't,
perhaps, being a girl. She was sassy to me, but she meant well. She is a
well-meanin' girl, though I have to be hard on her sometimes--it is my
duty to be, you know.

"Well, some months ago, more than a year, an Injun ran away with my best
saw, and that gave me a prejudice against the Injuns, I suppose.
Afterward, Young Eagle's Plume--Benjamin, the chief's boy--insulted me
before the school by takin' a stick out of my hand, and I came to dislike
him, and he hates me. There are many Injuns in the timber now, and they
all cast evil looks at me whenever I meet them, and these things hint that
they are goin' to capture me at the Potlatch and carry me away. I hate
Injuns.

"But Gretchen has told me a thing that touches my feelin's. She says that
Benjamin he says that he will protect me on account of his love for the
master; and that, on account of my love for the good Master of us all and
his cause, I ought to show a different spirit toward the Injuns. What do
you think?"

"Gretchen is right, although a girl should be modest with her elders.
Hatred only multiplies itself; when one overcomes his evil passions he
gains others, and loses nothing. Do you see?"

"But I am always good to those I like and those who treat me well. Think
how I used to take care of the sick folk on our way out here, and what I
have tried to do for Gretchen!"

"'If ye love them that love you, what thank have ye?' All people love
those who love them--the savages do. To give up one's evil desires, and to
help others by returning love for hate, is the true life. The best friends
in the world that we can have are those that we have drawn to our hearts
by forgiveness. Do something good to every Indian that hates you, and you
will never be carried away captive."

"But Whitman, remember Whitman: he showed the right spirit, and the Injuns
killed _him_!"

"His death was caused by a misapprehension, and it made him a martyr. His
work lives. Men live in their work."

"Well, Father Lee, if Benjamin can overcome his evil feelin's for his
master, I ought to do so for mine, as Gretchen says. My bad spirit in this
matter has long troubled me; it has caused a cloud to come over me when
singin' hymns. I will give it all up now--I will give up everything, and
just follow the better spirit. I want to do right, so that I can sing
hymns."

When Father Lee left the cabin, Mrs. Woods accompanied him to his boat on
the river.

As they were passing along under