Now in the middle of the night he was in the lodge singing, when suddenly the people heard a strange voice in the lodge say:  “Well, my chief, I have come.  What is it?” The medicine man said, “I want you to help me.”  The voice said, “Yes, I know it, and I know what you want me to do.”  The medicine man asked, “What is it?” The voice said, “You want me to go and get a woman.”  The medicine man answered:  “That is what I want.  I want you to go and get a woman—­the lost woman.”  The voice said to him, “Did I not tell you never to call me, unless you were in great need of my help?” The medicine man answered, “Yes, but that girl that was never going to be married is going to be given to me through your help.”  Then the voice said, “Oh!” and it was silent for a little while.  Then it went on and said:  “Well, we have a good feeling for you, and you have been a long time not married; so we will help you to get that girl, and you will have her.  Yes, we have great pity on you.  We will go and look for this woman, and will try to find her, but I cannot promise you that we will bring her; but we will try.  We will go, and in four nights I will be back here again at this same time, and I think that I can bring the woman; but I will not promise.  While I am gone, I will let you know how I get on.  Now I am going away.”  And then the people heard in the lodge a sound like a strong wind, and nothing more.  He was gone.

Some people went and told the sister what the medicine man and the voice had been saying, and the girl was very down-hearted, and cried over the idea that she must be married, and that she had been forced into it in this way.

III

When the dream person went away, he came late at night to the camp of the Snakes, the enemy.  The woman who had been captured was always crying over the loss of her man and her child.  She had another husband now.  The man who had captured her had taken her for his wife.  As she was lying there, in her husband’s lodge, crying for sorrow for her loss, the dream person came to her.  Her husband was asleep.  The dream-helper touched her and pushed her a little, and she looked up and saw a person standing by her side; but she did not know who it was.  The person whispered in her ear, “Get up, I want to take you home.”  She began to edge away from her husband, and at length got up, and all the time the person was moving toward the door.  She followed him out, and saw him walk away from the lodge, and she went after.  The person kept ahead, and the woman followed him, and they went away, travelling very fast.  After they had travelled some distance, she called out to the dream person to stop, for she was getting tired.  Then the person stopped, and when he saw the woman sitting, he would sit down, but he would not talk to her.