In the council lodge Buffalo Bill tried to conduct himself like a true medicine man. He yelled and danced, and besought the good spirits of the mountains to descend and assist him in driving out the evil spirits that were vexing the Blackfeet. But he did not dare talk too much, and much of his eloquence took the shape of pantomime, in which he used wonderful gestures, always keeping the folds of the blanket over the lower part of his face--which gave him an additional air of mystery to the frenzied Indians. He discovered that one thing the Blackfeet were anxious about was that he should confer on them some power, by a spell or charm, that would enable them to resist the bullets of the white men, whom they feared. The scout gave them whatever assurances they desired, feeling that he could not safely do otherwise. Finally he left the council lodge, declaring that the spirits had told him that, concealed in some of the lodges, were little demons, hid under buffalo robes, and even in the earth, who were working much evil, and he must find and destroy them. His object, of course, was to pass from lodge to lodge, in order to locate the prisoners, and if possible communicate to them knowledge of the thing he was trying to do. The warriors streamed after him, and behind the warriors came the women and children, while the barking and sniffing dogs ran everywhere, yelping and snarling. It did not take Buffalo Bill long to find out that Nomad and young Clayton were held together in a lodge near the medicine lodge. “Now, if I can locate the girl,” he said to himself. The braves were crowding round him, and he dared not say a word in English which would let Nomad and Clayton know who he was, and his disguise and his acting were so good that they did not recognize him. But he contrived to make himself known to old Nomad by a few words of Spanish, and he saw the old man stare in confusion and astonishment. In a little while he found Lena Forest, crouching in the lodge where she had been held from the first. At the entrance to this lodge stood old Wide Foot, who fell back when the terrible medicine man appeared before her. Lena Forest started up, frightened by the entrance of the medicine man. Not daring to use English, the scout said a few words in Spanish, wondering if she would understand. She uttered a cry of amazement, for she understood him--a cry which was fairly forced from her by her wild astonishment. Buffalo Bill poked and peered, said a few words more to her in Spanish, the Indians thinking them words of invocation which they could not be expected to understand, and then he retreated. As he did so, coming thus out of the lodge, he heard wild yells, and a rushing of feet. And then before him, bounding along, his eyes blazing and his whole being wrought to a frenzy, he saw the medicine man whom he had captured, and whom he was impersonating.