“P.  S.—­Cordelia Running Bird nearly drowned both kinds of Christmas clothes, and then she thought to give the best kind to Dolly.  And Susie did not care because she had to wear the blue dress, and it smutted so her hands and face got dirty, and the black shoes and stockings.  She was just as happier.  And the teacher saved Cordelia’s Indian doll and gave it back to her, because she knew she loved it very hard.  And Cordelia was so glad she hugged it very tight.

“Again P. S.—­Cordelia wrote, ’Peace on earth, good-will toward men.  I do not wish the dormitory girls were cripples, and I will stop talking vain and will always wear the issue shoes every day.  And will they please excuse me?’ And they did.  And now they walk heel or tiptoe on Cordelia’s wet floor.  Lucinda will now learn the neat way, and they will grow Dolly more white-minded, for she came to school so short.  And again I say it was the King’s Daughters’ verses.  And I do not like to think hard, but I shall try to learn them, too.  And we did not shut our eyes at Susie when she motioned Jack Frost, as we meant to just for spite.  And the girls all said Cordelia was so generous, she said she nearly got vain again.  So I shall stop this time.”

[Illustration:  Helen read the letter to her King’s Daughters circle.]

Helen read the letter to her King’s Daughters Circle, and a young member, thinking of the little Sioux maiden at the far Northwestern Mission who had tried to overcome her faults and love her enemies, repeated softly: 

  “’For thou hast a little strength, and thou hast kept
  my word and hast not denied my name.’”