If he brings her into camp, we will take her away from him.”  And they all laughed.  They supposed that he had captured her.  They went down to the camp, and sat about the fire, looking at the two people coming, and laughing among themselves at the idea of their chief bringing in a woman.  When the two persons had come close, they could see that Heavy Collar was walking fast, and the woman would walk by his side a little way, trying to keep up, and then would fall behind, and then trot along to catch up to him again.  Just before the pair reached camp there was a deep ravine that they had to cross.  They went down into this side by side, and then Heavy Collar came up out of it alone, and came on into the camp.

When he got there, all the young men began to laugh at him and to call out, “Heavy Collar, where is your woman?” He looked at them for a moment, and then said:  “Why, I have no woman.  I do not understand what you are talking about.”  One of them said:  “Oh, he has hidden her in that ravine.  He was afraid to bring her into camp.”  Another said, “Where did you capture her, and what tribe does she belong to?” Heavy Collar looked from one to another, and said:  “I think you are all crazy.  I have taken no woman.  What do you mean?” The young man said:  “Why, that woman that you had with you just now:  where did you get her, and where did you leave her?  Is she down in the coulee?  We all saw her, and it is no use to deny that she was with you.  Come now, where is she?” When they said this, Heavy Collar’s heart grew very heavy, for he knew that it must have been the ghost woman; and he told them the story.  Some of the young men could not believe this, and they ran down to the ravine, where they had last seen the woman.  There they saw in the soft dirt the tracks made by Heavy Collar, when he went down into the ravine, but there were no other tracks near his, where they had seen the woman walking.  When they found that it was a ghost that had come along with Heavy Collar, they resolved to go back to their main camp.  The party had been out so long that their moccasins were all worn out, and some of them were footsore, so that they could not travel fast, but at last they came to the cut banks, and there found their camp—­seven lodges.

That night, after they had reached camp, they were inviting each other to feasts.  It was getting pretty late in the night, and the moon was shining brightly, when one of the Bloods called out for Heavy Collar to come and eat with him.  Heavy Collar shouted, “Yes, I will be there pretty soon.”  He got up and went out of the lodge, and went a little way from it, and sat down.  While he was sitting there, a big bear walked out of the brush close to him.  Heavy Collar felt around him for a stone to throw at the bear, so as to scare it away, for he thought it had not seen him.  As he was feeling about, his hand came upon a piece of bone, and he threw this over at the bear, and hit it.  Then the bear spoke, and said:  “Well, well, well, Heavy Collar; you have killed me once, and now here you are hitting me.  Where is there a place in this world where you can hide from me?  I will find you, I don’t care where you may go.”  When Heavy Collar heard this, he knew it was the ghost woman, and he jumped up and ran toward his lodge, calling out, “Run, run! a ghost bear is upon us!”