Her grief was surely assumed, for when Tyope asked her in the evening she told him everything in detail that she had noticed,--how this one had looked, how such and such a one had yelled,--plainly showing that the flood of tears had in no manner impeded her faculties of perception, the sighs and sobs around her in no manner deafened her attentive ear.

Tyope listened with apparent indifference, and said nothing.

She attended to the weeping part, he not so much to the duty of pious recollection as to that of deep thinking over the new phase which matters had entered upon in consequence of the bloody event.
For this sudden death of the maseua was for his designs a most fortunate occurrence.

The only man who in the prospective strife between the clans might have taken an attitude dangerous, perhaps disastrous, to his purposes, was now dead; and the office which that man held had become vacant.

There was but one individual left in the tribe who might yet prove a stumbling-block to him; that was the Hishtanyi Chayan.