[The Delight Makers by Adolf Bandelier]@TWC D-Link bookThe Delight Makers CHAPTER V 10/48
She yielded, and then remained motionless, her glassy eyes staring vacantly at the floor. "Sister," Shotaye reiterated, "sister, what ails you? Speak, and I will do all I can for you." But the other merely shook her head and began to shiver.
Shotaye noticed the wristbands of red leather on her arms, and it startled her.
She asked eagerly,-- "Why do you wear in trouble the colour that should make our hearts glad? What has happened to you that causes you to seek relief for your distress ?" The tone of her voice sounded no longer like entreaty; it was an anxious, nay stern, command.
Okoya's mother raised her eyes with an expression of intense misery; she threw toward her questioner a look imploring relief and protection, and finally gasped,-- "They know everything!" Then her head dropped on her knees, she grasped her hair, covered her face and chest with it, and broke out in convulsive sobs. "They know everything!" Shotaye repeated, "Who know everything ?" Suddenly the truth seemed to flash upon her mind. "What, the Koshare ?" she cried in terror. Convulsive sobs and groans were the only reply to her exclamation.
They amply confirmed her worst apprehensions.
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