Okoya was perplexed.

At last his curiosity overcame all diffidence and he asked,-- "What is it, satyumishe nashtio?
Do you know of anything evil ?" Hayoue looked at him and said,-- "Okoya, you and I are alike.

When your heart is heavy you come to me and say, 'My heart is sad; help me to make it light again;' and when I feel sorrow I go to you and tell you of it.

When you came to me up there"-- he pointed to the west--"it was dark in your heart.

To-day it is night in mine." The speech both astonished and pleased the boy.