Her lover called to her, his voice could be heard above the sound of the waters.

'Return to me, Wenonah, I will never love maiden but you; did you not promise to light the fires in my wigwam ?' He would have thrown himself after her, had not the young men prevented him.

The body rests not in the cold waters; we found it and buried it, and her spirit calls to me in the silence of the night! Her lover said he would not remain long on the earth; he turned from the Dahcotah maidens as they smiled upon him.

He died as a warrior should die! "The Chippeways had watched for us, they longed to carry the scalp of a Dahcotah home.

They did so--but we were avenged.
"Our young men burst in upon them when they were sleeping; they struck them with their tomahawks, they tore their scalps reeking with blood from their heads.
"We heard our warriors at the village as they returned from their war party; we knew by their joyful cries that they had avenged their friends.