"I feel religious to-day," she said.

"You know the first and greatest rock of my salvation is 'Do unto others.' I'm only doing to you what there was no one to do for me when I was a girl very like you.

Anna tells me your mother was here early this morning and that she came to see about getting you a dress." "She is too late!" said Elnora coldly.

"She had over a month to prepare my dresses, and I was to pay for them, so there is no excuse." "Nevertheless, she is your mother," said the Bird Woman, softly.

"I think almost any kind of a mother must be better than none at all, and you say she has had great trouble." "She loved my father and he died," said Elnora.