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Tyope asked at last. "Mitsha was at the brook, and fled with the others. Nacaytzusle, the fiend, was after her to catch her, but he caught her not. Hayoue told us afterward that Okoya Tihua killed the savage just as he had overtaken the girl. Okoya is strong and good; he will become a great warrior, like sa umo the maseua. That is, if he still live."
It is true I came for them, but what I wanted" he emphasized the word "was as much for their benefit as my own. Thou, first of all, wast to gain by my scheme." His eyes closed, and the glance became as sharp as that of a rattlesnake. Nacaytzusle poked the embers with a dry stick as if thinking over the speech of the other. Then he asked, "Thou sayest thou hast wanted. Wantest thou no more?"
"That is Topanashka, the strong and wise warrior. That is very, very good!" Navajo number two looked closely at the corpse; then he grasped the hair again and resumed the cutting. Number one touched his arm. "Why do you do this?" he asked. The other chuckled. "Dost thou not see it, Nacaytzusle," said he; "the people of the houses know that we only take a lock of the hair.
Next Tyope untied the knot which held his hair on the back of the head, divided the long strands into switches, and began to wind those around his skull. Necklace, fetich, and the plume that adorned his sidelock, he put in the quiver. He was now so far transformed that any one, Nacaytzusle excepted, might have taken him in the night for a Navajo warrior.
You are Kauanyi, a member of the order of warriors," he added with a side-glance at his brother, "do you know anything of the sneaking wolves in the mountains?" Hayoue denied any knowledge concerning the Navajos, adding, "I did not like it when that fellow Nacaytzusle ran away from us. He knew too much of our ways." "He can do no harm. He is glad to stay among his people."
This metamorphosis was performed rapidly, but without anxious haste or confusion. The howls had meanwhile been repeated. They sounded nearer than before from the east, the south, and the southeast. Nacaytzusle alone, to judge from the signals which he gave, remained stationary. Tyope, abandoning his position at the foot of the tree, glided to the nearest shrub.
Unless you are willing to let him use you to grind his corn as a woman grinds it on the yanyi, you have no chance; he will barter away Mitsha to a Navajo, if thereby he reaches his ends." Okoya started, horrified. "Is Tyope as bad as that?" he asked. "Do you recollect Nacaytzusle, the savage stranger boy?" Hayoue inquired in return. "I do; but he has left us."
Nacaytzusle turned his eyes upon the dead, and replied in a hoarse voice, "It is well." He scanned the surroundings suspiciously. "Thou hast done well, very well," he said to the murderer. "Thou art strong and cunning. This one" he touched the body with his toes "was strong and wise also, but now he is so no longer. Now," he hissed, "we can go down into the Tu Atzissi and get what we want."
Is it not so, Nacaytzusle? Answer me." The Navajo shrugged his shoulders. "It is true," he said, "but I have nothing in common with the House people." "It may be so now, but if thou dost not care for the men, the women are not without interest to thee. Is it not thus?" "The tzane on the brook," replied the Navajo, disdainfully, "amount to nothing."
Intimately acquainted with the character of the Dinne Indians, and that of Nacaytzusle in particular, Tyope had gone on this errand well armed. Open hostility had resulted from the interview; it was useless to make any attempt at conciliation. Speedy return to the Rito was the only thing left. This return might become not only difficult, but dangerous, with the young Navajo concealed on the mesa.
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