The color mantled in her cheek, and her determined countenance assured him that she was in earnest.

He charged her to remember the secret spells of the medicine man.

If she loved him it was far better to go with him now; they would soon be out of the reach of her family.

To this she would not listen, and repeating to him her intention of executing all she had told him of, she left him.
He watched her as she returned to her teepee; sometimes her form was lost in the thick bushes, he could see her again as she made her way along the pebbled shore, and when she had entered her teepee he returned home.
He collected his implements of war and hunting, and, telling his mother he was going on a long journey, he left the village..