Everything that concerns her clan--things that he of course is not entitled to know--she tattles to him; and she tells him everything else that she sees, hears, or imagines.

I know it to be so.

Now, your mother is afraid lest through Mitsha's mother, first Mitsha, afterward through her you, might become entangled in the coils of that sand-viper Tyope.

For I tell you, mot[=a]tza,"-- his eyes flashed, and he shook his clenched fist toward the houses of the Eagle clan,--"that man is a bad man; he is bad from head to foot, and he thinks of nothing but injury to others for the sake of his own benefit." "But what has Tyope done?
How do you know that he is such a bad man ?" "That's just it.

He never acts openly.