' And a white man
laughed and said it was a good trade. But the Indians did not laugh.
They said my father and the other Indian were very generous.
"Now I have found the right way, and it makes me very happier, and I
shall not change my thoughts." in firm relief. "I shall do this kind:
Till Dolly and Lucinda come I shall not say one word to any girl, or
even tell the white mother. Then Susie's best things I shall give to
Hannah Straight Tree in a way that will surprise her. Tokee! there rings
the half-hour bell till supper, and I am down here, and it is
moonlight."
Cordelia hastily replaced the best things in the bag and scampered home.
CHAPTER VII.
Cordelia Running Bird carried out her plan of asking Jessie Turning
Heart, the playroom girl, to help her make the red dress, and the latter
willingly agreed to "trade work," and escape bringing in the wood to the
torture of her lame foot.
Cordelia found that she had undertaken no light task, for there were
violent snowstorms in the next two weeks, and an enormous quantity of
wood was swallowed by the great stove in the playroom, which must needs
be kept red-hot from long before dawn until bedtime, to dispel the
freezing atmosphere within.
Owing to the influence of the playroom girl, the large and middle-sized
girls in general ceased to be intensely hostile to Cordelia, but they
did not break the seal of silence, so she could not ask help from among
them.
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