"Susie shall not stay in camp. I shall find a way to get the dressesdone, and she shall motion Jack Frost and look at the Christmas tree. Ishall tell them I am tiwhite of playing silly games, and Susie shall notplay, either, so they cannot leave her out. And I shall tell the schoolthey must not watch Susie motion, for they are such horrid Indians theywould scare her very bad. When Hannah Straight Tree's big and littlesister come into the playroom I shall walk close up to them and pull mydress away, and look at it so sharp, and say, so Hannah hears me, 'Thosewild Indians have so many grease spots I am much afraid of felinechingthem.'"

While plotting these misdeeds Cordelia Running Bird fell asleep. Ayoung girl from the teachers' table brought her dinner on a tray and setit by the bed without awaking her. She did not wake up until near themiddle of the afternoon. She found that the black mother had stoleninto the dormitory with a little book which she had placed upon thepillow. There was a narrow black ribbon, frayed and yellow, woundaround the book and tied on one side in a bow. The chambers below now werequiet, for the wind had lulled and the entire school was out of doors.