The positive assurance of Shotaye that she was safe, and still more the words of her father to the same effect, had completely reassured the woman.

She looked forward to coming events with anxious curiosity rather than with apprehension.

Still as her husband unexpectedly entered her dwelling, she could not resist the temptation to sound him, and to find out, if possible, what he thought about affairs.

While kneading the corn-cakes she therefore asked, in a quiet, cool manner,-- "Hachshtze, do you know that the nashtio are fasting ?" "All of them ?" "I don't know," she replied, going on with her work, "and yet I know this much,--that sa nashtio does not fast.

He ate with us and is going about as usual." "What may it all mean ?" he inquired of her.
She shrugged her shoulders, and asked,-- "Does Tyope do penance ?" In view of the intimate relations existing between Tyope and Zashue this was a very natural question, and yet it stung Zashue.