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There was nobody left of Tzitz hanutsh except a few old women and Ciay Tihua, the little boy. Go down we could not, for below was such a noise, such fighting, struggling, shouting, and wailing! The Moshome tore the firebrands from the hearths, set fire to the beams, dragged the cloth and the hides into the court-yard and burned them there.
He alone carried on the investigation; Hoshkanyi Tihua had mingled with the rest again, and stood there silent and speechless over the terrible news. Neither did any of the others utter a single word, but from time to time one or the other shook his head and sighed deeply. "We don't know," replied the Indian, "for we did not find anything else."
"Mitsha Koitza," she repeated, "where does she belong?" "Tyame hanutsh." "Who is her father?" "Tyope Tihua. Do you like her?" and he looked at his mother pleadingly, as if asking her forgiveness and her consent to his choice. The woman's brow clouded at the mention of a name so hateful to her. She looked hard at her son and said in a tone of bitter reproach, "And you go with that girl?"
"I asked you where you were going. Why don't you answer?" Shyuote was frightened, and stammered in reply, "To see my father." "Who is your father?" "Zashue Tihua." The features of the interlocutor took on a singular expression. It was not one of pleasure, neither did it betoken anger; if anything, it denoted a sort of grim satisfaction.
He suppressed the thoughts of rebellion that had arisen, and strolled on, crossing the creek and hunting for his father among the corn-patches on the other side. But his good-humour had left him. Instead of being triumphantly buoyant, he felt morose and humiliated. Zashue Tihua was at work in the fields of the Water clan, on the southern border of the cultivated plots.
By means of the well-known fire-drill he was attempting to perforate a diminutive shell disk and thus transform it into the shell bead so essential to the Indian. So intent was he upon this arduous task that he failed to notice the coming of Topanashka; and the latter stood beside him for a little while, an impassive observer. At last Hoshkanyi Tihua looked up, and the visitor said to him,
"They have," the other said, "and they turned everything upside down, but found nothing." Shotaye drew a long breath, exclaiming, "Then everything is right, all right; and you are safe!" But the wife of Zashue Tihua shook her head mournfully. "No, sa tao," she replied, "it cannot save me. I am lost, lost beyond hope." "Rest easy, sister.
Hoshkanyi Tihua drew a sigh of relief; he was grateful to his visitor for having so summarily despatched his formidable spouse. Then he said, "Umo, I have sent for you because a speech has been spoken here in this house, which belongs to my mother. That speech may be good and it may not be good, and I cared not to tell my thoughts until I had spoken to you, nashtio.
Shyuote cast his eyes to the ground, and remained silent. His brother repeated the query; the little fellow only shrugged his shoulders. With greater insistence the elder proceeded, "Shyuote Tihua, who told you that the Delight Makers are not precious to me, nor I to them?" Shyuote shook his head, pouted, and stared vacantly to one side. He manifestly refused to answer.
I am not a principal, I cannot sit in council and speak, but withal I have noticed these doings for a long time. "But if the Koshare are so powerful," retorted Okoya, "must I not be on my guard?" "With some of them, to be sure. Beware of Tyope and of the old rogue; they are base and dangerous men. Avoid Shtiranyi, avoid Ture Tihua, Pesana, and the like of them.
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