As the miserable wife spent the lonely days at Tu-rep village, the
people decided to give a large entertainment a host of guests gathered
to make merry. Among the crowd was a man from the Ur-ner village, which
is nine or ten miles up the river at the mouth of Blue Creek. During
the entertainment the Ur-ner man was attracted to the lonely Tu-rep
wife who appeared to him to be very sad and lonely in the midst of such
gaiety. He came over to where she was seated and began a conversation
by exchanging a few remarks. He thought he might be wrong in addressing
her so boldly, and started to walk away but something stirred his inner
emotions strangely, so much so that he could not resist the temptation
to return to her. This time after a few remarks he summoned up courage
to inquire into her troubled life, as he said she seemed very lonely.
Deeply impressed by his winning manner and kind words her confidence
was easily won and she readily related to him her unhappy marriage and
how unfaithful her husband had grown. He at once became more interested
and listened patiently to her story of sorrow, and with his sympathetic
words of comfort, strange emotions that had long been dead within her
breast thrilled into life once more. She had become a victim of his
beguiling words of comfort as he drew her into his arms of passionate
love. Alone and together they planned a secret meeting place that her
husband and the village folks might not know of their clandestine
meetings.
When the Tu-rep husband would go down the river to Reck-woy to bask
in the love of the woman of his affections, his wife would wait until
the darkness of night had cast its gloom over the village, when she
would creep carefully forth from her dwelling and meet her lover. She
had a long way to go up the Tu-rep bar from her house, and each step
she would take, she would cover her foot-prints with stones. In this
manner she would cover her tracks over, for a distance of at least one
mile along the river bar and when she reached the upper end of the bar
she would step out into the water, and as before she covered over her
tracks with stones until she stepped into her lover’s boat. The Ur-ner
Indian would come across the river from the opposite bank and take her
into his canoe and paddle back to what is known as Stah-win bar. This
is also a large bar covered with huge redwoods. Together they would
wander into the inky blackness of the huge redwoods where they would
enjoy each other’s company until a late hour at night, when the Ur-ner
man would again take his soul affinity into his canoe and return her
to the upper end of Tu-rep bar, where she would leave him and proceed
down the bar to her home, as before covering over her foot-prints with
stones. She held these clandestine meetings with the Ur-ner Indian in
that manner every time her husband would leave her and go to Reck-woy.
After a while her husband became suspicious of her action, as when he
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