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But now, since the hand of Those Above has stricken the Queres, we will no longer be Moshome, but brethren, and will forget what has come between us. Are we not all one, we who wear the hair in sidelocks, one from the beginning; and have we not all come forth at the same place? You are welcome!" The speaker paused, glancing at the governor.
"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.
"It does not matter; for to that wild wolf he would rather give Mitsha than let her be your wife. There is no danger of my obtaining her," he added, with a grim smile, "for he hates me like a water-mole. True it is that I, too, detest him as I do a spider." Okoya felt bewildered. "Why should he give Mitsha to a Moshome?" he timidly inquired. "What would he gain by it?"
A tremendous noise from the south indicated that a hand-to-hand encounter was going on there. The noise lasted but a short time, then it subsided. Shortly afterward a warrior rushed panting up to Tyope. "Nashtio," he said, "the Moshome have taken five scalps." "Where?" Tyope snorted. "There;" he pointed southward. "And we?" "Three." "Have the people gone back?" "A little." "It is well.
He did not suppose that there were any Moshome lurking about as tiatui lies in wait for the deer. Had sa nashtio gone south or toward the west, he would have carried what was right, but over there," he pointed northward, "who would have believed the people over there to be so mean as these shuatyam of Tehuas now prove to be? Destruction come upon them!"
Nearly one hundred of our people have gone over to Shipapu, and twice as many are now in the woods, hungry and forlorn, or the Moshome have taken them with them. Luckily, they are mostly women. Hardly more than twenty of the men can have died, for it may be that Okoya is still alive. Of these, sixteen were Koshare; and the Shkuy Chayan is no more." He cast a glance of sincere pity at Tyope.
We were only a few, and the shuatyam laid waste our corn, and killed many women. Many more, however, fled; we do not know whither. These we have gone out to find; we are looking for them this day here among you, but you have taken us captives. You have treated us, not as it is customary between the Zaashtesh, but as the Moshome are wont to do when strangers come to their hogans."
Their uppermost snow-fields were beginning to glisten in the light streaming up from beyond. On Tyope's left a rustling sound was heard; he turned around. One of his men was cautiously approaching. "There are Moshome in front of us." "I know it," replied the commander. "How many have you seen?" "Two." "And you saw them clearly?" "Yes, but they sneaked off." "Did they seem to come toward us?"
Shall we go as far as Cuapa, where there is enough soil, or where the kauaush descends to the painted cave? Shall we go and live where the Moshome would surround us and howl about like hungry wolves? No!
"In that case we shall be four already. How often have I told you, satyumishe, that Okoya is good. He is a man; I saw it when he struck Nacaytzusle, the young Moshome." The elder brother said nothing. He acknowledged the wrong he had done his eldest child. In case Say Koitza, in case Shyuote were still alive, it would be owing to that elder son of his.
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