e gun
went off. Ogla-Moga says nothing wounds the self-respect of
an Indian so deeply as to take his gun away from him, and we
have all felt a great deal of sympathy with that poor
insulted Kickapoo. Isn't it a shame that a great government
should deliberately and maliciously oppress these
unfortunate and high-spirited people?

"But I had almost forgotten what it was that I had to ask.
Poor dear Ogla-Moga--he is so quiet and gentle and sad that
we have all really grown fond of him--says that it won't be
safe for him to stay here: the officers will soon be after
him for having left his reservation. Now we have arranged to
send him eastward with Mr. Michst. He is the new lecturer
before our Ethical Circle, which meets every Sunday in Azure
Hall. I read a paper there last Sunday, called, 'Is there
Anything?' which Mr. Michst says contains the most
triumphant series of negations he ever heard. He says I
completely disprove the existence of everything, including
many things we all know to be true. My friends in the Circle
are begging me to publish it, and I think of doing so, under
the title of 'The Everlasting No Indeed.'

"But I am wandering again. When Mr. Michst brings Ogla-Moga
to you, can't you get him shelter somewhere? Mr. Michst
thinks of taking him on to Washington, so that he may lay
the whole matter before the President. We have all been
studying this Indian question for the last ten days, and we
are convinced that the whole trouble is that the President
doesn't understand it. Mr. Michst feels sure that if the
President will give him, say, three days of his time, he can
make it perfectly clear to him. Please answer by telegraph.

"Your friend,
"CLARA O. VERRAUGHT."

Now Miss Slopham lived in a neat and aesthetic apartment in a
fashionable apartment-house, and it might have been supposed that she
was hardly prepared to set up an asylum for fugitive Kickapoos. But
that intrepid woman never faltered. Her answer went whirling by wire
before she had paused to think of the ways and means of caring for
poor Ogla-Moga.

"_October 23._

"_Miss Clara O. Verraught, St. Louis, Missouri_:

"Let him come at once, and send his Indian costumes with
him. I have a special reason for this reques