Tyope is at the bottom of all our troubles, and unless he or somebody else watched you while you buried the hapi at the foot of the beams on which the Koshare go up to their cave, nobody will believe him when he rises against you.

Are you sure," she added, "that nobody saw you ?" "They were all up there, so Zashue himself told me." "Tyope, also ?" "Tyope," Say replied with animation,--"I saw Tyope.

He was outside, clinging to the rock on high like a squirrel to a tree.

But he could not see me." "Then, child, you are safe; let them do as they please." "But if he comes and says, 'I saw Say and Shotaye with black corn, and owl's feathers on it; and I heard them ask of the evil corn to speak to them' ?" "Then everybody will say, 'Shotaye is a witch, Say only her tool; we must punish Shotaye, she must be killed,' and that will be the end of it." She brought her face so close to that of her friend that the latter, while unable to see her features, clearly felt her breath.

The last words of the medicine-woman shocked Say.