It seemed as if the danger that threatened her so direly had vanished.

Her thoughts were all with the future of the child whom only a few hours ago she had so bitterly accused.

Shotaye had worked wonders.
But it was not the influence of Shotaye alone that produced such a great change in the mind of Say Koitza.

It was the fact that at the same time, and through the unwelcome interruption by Shyuote, the Shiuana--so she believed--had sent her a message confirmatory of the woman's admonition.
Say did not, she could not, reason as we should under similar circumstances.

The rainbow of whose presence the awkward boy informed her appeared to her, not in the natural order of phenomena, but, in the light of her creed, as a messenger specially sent by one or more of the innumerable spirits which surround man in nature, whose call she had to obey implicitly.