21  "No," insisted Screaming Bear, "I have always abused my wealth, misused it.  It is even now, for me too much of a temptation.  I have put it in your hands.  There it shall stay. I have only given myself the house I bought next door, the two farms as inheritance for my children, which they objected to, but I insisted they have, and an allowance equal to a Speaker's pay for myself.
    22  You are now free. You may use the money I have given you any way you wish.  I have not given it to the Temple, but to you. What you do not wish to keep, you may give to any charity.  But I am done with wealth and the temptations it brings."
    23  Gray Deer shrugged.  "Your mind is set," he agreed. "I cannot dissuade you.  I will do your will.  But know you this, as long as I live your family will want for nothing.  Whatever they need, I will fulfill it."
    24  "I never thought you would do otherwise," answered Screaming Bear.  And the two returned to their studies.
    25  Now, for five months Mountain Glory remained with her family.  But so cruelly did they treat her son, that one day she simply picked him up and returned to Gray Deer's house where she begged him to take her back.
 26  "Let us make a new contract," she begged, "separate from my family. I, too, am done with The One.  I want to follow your Lords."  Gray Deer took her back without question.