"No, I am tired of all that," she declared mutinously. "I shall talk with Tawannears now."
"But 'tis he wishes to know," I lied. "And he must learn through me."
Her face brightened.
"Oh! Indeed, you are stupid, Englishman! Why did you not say so before?"
"Because I had no chance," I laughed.
"You are an Awataba," she insisted. "You must have killed a Spaniard, and taken his clothes. But you asked why Wiki called me. It was because I talked with Tawannears—and I am going to talk to him whenever I please. So I just told fat old Angwusi! Wiki said that Kokyan would make trouble, and that I must go ahead and tell Angwusi he was bringing you up to the village because you had saved me and the sacred turkeys and were not Spaniards."
"And then?" I prompted her.
"Why, then, I went to the kiva,* and Kokyan was talking to Angwusi against Wiki, and I told him I would dance against him if he continued to be foolish. And he said that Chua the Snake had counseled him that you three were to be the doom of Homolobi and you must all be slain for a sacrifice to Chua."
* Ceremonial Place or Temple.
"So that was what he was talking about when Wiki brought us in?"