"There is an echo calling in my heart, brother," he said. "I do not yet know what it is saying, but it calls louder and louder. Perhaps——"
Kachina glided through the doorway.
"Do not heed what Kokyan does or says to you," she ordered me curtly. "He is jealous, poor, crawling ant! And he thinks he can spoil my plans."
"Who is Kokyan?" I queried.
She stared at me, childishly puzzled that anyone should be no continually ignorant.
"He who has just left."
"Oh, the young man with the snake?"
"Yes, stupid buffalo," she derided me.
"And why is he jealous!"
She dimpled like any other girl, and dug her sandal-toe in the dust of the floor.