Then the stranger asked,
THE RIO VIRGEN AND THE UINKARET MOUNTAINS.
"Is your mother in yonder lodge?"
"No," the boy replied.
"Does your mother live on the banks of this river?"
"I don't know my mother; I have never seen her; she is dead," answered the boy.
"My son," replied the stranger, "Stone Shirt, who killed your father, stole your mother and took her away to the shore of a distant lake, and there she is his wife to-day."
And the boy wept bitterly and, while the tears filled his eyes so that he could not see, the stranger disappeared. Then the boy was filled with wonder at what he had seen and heard, and malice grew in his heart against his father's enemy. He returned to the old woman and said,