The elder brother shrugged his shoulders, sighed, and rubbed his eyes; and all four kept silent.
"Is it perhaps from the uuityam?" asked Hayoue; and his mother exclaimed,—
"Surely it is."
"Then something must have occurred," continued Hayoue; and with a side-glance at his brother, "I wonder if Tyope is fasting also?"
Zashue denied it positively, and added, "The Naua is out of doors."
"In that case it is our people again who have to suffer." His passion was aroused; he cried, rather than spoke "The Shyuamo never suffer anything. Who knows but the shuatyam, Tyope, and the old one have again done something to harm us!" Ere Zashue could reply to this sally the young man had left the cave.
When Hayoue stood outside he noticed Shotaye sitting on her doorstep.
"Guatzena, samām," he called over to her.
"Raua A," the woman answered, extending her hand toward him as if she wished to give him something.
He went over to her, took the object, and looked at it. It was the rattle of a snake.