Four days hence we shall know what the Shiuana think, and on the night following"-- he turned to the tapop--"we will tell you here what to do.

In the meantime,"-- he uttered these words like a solemn warning,--"hush! let none of you exchange one word on what we have heard or seen to-night.

Let none of you say at home, 'I know of something evil,' or to a friend, 'bad things are going on in the tribe.' Be silent, so that no one suspect the least thing, and that the sentence of the Shiuana be not interfered with.

Nasha!" he concluded, and went toward the exit.

Ere leaving the room, however, he turned once more, adding,-- "And you go also.