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