Then the Indians came in at the door, and killed her and Molly and Robin.

I don't remember anything after that,--maybe I went to sleep.

When I was awake again the Indians were gone, but there was fire and smoke everywhere.

I was afraid of the fire, and so I crept from under the bed, and kissed mother and Molly and Robin, and left them lying in the cabin, and came away." She sighed with weariness, and the hand with which she put back her dark hair that had fallen over her face was almost too heavy to lift.

"I sat beside father and watched the fire," she said.