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"Our nashtio yaya," Hayoue replied with an important and mysterious mien, "has much work at present." "Do you know what he is working?" naïvely asked Okoya. "He is with Those Above." The reply closed the conversation on that subject. Okoya changed the topic, asking, "Satyumishe, you are not much older than I. How comes it that you are uakanyi already?" Hayoue felt quite flattered.
"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.
"Sa nashtio is coming soon." Turning to his brother he asked, "Where have you been all day, satyumishe?" "With the naua," was the short reply. "And you?" "At home; I felt tired from yesterday." "And from kenayte!" Zashue taunted, laughing. Say joined in the laugh. "I don't ask you where you were last night." "At home." Say confirmed it. "Surely?" "Certainly."
"Silence!" ordered the little governor, but nobody paid any attention. "Satyumishe Maseua," now shouted the principal shaman, "keep order, the nashtio Koshare wants to speak!" The tall man rose calmly; he went toward the cluster of wrangling men and grasped Kauaitshe by the shoulder. "Be quiet," he ordered. Nobody withstood his determined mien. All became silent.
He went straight to Tyope; and the latter looked at him timidly, almost tremblingly. Kauaitshe's face looked sad and mournful, but not wrathful. He grasped the hand of Tyope, breathed on it, lifted it upward with both his hands, and said in a tone of intense sorrow, "Satyumishe, Those Above are not kind to us."
"Behold, satyumishe, we have searched everywhere we could, have followed every trail we could follow. Nearly all the tracks were those of our people, of that I am sure, and how far have we not gone after them? Ten days at least we were in the mountains on the tracks of the Moshome Dinne. We fought them and took ahtzeta.
Ere we do this we have thought to say to our brethren, 'Tzitz has more land than it needs; Tzitz is our brother; and we will ask them, "Satyumishe, give us some of that of which you have too much, so that we may not be lost." But not to the Water people alone did we wish to speak; no, to all of you, to the yaya nashtio and the tapop, that you all may know it and assist us in our need.
He was not to be spoken to any longer; he began to beat his drum and took up the low chant again. Zashue hurriedly climbed out of the estufa, and Tyope followed with an angry face. When the latter was on the open ground again, Zashue stepped up to him and said in a very decided tone, "You see now, satyumishe, that Say is innocent. Hereafter, Tyope, leave her alone."
"It may be that some sneaking wolf is lurking about, but I do not believe it. See here, satyumishe, I belong to those who know of war, and I should certainly have heard if there were any signs of the Dinne. And our father the maseua would not have remained about the big house. No, umo, it is not on account of the Moshome that the yaya and nashtio take no food."
"It is true that the Moshome Dinne cannot have killed all our people. Do you not think, satyumishe, that he meant to tell me thereby that forty of our people escaped and fled to Hanyi?" "I do; and that is the reason why I believe we shall find them in Hashyuko," the eastern corner, the Queres name for the place where Santa Fé stands, replied the other, very positively.
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