202 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
About this time, Young-Boy-Chief began to examine every lodge 
in the village, looking for this young woman, for he could not keep — 
from going out to look for her. After having gone through the whole 
village, looking in the doors of every lodge, he thought the young 
woman had left the place. He thought that he would look into the 
last lodge, and see if he could find her. Young-Boy-Chief then peeped 
in, and there he saw this woman whom he was looking for. Young- 
Boy-Chief, without stopping, walked right in, and was asked why he 
had come, for he had never been seen around by night before. He told 
them that he had come around to see the woman who was living with 
them. He was then asked to be seated by the woman. Finally all 
retired, and Young-Boy-Chief and the young woman went to bed. 
They did not have a good bed to sleep on, but they had to get along the 
best they could. After they had gone to bed, Young-Boy-Chief asked 
the woman if she was not a chief’s daughter, and she told him that she 
was a chief’s daughter, from a strange country, and that she was just 
visiting the village. Young-Boy-Chief replied that he had made a 
mistake, and had taken her for the daughter of the chief of the south 
village. He said that he was going to live with her any way, and that 
night they began to live as man and wife. Early the next morning, 
before daylight, Young-Boy-Chief told his wife that he had to keep 
his marriage a secret, but whenever she had a child by him they could 
move to his home and live there all the time. Every day, during her 
stay in this village, she would go to play the double-ball game with the 
other women, and at this time every young man in the village was 
seeking her. But she would reject them all, for she already had a hus- 
band who was better than the other young men, for he belonged to a 
chief’s family. When night came, Young-Boy-Chief would go to the 
place where she was staying, and every time the women began to play 
their game Young-Boy-Chief would sit outside of his lodge and watch 
his wife play, for he knew that he had the best wife of all. So they 
lived together for a long while, until she became pregnant. As soon 
as she told Young-Boy-Chief this he ceased to come to see her at night. 
After a time the child was born. She still lived in this same lodge, and 
supplied the people with food, and waited patiently for her man to re- 
turn to see his child. The child got so that it could walk and talk. 
He began to ask who his father was, but his mother would not tell 
him who his father was, because she was waiting for him to come and 
see his child some time. But the child got so anxious to know who his 
father was that the woman undertook to go over to her husband’s 
home. 
