The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-07

ridicule and sneers during the many
weeks of her lonliness and home-lonS-
ing, she suddenly began settling to her
work with grim determination, sur
prising her teachers and amazing her
mates by the vim and originality or
her methods and, before the end OF the
year, climbing for the laurels with
mental strength and agility that put
other efforts to the blush. Then came
weeks of bliss spent with doting
father at Niagara, the seashore and
the POint-a dear old dad as i'll a ease
in Eastern circles as his daughter had
been at fist at school, until he found
himself welcomed with open arms
to the officers mess-rooms at
the Point, for John Folsom
was as noted a frontiersn?an as ever
trcd the plains, a man cid officers Of
the cavalry and infantry knew and
honored as "a square trader in the
Indian country-a man whom the In
dians themselves loved and trusted
far and wide, and when Il man has won
the trust and faith of an Indian let
him grapple l. 10 his breast as a treas
IRE worth the having, great even as
the heart love. OF child. SIOUX,
Sh0shone and Cheyenne, they would
turn to "Old JOAN in their councils,
their dealings, their treaties, their psr-
Dlexities for when he said a thing was
right and square their doubts were
gore, and there at the Point the now
Well-tO- Old trader met men who
had known him in hy-g ne days at
Laramie and Omaha, and there his
pretty school girl daughter met her
bosom friends big brother Marshall,
a first classman in all his CORY, dane
ing with damsels in society, While she
was but a maiden shy in snort dress
es Oh, how Jess lad lOnged to be Of
that party to the Point, but her home
was in the far West, her father long
dead and buried, her mother an in
valid, and the child was needed there.
Earnestly had old Folsom written, ! eS-
ging that she who had been SO kind to
his little girl should be allowed to
visit the seashore and the Point with
him and "Pappose," as Re lau~E...l,.y
referred to her, adopting the school
name given by the girls; but they were
proud people, were the Deans, and
poor and sensitive. They thanked Mr
Folsom warmly Jessie was greatly
needed at her home this summer" was
the answer but Folsom somehow felt
it was because they dreaded TO ac-
cept coUrtesies they could not repay
in kind.
LAS if l could ever repay Jess for
all the loving kindness to my little
girl in her loneliness" said he. No,
there was no delicious visiting with
PappooSe that summer, but with what
eager interest had she not devoured
the letters telling of the wonderful
sights the little far Westerner saw
the ocean, the great Niagara the beau
tiful Point in the heart of the high
lands, but, above all, that crowned
monarch. that plumed knight, that in
comparable big brother, Cadet Capt.
Marshall Dean. Yes, he had come to
call the very evening of their arriva'.
He had escorted them out, papa and
Pappoose, to hear the band playing on
the plain. He had made her take his
arm, "a schoolgirl in short dresses"
and promenadcd With her up and down
the beautiful. shaded walks, thronged
with ladies, officers and cadets. while
some old cronies took father away to
the mess for julep, and Mr.. Dean had
introduced some young girls, profess
sors' daughters, and they had come
and taken her driving and to tea, and
she had seen him every day, many
times day, at guard mounting, drill,
forthcoming or parade, or on the hotel
piaZZas, but only to look at or speak
to for minute. for OF course she was
"only a Child" and there were dozens
of society girls, young ladies, to whom
he had to be attentive. especially
very stylish Miss Brockway, from New
York, with whom he walked and
danced great deal. and whom the
other girls tried to tease about him.
Pappoose didn't write it in so many
words, but Jessie, reading those let
ters between the lines and every which
way, could easily divine that Pappoose
didn't fancy Miss Brockway at all. And
then had come a wonderful day, q
wonderful thing, into the schoolgirls
life. No less than twelve pages did
sixteen-year-ol Pappoose take to tell
it, and when a girl finds time to write
a twelve-page letter from the Point
she has more to tell than she can pos
sibly contain. Mr.. Dean had
actually invited her-her. Elinor Mer-
chant Folsom-Winona, as they called