girl?" "She is called Mitsha Koitza; Tyope Tihua is her father, and her mother you know too. Is all that good also?" The maseua pressed his lips together firmly, energetically, lowered his eyelids, and gazed before him in silence.
A crisis was near at hand; he saw it, but it could not be prevented. A deep gloom settled on the heart of the old maseua, and something like despondency crept over him at times.
The matter in itself seemed of no consequence at all, but the manner in which the governor spoke and acted looked extremely suspicious. Both of his listeners became attentive; the cacique displayed no signs of surprise, but he looked at the speaker fixedly, and inquired of him, speaking very slowly, "Is my brother the maseua willing to go?" "I have not asked him as yet."
And if the maseua surprised their interview and followed her knight, the latter had too much vantage-ground to be ever overtaken by his aged and unarmed pursuer. The fact that the sandal had been found, Shotaye interpreted as evidence of Cayamo's precipitate flight.
His eyes were dim, and he received the greetings of his visitors with an air of indifference or timidity; it was difficult to determine which. Pointing to the floor he said, "What brings you to my house, children!" and he coughed a hollow, hectic cough. The tapop began, "We wish " "Do not say we," the maseua corrected him, "you wish, not I." Hoshkanyi bit his lips and began anew,
With a sad expression he added, "Our maseua is no more, and ere the Hotshanyi has spoken to the yaya and nashtio, and said to them, 'such and such a one shall be maseua, it is the Hishtanyi Chayan who decides who shall go and who shall stay at home." His nephew comprehended; he nodded and inquired, "Does not the Hishtanyi Chayan fast and do penance now?"
During the last interview of Tyope with the young Navajo, the latter had charged him with having asked the Dinne to kill the old maseua during an incursion which his tribe were to make into the valley of the Rito. It was true that Tyope had suggested it, but he had not told the Navajo all that he designed through this act of treachery.
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