The ghost said to him:  “It is a fearful thing that you have come here.  It is very likely that you will never go away.  There never was a person here before.”  The ghost asked him to come into the lodge, and he went.

Now this chief ghost said to him:  “You will stay here four nights, and you will see your wife; but you must be very careful or you will never go back.  You will die right here.”

Then the chief went outside and called out for a feast, inviting this man’s father-in-law and other relations, who were in the camp, saying, “Your son-in-law invites you to a feast,” as if to say that their son-in-law was dead, and had become a ghost, and had arrived at the ghost camp.

Now when these invited people, the relations and some of the principal men of the camp, had reached the lodge, they did not like to go in.  They called out, “There is a person here.”  It seems as if there was something about him that they could not bear the smell of.  The ghost chief burned sweet pine in the fire, which took away this smell, and the people came in and sat down.  Then the host said to them:  “Now pity this son-in-law of yours.  He is seeking his wife.  Neither the great distance nor the fearful sights that he has seen here have weakened his heart.  You can see for yourselves he is tender-hearted.  He not only mourns for his wife, but mourns because his little boy is now alone with no mother; so pity him and give him back his wife.”  The ghosts consulted among themselves, and one said to the person, “Yes, you will stay here four nights; then we will give you a medicine pipe, the Worm Pipe, and we will give you back your wife, and you may return to your home.”

Now, after the third night, the chief ghost called together all the people, and they came, the man’s wife with them.  One of them came beating a drum; and following him was another ghost, who carried the Worm Pipe, which they gave to him.  Then said the chief ghost:  “Now, be very careful.  Tomorrow you and your wife will start on your homeward journey.  Your wife will carry the medicine pipe, and some of your relations are going along with you for four days.  During this time, you must not open your eyes, or you will return here and be a ghost forever.  You see that your wife is not now a person; but in the middle of the fourth day you will be told to look, and when you have opened your eyes, you will see that your wife has become a person, and that your ghost relations have disappeared.”

His father-in-law spoke to him before he went away, and said:  “When you get near home, you must not go at once into the camp.  Let some of your relations know that you have arrived, and ask them to build a sweat house for you.  Go into this sweat house and wash your body thoroughly, leaving no part of it, however small, uncleansed; for if you do you will be nothing [will die].  There is something about us ghosts difficult to remove.  It is only by a thorough sweat that you can remove it.  Take care, now, that you do as I tell you.  Do not whip your wife, nor strike her with a knife, nor hit her with fire; for if you do, she will vanish before your eyes and return to the Sand Hills.”