He also had raised his head and bent the upper part of his body forward.

The Shikama Chayan assumed a dark, threatening look.

The name of Shotaye had aroused dark suspicions among the medicine-men.

Their chief now asked slowly, measuredly,-- "You accuse a woman of having done harm to the tribe ?" Henceforward he and his two colleagues were the pivots around which the further proceedings were to revolve.

The tapop was forgotten; nobody paid attention to him any longer.
"I do; I say that Shotaye, the woman belonging to Tzitz hanutsh, has carried destruction to the tribe." "In what way ?" "In preventing the rain from falling in season." "And she has succeeded!" ejaculated Tyope, in a low voice,--so low that it was not heard by all.
The Shkuy Chayan continued the interrogatory.