"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. Believe me," the medicine-woman assured her, "you are saved; they can do you no harm."
It rained softly in the court-yard; inside of the room it went on, pat, pat, pat, pat, dripping through the ceiling.
Shotaye resumed the conversation.
"Speak, sa tao," she said; "speak, and tell me what you think. Why is it that you still believe that bad men will be able to do you harm? Don't you know, sister, that you are safe from them now, and that they cannot injure you any more?"
Say Koitza shook her head gloomily and replied, pointing to her ear and eye,—
"Sanaya, what the ear hears and the eye sees, the heart must fain believe."