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The Delight Makers

CHAPTER X
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He passed in front of her unceremoniously, and entered the cave.

The apartment was like those we have previously described, with the single difference that it was better lighted, somewhat larger, and that the household effects scattered and hung around were of a different character.

Implements of warfare,--a bow and a quiver with arrows, a shield--convex and painted red, with a yellow disk, and several green lines in the centre,--were suspended from the wall.

The niches contained small vessels of burnt clay and a few plume-sticks.

A low doorway led from this room into another, and beyond that there was even a third cell, so that Hoshkanyi Tihua, the civil chief of the Queres, enjoyed the luxury of occupying three apartments.
Still this was not the dwelling which he commonly inhabited.


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