Whether this foreboding was fulfilled, or otherwise, will be explainedin Hannah's letter to the King's Daughter in the Far East, who had sentthe little Bible and the loving message to the King's Daughter in theFar West:

"_Dear Helen Merriam_: Now I shall write you a letter, for Cordelia Running Bird cannot, for she says it, would be bragging. It is all about Christmas, and our big and little sisters. Cordelia's big sister is now in heaven, and Cordelia wrote good-by to you from Annie. My big sister is now in the First Reader, but she cannot help it, for my mother died, and so Lucinda had to stay at home and keep Dolly, and that is my little sister.