The complicate ties of commerce could not be suddenly unloosed.

The more we multiply and complicate appliances, the more certain are we to drive it away.

But that example was probably operating in the minds of many of the outlaws, and finally the lawless heroine herself, who was the spirit that kept the complicate body together, seeing that O-po-tae had been made a government officer, and that he continued to prosper, began also to think of making her submission.

She knew that the bonds among these nomads were very strong, but there was another element in this particular case that might, she thought, complicate matters.