r Na-tee-kah to go nearly wild
with pride over her brother and his revolver. After that there was a
long consultation between Long Bear and his children and Judge Parks and
Sile. Two Arrows seemed to be inclined to say very little at first. He
sat with his new rifle across his lap, and his priceless revolver
resting upon that, and One-eye came and sat down beside him. Long Bear
himself seemed to be in doubt as his pale-face friends urged upon him
the advantages of their offer. He was hardly able to see what good there
could be in the learning of the white men for a red horseman of the
plains; but at last Two Arrows motioned to Sile for his spy-glass,
hanging at his side. He took it and looked through it at the distant
mountains, and then turned to Long Bear and pointed at them, saying,

"Look! See!"

"Ugh!" said the old chief, "see heap."

"Now look. See," said Two Arrows, "see big heap."

"Ugh! Big medicine," said Long Bear, handing the glass to Sile, but Two
Arrows arose and stood proudly erect, rifle in hand.

"Will you go?" asked Sile.

"Go," said Two Arrows. "Good friend. Go. Got Nez Perce eye now; want
pale-face eye."

"Ugh!" exclaimed Long Bear; "what Na-tee-kah say?"

The question was put to her, but it was hardly needful, after she found
that Two Arrows was to go. She was willing to learn anything he did, and
she was not even daunted by quick mental vision of a white lady with her
bonnet on. She would even wear the dress of a pale-face squaw if Two
Arrows would put on such things as were worn by the Red-head. So it was
settled, although it would be a number of weeks before the judge and
Sile could set out for their eastern home.

* * * * *

At several points in the East there are schools designed and maintained
for the special education of Indian girls and boys, only needing greater
help from men and women who have money intrusted to them by the Giver.

Among all the tribes of the West, and in every band, Na-tee-kah and Two
Arrows wait to be found and enticed into a training that is for their
everlasting good and for that of their race.

THE END

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