It was the rattle of a snake.
"Where did you get this ?" he asked.
"I found it above, where a rattlesnake had been eaten.

Do you want it ?" He shook the rattle and inquired,-- "Will you give it to me ?" "Yes." "It is well; and now I will tell you something that you don't know yet.
Our father, Kauaitshe, is fasting." "He is right," Shotaye remarked; "it will make him leaner." Both laughed, but Hayoue said with greater earnestness, "Tyame is doing penance also." "Then he is with his woman from Shyuamo," flippantly observed Shotaye; "it will make Turquoises cheaper." She turned away with an indifferent air.

Her careless manner struck the young man, and when he saw that she would not speak, but only gazed at the sky, he went off with the present he had received.

He felt differently; he took the matter very seriously.
He directed his steps toward the tall building where it might be possible to ascertain something else.

Hayoue was afraid of the Turquoise people and their designs.
Shotaye was far from indifferent to the piece of news which Hayoue had brought to her.