You shall not take her life, nor shall you marry her.

She is my prisoner--she shall remain in my teepee." Seeing some motion of discontent among those who wished to take her life, he continued, while his eyes shot fire and his broad chest heaved with anger: "Come then and take her life.

Let me see the brave warrior who will take the life of my prisoner?
Come! she is here; why do you, not raise your tomahawks?
It is easy to take a woman's scalp." Not a warrior moves.

The prisoner looks at the chief and at his warriors.

Hole-in-the-Day leads her from the council and points to his teepee, which is again her home, and where she is as safe as she would be in her husband's teepee, by the banks of the Mine So-to..