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Topanashka turned to Say, and said in an affable tone, "Speak, sa uishe; I am glad to listen." "Sa nashtio," she began, "Okoya is young, but he is no longer a child. His eyes have seen a girl and that girl has pleased his heart. So he has gone to that girl and may be with her at present. I hold this to be good, umo. What do you think?"
He looked anxiously in the old man's face, and at the same time shot an occasional quick glance over toward the maseua. In a hollow voice the Hotshanyi said, "You may speak now, sa uishe; the kopishtai know that you are here." "Sa umo Hotshanyi," the tapop commenced, "I have listened to a speech. Things have been said to me that concern the tribe."
Seeing the Queres clambering down into the gorge in wild haste, and that others were still rushing out of the thickets, he caught Tyope by the shoulder and drew him along, saying in a milder tone, "Follow me, sa uishe." He pitied the crestfallen man. Henceforth it was the medicine-man who assumed the lead, Tyope gathering energy enough to act as his lieutenant.
"When he was coming to speak to me the rainbow stood in the skies. Is not that a sign that the Shiuana are with my child?" Topanashka smiled a kind, benignant smile, and said, "It is right to think thus, sa uishe, but remember that the rainbow is a messenger to a great many and for many purposes.
So he remained silent, staring, wrapped in his own musings. His mother looked at him in silence also, but with a half-suppressed smile. At last she asked, "Sa uishe, will you eat?" "Yes," he replied, considerably relived by this turn in the conversation. He rose and moved briskly toward the entrance to the cooking apartment; but Say held him back.
"Do you remember, sa uishe, when one Moshome was holding my hands while another struck at me with his club? You took a big stone and hit him so that he fell and I could kill the other. Afterward you took the bow away from the dead Moshome, and you did as much with it as I did with mine. Yes, indeed, you are strong, but you are wise too, and good."
But one thought seized Shotaye, that her friend must be ill, very, very ill, that the old disease had returned in full force and had clutched her anew with perhaps irresistible power. Anxiously she rose to her feet, and scanned the face of the invalid. "What ails you, my sister," she inquired tenderly. "Has disease come on you again? Speak, sa uishe, speak to me that I may know."
To the makatza you can say, 'Let us be together and live for each other and talk as is right. What concerns your hanutsh shall be hidden from me, and I will be silent on anything that concerns mine. If you will do thus, sa uishe, then you can go to see Mitsha; and I myself would like to see the girl who is to become my child." This was too much for Okoya.
Now light began to dawn upon the boy. He felt a presentiment of something favourable. "No," he exclaimed, "he said that I must beware of Tyope and of his koitza; but that Mitsha I could trust." "Then it is well, sa uishe," replied the mother; "come in and eat." Okoya could hardly believe his senses. Had his mother really said, "It is well?"
You also know how to hit with an arrow, but you are not uakanyi." "But I shall be one, if I go with you," boldly uttered the boy. His uncle shook his head, and smiled. "Don't you know, sa uishe, that every one cannot go with the warriors, when they go on the war-path? Every one cannot say, 'I am going, and then go as he pleases and when he pleases.
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