“What son-in-law?” the man asked.
The woman said over and over again, “Lattī’s man came, Lattī’s man came. Our son-in-law, to whom our daughter is given in the other world. It is true.”
The man asked, “Bola, can any one in the other world come to this world? Didst thou cook and also give him to eat?”
The woman replied, “What! Didn’t I cook and give him to eat! After I had given him to eat he said that Lattī had told him to take away the things for her arms and neck. So I gave him those also.”
Then the man said, “Where is now, Bola, the horse that was here?” and asking, “Which way did he go?” and mounting on the horse’s back, went to seek that millet trader.
As the trader was going along in the rice field he looked back, and having seen a man coming on horseback, said, “That one is coming to seize me.”
There was a Timbiri tree very near there into which he climbed. While he was there, that man making the horse bound along, having come up, tied the horse to the root of the Timbiri tree. After he had climbed up the tree to catch the trader, the trader, descending from the ends of the Timbiri branches and cutting the fastening, mounted the horse, after placing on it also the bundles of millet and the other goods, and went off on the horse.
Then that man descended slowly from the tree, and having called “Hū” to the millet trader [to arrest his attention], said, “Tell Lattī that your mother-in-law gave you a few things to put on her arms and neck, but your father-in-law gave you a horse.”
Having returned to the house, he said to the woman, “It is true. He is really Lattī’s man. I said ‘Don’t go on foot,’ and having given him the horse I came back.”