The arrowmaker - 1911 Author:Mary Hunter Austin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT THIRD Time. — One year later. Scene. — The top of Toorape where the tribe has been driven by their enemies of Tecuya. The women and children hide in th... more »eir holes in the rocks. Off to the right on a jutting boulder, against the sky, stands Yavi, as sentinel; two or three wounded lie about. Crouching over the fire are Seegooche, Wacoba and Tiawa, showing in their dress and appearance the marks of a year of distress, as do all the others as they appear upon the scene. Yavi [To them.] St — st! Wacoba [Rising.] Some one on the trail! Seegooche What is it? Wacoba [To her.] Hush! Sh ! Yavi The Sparrow Hawk! Seegooche News from the fighting men! TiAWA The gods grant it be good news! [padahoon, weary and with disordered dress, comes clambering up the face of the cliff.] [Calling down in a whisper.] What news? Tiawa Are the gods still against us? Padahoon As they have been since the day the Chisera took away her blessing from the war leader. Women [Watting.] Ai! Ai! [Others come out of the rocks to join in the general grief.] Wacoba If you could but persuade her to give it back again. Padahoon If I cannot, then this is like to be the last fight of Sagharawite! Wacoba If you cannot, then must the chief enforce her, for since we were driven from our homes, neither the anguish of the women nor the hunger of the children has moved her. Padahoon I will speak with her at once. [He goes up among the rocks, and the women huddle wretchedly together watching.] Wacoba Do you think she will consent? Seegooche She cannot choose but do it. The men have kept her supplied with venison, but she must know that there is hunger in the camp of the women and children. Wacoba And that the Tecuyas have taken the best of ou...« less