33 By my order the exchange of prisoners now
ceases. You will not get back your high ranking officers until the
families of those men now living with us, are advised of their
situation.
34 Until their wives and children have been brought here to live with
them, you will permit our Agents to visit each family so we can be
assured they know fully what has happened. And I warn you, any attempt
at deception, any trickery, will be dealt with harshly."
35 Now, The Priest of Priests wrote back, you have no right," he began,
"to interfere with our traditions and customs.
36 The wives of many that now reside with you have already been taken
as brides by others. Are we to now tell them that their first husbands
are alive, and they now live in sin?
37 Be reasonable! Do not cause us trouble. We will give you gold and
silver so you may care for those that stay with you, but do not
embarrass us before our people. Compromise."
38 "In this matter," Bold Fox wrote back, "there can be NO compromise!
Though I will grant this. Any among your people that do not wish to
join their husbands in our Land do not have to do so, but they must
come and visit them at least once, so we may be sure they are not being
kept in your lands by force."
39 The Priest of Priests sent no more letters. But a few weeks later
the first letters to the blind prisoners arrived, followed shortly
thereafter, by their loved ones. And most never returned to The Land of
The Oneness.
40 Those blind men who HAD no wives and children, or, whose wives
returned to the One lived in The Land of Spirit all their days. Some
never took new wives, others did, but each was grateful to Bold Fox and
his people for what they had done.
41 Now, while Bold Fox was Speaker, Wise Crow