The black mother heard the chuckle and stepped into the space between thesliding doors, which were ajar. She saw the girls' resentment at aglance, and that it was directed at Cordelia Running Bird. She sometimes wastroubled, but could not combat the feeling that had spread throughoutthe school, to mar the peace and quiet of the Sabbath, which theseIndian girls were wont to keep in reverent spirit.

"She has bought another pair of shoes for Susie--stockings, too--notwhite ones, like the little schoolgirls have to wear for best, but somewhatstylish brown ones," Hannah Straight Tree said. "She put them inside hertrunk last night. I crept upstairs and watched her, for the tiny childrensaid she had them inside her pocket. The large and middle-sized girls mustnot see them till the entertainment, but the little girls keep sayingthey are like the ones the little black visitor that wore the dress thatwas pink dim-i-ty, had on. Ver-ry black-minded shoes! She wants tohire me to like her, if she does not wish to have Dolly in the JackFrost song with Susie, so she bought very recent hair ribbons at the store forDolly and Lucinda. She told the little girls because she really knew theywould tell me. But Dolly and Lucinda shall not wear them. Very cottonsilk, of course."