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For, listen: Meanwhile the Painted-red party were riding on, and in the Staked Plain they met six Comanches, bound to Mexico after plunder. They spoke to the Comanches regarding Konate, and asked them to cover his body so that the wolves should not get it. This the Comanches promised to do, and continued to the Sun-mountain Spring where Konate had been left to die.
For a stick eighteen years old, without bark, to do this, was certainly great medicine. No one now might doubt the story of Konate, to whom the taime spirit had talked, under the bough shelter by the Sun-mountain Spring. None of the Kiowas dared to touch the apote, this time or to stay near the medicine lodge. The dance was held at another place.
No Mexican soldiers would follow into the Staked Plain. When after hard riding they arrived at Sun-mountain Spring, on the top of a high, bare-rock hill near the Staked Plain, Konate's wound had spoiled in him and he could not sit upright on his horse. He was very ill. "I am about to die, friends," he gasped. "Do not try to carry me farther.
Such had been the strong medicine of Konate, to whom, about to die from his wounds, in his shelter by the Sun-mountain Spring beyond the Staked Plain, the taime spirit had talked. Konate was dead; but K'a-ya-nti, his nephew, the other keeper of the stick, was still alive; and he knew. The name Sioux comes down from a longer Chippewa word meaning "adder" or "enemy."
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