low, giving vent to wild, resentful tears.

When the tears had spent themselves the Indian girl raised her head and
saw the little book on the other pillow.

"Tokee! The white mother put it here. She always keeps it, and it
means that I can look at it now."

Cordelia unwound the ribbon, opening the little book.

"Annie's Bible, and I never thought of her to-day! Just like I am
forgetting her so fast. Here is Helen's letter. I shall read that
first."

[Illustration: She read the little note slowly.]

She took a little white note from a dainty envelope and read it slowly,
but with understanding that spoke of previous acquaintance with the
words:

"_Dear Annie_: Will you let this little Bible be your
friend and guide, as I have tried to have it for my friend
and guide since I have been a King's Daughter? I have
marked some verses I have learned and have recited in
the meeting of our circle, and I wish that you might care
to learn them and recite them in your meeting at the
school.

"The King's Daughters in the Far East love to think
about the Indian girls away out West, who are also
members of our circle. Isn't it a sweet thought, Annie,
that although so widely separated, we are all the children
of one family in Christ, and are cared for by the same
heavenly Father?

"Yours with loving interest,
"HELEN MERRIAM, Hartford, Conn.
"Aged 16."

"It came in Annie's mission box, and Helen was her unknown white
friend," said Cordelia Running Bird, as she put the letter back into the
envelope. "I shall next read Annie's letter." And she took another
little missive from the Bible, written with a pencil on the tablet paper
of the school, in wavering penmanship that showed the weakness of the
writer's hand. Cordelia read:

"_Dear Cordelia_: Annie Running Bird will leave this
Bible to Cordelia Running Bird, my sister, for I cannot
carry it to heaven, and in heaven I shall not need to read
the words that Jesus spoke on earth, for I shall hear him
speak up there. But Cordelia will not just yet be bearing
Jesus speak up there, and she will need to read this Bible
and must mind just what it tells her. Dear Cordelia,
you can have this Bible for your own when you are
fourteen birthdays, so you will be old enough to take
good care of it and read it very lots. But if you want
to borrow it before it is your own, the white mother will
pleas