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"Have you forgotten already what I told you of Tyope and of that old sand-viper, the Naua?" It thundered in the distance; a shower was falling south of the Rito, and its thunder sounded like low, subterranean mutterings. Hayoue called out, "Do you hear the Shiuana? They remind you of what I said." The parts were reversed.
"You know," Say cried, "how mean Tyope is! If my child goes to see his child, is it not easy for the young serpent to ask this and that of my son? Then she will go and tell the old sand-viper, her mother, who will whisper it to Tyope himself. Don't you see it, sister?" The argument was forcible, and Shotaye felt the truth of it. The other proceeded,
I discovered that he goes to see her, and thus gets to the house of the woman of whom they say that she is Tyope's ear and eye, tongue and mouth. What do you say to that, sa tao?" Shotaye smiled. "Have you ever spoken to Mitsha?" "Never!" exclaimed Say. "How could I speak to one whose mother is a sand-viper, and whose father a carrion crow?" "Is that all?"
Now, your mother is afraid lest through Mitsha's mother, first Mitsha, afterward through her you, might become entangled in the coils of that sand-viper Tyope. "But what has Tyope done? How do you know that he is such a bad man?" "That's just it. He never acts openly.
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