The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-10-10

Il huOW H6 WIN NI|~~m WX4M
try to please Him."
"Me love him, yes-nl4 s1n q
gone to live with Him. Hs took
him home before his tongue could
lie, before his little hands had blood
on them. Me love Great Sssjfit for
that-me love Him for telling me
how He love me, and walsh me Ia
the dark, and take me to the happy
home whore no more fight, 40 more
hungry, nj more de-"
She seated herself in the canoe
with Annette and showed her how
to padd Q it. W
"Tell Haha," she said when they
were most over the r yer, "LdniElove
him and ask Great Spirit y love
fgood, brave Haha."
"But / will not see Haha any
more," said Annette sadly.
sob, yes you will, Haha love pale
face squaw-he die for you to make
you free-he see you again-teilS him
Loni thank him, for he til her 'bout
Great Spirit"
"Loni," said Annette, "you iaid
You would pray for Hahs, will ron
pray for me too, that tho Great sShi1|
will love me like he does HS&4%&
.asked did pas-.pssAsssss
she did IL was to ask . qufs nm
"Do you love Haha9" hs asked
so suddenly that Annette vas start
led and puzzled for an answer.
Only a minute she asked the question
of her own heart and thes the an
swer came in it's truthfulness and
purity as though it were given to an
angel from heaven instead of to this
poor ignorant child of the wilderness.
"Yes, l love Haha," she said, "for
it seems to me he is more like some
good, kind spirit from the heavenly
world than anything else"
When the northern shore of the
Missouri was reached Loni told her
she must now leave her.
The strange mixture of emotions
in the poor girls heart quite over
came her, frail and overtaxed as she
was.
Laying her head on Loni's shoul-
der she cried as she had not done in
all her trials. So tenderly she felt
for the lone old woman who in her
ignorance and weakness longed for
an unseen comforter to rest her tired
spirit.
Gratitude, self-reproach and pity
struggled within her. Why had she
not tried to benefit her when she had
it in her power? Now Their ways
divided to meet no more. Her
opportunity was gone forever. And
she, this savage, for the love of the
Great Spirit, OF whom che knew 90
little, had braved the displeasure of
her tribe to benefit her and the
settlers.
"Oh, Loni," she said, show kind
you have been to save me. How l
thank you. Tell Wolf l thank him,
too, and pray the Great Spirit Will
love him and take him to His happy
home, where l hope to see him
again; and if you seq Haha tell him
that, too, and that you have helped
me to save my people"
Loni pressed the tired head to her
bosom, caressingly, saying:
"Pity my poor people, too"
And, jumping in the canoe, she
was soon lost to view in the gray
morning light.
Alone now in a wilderness, not
knowing a foot of the way toward
any human %habitation, not knowing
the direction even, until the rosy
light of sunrise showed the east,
where che knew the little settlement
lay.
Slowly and cautiously she picked
her way, as Loni had shown her how,
through the forest, sometimes losing
the direction and then finding II
again by noticing the bark on the
trunks Of the trees which grew
thicker and rougher, as she had
heard her father say, on the north
side of the tree. Trying to bear hei
course towards the northeast, she
hoped to reach a house before an
other night anne on, and before the
Indian warriors crossed the river ia
begin their bloody crusade. Sins
knew the whites had built their
houses in the bottoms of a creek
which was a branch of the Missouri,
and the southern outskirts Of the
:ettlement could not be a great way
off. To reach il in time to warn an6
saw them was the one fevered
thought of her brain. The wildne@
Of it, and seeming imposslbility
we're not theughtoAnnrsyen ths
danger and suffering attending II
Only to save them, was her one ides
and 1t gave her unnatural strength
and courage, surprising even to her.
self. The day wore on and still nc
house came in view-only woods and
their carpet of dead leaves. Littls
streams were crossed, which were
the places she most dreaded fol
animals were often on their banks