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O EV. Augustine St. Gregory, Miss JLYHelen Mackintosh. Married ?
Tear up the wedding-cards !
interrupted Pris Armstrong.
It was infatuation ? fanaticism. How could a Boston girl, brought up with every advantage of education and association, marry a full-blooded Sioux! I went to the wedding under protest; as Helen’s nearest friend, I sat there under protest; and it required all my self-control to refrain from shrieking aloud at the words: ‘ If any man can show just cause why they should not lawfully be joined together’
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You talk as though he had just arrived from the plains, in wampum and war-paint, returned Annie Chesley, indignantly.
I met him at Mrs. Cotting’s reception, and thought him perfectly fascinating. He has the loveliest manners?so gentle and subdued, and, with his soulful dark eyes and melancholy face, he reminded me of Edwin Booth in ‘ The Iron Chest.’ Such an interesting history as he has, too ! He lost his father at the battle of the Little Big Horn, and after the flight of Sitting Bull and his men into Canada, the poor little fellow was found by a missionary and sent to Hampton. Later, by means of an old lady’s bequest, he was educated for the ministry, preparatory to going as missionary to his own people. If you had heard him speak, the last Sunday in Advent, when the collection was taken for the Domestic Missions, you would realize what religion has done in transforming a savage into a Christian gentleman and clergyman.

Helen was taught from babyhood to save her pennies for the Domestic Missions, said Pris, slowly. In Lent her childish sacrifices were for the benefit of some Indian school. Her cast-off toys were sent to Hampton; her Sunday-school class supported an Indian there. Later she attended all the meetings for …