Hau was looking around everywhere, taking notice of everything.
“There is some one there,” said another man.
“Oh, that’s a stump. I’ve seen that there all the time.”
“Well, let’s sling a stone at it.”
Notudui took his sling and hurled a stone. Hau lowered his head a little. The stone hit the stump and made a loud noise.
“Oh, that’s nothing. Don’t you hear the noise? That’s just a stump. We’ll throw again and be sure.”
Hau was just putting his head out when he saw another stone coming. The stone hit the stump, and made a great noise.
“There, do you think that is a person? Do you think the stone would make a noise like that if it hit some one?”
They threw no more stones. Hau waited till dark, when he went back and told Sehinom everything.
“Now, my brothers,” said Sehinom Chabatu to the two Tsudi boys, “you must go to that camp. Go straight to the centre house, go into it together. Then let one go west and the other east. Look carefully, and when you see a bow, cut the string to it. Cut the strings in the first house before you part, and then cut alone. Go into each house and cut every bow-string. As you go around the houses inside, some one may see you and say, ‘Look at those Tsudis,’ but pay no heed, go on cutting.”