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"I and my brother here have come because I want to ask you something. But if you are at work, grandfather, then we will go." "I am not working, sa uishe," said the cacique. "Speak; I listen. What is it you wish?" "Can I see the kopishtai?" Hoshkanyi whispered anxiously. The eyes of the Hotshanyi brightened. His look suddenly became clear and firm.
Everybody therefore accepted the nomination, and the council confirmed it at once. The majority of the clans opposed Hoshkanyi because he belonged to the Turquoise people, who were rendering themselves obnoxious to many by pretensions which they upheld by means of their number, and by their connection with the leader of the Koshare.
So Hoshkanyi Tihua rose suddenly to the rank of one of the chief dignitaries of his commonwealth. The choice thus made by the religious heads of the Queres did not satisfy everybody, but everybody was convinced that Those Above had spoken through the mediums to whose care the relations between mankind and the higher powers were specially committed.
The two officers of the tribe wandered slowly along the cliffs, past the abodes of the Sun clan, Topanashka walking as usual, erect, with his head bent slightly forward, Hoshkanyi with a pompous air, glad to display himself in company with his much more respected colleague, to whom all the pleasant greetings which the two received on their peregrination were really directed.
But Tyope, cunning as he was, had underrated the firmness and perspicacity of Topanashka as much as he had overrated the abilities of Hoshkanyi. As soon as the latter saw the rigidity of his colleague in a matter of duty, he felt completely at sea; he lost sight of everything that Tyope had recommended, tumbled from one mistake to another, and finally exposed himself to grave suspicions.
Whenever you say to me, Go and call together the council, I shall do it. If you do not tell me to do so, I shall not." Hoshkanyi moved in his seat; the reply did not suit him. After some hesitation he continued,
The governor rose also, but was so embarrassed and excited that he would have run out as he was, in almost complete undress, had not the maseua reminded him by saying, "Remember that we are going to the Shiuana," adding, "take some meal along." "Have you any with you?" inquired Hoshkanyi, with a venomous look. The other responded quietly, "I do not need any.
Hoshkanyi Tihua should have taken the hint; but Hoshkanyi Tihua had not the slightest tact; and besides, as a member of the clan Shyuamo, he felt too much interested in the matter not to be eager to press it at once, however imprudent and out of place such action might be.
That more opposition was not made to this selection was due to two facts, first, to the tacit acknowledgment on the part of all that it seemed fair to give Shyuamo a share in the tribal government, and second, to the equally tacit conviction that Hoshkanyi, while in appearance a man of determination and perspicacity, was in fact but a pompous and weak individual, ambitious and vain, and without the faculty of doing harm.
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,
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