Such was the reasoning of her young heart.
But she resented the importunity of the hunter whose pretensions her parents favored.

How often she had told him she would die before she would become his wife; and he would smile, as if he had but little faith in the words of a woman.

Now he should see that her hatred to him was not assumed; and she would die such a death that he might know that she feared neither him nor a death of agony.
And while her parents mourned their unkindness, her lover would admire that firmness which made death more welcome than the triumph of his rival.
And sacred is the spot where the devoted girl closed her earthly sorrows.

Spirits are ever hovering near the scene.

The laugh of the Dahcotah is checked when his canoe glides near the spot.