After eating, the pipe went round again, and at a late hour they laid down to sleep, the Chippeways dividing their party, several in each teepee.
Hole-in-the-day lay down by the side of his host, so motionless you would have thought that sleep had paralyzed his limbs and senses; his regular breathing intimates a heart at peace with himself and his foes; but that heart was beating fast, for in a moment he raises himself cautiously, gazes and smiles too upon the sleeping Dahcotah beside him.
He gives the appointed signal, and instantaneously plunges his knife into the heart of the trusting Dahcotah.

It was child's play afterwards to quiet the shrill shrieks of the terrified wife.

A moment more, and she and her child lay side by side, never to awake again.
For a short time broken and shrill cries were heard from the other teepees, but they were soon over.

The two wives of Red Face had laid down without a fear, though their protector was absent.

The elder of the two clasped her children to her heart, consoled, in a measure, while listening to their calm breathing, for the loss of the love of her husband.