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Then the Navajo stood motionless, with his hands crossed over his breast. Shefford drew near and waited. "Bi Nai," said the Navajo, "Nas Ta Bega said his sister would come home some day.... Glen Naspa is in the hogan of her grandfather."
"Is it because of of Glen Naspa?" inquired Shefford. Nas Ta Bega stalked on, still silent, but Shefford divined that, although his service to Glen Naspa would never be forgotten, still it was not wholly responsible for the Indian's subtle sympathy. "Bi Nai!
After I had been introduced to these young ladies and talked with them a while, I went inside with the Young Empress and there met Sze Gurgur, fourth daughter of Prince Ching and a young widow twenty-four years of age, Yuen Da Nai Nai, widow of Her Majesty's nephew. Both were busy getting things ready for Her Majesty. Her Majesty was still in bed and smiled to us and asked us if we had slept well.
And, kneeling so, turned her head, offering her untouched lips to me. Thus, for the first time in our lives, we kissed each other. There was milk, ash-bread, corn, and fresh laid eggs for all our party when Lois went to the door and called, in a clear, sweet voice: * "Nai! Mayaro! Yon-kwa-ken-nison!"
To the right a red canyon opened its jagged jaws, and away to the north rose a whorled and strange sea of curved ridges, crags, and domes. Nas Ta Bega rode up then, leading the pack-train. "Bi Nai, that is Na-tsis-an," he said, pointing to the mountain. "Navajo Mountain. And there in the north are the canyon."
The name of an upper room indicates how the idea of the second or third story was developed, as it is ósh ten u thlan, from ósh ten, a shallow cave, or rock-shelter, and ú thla nai e, placed around, embracing, inclusive of.
Upon Nas Ta Bega had been forced education, training, religion, that had made him something more and something less than an Indian. It was something assimilated from the white man which made the Indian unhappy and alien in his own home something meant to be good for him and his kind that had ruined him. For Shefford felt the passion and the tragedy of this Navajo. "Bi Nai, the Indian is dying!"
That night he made you his brother.... All his lonely rides into the canyon have been to find the little golden-haired child, the lost girl Fay Larkin.... Bi Nai, I have found the girl you wanted for your sweetheart." Shefford was bereft of speech. He could not see steadily, and the last solemn words of the Indian seemed far away. "Bi Nai, I have found Fay Larkin," repeated Nas Ta Bega.
"So the red man is passing. Tribes once powerful have died in the life of Nas Ta Bega. The curse of the white man is already heavy upon my race in the south. Here in the north, in the wildest corner of the desert, chased here by the great soldier, Carson, the Navajo has made his last stand. "Bi Nai, you have seen the shadow in the hogan of Hosteen Doetin.
The liberated iodine is then determined by titration with sodium thiosulphate, as described on page 78. The titration of iodine against sodium thiosulphate, with starch as an indicator, may perhaps be regarded as the most accurate of volumetric processes. The fundamental reaction upon which iodometric processes are based is the following: I + 2 Na S O > 2 NaI + Na S O .
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