[The Delight Makers by Adolf Bandelier]@TWC D-Link bookThe Delight Makers CHAPTER V 28/48
Between these Tehuas and the Queres of the Tyuonyi there was occasional intercourse, and a fairly beaten trail led from one place to the other; but this intercourse was so much interrupted by hostilities, and the Navajos rendered the trail so insecure beside, that she had never paid much attention to it.
Still, there was no doubt in her mind that if she reached the habitations of the Tehuas, above where the pueblo of Santa Clara now stands, a hospitable reception would be extended to her.
But could she leave Say alone to her dismal fate? After all, death was not such a fearful thing, so long as no torture preceded or accompanied it.
Death must come to her once, at all events, and then what of it? There need be no care for the hereafter, according to her creed.
The Pueblo Indian knows of no atonement after dying; all sins, all crimes, are punished during this life.
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