Be swift, for I grow weary." Then Hokosa took from his pouch two medicines: one a paste in a box, the other a fluid in a gourd.

Taking of the paste he knelt upon the grave before the entranced woman and swiftly smeared it upon the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat.

Also he thrust pellets of it into the ears, the nostrils, and the corners of the eyes.
The effect was almost instantaneous.

A change came over the girl's lovely face, the last awful change of death.

Her cheeks fell in, her chin dropped, her eyes opened, and her flesh quivered convulsively.