Tell him not the small talk about this and that, but what you have seen with your own eyes about Shotaye, that witch, that snake,--of her dark ways, how she sneaked through the brush on the mesa, and how she found and gathered the plumage of the accursed owl.

Tell him all, and I will carry Mitsha to your lodges, tied and gagged if needs be." "Why don't you send the girl out alone?
I will wait for her wherever you say." "Do you think that I would be so silly ?" the Pueblo retorted with a scornful laugh.

"Do you really believe I would do such a thing?
No, Dinne, you and your people may be much more cunning than mine in many ways, but we are not so stupid as that.

If I were to do that, you would rob me of my handsome maiden and that would be the last of it.

No, Dinne, I do not need you to such an extent, I am not obliged to have you.