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"Next day as we climbed, we saw smoke rising from the Hill of the Sun, and Shungakela went apart on the mountain, saying, 'Let me alone, for I make a fire to light the feet of my wife's spirit... They had been married twenty years. "We found the tribe at Painted Rock, but we thought it safer to come on east beyond the Staked Plains as Given-to-the-Sun had advised us.
Shungakela was not surprised to find that his wife had stayed at the Hill of the Sun; so I suppose she must have told him. He asked if there was a token, and the woman whose basket she had propped with her girdle gave it to him with the hard lump that pressed her shoulder. So the Medicine of the Sun came back to us.
But most of them held us to be under the protection of the Corn Spirit, and when our Shaman would disappear for two or three days that was when she went to the mountain to visit Shungakela we said that she had gone to pray to her own gods, and they accepted that also." "And all this time no one recognized her?"
It hollowed like a meal basket and had a green pattern woven through it by a river. Shungakela went with the women to the foot of the mountain, and then, all at once, he would not let them go until Waits-by-the-Fire promised to come back to the foot of the mountain once in every moon to tell him how things went with us.
So the girl asked to walk by the river and hear the birds sing. When they had walked out of sight of the Stone Houses, she gave her watchers the seed in their food and floated down the river on a piece of bark until she came ashore in the thick woods and escaped. She came north, avoiding the trails, and after a year Shungakela found her. Between her breasts there was the sign of the Sun."
They thought it shame to dig in the ground. "Shungakela, of the Three Feather band, found her at the fork of the Turtle River, half starved and as fierce as she was hungry, but he called her 'Waits-by-the-Fire' when he brought her back to his tipi, and it was a long time before we knew that she had any other name.
This one was swift of foot and was called Last Arrow, for Shungakela had said, 'Once I had a quiver full. Waits-by-the-Fire brought him back on her shoulders from the place where the fight was. She walked with him into the Council. "'The quiver is empty, she said; 'the food bags, also; will you wait for us to fill one again before you fill the other?
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