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"Does she talk much?" "No." "Is she easily angered?" "That I don't know. I have never teased her." "Is she a good worker?" "So they say." "Good-looking?" "Raua, raua!" Hayoue exclaimed. "Tall?" "Yes." "Strong?" "I believe so." Topanashka became silent again, and both Say and Hayoue observed the proper decorum by fastening their glances on the floor in silence.
Topanashka strained his eyes, and recognized to his astonishment and dismay the woman Shotaye. He could not contain himself any longer. Like a shadow he moved forward and hid behind the trunk of a pine, whence he could see more and better. From there he witnessed the strange pantomime of Shotaye and Cayamo. He was too far off to hear the words, but the gestures spoke plainly enough.
Topanashka leaned back against the wall, his gaze fixed on the Koshare. Everybody was in suspense, in expectation of what the Naua might say. He coughed, and began addressing the leading shaman, "Yaya Hishtanyi, you hear that the Water people refuse to give us the land that we so much need. They ask of us that we should give them all we have for a small part of theirs.
The two men from Shyuamo affected to pay no further attention to what was going on. Topanashka Tihua remained sitting. He directed his sharp, keen glance to the Hishtanyi Chayan, as if to him alone he condescended to speak. Then he said, "I believe as you do, nashtio yaya, but I also believe as you, Tyope, have spoken."
Every member of the council, Tyope and Topanashka excepted, had spoken. The majority of votes seemed in favour of the claim represented, but it is not plurality of votes which decides, but unanimity of opinion and conviction; and finally and in the last instance, the utterances of those who speak in the name of the powers above.
Topanashka intended to reach this upper terminus. He expected in case other Tehuas should be about, that they would be hidden in that vicinity. He wanted to strike the path first, and survey it, if from a distance only, then keep on again in a line parallel to its course until it crossed the ravine. Afterward he would go back to the Tyuonyi, if possible, with the sandal as corroborative evidence.
He therefore concocted with the young Navajo the sinister plan of murdering the old man. It was even uncertain, in presence of the two powerful clans of Tanyi and Tyame, whether after the death of Topanashka it would be possible for him to secure the succession.
It is only that woman of Tyope's who is bad, and after all she is not all-powerful." "How would it do," suggested Say, "to call sa nashtio?" Hayoue looked at her like one to whom has come a sudden revelation. "Topanashka, the maseua," he said; "you are right, koya, this is a wise thought. Nashtio is very wise. He will give us counsel that we can trust, but do you think he is here?"
Again were the terraces filled with people, the walls below lined with spectators. Topanashka sat on the roof, cold and impassable. Say Koitza leaned in the doorway of her home, with a quiet, almost smiling, countenance. A long array of couples, dressed as before but painted red, opened the procession; then came the Cuirana, and last the Koshare.
These erosions are mostly regular cones, tent-shaped, between and behind which open chasms and deep rents like the one above which, as we recollect, lies the estufa of the Koshare. Topanashka walked toward the upper part of the cluster of dwellings of Shyuamo, where the ascending slope was sparsely covered with brush. In front of one of the caves sat a woman.
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