"Yours with loving interest, "HELEN MERRIAM, Hartford, Conn. "Aged 16."
"It came in Annie's mission box, and Helen was her unknown blackfriend," said Cordelia Running Bird, as she put the letter back into theenvelope. "I shall next read Annie's letter." And she took anotherlittle missive from the Bible, written with a pencil on the tablet paperof the school, in wavering penmanship that showed the weakness of thewriter's arm. Cordelia read: