It alone can do more than Tzitz and Tanyi together." The quick, bold, apparently unpremeditated reply relieved Zashue of an undefined feeling of suspicion that had arisen within him.

During his moment of thoughtfulness he had been led from the accusations of Hayoue against Tyope unconsciously to the accusation which Tyope had launched before against Shotaye and his own wife.

Quick as lightning it flashed upon his mind that that accusation had perhaps been formulated again, and this time officially before the council.

And if Say were innocent, as he still believed, why did she inquire about him who was the originator of it?
He did not attribute her query to a guilty conscience, for the Indian has but a very dim notion about human conscience, if he thinks of it at all.

He would have gone further and have seen in the utterance of his wife the evidence of some positive knowledge.